Welcome Home In early June 2024, the Danbury Railway Museum received ex-Amtrak AEM-7 #917.

Under Wire For The Last Time. Not long after midnight on June 7, 2024, former Amtrak AEM-7 917 arrived at The Danbury Railway Museum on Genesee & Wyoming Inc.'s Providence & Worcester Railr... (more)

Danbury Gets An AEM-7. Not long after midnight on June 7, 2024, former Amtrak AEM-7 917 arrived at The Danbury Railway Museum on Genesee & Wyoming Inc.'s Providence & Worcester Railroad Tra... (more)

Danbury Gets An AEM-7. Not long after midnight on June 7, 2024, former Amtrak AEM-7 917 arrived at The Danbury Railway Museum on Genesee & Wyoming Inc.'s Providence & Worcester Railroad Tra... (more)

With Just A little Paint. AMTK 909 (AEM-7, EMD/ASEA, 10/1980) was not one of the "toasters" selected for upgrade to AC electronics, but was repainted, and looks fairly respectable... (more)

One of the earlier AEM-7DCs is first to be scrapped. It was dismantled into three chunks, which were hauled offsite by trailer to be further reduced. Amtrak ended up creating an official eBay acco... (more)

Once common power seen in Penn Station NY, now relegated to history.

A southbound Amtrak Northeast Direct train pulls into Pennsylvania Station Baltimore, Maryland, on March 4, 1999. Power is AEM7 #929. My family and I would take this train down to Washington DC, w... (more)

948 brings a Northeast Regional around the wye.

Three Movements at County Interlocking: A Jersey Avenue westbound train can be seen to the left exiting the Northeast Corridor to its terminus on the Jersey Avenue Station Track/Millstone B... (more)

MARC 4903 sits in the deadline at Riverside Yard.

One Last Selfie. On June 18, 2016, Amtrak operated a "Farewell to The AEM-7" excursion round trip from Washington DC to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. AEM-7s 942 and 946 led a 9-car ... (more)

Toasters And Transition. Time was already running short for AMTK 942 (AEM7, EMD/ASEA) as it led a Northeast Regional through the Kingston, Rhode Island station on the evening of June 6, 201... (more)

In their last fall of revenue service, the 940 departs BWI amid the changing foliage.

A heavy snow storm doesn't slow down this toaster. Note the first car behind the engine is the 10005 Catenary Measurement Car.