Amtrak Regional heads west through Waterford.
MARC 431 rolls through Ivy City in Washington, D.C. as it nears Union Station.
An Amtrak Keystone Service train zooms through North Elizabeth. These trains operation push-pull style between New York and Harrisburg, with a locomotive on one end and an ex Metroliner control ca... (more)
Amtrak Regional pulls into New London for a stop.
Amtrak regional arriving in Old Saybrook.
The 910 brings a Northeast Regional in during golden hour.
Amtrak regional passing through Niantic.
Amtrak regional passing through Old Saybrook Station.
A morning Northeast Regional rolls into BWI.
A Northeast Regional pulls into Wilmington on an evening on a majestically misty evening.
An AEM-7 pushes this Keystone set toward NYC.
An inbound Amtrak train arrives at Washington D.C.'s Union Station.
The 939 leads the Crescent out of Philly.
The 936 leads a Northeast Regional out of Philly on a sunny winter day.
A well used AEM-7 brings a train into Philly.
A clear sunny (albeit freezing) day and some ice formations along the Delaware River provided for a nice setting to shoot. The trains were good too!
It's blue hour at BWI in a light snow as Northeast Regional Train 130 pulls into the station with a double header of meatballs.
The 910 brings a Northeast Regional into BWI on a sunny winter day.
Blizzard-like conditions didn't keep the trains from running. This AEM-7 brings a Northeast Regional northbound toward Baltimore during a harsh storm this past January.
Amtrak's Silver Meteor with AEM-7 935 at Rahway station.
An AEM-7 leads a Florida-bound train south as a NJT train makes a station stop at Elizabeth.
Amtrak #658 enroute to New York's Pennsylvania Station whips by the Strasburg RR interchange at Paradise, PA. Young train buffs look on as the friendly Amtrak Engineer gave a friendly wave and a c... (more)
Amtrak AEM-7 908 roars south through Prospect Park, PA with train 19, the Crescent. She might be old and nearing retirement, but this old motor can still move!
With Amtrak doing repairs on the track around the Hudson River tunnels, trains have been at a stand still more than humming along at their usual 100+ Miles Per Hour. Test trains are no excepti... (more)
A westbound SEPTA Paoli/Thorndale Line local on Track #4, westbound Amtrak Pennsylvanian (New York to Pittsburgh) on Track #3, and eastbound Amtrak Keystone Service (Harrisburg to New York) on Tra... (more)
"Racing South"
An Amtrak train crosses the Schuylkill River as it approaches Philadelphia's 30th Street Station on its way from New York to Washington. Meanwhile, a SEPTA PCC-II crosses the Girard Avenue bridge ... (more)
Weekend regional train #160 heads east toward Boston at Metro North's Old Greenwich station on a quiet Sunday morning.
Northbound Regional 86 chargers North with a age-worn AEM-7 leader.
Venerable Amtrak 929 leads southbound Northeast Regional 163 across the Bush River in sweet summer evening light. It'll be sad to see these go...
A veteran AEM-7 guides a Northeast Regional over the Susquehanna River as kayakers paddle along below.
Photographer- my Father- Guy Lisowski. Amtrak's Boston to Washington DC "Patriot" derailed at 2:40 PM while traveling 70 mph 10 minutes after leaving 30th Street station in the southwest Philad... (more)
Headed east through the Amish Farm country east of Lancaster
The sun is setting rapidly, like a metaphor for the locomotive leading this train. Almost half of the trains I saw this day had ACS-64s; the replacement for the AEM-7 and HHP. As my dad says, &q... (more)
Amtrak AEM-7 902 rolls southbound on the Northeast Corridor by Perryville station in 1996.
For anyone that hangs around the Northeast Corridor long enough, this is the universal sign for WATCH OUT! Although this train is on the local track, it at not a SEPTA commuter, and therefo... (more)
A southbound Amtrak train passes beneath the aging Hands Place overpass in North Elizabeth. This one lane bridge allows trucks to avoid the low clearance North Avenue bridge, located adjacent to t... (more)
SEPTA 2303 on a training run, departs the West Trenton station, and heads back to Pennsylvania.
A battled worn AEM-7 brings late running regional train 163 to a stop at the Stamford station.
901, 927 and 922 are in the shop for heavy work. The trucks from 901 have been rolled out from under the locomotive and are in the foreground. The 922 is getting ditch lights installed and is in... (more)
E60 608 and AEM-7 917 occupy two bays of the Wilmington Shops in 1999, both in Phase III. The E60 would only have a few more years of life left before being retired and scrapped.
Flying Meatball Train 174 passes through Edison at speed with an AEM-7AC in charge. I can't confirm the actual speed, but I believe Northeast Regional trains will hit at least 110mph ... (more)
Train 159 has run with an ACS-64 for power for months now, so I took my dad over to get his first look at one after Mother's Day dinner. Sun was perfect for the first time in 3 weekends. So what d... (more)
Train 152 is led by an rebuilt AEM-7AC as it hustles through Edison. This train is running a bit late on its journey from Washington, D.C. to New York Penn Station on a beautiful spring morning. ... (more)
A Northeast Regional rolls into Wilmington in a relentless rain storm, putting on a light show with flashing ditch lights and blinking strobes; once a trademark characteristic of Amtrak. With the... (more)
Amtrak's New Orleans bound Crescent slows down for the Elizabeth S-Curve, as it passes a New York bound NJ Transit train.
A not so clean looking AEM-7 speeds through the North Elizabeth station on the Northeast Corridor.
The "Crescent" on its way south
Amtrak 129, as of this date, would typically be led by a new ACS-64 "Cities Sprinter" locomotive. However, on this particular afternoon a pair of relatively clean AEM-7s are in charge, each with ... (more)
The 921 heads "up the street."
Some birds get startled by the arrival of this Northeast Regional.
Passing through Halethorpe on the way to BWI, the pantograph creates a nice spray of water on a rainy day.
A Keystone Service train whisks through North Elizabeth.
Amtrak's New Orleans bound Crescent has just departed Newark, as it approaches North Elizabeth. Power for today's train is an AEM-7.
A rather dirty AEM-7 powers a Northeast Direct train through the interlocking in Metuchen.
Get your shots of these before they're gone. Soon enough the NEC will be plastered with ACS-64s leaving the AEM-7 and HHPs in the history books.
Four of Amtrak's AEM-7 Electric locomotives sit on a hot Summer day in the Ivy City Shop yard. These are being replaced by the new Railroad: AmtrakLocomotive: ASEA AEM-7Location: District of Columbia, USALocomotive #: AMTK 951Train ID: UnknownPhoto Date: Unknown
Amtrak 666, a Keystone Service train from Harrisburg to New York Penn Station, glides through Edison on a snowy Saturday afternoon.
Amtrak 918 leads a regional through Davis Interlocking, while flurries lower visibility.
The 940 is lined up to go across the diamond. K tower, seen between the MARC train and P42 (of the Capitol Limited), controls all movements in, out and within this station. Photo taken on RR pro... (more)
Fall colors are still hanging on as this Northeast Regional puts on the brakes for BWI.
Susquehanna sunset
Heading out of town on the elevated mainline through Wilmington.
Northbound trains have a whistle board to blow for just prior to the bridge, providing just enough warning to get your camera ready.
In the shops, taken with permission.
The fisherman saw me before this train came, and I heard them talking among themselves about what I was doing. My hobby is not much different their theirs; being outside, planning, waiting, and t... (more)
A southbound Amtrak train kicks up a rather significant rooster tail as it highballs toward Baltimore.
Construction is underway to enclose this entire area (note the large yellow beam) for real estate and commercial development. A Northeast Regional is about to arrive at Penn Station and was captu... (more)
This NEC veteran is departing NYP through the open air portion that will soon be enclosed.
Here's a rather typical well lit 3/4 wedgie of train 20's (the Crescent) new locomotive heading to be coupled to its train.
Post Christmas rush... Passengers at the Middletown Station board Amtrak regional No. 650 for New York City from Harrisburg. The unique Keystone Corridor provides high speed passenger service from... (more)
Arriving at Middletown from Harrisburg, Amtrak ASEA AEM-7 No. 953 eases into the station, framed by the Keysytone Corridor catenary. The regional Train No. 650 is destined for New York City from H... (more)
A veteran AEM-7 leads a Northeast Regional on the NEC main north through Linden, enroute to NY Penn from Philadelphia.
Amtrak's Crescent has just departed Newark, the first stop en route from New York to New Orleans.
A Northeast Regional speeds off into the sunset on its way to Washington, DC.
The Beech Grove office car brings up the markers as this Northeast Regional heads up the road under threatening skies.
Two MARC Meatballs head up this evening commuter train boarding for an on time departure.
It's train time.
The September sunsets in New Jersey can be spectacular. By the middle of the 1980s I got to be friends with many railroaders. An especially influential friend of that era was Steve Turkenkopf, an ... (more)
Heading out of town after making its stop in Wilmington.
