A very tired looking AEM-7 917 rolls into Union Station with a Northeast Regional near the end of its long and able service life. The Sprinters are on the way.

The Kansas City bound National Limited is crossing a barren early spring Lancaster County landscape on its way to Harrisburg for an engine change to diesels. 33-year old No. 917 (PRR 4919, Altoon... (more)

The 917 is trailing a stream of dust as it speeds up the center track by the old PRR station in Aberdeen. It's 1977, and there's still a lot of the "old NEC" in existence- all wood ties, Heritage... (more)

The Broadway Limited is racing west under the old New Haven Street bridge, passing the crumbling station platforms at Mount Joy. The bridge has since been replaced, and Amtrak and the Commonwealt... (more)

An Amtrak Regional train, led by an AEM-7 numbered 917, makes a brief station stop at the former PRR station at Trenton, NJ.

Doubleheaded GG-1s stop traffic in Aberdeen, as they head north at 80 mph with a Florida train. (Paused at the crossing are an old Checker cab, a Ford, and a Chevy Corvette, if I'm not mistaken..... (more)

Old meets new - with only three Amtrak AEM-7s left (all in MARC service) there aren't many opportunities to catch a meet like this.

Not Down For The Count Yet Rumors of the demise of the AEM-7 at the beginning of this year caught some by surprise, especially the rate at which they began to fall to the blow torch. Luckily en... (more)

Two toasters await their next move, and apparently a lot of bugs met their match when they got in they way of the one's previous run.

Early AEM-7 action, at one of the bottlenecks on the NEC, where three tracks narrow to two, to cross the Bush River.

Toasters on Amtrak are an extremely rare sight these days. Back in January, I caught this one on its way to couple up to a through train.

Soldiering on - Amtrak AEM-7 #917 roars westbound (south) through Edison ducking the position lights just ahead of the NJT station. The plume of snow in its wake is remnants of the season's first... (more)

Two For One

With the amount of remaining AEM-7's in the single digit numbers, trying to photo one is hard enough. 917 and 919 lead train no. 86 railroad east, towards Newark and ul... (more)

A remanufactured AEM-7AC leads the northbound Silver Meteor through Edison on the Northeast Corridor. Amtrak's Long distance trains are starting to look like traditional passenger trains again no... (more)

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)