When Amtrak Train No. 35 -- the Desert Wind -- pulls into
Los Angeles' Union Station Monday morning it will mark
the end of 91 years of passenger service between
Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.
Story by Carol Cling, Photos by Jim Laurie
Review-Journal
"My heart is warm with the friends I make,
And better friends I'll not be knowing;
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No matter where it's going."
-- From "Travel" (1921),
by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
But the passenger train doesn't go
to Las Vegas. Not anymore. Not after Monday.
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