The first of several Push Pull Express trains led by one of Amtrak's iconic AEM-7's arrives at Bryn Mawr Station early one Summer afternoon in August.

SEPTA's AEM-7 No. 2306 leads an evening express through Berwyn, PA en route to Paoli.

Pushed by AEM-7 No. 2304, a late evening SEPTA commuter train flies past the 1888 Reading built Rydal station. Lot's of history survives along this former Reading line, now operated by SEPTA as i... (more)

SEPTA AEM-7 No. 2302 arrives at Philmont Station along the West Trenton Line in Huntingdon Valley, PA. For a view of the other side of this beautiful station built by the Reading in 1913, click ... (more)

A late evening push-pull express led by AEM-7 No. 2302 flies through the 1870 built former PRR Wynnewood station en route to Paoli, PA

Amtrak AEM-7 electric #914 with southbound "Northeast Regional" train 95 from Boston, MA to Newport News, VA. Second unit dead in tow is AEM-7 #944.

Amtrak Service to Lansdale, Pennsylvania

Before taking delivery of seven AEM7’s, SEPTA wanted to test one of the electrics on the Reading side of its service, to see if that elec... (more)

SEPTA Mid-Train Helper 2

After making its two station stops at Strafford, Pennsylvania , two SEPTA R5 Limi... (more)

SEPTA Mid-Train Helper

While riding the first of three AEM7-pulled Limited trains that departed Philadelphia for western suburbs along the R5 line, the AEM7 on my train suffered a ... (more)

For a few years in the 1990’s I worked in downtown Philadelphia, and commuted from the western suburbs on the former PRR main line. There were three trains that left downtown at the end of the w... (more)

A westbound late-afternoon SEPTA train approaches its station stop at Strafford, Pennsylvania. With its Victorian gingerbread architecture, the former PRR station at Strafford is one of the Pennsy... (more)

Running on borrowed time, SEPTA AEM-7 2305 flies through Eddystone with an express on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor.

An Amtrak corridor train from Boston has completed the diesel-to-electric power swap at New Haven, and AEM-7 909 is ready to depart for New York and Washington. New Haven Union Station, in the bac... (more)

A battered No. 927 pushes its train away from the crumbling umbrella supports at the old PRR station on the high fill above E-town. The siding on the left services M&M Mars and the track on the r... (more)

The "new(er) kid" in town - AMTK #915, built in 1980, now also retired from service, sits on display next in progression to the former PRR, ex-PC, ex-Conrail GG1 built in 1934 know affectionately ... (more)