Half redone Gallery cars. No new paint, just VRE on the sides.
Oddly enough, the cab car was facing south! Locomotive shoved from the North. Half the cars had lost thier VRE logos on the car sides because they are going back to Seattle.
VRE 329, w/ ex-METRA cars, ducks under the south signal bridge at Burke enroute to Manassas.
NS P56 "Rock Train" holds south of Burke while the crew checks a crossover switch that is not locking up in the plant.
NS 203 enters the plant at Burke, southbound, under a beautiful blue sky.
VRE 27, with a full SOUNDER consist, coasts through sunny Burke, VA enroute to Manassas.
NS Local P54 returns to Alexandria northbound with a former SOU Geep and an N&W caboose. The caboose is used as a crew platform for the 9+ mile backwards shove move down to Burke.
Amtrak #51, the westbound "Cardinal" encounters light snow south of Burke.
The westbound Cardinal speeds through COLD Burke, VA, amidst sub-zero windchills, after being delayed 2+ hours on the trip down from New York due to snow and equipment problems.
Amtrak 72 with a damaged nose, leads the 4 1/2 hr late Crescent #20 (second this week) northbound on #1 at Burke. These units led #19 later the same day.
NS P56 heads north on #2 track at Burke behind NS 9930 and sister primer unit 9933
Sountbound VRE 325 approaches the Burke Centre Station enroute to Manassas.
The 5 hour late northbound Crescent #20 races through Burke on a COLD afternoon behind the 7-11 combo. These units were in correct order on the #19 trainset.
A clean, leased Sounder set approches the Rolling Road Station enroute to Manassas
Amtrak 51 with a rarely seen baggage car hustles south towards Burke.
