A one-time ever (at least that I am aware of) detour of the Southwest Chief on an old Pacific Electric line occurred today with Amtrak #3 took the Metrolink San Gabriel Sub, which includes parts o... (more)

A nearly 4 hour late westbound Southwest Chief trundles into Riverside where it will make a brief stop before proceeding to Fullerton and then Los Angeles. Amtrak's Veterans unit leads the train o... (more)

Amtrak #42-Veterans unit leads a late westbound Southwest Chief at MP 54 on the Cajon Sub.

Amtrak 4, the Southwest Chief, having just topped over the summit at Glorieta, proceeds downgrade on a clear signal at the east siding-switch Glorieta.

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

The late afternoon winter sun glints along the superliners of Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief near Raton, New Mexico.

Amtrak train #4, the eastward Southwest Chief, flies by a semaphore indicating a clear track ahead as they speed past the geologic formation that gave the town of Wagon Mound it's name.

Amtrak's number 3 train aka the "Southwest Chief" pulls into the Galesburg Amtrak Station to make passenger drop-offs and pick-ups. The engineer was very friendly handing us a pack of bottled wate... (more)

The Amtrak "Southwest Chief" hastily races beneath the intermediate signals at MP241 on the Marceline Sub., just west of Fort Madison by a couple miles.

Amtrak #3, the Southwest Chief, passes Amtrak's Redondo Junction facility on its way to Los Angeles, just about five miles ahead. P42DCs 131 and 207 have just brought the nine-car train ov... (more)

Following the curvature of Santa Fe's iconic Raton Pass, Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief makes its daily trek the pass, south of Trinidad enroute to Raton.

Running a little over 2 hours off the advertised, Amtrak's Westbound Southwest Chief passes the Mormon rocks between Davis Ranch and Pine Lodge as passenger's enjoy a early morning run down Cajon ... (more)

Train #4 - The eastbound Southwest Chief (Train #4) arrives at Fullerton on it's way from Los Angeles to Chicago Illinois.

Amtrak's Westbound Southwest Chief passes the classic semaphores at the east end of Chapelle siding on a beautiful day in the high desert of northern New Mexico.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief flies through Carrollton, MO, a classic mid-western set up of a town. Single main grade crossing bracketed by an elevator on one side and a station on the other. Train no.... (more)