After dropping off their train at Denver Union Station, the inbound Amtrak 5 crew takes their lead 2 units up and onto an adjacent track. The next day, the engines would be used to haul a private ... (more)

Amtrak Mobile. On February 18, 2016, the Amtrak Sunset Limited demonstration train stopped in Mobile, Alabama at the site of the old Louisville & Nashville Railroad/Amtrak station with Amtr... (more)

Neither Trick, Nor Treat

On the 31st of October 2021, I got off this train to find someone had found in the BNSF General Orders that the famed pair of signals at MP 706 on the ... (more)

CTrail P40DC 6701 rebuilt and repainted by Amtrak’s Beech Grove shop. 6701 is named for Connecticut Department of Transportation Commissioner Joseph Giulietti 50 years of service. CTrail Train 4... (more)

CTrail P40DC 6701 was repainted after rebuild in Amtrak Beech Grove’s shop. Heading north after the stop in Wallingford heading for Parker Street RR Crossing. The large brick structure to the le... (more)

CTrail Train 4407 about to go under the John Street overpass in Wallingford. Train to New Haven viewed from the John Street overpass. P40DC 6701 and its MBB train set.

CTrail Train 4462 heading under the John Street overpass in Wallingford. Train to Hartford viewed from the self serve car wash. P40DC 6701 and its MBB train set.

The Capital Limited snakes around Mance Pa (Sandpatch Grade) Eastbound and downhill on a beautiful , but very windy October day. The color is finally starting to show on the hillsides in the backg... (more)

Meet At Meriden. Recently returned CTrail CTDX 6701 (P40DC, GE) lead CTrail train 6457 towards New Haven, Connecticut on Sunday, October 3, 2021, one of its first revenue trips on the Hartf... (more)

The days are getting shorter will the sun being lower at the right times. Usually I would be positioned up by the John Street overpass. Had to walk to get the best light.

CDOT Acceptance Test Extra 6701 south rolls through the Meriden, CT station with the rebuilt GE P40DC 6701 leading a 4-car train. The 6701 was built as Amtrak P40DC 834 and was recently rebuilt by... (more)

Amtrak 53 blasts out of Seville about an hour away from it's terminal.

"CTrail Storm Storage at West Haven"

Between the night of August 21st and morning of August 22nd, 2021, the Connecticut Department of Transportation moved all of it's equipm... (more)

On what I believe is one of the last runs, the GLE (or American Orient Express) heads west on the former Central of Georgia toward Birmingham. Once the route of some important midwest-Florida str... (more)

Amtrak moves over Maine Avenue, and under the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on a clear and sunny day. Truly one of those days that makes you want to get out and take some pictures!