Amtrak 198 & 199 race west with the Southwest Chief west of Grants New Mexico.

Amtrak daily train no. 3 (the "Southwest Chief") left Chicago Union station only a few minutes before and is now heading west to Los Angeles with a classic pair of P42DC.

At 13:03 (1:03 pm), Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, rolls into the Fullerton station 5 hours 6 minute late. the last stop before arriving in Los Angeles from Chicago. Twenty... (more)

Amtrak train 3, the Southwest Chief, departed Chicago with two operating P42DCs (93 and 116), one dead-heading unit (113) and 10 cars. By the time the Chief got to Colorado, 116 had ... (more)

Running just 6 hours 53 minutes behind schedule, this day’s Amtrak train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, is just about to its next-to-last stop in Fullerton. (The previous day’s trai... (more)

I sure liked the paint job on the B truck GE's when they were new. We called them Pepsi cans.

Amtrak train 3, the Southwest Chief, departed Chicago with two operating P42DCs (93 and 116), one dead-heading unit (113) and 10 cars. By the time the Chief got to Colorado, 116 had ... (more)

In this photo, Amtrak's Southwest Chief arrives in Mendota, IL to complete its scheduled stop with two P42DCs in charge, while older generations of motive power in the form of CB&Q 4978 (2-8-2 ste... (more)

Running "only" 4 hours 21 minutes behind schedule, Amtrak's train 3, the Southwest Chief, rolls through the location on BNSF Railway's San Bernardino Sub known as Esperanza, overt... (more)

Shouthwest Chief train 3 is heading towards Gallup, NM, carrying an extra set of Metrolink cars.

Amtrak train 3, the westbound Chicago to Los Angeles Southwest Chief, arrived at Los Angeles Union Station at 8:59 am, 1 hour 2 minutes late. (It made up 18 minutes in the 26 miles between... (more)

Just 1 hour 42 minutes late (believe it or not, that’s not too bad for Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief), Amtrak P42DCs 161 (dressed in the carrier's original paint scheme for thei... (more)

On its maiden run after receiving Amtrak's Phase VII paint scheme, Amtrak P42DC 167 leads a late train 3, the westbound Southwest Chief, as it departs Fullerton headed for its final stop at... (more)

Amtrak has a new paint scheme being applied to their P42DCs, the Phase VII scheme. So far it has been applied to 174 and 82 … and now 167, seen on its maiden run in its third paint scheme. Fre... (more)

These is a lot that is out of the ordinary here…

(1) On the left is an intermodal train (BNSF S-CDZSCO1-29L) with a Grinstein Green and Cream SD70MAC, not a usual visitor to southern ... (more)