{"id":87554,"date":"2025-12-09T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87554\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T12:36:08","slug":"all-aboard-angelenos-on-the-southwest-chief-train-to-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/87554\/","title":{"rendered":"All aboard, Angelenos, on the Southwest Chief train to Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                 <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Christopher Reynolds\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/christopher-reynolds\" data-click=\"enhancedBylineAuthorImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Los Angeles Times staffer Christopher Reynolds\"   width=\"130\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765283767_511_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/a>  <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Mark E. Potts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/mark-potts\" data-click=\"enhancedBylineAuthorImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Mark Potts.\"   width=\"130\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765283768_559_\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/a>      Dec. 9, 2025 3 AM PT                          <\/p>\n<p> Share via     Close extra sharing options  <\/p>\n<p>Passengers say the journey on Amtrak\u2019s Southwest Chief \u2014 delays and all \u2014 is worth it: no TSA lines, ground-level scenery spanning deserts and mountains, and hours of unrushed conversation with fellow travelers. The route attracts everyone from Amish families seeking affordable medical care in Tijuana to model railroaders, artists and senior travelers rediscovering American landscapes.<\/p>\n<p>               <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Christopher Reynolds\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/christopher-reynolds\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765283767_511_\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Born and raised in California, Christopher Reynolds has written about travel, the outdoors, arts and culture for the Los Angeles Times since 1990. <\/p>\n<p>         <a class=\"link\" aria-label=\"Mark E. Potts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/people\/mark-potts\" data-click=\"authorBioImage\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765283768_559_\" loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"130\" height=\"130\"\/> <\/a>           <\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio-text\">Mark E. Potts is the senior editor for video at the Los Angeles Times. A native of Enid, Okla., Potts graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a master\u2019s degree in broadcast journalism. He has created and edited video for DreamWorks, YouTube, Microsoft, Sony and BET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 9, 2025 3 AM PT Share via Close extra sharing options Passengers say the journey on Amtrak\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48976,26355,4419,48973,5053,48979,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,48974,48975,5052,48977,48972,4931,48978,5050],"class_list":["post-87554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-affordable-medical-care","tag-angelenos","tag-chicago","tag-christopher-reynolds","tag-enid","tag-ground-level-scenery","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-mark-e-potts-dec","tag-model-railroader","tag-okla","tag-senior-traveler","tag-southwest-chief-train","tag-tijuana","tag-unrushed-conversation","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}