Four P42s power today's Southwest Chief. This power is due to the large amount of mail cars on the rear of the train which was not uncommon in this time period.

Running over sixteen hour late, Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief, train #3, makes a daylight appearance through the northern Arizona region on the first day of May 2017. The delay was due to a n... (more)

Amtrak #3, the Southwest Chief is on time as it slows for its scheduled station stop of Albuquerque NM. On point is Amtrak Heritage 156 w/ Amtrak 42, the Veterans unit, trailing ...

Amtrak's Veteran's Unit leads the westbound Southwest Chief into Naperville.

From atop the embankment, we get a glimpse of Amtrak's Southwest Chief running as advertised as it slowly traverses Apache Canyon on a cold and stormy early Autumn afternoon.

You always need red, white and blue on the Fourth of July. On America's 212th birthday, the Southwest Chief is flying low at Canyon Diablo, between Flagstaff and Winslow.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief kicks up a little snow at it flies east across the Missouri River plains en-route for Chicago at a mere 89MPH.

Flying low, the eastbound Southwest Chief highballs the crossover at East Double A, Arizona on the first day of Fall 1996.

Amtrak Heritage unit 156 and Veterans unit 42 lead the westbound Southwest Chief south of Colton just after sunrise.

High in the Rockies of southern Colorado, the westbound Southwest Chief splits through the old Santa Fe cantilever signals. These are another historic feature along the former Santa Fe transcon, w... (more)

Featuring a photogenic crew, an engineer throws up "Jazz Hands" as his train, Amtrak's Southwest Chief traverses the quaint community of Rowe, NM on this stormy New Years Day.

Here we have a personal favorite of mine, of which many can relate to as a timeless tradition in regards to traveling by rail. Seen here, from the Observation Car of Amtrak's Southwest Chief, pass... (more)

In the last minutes of daylight, the Westbound Southwest Chief has just taken a cutoff at the South end of Galesburg to get from the old Burlington main and now enters the ex-AT&SF Transon.

Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief picks up speed as it enters the 90 MPH ATS track territory between Darling and Winslow as it heads east down the Arizona Divide. Amtrak usually passes through he... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief splits a pair of intermediate semaphore signals near Las Vegas, N.M., eastbound on BNSF Railway's main line between Santa Fe, N.M., and Trinidad, Colo.