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The Southwest Chief (formerly the Southwest Limited and Super Chief) is a long-distance passenger train operated by Amtrak on a 2,265-mile (3,645 km) route between Chicago and Los Angeles through the Midwest and Southwest via Kansas City, Albuquerque, and Flagstaff mostly on the BNSF's Southern Transcon, but branches off between Albuquerque and Kansas City via the Topeka, La Junta, Raton, and ...
The Chief was an American long-distance named passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that ran between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.The Santa Fe initiated the Chief in 1926 to supplement the California Limited.
It was extended north to St. Louis in 1974 and further to Chicago in 1976. In 1974 Amtrak renamed the Super Chief to the Southwest Limited and the Texas Chief to the Lone Star following the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway revoking permission to use the "Chief" names. The Mountaineer and Lake Shore Limited began service in 1975, and the ...
Southwest Limited: Chicago – Los Angeles May 19, 1974 October 28, 1984 Renamed from Super Chief; renamed Southwest Chief: Sunset Limited †‡ New Orleans – Los Angeles May 1, 1971 April 4, 1993 Inherited from SP Sunset Limited, extended to Miami Miami – Los Angeles April 4, 1993 November 10, 1996 Truncated to Sanford Sanford - Los Angeles
Sep. 14—New Mexico's longest Amtrak route, the Southwest Chief, will not run for the foreseeable future as the railroad company grapples with a labor dispute, an Amtrak spokesperson confirmed ...
La Plata station is an Amtrak train station in La Plata, Missouri, United States and is a passenger stop for Amtrak's Southwest Chief long-distance route between Chicago and Los Angeles. It was built in 1945 by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway as a replacement for an 1887-built, 1888-opened passenger and freight depot that was in ...
Amtrak retained the Super Chief/El Capitan names with Santa Fe's permission. [15]: 123 From June 11 to September 10, 1972, Amtrak operated the Chief, a second Chicago–Los Angeles train along the same route. This was the only occasion on which Amtrak ran a second train to duplicate a long-distance service along its entire route outside the New ...
Southwest Chief: Rebuilt as a Los Angeles Metro Rail station in 2003 Pomona–North† Pomona: 1994 Southwest Chief: Still served by Metrolink: Riverbank: Riverbank: 1999 San Joaquin: Replaced by Modesto station, destroyed by fire in 2005 [8] Sorrento Valley† San Diego: 2018 Pacific Surfliner: Still served by Coaster: Storey: Storey: 2010 San ...