Arriving around 10:00 pm, Amtrak's Southwest Chief stops at the Flagstaff station to drop off and pick up passengers. It's a busy night and in a short amount of time, the chief is gaining speed a... (more)

Running eight hours behind schedule, Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, lost AMTK P42DC 117 in Winslow AZ and picked up BNSF ES44C4 6911 to assist AMTK P42DC 19 on its journey from Ch... (more)

This is the longest Amtrak passenger train I’ve seen in years!

Four P42DC locomotives (172, 189, 10 and 163) are pulling sixteenth cars (sleepers 32059 and 32025, diner 38031, lo... (more)

Running 3 hours behind schedule, Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, hustles through Highgrove as it approaches its next stop in Riverside. P42DCs 77 and 206 are in charge of th... (more)

Amtrak #3 'The Southwest Chief' cruises past the ATSF semaphores at ESS Chapelle on BNSF's Raton Subdivision.

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief slowly makes its way up Raton Pass, passing under the Santa Fe searchlight signals at Gallinas, Colorado that guard the crossover here.

Amtrak #3 splits the semaphores at Las Vegas, NM.

Amtrak’s westbound Southwest Chief, powered by a pair of GE B32BWH locomotives in “Pepsi Can” colors, flies through Ransom, Illinois, on May 2, 1992. Deadheading to California is a Amfleet c... (more)

The westbound Southwest Chief departs Galesburg, passing through A-plant.

Amtrak 50 smokes it up as it leads the westbound Southwest Chief into Naperville.

Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is running 6 hours 15 minutes late as it passes through Esperanza, in the western end of Santa Ana Canyon. This train experienced a 4-hour... (more)

Threading The Defile

Amtrak Train #3, The Southwest Chief, exits Apache Canyon, just (railroad) east of Lamy New Mexico. The train is leaving the narrow defile in the southern... (more)

Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southbound Chief, is only five-hours late as it passes through Verdemont, at the base of Cajon Pass. Just ahead is a stop at San Bernardino, which will... (more)

Yet another Amtrak long-distance train is running late, as Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is five hours behind schedule as it passes through Cajon, California, at 10:55 am. ... (more)

Amtrak 3 highballs the semaphores in Colmor, NM at MP 706.2 on the Raton Subdivision.