The Southwest Chief soars through the beautifully rugged quintessential American southwest landscape of New Mexico.

Low winter light fills a timeless scene at Wagon Mound, New Mexico, as Amtrak's Southwest Chief races across the desert towards Chicago — an entirely different world away from the Land of Enchan... (more)

The Southwest Chief comes off the wye headed for the yard.

Navigating the curvy piece of railroad between Las Vegas and Chapelle, New Mexico, the Southwest Cheif splits a pair of semaphores that have guarded the former AT&SF Glorieta Subdivision for near... (more)

With the engineer laying on the K5LA and waving to the group of railfans standing trackside, Amtrak 822 leads the eastbound Southwest Chief towards Chicago after a station stop in Kansas City.

Dusk turns to darkness as Amtrak's Southwest Chief traverses the vast grasslands of Northern New Mexico as it passes through the quaint community of Watrous, NM on this crisp winter-like evening.

It is a hot summer day as the eastbound Southwest Chief comes upon the first set of intermediate semaphores north of the village of Wagon Mound. The village name comes from the hill in the backgro... (more)

The Eastbound Southwest Chief rolls over Raton Pass and further into Colorado, splitting through one of the handful of old Santa Fe cantilever signal bridges.

Amtrak #4 glides through the intermediates just north of the village limits of Wagon Mound, NM, running on schedule.

The Southwest Chief races across the plains of Southern Colorado as the evening monsoons roar in the fading light of a summer's night and the last of the evening's sunset burns away to darkness.

Amtrak #4 rolls through the town of Glorieta after having just met Amtrak #3. The skies loom with signs of monsoon as rains continue to hit the area.

Having crested Raton Pass, the eastbound Southwest Chief eases down the north side of the mountain into Colorado.

The eastbound Southwest Chief races to stay ahead of a fast-moving storm as it approaches Lowe. Is this photo a metaphor for the future of the Southwest Chief under Anderson? You decide.

Representing Phases I, III, and V; featured here Amtrak's Chicago bound Southwest Chief makes its way through the picturesque community of Rowe, NM on a beautifully hot Summer afternoon.

Featured here, Amtrak's Southwest Chief #4 quickly makes its way through the "Big City" of Rowe, NM as the sun begins to set on a hot and windy early Summer afternoon.