A few weeks later I'd capture the same train with the same power type at this exact location, but in blizzard like conditions.

Train #19, "The Crescent", is southbound on the NEC at Aberdeen, MD.

A Star 200BC White Strobe is caught flashing on this AEM-7AC... These strobes were once a distinguishing and common feature of Amtrak road power, but are now only found on their AEM-7s. So with ... (more)

193 has the green to head south to Washington, DC

A Northeast Regional rolls into BWI with an AC AEM-7. All of Amtrak's current electric power will soon be replaced with the new ACS-64 locomotives now rolling off the assembly line.

The northbound Crescent is led by a veteran locomotive whose days are numbered.

An early running Silver Meteor knocks off the last few miles of its journey through Pennsylvania as it flashes through the Croydon station.

A Keystone "motor" comes to a stop under the walkway and by the platform of the 1929 built Pennsy station at Lancaster, PA. Electric via overhead catenary was rehabilitated in 2006 and as of Nove... (more)

I always seem to have better luck with trains then weather these days. From the very start, I knew exactly how a recent visit to Princeton junction would Railroad: Amtrak
Locomotive: ASEA AEM-7
Location: West Windsor, New Jersey, USA
Locomotive #: AMTK 947
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: April, 2013

A Northeast Direct train races past the mid-century Pennsylvania Railroad structure in Odenton, Maryland.

A double header of MARC AEM-7s head north out of Washington Union Station

With its old pantograph removed (and sitting in the left foreground), Amtrak AEM7 909 is resting before having its pantograph replaced by the hard-working shop crew at Wilmington. With the AEM7's ... (more)

A set of AEM-7AC motors propel a Northeast Regional train down the former PRR corridor line through Metropark at speed after a storm.

An Amtrak AEM7 and some HHP-8's are in the shop for inspection, including MARC HHP-8 4910. To the far right is AMTK GP38H-3 524. Photo taken with supervision and permission.