The Scout was one of the named passenger trains of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

1 (westbound) & 10 (eastbound) between Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California.

In summer 1926 it left Chicago at 1115 and arrived Los Angeles at 0900 three days later, running via Ottawa Jct, Amarillo and Fullerton.

In November 1939 it left at 2045 and arrived 0700, sixty hours on the same route except via Pasadena.

[1] Major stations on the main itinerary to Los Angeles Union Station:[2] West of Barstow, in eastern California, a second section departed northwest to the California Central Valley and Oakland:[5]