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)

Freshly painted Amtrak 231 ran on the point of the daily trains the last weekend of September 2024.

Amtrak F40PH 231, OLS leads the Baseball Special on the Arizona & California at Parker, Arizona, April 17, 1998. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

The northbound Mount Rainier is running a couple of hours late as it arrives at Vancouver on a summer morning. This locomotive was preserved and now resides at a museum in Nevada.

Passenger cab units from different eras repose on a sunny afternoon in the Northwest.

Next Stop - Fullerton!

Amtrak's Operation Lifesaver unit, F40PH 231, shoves San Diegan #578 eastbound through Metrolink's Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs station on February 18, 1997... (more)

Visitors to Railfair 1999 prepare to board a special Amtrak train lead by their Operation Lifesaver painted F40PH 231.

Inspired by Joe McMillan's "High Green To Marceline", the superelevated curve and church at Dahinda along the Santa Fe transcon in Illinois provides the stage for the Southwest Chief, running righ... (more)

Amtrak's Operation Lifesaver unit, F40PH 231, leads "San Diegan" #781 westbound at the station at Fullerton, California. Eastbounds normally use the south main, so finding a westbound here is unu... (more)

Amtrak's Operation Lifesaver unit, F40PH 231, hustles "San Diegan" #779 through Basta, two miles west of the Fullerton, California, station, as the train heads from San Diego to Los Angeles and, e... (more)

Amtrak's Operation Lifesaver unit, F40PH 231, shoves on the rear of "San Diegan" #590 as it heads to San Diego from Los Angeles. The Fullerton station stop is two miles ahead. Note the privately... (more)