Amtrak 150 & 140 are about to crest the continental divide with the eastbound Southwest Chief.

Amtrak 3 heads west from Chicago to Los Angeles. (Yorba Linda, California – May 17, 2025)

It is 7:59 pm (19:59) ... and still 91ºF (32.7ºC), as this is the Mojave Desert, after all! ... and Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, meeting an eastbound BNSF ... (more)

Amtrak 13 & 176 eastbound with a late Southwest Chief.

The notes I found said this is the 1st time we seen these Dash 8s on Amtrak. Amtrak received 20 of these Dash 8s in 1991. . The Southwest Chief ran via the Santa Fe until 1998, when it was moved t... (more)

The Southwest Chief discontinued service east of Cameron Connection in 1998. Once the BNSF merger got going and the connection was built, the Chief stopped taking the Chillicothe Sub into Chicago.... (more)

Amtrak 198 & 199 race west with the Southwest Chief west of Grants New Mexico.

Amtrak 150 & 140 lead the eastbound Southwest Chief with three Patrick Henry Creative Promotions cars on the rear.

At 13:03 (1:03 pm), Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, rolls into the Fullerton station 5 hours 6 minute late. the last stop before arriving in Los Angeles from Chicago. Twenty... (more)

Amtrak 152 & 39 with the eastbound Southwest Chief.

Running just 6 hours 53 minutes behind schedule, this day’s Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is just about to its next-to-last stop in Fullerton. (The previous day’s trai... (more)

Amtrak's Eastbound Southwest Chief splits the century-old semaphores at Romeroville just south of Las Vegas.

The Bond Street crossing in Wagon Mound, NM was a very cluttered place at the turn of this century. Railroad hardware installed much earlier in the 20th century barely made it into the 21st. Thi... (more)

AMTK 150 & 140 power the westbound Southwest Chief on BNSF' Gallup subdivision.

The "Southwest Chief" is preparing to leave with all that old equipment but at least it all appears to match somewhat after six years. Photo by Gary Zeitler. From my collection.