Amtrak Passing Through Amarillo Texas

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Uploaded by on Jan 2, 2007

Amtrak rerouted it's Southwest Chief (trains 3 & 4) through Amarillo for several days due to bad weather on the normal route.

It was quite unusual to see Amtrak in Amarillo since they have never served this town.

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  • ha deez dudes past by my house awsome

  • The pre-Amtrak predecessor to the Southwest Chief was the Santa Fe Super Chief (all sleeping car train) and the El Capitan (all coach train). Both were beautiful, great trains. The Super Chief was considered to be one of the greatest passenger trains in the United States. It did not go through Amarillo. I believe its route between Garden City and Lamar was the fastest passenger train route segment in the U.S. at that time.

  • That should be great if Amtrak can someday do Service to the West Coast without going through San Antonio from Ft. Worth.

  • yae thats pretty cool i havent ever seen an amtrak, and ive lived here for 25 years.

  • Cool

  • On the more positive side, there seems to be a strong push now for expanded Amtrak service, especially in Texas. Hopefully some good will come of it. So sad that Amtrak's always a political hot potato. Citizens want more service, however, they'd have to be willing to pay for it, tax wise.

  • what!?!?!?!

    you people here have like never seen an amtrak.

    back where i'm from

    there was like 20 goin trough the town a day.

  • Wow, that's really something. I believe that the Original Southwest Chief run by Santa Fe Rail Road did have a Stop in Amarillo. Hell the Railroads built this town, now only the old folks remember the trains. There was talk back in the '80s of expanding Amtrack service to Amarillo, but I do not think that the big whigs wanted it to compete with their airport. Sure would be sweet to have a train between Dallas and the Mountains though.

  • Cool shot. Good sounding horn.

  • That is actually pretty cool! Loads of people around here have never seen an Amtrak.

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