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Amtrak's Desert Wind Route
Depicts Amtrak's "Desert Wind" service, which operated from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, via Las Vegas. Its discontinuance in 1997 left the lower Intermountain region, including Las Vegas, without any passenger rail service since.
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Photo ID: 579360

The Desert Wind

Amtrak train #36, led by SDP40F 526 and F40PH 221, passes through Mormon Rocks in southern California's Cajon Pass on March 27th, 1981. This is the eastbound <... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD SDP40F
Location: Cajon Pass, California, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 526
Train ID: AMTK 36
Photo Date: May 12, 1997


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By: Craig Walker

Added: Jun 09, 2016

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Photo ID: 565129

Scooting along for a good trip through the sand and creosote bushes the "Desert Wind" seems lost in the vastness but provides a welcome change from the dozens of freights that ply this track daily... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: San Bernardino, California, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 251
Train ID: AMTK 36
Photo Date: May 18, 1988


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By: Sid Vaught

Added: Feb 09, 2016

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Photo ID: 565095

On a beautiful clear cool spring day the westbound "Desert Wind" is all buttoned up and ready to accelerate.

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: San Bernardino, California, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 234
Train ID: AMTK 35
Photo Date: April 07, 1987


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By: Sid Vaught

Added: Feb 09, 2016

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Photo ID: 540368

Equipment for Amtrak's Desert Wind awaits a nocturnal departure from the Rio Grande passenger station in Salt Lake City on June 27, 1992.

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 393
Train ID: AMTK 35
Photo Date: June 27, 1992


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By: James Belmont

Added: Jul 29, 2015

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Photo ID: 535294

Amtrak train #36, led by SDP40F 526 and F40PH 221, passes through Mormon Rocks in southern California's Cajon Pass on March 27th, 1981. This is the eastbound Desert Wind, which ran from Lo... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD SDP40F
Location: Cajon Pass, California, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 526
Train ID: AMTK 36
Photo Date: March 27, 1981


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By: Craig Walker

Added: Jun 18, 2015

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Photo ID: 525517

Amtrak's Los Angeles bound Desert Wind waits in Salt Lake City for its Chicago connection to arrive from Denver on April 24, 1993.

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: GE P32BWH (Dash 8-32BWH)
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 516
Train ID: AMTK 35
Photo Date: April 25, 1993


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By: James Belmont

Added: Apr 02, 2015

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Photo ID: 511952

Amtrak Dash 8-32BWH 513 hauls a five-car Desert Wind over California's Cajon Pass, the first obstacle for train #36 since departing Los Angeles on its way to Salt Lake City, Utah.

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: GE P32BWH (Dash 8-32BWH)
Location: Cajon Pass, California, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 513
Train ID: AMTK 36
Photo Date: November 07, 1992


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By: Craig Walker

Added: Dec 27, 2014

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Photo ID: 477291

Amtraks "Southwest Limited" makes it's last station stop before arriving Los Angeles Union Passenger Station at Pasadena

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD SDP40F
Location: Pasadena, California, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 503
Train ID: #3
Photo Date: June, 1973


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By: Joe Blackwell

Added: Apr 11, 2014

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Photo ID: 467274

A General Electric P32BWH enjoys a quiet evening at Rio Grande's passenger station in Salt Lake City. Just before midnight, the 511 will lead train No. 35, the 'Desert Wind' to Las Vegas and Los A... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: GE P32BWH (Dash 8-32BWH)
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 511
Train ID: AMTK 35
Photo Date: July 17, 1992


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By: James Belmont

Added: Jan 23, 2014

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Photo ID: 446310

Cresting the summit of southern California's Cajon Pass is Amtrak train #35, the Desert Wind, heading from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Los Angeles on December 29th, 1979. F40PHRs 290 and 289 ... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD F40PH
Location: Summit, California, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 290
Train ID: 35
Photo Date: December 29, 1979


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By: Craig Walker

Added: Aug 07, 2013

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Photo ID: 444037

Amtrak leased a fleet of 15 GP40s from Helm Financial Corporation. AMTK 653 is pictured laying over at the Rio Grande depot in Salt Lake City, pending a nocturnal departure on the Desert Wind late... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD GP40
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 653
Train ID: AMTK 35
Photo Date: June 07, 1992


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By: James Belmont

Added: Jul 20, 2013

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Photo ID: 443705

Amtrak's first GE P32BWH, only six months old at the time, rests in the warm evening light at the Rio Grande passenger station in Salt Lake City.

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: GE P32BWH (Dash 8-32BWH)
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 500
Train ID: AMTK 35
Photo Date: June 21, 1992


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By: James Belmont

Added: Jul 17, 2013

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Photo ID: 442695

A colorful General Electric P32BWH, built in Dec. 1991, lays over at the Rio Grande depot in Salt Lake City. Amtrak 504 would lead the nocturnal departure of the Desert Wind train to Las Vegas and... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: GE P32BWH (Dash 8-32BWH)
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 504
Train ID: AMTK 35
Photo Date: August 08, 1992


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By: James Belmont

Added: Jul 09, 2013

Views: 4,317
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Photo ID: 442118

When Salt Lake City hosted three long distance trains per day, a switch engine was on hand to add or subtract cars from the California Zephyr. Amtrak SW1 #736, nicknamed 'Lil' Toot', gleams in the... (more)

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD SW1
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 736
Train ID: Terminal Switcher
Photo Date: April 22, 1989


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By: James Belmont

Added: Jul 04, 2013

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Photo ID: 429073

Amtrak 500 leads the Desert Wind westbound on the Santa Fe south track towards Cajon Summit, while up above, a Southern Pacific westbound train has stopped in the siding at Hiland.

Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: EMD SDP40F
Location: Hesperia, California, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 500
Train ID: Desert Wind
Photo Date: Unknown


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By: John Doughty

Added: Mar 20, 2013

Views: 3,154
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