After a cold, windy day on the Colorado plains, a crew member has climbed down from Great Western 2-10-0 90 to chat with a truck driver making a delivery to the railroad yard.
Amtrak P32BWH 512 kicks up a wake of snow as it climbs the West Slope of the Alleghenies and passes under the PRR signal bridge in Lilly, 254.7 miles from Philadelphia.
Race you to Newark. Amtrak Acela power car 2004 brings up the rear of train 2110 as it passes NJT ALP-46A 4641 sitting at the Elizabeth station with train 3244 at 1:23 p.m. Both trains are ... (more)
Counterpart NJT New York-Trenton trains meet at Elizabeth as westbound train 3847 departs with Arrow III MU 1380 at the head end while ALP-46A 4638 shoves on the rear of an 8-car New York-bound tr... (more)
2013 in 2013. For the fourth year in a row, I was able to catch a locomotive that shares a number with the current year on my first day of railfanning in that year. This year, I caught Amtr... (more)