Amtrak 600 has settled into a fairly reliable operating pattern on the Northeast Corridor between Washington, DC and New York's Penn Station for the last few weeks. For the moment, 600 has the ho... (more)

Now in revenue service for 2 weeks, ACS-64 #600 has a layer of road dirt built up, and looks like a real revenue unit. Here the 600 leads a Northbound train 152 to New York's Penn Station as the 5... (more)

Rolling roster shot of the Amtrak Cities Sprinter # 600

Amtrak City Sprinter first revenue run ! ACS-64 600 sprints past Edison Train. Its amazng how this new generation of locomotive is passing under PRR Gantries that used to have GG-1s and other uni... (more)

The first Amtrak Cities Sprinter locomotive to enter service is certainly getting a chance to prove whether or not it can handle extreme weather, as the Northeast deals with yet another snow storm... (more)

Cities Sprinter at Sunset: Amtrak 600 has now settled into a routine, having hauled regular Northeast Direct trains for four days as train 129 crosses the Raritan River viaduct at sunset. ... (more)

Amtrak's newest engines leaves a Septa Local in it's dust at Glenolden on it's northbound trip from DC

A day after the first Southbound revenue run down the Northeast Corridor from Boston to Washington, D.C., Amtrak 600 is headed back North to New York's Penn Station, leading train 152. Train is se... (more)

Amtrak 600 had the distinction of leading the first revenue run of an ACS-64 "Cities Sprinter" electric locomotive. On this day it departed Boston at 8:15am with Northeast Regional train 171. It... (more)

First revenue run. After months of testing, Amtrak ACS-64 600, the class unit of 70 to be built by Siemens, entered revenue service on a beautiful Friday afternoon, leading train 171 from B... (more)

Amtrak ACS-64 600 is the first to be put into revenue service. The engine heads out of Philadelphia on it's inaugural train, Lynchburg Regional 171.

Amtrak ACS-64 #600, a "Cities Sprinter", passes under a set of former PRR signals at the Levittown/Tullytown PA SEPTA station. This is the first Southbound revenue run for the newest passenger loc... (more)

Finally! After months of testing, ACS-64 class unit 600 leads train 171 through West Haven, CT on its first revenue trip. Amtrak President Joe Boardman can be seen riding shotgun.

Amtrak 600 heads north for Boston with a short three-car consist after appearing at a "launch event" at Philadelphia's 30th Street Station earlier in the day. The unit is scheduled to lead the fi... (more)

The future of Amtrak is being transported East on today's California Zephyr. This Siemens ACS-64 is the first of a 70 engine order that Amtrak placed. This engine will be taken off of #6 at Denver... (more)