After stepping off the Southwest Chief in La Junta, I find myself pacing the train along the Raton Subdivision on U.S. Route 350. The Chief is running at its maximum track speed of ... (more)

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)