"A Blue Afternoon at Ardsley"

On the overcast afternoon of March 19th, 2024, Amtrak P42DC #100, painted in "Midnight Blue", leads Empire Train 280 through Ardsley... (more)

P449 heads west thru Chatham, as the engineer gives me a thumbs down for my Boston Red Sox gear lol; The Amtrak 100 trailed 3 of 4 on this train.

Buffalo Summer. Amtrak Train 63 makes a nice appearance next to Interstate 190 with the skyline of Buffalo, New York in the background on the sunny early afternoon of June 29, 2022. Amtrak ... (more)

The Empire Builder pauses for the conductor to engage the electric switch at the west end of the Minnesota Commercial yard area at St. Anthony Junction in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Recent snow and w... (more)

The esteemed Conductor, Brad Swartzwelter, of the Amtrak's Winter Park Express Ski Train, is retiring from Amtrak after 30 years of service, and will make his last WPE ride on the 31st of March on... (more)

P125 heads out of RO with a single aging P40DC leading. The US Capitol building can be seen on the right thanks to some recent brush cutting at this location.

Amtrak's southbound Crescent crosses over the Coosa River as it heads for its next station stop in Birmingham.

On March 20, 1949, the first run of the original California Zephyr departed Chicago, Illinois, bound for the west coast. A 75th anniversary run of the westbound California Zephyr, Amtrak’s train... (more)

Amtrak GE P42DC No. 174 has been repainted in Phase VII colors and leads the Winter Park Express ski train at Fraser, Colorado, on March 21, 2024.

Running a 35 minutes behind the California Zephyr is Amtrak’s eastbound Winter Park Express ski train, returning from Winter Park, and has just exited Tunnel 1 at Plainview, Colorado, at 6:27 p.... (more)

Amtrak’s eastbound California Zephyr has just exited Tunnel 1 at aptly-named Plainview, Colorado, late in the afternoon of March 22, 2024. Leading the train is recently-repainted GE P42DC No. 82... (more)

Amtrak engine #174 (P42DC) in the Phase VII paint scheme runs toward Plainview, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

Amtrak engine #82 (P42DC) is one of a few P42's painted in the new Phase VII scheme. Here it is leading the California Zephyr through Plainview as it heads into the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

P449 glides west thru Chatham Village with 2 engines and 5 cars including a horizon coach

American View Of The Bronx. On the late morning of March 20, 2024, Amtrak Train 171 was passing through the Oak Point section of the Bronx, New York with AMTK 10005 (Catenary Measurement), ... (more)