The NB "Illini" is departing. Look ma, no ditch lights. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.
With the possible last train to ride over the CFU lead coming late 2023, I looked thru what I had from this dead end line. This was once the mainline of the Rock Island from West Liberty to Manly.... (more)
A southbound Amtrak train crosses the bridge at Potomac Run on the RF&P Subdivision.
Amtrak No. 8, the Empire Builder, slams through the snow drifts by the Brookfield depot in a Wisconsin blizzard on February 12, 1994.
Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 glides eastward along D&RGW rails in Spanish Fork Canyon. 10,685 ft. Mt. Loafer (with remnants of a heavy winter snowpack) towers above the silver Superliner.
By late 1976, the former SP FP7's now in Amtrak service had dwindled to two units, #376 and #377. Originally SP 6453 and 6454, they became Amtrak 116 and 117 and later #492 and #493. With the San... (more)
Station has seen better days...
In a photo angle now impossible to obtain due to vegitative growth along Soldier Creek, Amtrak's California Zephyr hustles east amid Mt. Loafer on the climb to Soldier Summit.
