Amtrak train #3 heads west with a thunderstorm and partial rainbow in the background, just a mere minute before the sun is blocked out by clouds for the rest of the day at Bluewater,NM on 9/12/12.... (more)

As seen at Casa,CO, Amtrak #3 , led by Phase 2 Heritage locomotive #66, races through a snow squall as it quickly approaches its next station stop and crew change point of La Junta, CO on 11/2/11.

Fall colors are starting to show on a tree as Amtrak 184, the Phase 4 Heritage locomotive for Amtrak, leads train #3, the Southwest Chief, through Grants,NM on 9/24/12.

Amtrak #3 races west out of a late monsoon season thunderstorm 9/12/12. A partial rainbow and rays of sun stand out from the dark sky in the background.

Amtrak train #3,the Southwest Chief, led by Phase 3 painted heritage Unit #145, finds a sun break as it heads west under stormy skies near Bluewater,NM 9/2/12.

Amtrak #3 heads west off of the Continental Divide under stormy skies on 8/12/12.

Normally you can see the mesa behind Amtrak #3 here, but a wall of heavy rain has covered it as monsoonal thunderstorms would dump 2 inches of rain in 3 hours here on 7/5/12.

Amtrak train #3 heads west as more thunderstorms develop behind the train at Milan, NM 7/9/12.

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief is running right around 1 and a half hours late this morning, as it glides through Santa Ana Canyon.

Having just entered Ariziona from New Mexico, Amtrak #3, the westbound Southwest Chief, leaves the beautiful cliffs at Lupton behind in the waning light of 5/22/12.

Running five hours late, Amtrak train #3, the "Southwest Chief," rushes through Frost, just south of Victorville, California, as it ticks off the last 119 miles of its 2265-mile trip from Chicago ... (more)

Amtrak #3 has just passed a semaphore displaying a clear signal westbound as the train splits the semaphores controlling eastbound movements at the east end of Wagon Mound,NM 11/3/11.

Amtrak #3, led by Phase 4 heritage unit #184, passes the last operating mainline wig-wag in Colorado at Delhi,CO. 8/2/11

Amtrak train #3 rounds the curve and knocks down the clear signal at the double set of semaphores at Blanchard,NM on 11/3/11. Even though only 2 Amtrak trains use this line a day, the BNSF Gloriet... (more)

a fairly new trio of Amtraks SDP40F's lead westbound train #3 through Highland Park, CA only minutes away from it's final destination at LAUPT. This right of way is now occupied by LA Metro light ... (more)