American View
An Amtrak Chief Engineer's Inspection extra passes through North Elizabeth on a run north/east from Washington, DC to Boston. The consist includes three unique pieces of... (more)

The Beech Grove #10001, Amfleet Office Car, fresh out of overhaul.

Amtrak "American View" #10004 is a home built Theater car created from one of the two prototype Viewliner Sleepers. The seats are recycled Superliner prototype seats and the carpet stil... (more)

The Amfleet Office Car, Beech Grove, was recently repainted in Phase III and features small arrow logos and "America's Railroad" lettering toward the hind end.

More Phase III. The Amtrak business car "Beech Grove" is now painted in Phase III. The car is seen heading SB towards New York Penn on the 8:10am departure from Albany-Rensselaer.

Amtrak's Theater Car, the "American View," completes a trip on the tail end of The Vermonter with this stop in St. Albans. The Lake Champlain region often provides wonderful suns... (more)

Amtrak Viewliner Theater Car #10004, named American View, sits in Washington Union Station before going out on a trip up the corridor.

Amtrak's Corridor Clipper (AMTK 10002) takes a ride on the front of Amtrak Northeast Regional #175 from New York to Boston. Because of a derailment two days before, locomotives ran around their tr... (more)

Amtrak lost a great railroader, the railfan community lost a great friend, and the world lost a great guy today. Pete Grosso, seen here (on left) as conductor of a yard move shoving Amfleet Offic... (more)

An Amtrak geometry train heads west on track 4 through North Elizabeth station. Trailing the AEM-7AC is a cafe car, Catenary Measurement Car 10005 and the "Corridor Clipper" track geome... (more)

Amtrak 9800 is the carrier's First Class Conference Club car, used for specials and charters. Rebuilt from Metroliner Café Car 863, it wears Metroliner branding, paying homage to i... (more)

In it's final years as an active cab control car, the 9800 wore a "black bandit mask" around the windshields. When the car went in for overhaul it emerged with an all blue nose and cab ... (more)

The 9800 sits by itself until summonsed again.

The 10005 is a former "Michigan Coach;" originally a Metroliner. It is outfitted with lasers and gizmos on the roof to gather catenary information at 125mph. Coupled to it is 10004, th... (more)

Metroliner lives on in the form of a First Class Conference Car