Amtrak train no. 5, the California Zephyr winds around curves above Big Ten and heads into tunnel 1 on the climb out of Denver up the Front Range of the Rockies. At this time Amtrak was attempting... (more)

The westward Chief passes the endangered semaphores at the west end of the Chapelle siding.

The Southwest Chief passes some glorious fall foliage as it prepares to slow for its next station stop at Trinidad.

Amtrak's train #3, the Southwest Chief, highballs rural Model, CO on its way to its next station stop at Trinidad, CO on the famed Santa Fe Raton Sub.

View from the Hamline Avenue bridge has Amtrak's eastbound Empire Builder running over 3 hours late.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief pierces the silent landscape in the rural country between La Junta, CO and Trinidad, CO as it works its way west toward famed Raton Pass on a brilliant fall day. Not much... (more)

Amtrak's SW Chief passes the first set of semaphores on its westward journey, starting an amazing stretch of classic signaling in high plains of New Mexico.

Amtrak 3 splits the blades at the east-end of Watrous among the fall colors. The yellow flag was recently placed as a result of slow orders issued from findings from the rail-flaw detector car.

The bare, rolling hills of southeast Colorado are punctuated by the autumn colors of the aspen trees and the Southwest Chief. From this vantage point, the train was the only thing seen and heard f... (more)

Amtrak 3, the Southwest Chief, blasts through the quiet countryside west of Delhi, CO.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief flies through the vastness of southeastern Colorado on it's journey to California. While many associate the Raton Sub with semaphores and a mountain pass, the scenery bet... (more)

Amtrak 3 descends into Raton, NM.

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief passes through the semaphores at the east end of the siding at Watrous in this amazing stretch of railroad that is more like a time machine than a modern mainlin... (more)

A constant parade of short-distance passenger trains (Amtrak's Pacific Surfliners and Metrolink's commuter trains) passing through Fullerton, California, is broken up by only one pair of lo... (more)

As the sun starts to set over Orange County, Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief rolls into Fullerton Train Station on a rare humid evening.