Amtrak 231 (F40PHR) sits on display, showing off its Operation Lifesaver livery, at the Illinois Railway Museum's East Union depot during the museum's 2025 Diesel Days event.

During the Illinois Railway Museum's 2025 Diesel Days event, Amtrak 231 and BNSF 6976 - both new arrivals to the museum from the Nevada State Railroad Museum at Boulder City - pause in Johnson Sid... (more)

Amtrak 231 and BNSF 6976 pause in Johnson siding with the coach train during the Illinois Railway Museum's 2025 Diesel Days event, affording an opportunity to capture a nice side view of the duo.

Amtrak 231 (F40PHR) and BNSF 6976 (SDP40F) - both recent arrivals to the museum from the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Boulder City - team up to lead the coach train during the 2025 Diesel Days ... (more)

This aerial view depicts IRM's newest engines during Day 1 of Diesel Days. In the foreground is the coach train reversing into East Union Station with an ex-Amtrak F40PHR and an ex-Santa Fe SDP40F... (more)

The WeGo Star, formally the Music City Star is departing the Riverfront Station on a rainy Monday morning.

The American Orient Express (AOE) was a privately owned, ultra-luxurious passenger train that operated in conjunction with Amtrak from 1994 until 2008. Its lineage can be traced back to the Americ... (more)

The hoarfrost is burning off around Galesburg on this crisp December morning in 1992. The Illinois Zephyr makes good time on its morning trek from Quincy to Chicago. The train is on the BN 4th Sub... (more)

In the late 1990s, the Iowa Northern Railway (IANR) was going through a difficult time and had leased a variety of locomotives to augment its fleet of GP20s and GP38s. A couple of Amtrak units wer... (more)

Amtrak 266 leads Train #80 northbound across the Yadkin River Bridge just north of Spencer North Carolina.

P633 rolls south skirting Frater Lake and the eastern border of Lake Superior Provincial Park, CN still dispatches the Soo Sub for Watco and the tour train's ID hasn't changed. This location has b... (more)

Cruising over the picturesque Bellevue Valley, the ACR's tour train heads northbound through the fall colours on a crisp fall morning with the frost still on the ties. The colour change happened q... (more)

The Agawa Canyon tour train weaves its way through the fog in a typical fall morning scene along Island Lake. Its journey through the Algoma District to Canyon (MP 114) is just getting underway pa... (more)

Growing up (and still), I was fascinated by shots from float planes traversing the vast swaths of largely undeveloped and isolated lakes, forests and streams of the rugged Canadian shield. Much of... (more)

Passengers take in beauty of remote northern Ontario on their way to the Agawa Canyon, approaching MP 58 at the north end of a serene Trout Lake with the hardwoods painting the rugged fall landsca... (more)