Safety Yellow. Amtrak Metroliner cab car 9632 is on the West end of Keystone Service train 645, seen passing a line of ballast conveyor cars laid up at the railroad's Durant Yard... (more)

After Amtrak train 313, the westbound Missouri River Runner, arrives in Kansas City in the evening, the train heads further west to Santa Fe Junction to be turned on the wye there. Just be... (more)

Amtrak's Desert Wind heads for Vegas as it rolls past Cajon.

"New Geeps For the Springfield Line"

On the afternoon of February 26th, 2024, Amtrak EMD GP38-3's 734 & 728 trail on "Amtrak Extra 123" as it pulls into Springfield Union Station in M... (more)

Amtrak train 475, a Springfield MA to New Haven CT Hartford Line train, is about to depart Springfield's Union Station. Amtrak "control coach" 9641 (ex-AMTK Metroliner Coa... (more)

Electric Ballast Conveyer Car Move. Plasser American describes that the MFS40 has the "ability to transport, store, load and unload up to 41 cubic yards of ballast, spoils, or other ma... (more)

Light Snow is falling at the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel as the Amtrak Winter Park Express Ski Train climbs the grade through Tolland, Colorado.

Heavy snow is falling at Plainview, Colorado as the California Zephyr 5 train runs towards Tunnel #2 on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

Amtrak engine #78 (P42DC) leads the Winter Park Express Ski Train through Rainbow Cut at Plainview, Colorado.

Racing south along with rush hour traffic a nicely matched set of Amfleet "airliners on wheels" is keeping up and perhaps gaining a little. Hey, I used to own one of those Nissan 510s!

Corridor Cousins. NJ Transit ALP-46A no. 4646 (Bombardier, 2009-2011) and Amtrak ACS-64 no. 659 (Siemens Cities Sprinter, 2012-2016) are seen racing down the Northeast Corridor t... (more)

Power Move. A trio of Amtrak locomotives are seen making their way south near LANE interlocking on the Northeast Corridor. Included in the consist are GP15D no.s 574 and 578, and GP38 n... (more)

Phase VII Phase In: At long last, the "blue wave" era has begun to draw to a close with the appearance of P42DC 174. Recently refurbished at Beech Grove, this classic Genesis was repainted ... (more)

In one of the many swags on this line a train is unloading new 136# rail to replace the old 132# stuff. Quite a noisy racket.

High above the Shasta Valley, the northbound Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon in summer 1994. An Amtrak engineer once told me that if the signals were all green and the train was making track sp... (more)