Running on its tri-weekly schedule out of Los Angeles, the Sunset Limited has departed Maricopa a few minutes ago and at 7:25 AM is heading into the new Saturday morning sunshine.

Big West Texas Fork in the Road --- Sierra Blanca, where the TandP originally gained trackage rights on to El Paso over the SP. Westbound Amtrak Trn. 1 Sunset Limited with GE units 46 and 842 zip... (more)

At 6:05 a.m. in the heart of the Sonoran Desert, Amtrak No. 2 roars around a curve as it climbs toward the summit at Estrella.

An SP dwarf target signal stares back at the camera as an eastbound Sunset Limited races over the west switch at Red Rock, AZ.

Amtrak's Sunset Limited heads west out of Houston, Tx. during it's 1,995 mile journey from New Orleans, La. to Los Angeles, Ca.

I know what I was doing on the 4th of July in 1978. I was riding in the next to last sleeper on the Sunset Limited through the mighty desert of the American Southwest. The sunset was not fully dra... (more)

The equipment from Amtrak train #1, the westbound Sunset Limited, deadheads from Union Station to the maintenance facility along the Los Angeles River on the morning of July 3, 2011. On th... (more)

The Sunset Limited takes the bypass under the Palmdale Cutoff early in its journey from Los Angeles to New Orleans.

One of the two F69HAC's that Amtrak tested along with two P30PH's and a F40PH leads the eastbound Southwest Limited into Tempe for a station stop.

I wished I would have kept notes in these early days so I would have a better idea of what is depicted and where. But to the best of my knowledge this is the Sunset Limited passing a semaphore eas... (more)

The eastbound Sunset Limited makes a station stop at Pensacola.

The Sunset Limited fueling and watering.

A friendly engineer wearing a cowboy hat rolls towards the crossing at Central Avenue

Amtrak 115 and the Sunset glides past the New Orleans Public Belt's maintenance yard at Central Avenue, on it's way up the Huey Long bridge. The bridge is undergoing a massive reconstruction to ad... (more)

Amtraks eastbound Sunset arrives at Tempe.