Train 18, the North Coast Hiawatha leaves Seattle behind rare West Coast visitors, GE P30CH locomotives with a pair of SDP40Fs in tow. During this time Amtrak has experienced suspicious derailment... (more)
The headlamps of Amtrak P42DC locomotive #25 illuminate the path ahead as the engineer prepares to throttle up the eastbound Empire Builder through the FO Switch down the Hillboro subdivisi... (more)
Last Train Home. Amtrak 406 brings up the markers of train 689, the last Downeaster back to Portland. The train is seen here pulling out of the Woburn station stop. It will... (more)
An Amtrak Acela captured Northbound at well over 150 mph at 10:50 PM on the night of September 24th, 2012 during a series of high speed test trials. It is expected that positive test results will... (more)