Afternoon VRE train 303 arrives into Alexandria Amtrak as a Metro train arrives into King Street Metro. Train 303 is running with extra cars today, as today is the last working day before Christma... (more)
After record snowfalls along the East Coast, Amtrak 710 prepares the motive power in Albany, New York before proceeding along the Hudson Line to NYC.
Two feet of snow are expected to fall in Flagstaff, cancelling all flights out of the airport. I decide to attempt to get to Phoenix by shuttle, and catch this train while waiting. Ultimately,... (more)
Snow flurries start as 17M heads westbound through Toledo.
CN/NS Train 930 heads south into the Saratoga Springs yard for a crew change.
An LA-bound Surfliner accelerates out of Fullerton, sandwiched between a loaded ethanol train and the former Donald Duck orange juice plant.
A Westbound ethanol train waits for the next block to clear, so it can continue the long trek from Nebraska to Watson Yard in the Los Angeles basin.
Buses wait on the platform of the old GM&O station for arriving Amtrak Lincoln Service. Chicago to St. Louis service is being terminated in Springfield while rail improvements are taking place so... (more)
Freshly painted at the Centralia paint shop CN 2124 is placed on public display at the local Amtrak station. Recently purchased from Union Pacific. Ex. UP 9089. Ex. CNW 8577.
First class passengers board the southbound regional at Alexandria VA. I found two things interesting about this engine. The first; it's road number is 1. The second, a video camera is plainly vis... (more)
I don't think that's Amtrak!
Summer is here in the Pacific Northwest and so is the UP Heritage, Rio Grande. Both are long overdo and very welcome.
Evening iron ore train out of Minnesota rolls through the Galesburg Amtrak station.
A single passenger waits for the arrival of the near five hour late Amtrak P050, the eastbound Cardinal bound for Washington D.C. The unique station nestled in the New River valley still resembles... (more)
Amtrak 26 leads Train 355 into their station stop at Dearborn with a pair of P42s on the point.
