Amtrak's Coast Starlight 14 crosses Portland's Steel Bridge on May 9, 2009. This is a unique lift bridge because the rail deck rises within the upper deck and then the upper deck lifts. Meanwhil... (more)

Crossing over the swollen Potomac River along the Magnolia Cutoff is the eastbound Capitol Limited. A month ago, this area received a tremendous amount of rain and the river itself was out of its ... (more)

Amtrak's Lakeshore Limited speeds towards Rochester after clearing CP 382 and passing an MOW train tied down there.

Locomotives:
AMTK 174 P42DC
AMTK 62 P42DC

The California Zephyr crosses the South Platte River as it arrives in Denver.

Amtrak's California Zephyr is stopped at the Burlington station stop roughly 2 hour late. The train now has the highball and will creep towards the Mississippi River Bridge in less than a mile and... (more)

The California Zephyr slowly pulls into the station stop at Burlington around 2 hours late. The BNSF drops down grade into the Mississippi River Valley from West Burlington. At the bottom of the g... (more)

Amtrak special 156 will soon be pushing the California Zephyr through the Moffat Tunnel and the Rocky Mountains.

Continuing northward along the Crescent corridor admid the heart of a late January night, Amtrak 20 blasts through the town of Lowell, NC, ducking below the Brosnan era signal bridge that has prot... (more)

The morning California Zephyr leaves Denver's Union Station and the ever changing skyline behind as it heads to the Moffat Tunnel and onto California.

The westbound running of the 50th anniversary New River Train rolls through historic downtown Thurmond, westbound o the former Chesapeake & Ohio mainline connecting Richmond, Va., with Russell, Ky... (more)

Back in April a business trip took me to Florida, and since I'd never railfanned the Sunshine State I tacked on a couple vacation days and met a friend for a 4 day epic 1000 mile tour of the state... (more)

Approaching its destination of Toccoa, Georgia, the North Carolina Transportation Museum's Georgia Autumn Special soars over the very dry Tugaloo River on an amazing fall day, with Amtrak's... (more)

Amtrak 29, the Virginia Autumn Special, prepares to depart Charlottesville.