Super Continental arrives Vancouver BC

The "Coast Daylight" is departing for it's run down the coast.

In Minot on a pleasant day (!) I caught the "Empire Builder" but I've forgotten which direction it was going. An even better catch was a visit to the tower at the SOO line crossing.

Westbound Denver/San Francisco at Galva

San Diego-bound Amtrak San Diegan 772 makes its first stop, in Fullerton, after departing Los Angeles. Eleven-month-old Amtrak SDP40F 527, with a lot of dirt on it, as well as the trademar... (more)

Fresh out of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's San Bernardino Shops are two SDF40-2 locomotives. These were former Amtrak SDP40Fs that the ATSF acquired 18 of in a trade for 43 switchers. ... (more)

The "Southwest Chief" is preparing to leave with all that old equipment but at least it all appears to match somewhat after six years. Photo by Gary Zeitler. From my collection.

Amtrak train 11, the Coast Starlight, will be departing Seattle's King Street Station at 11:20 am, beginning its southbound 1,364-mile run to Los Angeles CA. Two consecutively numbers SDP4... (more)

Amtrak, SDP40F 636 north at Deerfield Beach, Florida. June 13, 1983. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo #636, built 7/1974

Amtrak train 5, the tri-weekly westbound San Francisco Zephyr, crosses the snow-covered Sierra Nevada Mountains as it heads west from Chicago to Oakland … but, oddly, not to its namesake ... (more)

AMTK 540 heads up the Empire Builder at King St. station as it loads passengers for its trip to Chicago via Stampede Pass to Spokane, then the former GN mainline via Glacier Park to Minneapolis be... (more)

AMTK 536 slows the North Coast Hiawatha to a stop at Livingston, MT. The train will spend some dwell time here while the headend power sets out a former NP FP7A unit for servicing at the BN shops ... (more)

Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha led by AMTK 564, a second phase SDP40F, makes a station stop at Wenatchee, WA, where at this time the head end crew should have been changed. The train is eastbound f... (more)

Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha pops out of a tunnel just west of the top of Homstake Pass, providing passengers with a stunning daytime view of the Montana Rockies on its daytime run across western... (more)

PURCELL OK (July) 1977 — Amtrak SDP40F 509 is on the point of train #16 The Lone Star. The train has completed its station stop and is on its way north to its next stop in Norman OK. To the left... (more)