Having just met its northbound counterpart, Amtrak's southbound Coast Starlight is back on the move and up to track speed as it races through the vineyards at Edna as it heads for the coast.

Located in the hills of north of San Luis Obispo, the 5,100 foot long siding of Chorro is one of two, current locations between San Luis Obispo and Santa Margarita where trains can meet if necessa... (more)

A rare occurrence in 2020, Amtrak Dash 8 510 leads the Southbound Coast Starlight into LA. The train is drifting along the California coast North of Santa Barbara over the famous and often photogr... (more)

Word that AMTK 510 was still on the point of the Coast Starlight prompted a friend and I to make the drive from Los Angeles up to San Louis Obispo's Cuesta Pass to shoot the SP Searchlights at Cho... (more)

Crossing US 101 with the sun to its back, Amtrak 507 heads up this evening's Amtrak 11 as it passes through Ventura on Independence Day.

All is quiet at Amtrak's Redondo maintenance shops as the AMKTK 509 soaks up the late afternoon light.

The northbound Coast Starlight is a couple of miles from exiting the Golden State as it approaches the west portal of Tunnel 18.

Three trains meet (they're all moving) as two Pennsy icons (GG-1 No. 4859 and N6B caboose 980016) are repositioned for station trackwork in 2014

Amtrak power awaits its next assignment at the Amtrak shops in downtown Chicago. On the head of these two tracks is on of the GE B32-8WH's and a Siemens Charger for Illinois state sponsored servic... (more)

Framed by aging power in the form of P42DC AMTK 53 and Dash-832BWH AMTK 507, a trio of new, Siemens-built Charger locomotives (in numerical order, I might add) stand ready at Redondo Junction prio... (more)

On Martin Luther King Day, an Amtrak Dash 8 cruises to a stop in Naperville, IL.

With the Quincy Wye out of service due to a derailment, Amtrak Midwest BNSF trains need 2 engines instead of the normal one. So on this nights train, an Amtrak Dash-8 takes charge as it crawls int... (more)

After some warm temperatures melted most of the remaining snow, Amtrak train 64 the eastbound "Maple Leaf" passes over a raging high fall with a rare GE P32BWH leading.

With these signals gone this is just a remembrance of the PRR.

Amtrak 519 departs Galesburg with the eastbound Carl Sandburg during a snow squall.