Temporary Platform Gondolas were recently converted from MOW gons by the Bear shops and deployed to support a track work project on the NEC. They allow high level boarding from the center track wh... (more)

Temporary Platform Gondolas were recently converted from MOW gons by the Bear shops and deployed to support a track work project on the NEC. They allow high level boarding from the center track wh... (more)

Tom Golden photo.

Being serviced in Amtrak’s Ivy City locomotive shop are AMTK AEM-7ACs 908 and 943. Built in 1980 and 1982, these two electric locomotives are nearing the end of their service on Amtrak, and wil... (more)

Just hanging out. Amtrak 931 (Phase V, AEM7) is one of many units sitting in Bear, DE on June 20, 2016. A long line of retired AEM7s and HHP8s was resident here for a time. But since then, in 2019... (more)

Amtrak Rohr Turboliner No. 163 with southbound train 248 flies out of a tunnel bore through Breakneck Ridge at Cold Spring, New York at 9:21 a.m. on April 11, 1991.

Amtrak Rohr Turboliner No. 163 on train 255 flies northbound at Breakneck Ridge north of Cold Spring, New York, at 4:05 p.m. on April 11, 1991.

Back in Business: A fire on the piece of Maintenance of Way equipment on the right shut down the Northeast Corridor in Hamilton, New Jersey for several hours on July 1, 2019. The line has... (more)

Compromises: Catenary Car A16502 needed to be hauled away from Track 2 at Princeton Junction Station on Tuesday, August 27, 2019. In order to couple it with the Amtrak engines sent to hau... (more)

Reeling it in: An Amtrak crew removes catenary wire from Track 2 at Princeton Junction Station on Tuesday, May 7, 2019. The variable tension catenary that had been on this track will be re... (more)

A Mark Young original Kodachrome slide from my collection.

The Rohr Turboliner in Chicago-Milwaukee service.

"Cat Car at Penn" A handful from Amtrak's Electrical Traction Department perform some maintenance work on the catenary in Penn Station during the early morning hours of the night... (more)

Amtrak Turboliners built by Rohr Industries---7 sets (14 power units numbered) 150-163. These sets were based at Rensselaer, N.Y., and used in the New York-Niagara Falls corridor. The New York-Bu... (more)