Sunset Limited

The Sunset Limited is an Amtrak passenger train, which connected over 4422 km Orlando in Florida with Los Angeles in California. Since 2007 he has served now the route New Orleans - Los Angeles. It runs three times a week ( on the section between San Antonio (Texas ) and Los Angeles, together with the Texas Eagle). Due to the subordination to the freight trains of the track owners often occurs delays.

The Sunset Limited was affected on 23 October 1993 of the worst railway accident in the history of Amtrak, when he derailed a card being accidentally displaced rotating bridge over the Big Bayou Canot. 47 people died, 103 were injured, some seriously.

On 9 October 1995 perpetrated in Hyder, Arizona saboteurs a stop, the perpetrators have never been identified.

After the hurricane disaster in New Orleans the route east of San Antonio was temporarily suspended in August 2005. Since 2007 he runs back between New Orleans and Los Angeles, the section New Orleans - Orlando will still be set.