The Eastbound Southwest Chief passes McCartys.NM. I was concerned that the westbound freight would block our view, but all turned out ok.

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief, running nearly 12 hours late, makes a rare appearance with a sunlit nose through the Santa Ana Canyon.

Southwest Chief pulls beside National Limited in the third busiest rail center in the country. All of this vintage passenger equipment will soon be replaced with Superliners and the National Limit... (more)

Amtrak's Southwest Chief highballs west, with five BNSF business cars deadheading on the end.

Westbound Southwest Chief is on the advertised as it races through the desert at Rosario, NM. Unfortunately, both locomotives failed in Albuquerque, which was not surprising given the oil that was... (more)

The Southwest Chief is rocketing along jointed rail as it splits the semaphores at Colmor, NM. Yes, these classic signals are still standing, but for how much longer?

Amtrak P42 164 leads the westbound Southwest Chief through LaVergne as a westbound manifest with a pair of SD75Ms approaches.

The eastbound Southwest Chief cruises past the red cliffs near Coolidge approaching the Continental Divide on the Gallup Sub.

A late running Southwest Chief hustles east past a waiting stack train.

The Southwest Chief cruises west at track speed over the bridge at Media, IL on the Chilli Sub.

An on-time Southwest Chief (which I confused with the late California Zephyr) kicks up snow as it flies through LaGrange doing every bit of its track speed, and leaving me with some extra wind chi... (more)

Running several hours off the advertised, Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief starts down Cajon Pass at Summit with a rare November snowfall blanketing the surrounding landscape.

Amtrak's Southwest Chief splits a set of semaphores on its westward trek across the plains of New Mexico.

Amtrak train #35, a very late westbound Southwest Chief, pauses at the next-to-last stop in Fullerton, CA, before traversing the last 28 miles of its run from Chicago to Los Angeles.