A Richard Beal photo: Ivy City ready tracks show the old and new AMtrak Electric power of the day, a GG-1 and a E60
Our power for the Crescent's trip up the Northeast Corridor passes under a tangle of catenary wires to hook up to the train.
Where else could one see a revenue passenger train led by an E and two Fs in 1992?
A Richard Beal photo, the classics just ooze in this picture, B&O GP9's under the CPL's, Amtrak pooch and GG1, Southern Crescent E's, Ivy City must have been something to see!
A Richard Beal photo, his dad and my grandpa Peter Beal stands and enjoys the windstorm as a GG1 roars by at Ivy City
Amtrak's Crescent pauses at Washington to change engines, and well as receiving passengers
WM and B&O power bring a train past the Ivy City engine facility in Washington, DC.
10 Roomette-6 Bedroom "Pacific Waves" on the southbound "Crescent"
10 Roomette-6 Bedroom "Pine Brook" on the southbound "Crescent"
Southbound deadheading Office Car Special passing through D.C. Not often one gets to see a passenger train exiting the Virginia Avenue Tunnel. The train is on the new third track through CP Virg... (more)
MARC 73 waits to depart Washington Union station with an evening commuter train.
One of the oldest engines on Amtrak's roster, it was always interesting to see an SW1 working alongside the much more modern AEM7 road power.
I assume this was a power station for the WT... Ansco color/corrected in p/s