Amtrak train 284 southbound through Ardsley-on-Hudson.

Amtrak Empire Service Train #284 from Niagara Falls to New York City at Vandyne Spoor Road in Savannah, New York on June 3, 2017. (Pentax K-3)

Amtrak Empire Service 284 from Niagara Falls to New York City rolls down the new second track that Amtrak is installing between Albany and Schenectady to ease congestion. The train is powered by t... (more)

On its way to Penn Station in Manhattan

Amtrak Empire Service train 284 kicks up the freshly fallen snow through upstate NY.

P32AC-DM #701, sporting Phase IIIb livery, leads Empire Service train #284 through Metro North's Dobbs Ferry Station on Veterans Day 2016.

Passing the Bear Mountain Bridge

Passing the marsh south of Manitou; Bear Mountain Bridge in the foreground

Passing the Bear Mountain Bridge

There are actually 3 tracks here on the Hudson Line just south of the Rensselaer station. But an over night snow, combined with drifts from high winds, has buried all the tracks on this usually bu... (more)

With its structural engineering wonderfully exposed, the George Washington Bridge forms a backdrop for Amtrak's Empire Service as it makes its way south along the Hudson River in the northern reac... (more)

Tick, tock... game over. These old New York Central signals came down weeks after I took this shot. I am glad I was able to catch them. I never thought much about such infrastructure until it ... (more)

Amtrak passing through a location I've frequented many times in the farmland of upstate New York.

WOOSH! With cars landing in ditches on neighboring roadways, an Amtrak dual-mode diesel safely blasts an icicle-encrusted Empire Service train through the Town of Mohawk, nea... (more)

Amtrak FL9's were assigned to Albany for use between Albany and New York City for third rail operations into Grand Central. Every now and then one would make a run west of Albany to Niagara Falls.... (more)