Two-month-old Amtrak 50 is the first of a pair of P42DCs pulling a seven-car Desert Wind (train 35) around a curve in the Mojave Desert as the train heads toward Los Angeles from Ogden. Th... (more)

Amtrak Train 35, the Desert Wind, descends Cajon near Alray at 11:40 on May 5, 1984.

Passing a lone Joshua Tree on a bright and snowy January 1988 day, Amtrak train 35, the now-discontinued Desert Wind, threads its way through Cajon Pass's Mormon Rocks area on its way from ... (more)

AMTRAK Desert Wind descending Cima Hill near Elora, CA.

Amtrak GE P40DC 810 leads train 35 the Desert Wind passing, Santa Fe C40-8W 936 at San Bernardino, California.

In January 1997, Amtrak train No. 35 approaches UP's concrete bridge over the Mojave River. The passenger train from Chicago rocks through a crossover as it comes up out of the yard and onto the b... (more)

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

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

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

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)

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)

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.

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)

Running about 10 hours behind schedule, Amtrak's Desert Wind train #35 heads upgrade along UP's Lynndyl Subdivision approaching Erda. This perspective includes the Great Salt Lake, Stansbury Islan... (more)

An Amtrak Desert Wind crosses the sandy bed of the Mojave River.