Train number one still heading toward the setting sun. Southern Pacific hit the nail on the head when they named this train the Sunset Limited. I was in the same sleeping car for three nights and ... (more)
Running a few minutes late, Amtrak's eastbound Sunset Limited approaches Pepper Ave. on the former SP Alhambra Sub in the early winter evening light.
"I've been everywhere, man..I've been everywhere.." 2 pages worth of pics of this engine on Railpictures.net. It's fascinating to see all the places these engines visit. Among 21's travels: Illino... (more)
An unusual on time departure for #2 this morning, about to go underneath the University of Houston on the passenger main of the SP.
Beginning of the last hurrah for the pooches.
The porter on the westbound Sunset Limited waits for passengers to board ex-UP 10-6 Pacific View. Miss that steam!
Amtrak arrives in a cloud of dust, while late afternoon sunlight turns the mountains to gold.
Westbound Sunset Limited just west of Alpine, TX.
Running a few minutes late out of Los Angeles, Amtrak's eastbound Sunset Limited train #2 approaches Valley Blvd. and the former Southern Pacific yard at City of Industry.
The westbound Sunset Limited crosses the mysterious Willcox Playa at dusk on an otherwise very quiet evening.
Believe it or not, but today's "Sunset" is arriving Los Angeles early!
The Sunset Limited rolls by a westbound stacktrain with a SD90mac II in the consist. Too bad they didn't last.
Amtrak NO 1 the sunset Limited in the great vastness of the New Mexico desert. What a country!.
Running about 7 hours late, Amtrak's westbound Sunset Limited is almost to Los Angeles, passing the western limits of Pomona at Spadra.
The westbound SUNSET LIMITED crosses the Atchafalaya River on Ash Wednesday. The Atchafalaya River is the main distributary of the Mississippi River, diverting about 30% of that river's flow to t... (more)
