A pair of 21 year-old P42DCs lead northbound Amtrak train 20 - the Crescent - through downtown High Point, NC at dawn on Tuesday, December 20, 2022. Having just stopped at the depot in High Point, the Crescent is running right on time.
Amtrak took over the New York - New Orleans market when the Southern Railway discontinued its famed Southern Crescent. Following the same route, it takes two days and a night to connect the Big Apple with the Big Easy. The crossing of Lake Ponchartrain is
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)