Running about an hour late, Amtrak train 77 picks up speed after stopping at the depot in downtown Greensboro, NC on March 18, 2019.

Metra F59PHI 84 pushes a inbound deadhead past Tower A-2.

An outbound Metra train is just out of Union Station as it passes CP Morgan with a former Amtrak F59PHI leading the way.

An F59PHI accelerates from its station stop at Western Avenue as it passes the Milwaukee Road searchlights at Tower A2.

Difficult to tell through the heat distortion of 73's exhaust, however, two F59PHi locomotives take outbound trains though the north side of Chicago.

Former Amtrak Cascades 470 pushes an inbound train to Chicago on a rare sunny day of which have been few and far between this winter.

At first, I put "Amtrak" into the locomotive portion of the photo details. I guess I'm just not used to these being on Metra yet! Metra #84, still wearing Surfliner paint, is a long way off from h... (more)

Amtrak Piedmont train 77 approached its station stop at Cary, North Carolina. The building to the left is the historic Page-Walker Hotel, now an arts and history center as well as an event venue.

Metra F59PHI 91 leads a outbound train through Franklin Park.

The Last One: Amtrak train 572 rolls along the Pacific Ocean at Torrey Pines as it leaves the city limits of Del Mar and passes into the city of San Diego. On the head end of the train is F... (more)

AMTK 459, one of only two F59PHi's still on Amtrak property in Los Angeles (at the time the photo was taken), bathes in the morning light across from the Redondo turntable as it's prepared for its... (more)

Metra F59PHI 93 leads an outbound train at CP Morgan, meeting 417 on a inbound.