Running "only" 4 hours 21 minutes behind schedule, Amtrak's train 3, the Southwest Chief, rolls through the location on BNSF Railway's San Bernardino Sub known as Esperanza, overt... (more)

The spirit of Amtrak's long-lost San Diegan. AMTK 509 leads a late San Diego bound Amtrak 580 with the Amtrak California Comet Cars along South Ponto Beach crossing the Batiquitos Lagoon.

Amtrak Surfliner at Santa Fe Depot.

“Destination: Miami”
In the early afternoon, AMTK F40PH 276 pauses Amtrak 89, the southbound Palmetto, at the Fredericksburg station to board some Virginians bound for The Sun... (more)

A Railfan’s Paradise - On a gorgeous summer evening, during Golden Hour, AMTK 503 leads Pacific Surfliner A587 north along the shores of San Clemente State Beach shortly after departing San Clem... (more)

A late westbound #3 passes the Cargill grain mill at Verdemont.

A northbound Amtrak Siemans AC 44 No.337 splits the signals at Faria Beach Colony with No. 11 the Coast Starlight.

On a rainy mid-morning, Amtrak SC-44 no. 303 leads number 14, the northbound Coast Starlight, as it crosses Padre Juan Canyon Road along the Faria Beach Colony in Ventura.

A B32-8WH leads the westbound Borealis out of Lake City. It has been many years since one of these locomotives last led a train near the Twin Cities. Amtrak's B32-8WHs are typically assigned to ya... (more)

Danbury Gets An AEM-7. Not long after midnight on June 7, 2024, former Amtrak AEM-7 917 arrived at The Danbury Railway Museum on Genesee & Wyoming Inc.'s Providence & Worcester Railroad Tra... (more)

Danbury Gets An AEM-7. Not long after midnight on June 7, 2024, former Amtrak AEM-7 917 arrived at The Danbury Railway Museum on Genesee & Wyoming Inc.'s Providence & Worcester Railroad Tra... (more)

"Amtrak Diesels Over the Conn River"

On April 22nd, 2024, Amtrak Extra 98, consisting of a variety of Amtrak diesel locomotives, crosses the Connecticut River on the Warehou... (more)

Led by an ALC-42 and a P42DC, Amtrak's Silver Meteor train 98 makes its station stop in Winter Haven, Florida as it heads towards Miami. The station here was originally built in 1925 by the Seaboa... (more)

A golden sunrise catches the California Zephyr running past a silo in Roggen, Colorado as it heads to Denver on the Brush Sub.

With Just A little Paint. AMTK 909 (AEM-7, EMD/ASEA, 10/1980) was not one of the "toasters" selected for upgrade to AC electronics, but was repainted, and looks fairly respectable... (more)