Two Amtrak Chargers lead the southbound Crescent on its way to New Orleans.

Pacific Surfliner hugs the beach just after sunset.

Amtrak Midwest engines and cars up front with an Amfleet and Horizon food car toward the rear.

Amtrak Midwest Chargers sit in the yard.

Passing through the town of Centralia, Illinois. Amtrak train number 391 slows to a stop to perform station work at the small mid-western station on a breezy Spring day.

Amtrak's southbound Crescent crosses over the Coosa River as it heads for its next station stop in Birmingham.

Crescent #20 passing by what was the Schoolfield Mill and now what will be the Caesars Casino.

I'm sure I'm going to get some heat for my snark, but just having a bit of fun. Picking my mom up on Amtrak in Van Nuys, CA, I got in the car only to have Waze tell me that traffic meant the tr... (more)

An almost matched Amtrak Midwest train heads out of the windy city with an Amfleet and Horizon car in the mix among the newer Siemens equipment.

AMTK 311 leads the eastbound Empire Builder in Minneapolis

After Amtrak train 313, the westbound Missouri River Runner, arrives in Kansas City in the evening, the train heads further west to Santa Fe Junction to be turned on the wye there. Just be... (more)

As BNSF Guaranteed Service Intermodal train Q-LPCLAC6-30A heads to Los Angeles from Chicago, Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 564 heads east/south from Los Angeles to Irvine. (Only to Irvine, and ... (more)

The mainline between Los Angeles and San Diego is once again severed, thanks to yet another landslide in San Clemente. As a result, the trains operating south of there have unusual numbers, as ex... (more)

There is a lot going on here, so stay with me: For four days in late December (the 26th through the 29th), Metrolink had their entire commuter train system shut down. Much of this was because Lo... (more)

After a quick station stop at Edmonds, WA, 516's train continues its trip north to Vancouver, BC.