Amtrak P32 514 is busy building a trainset for later, as P42 97 prepares to make its switching moves. To the left is GP38-3 750, a relatively new arrival to the windy city.

AMTK 514 leads the Texas Chief as it loads passengers at Joliet Union Station in May 1974. The loco is occupying the idamons over the Rock Island mainline. Behind AMTK 514, a Rock Island commuter ... (more)

Amtrak 514 leads a pair of private cars through the 18th Street Yard/Maintenance Facility near downtown Chicago. As the train makes its way through the yard, it passes the yard tower that it still... (more)

AMTK 514 leads train 336 down main track 2 at Wadsworth.

Amtrak's Hiawatha service 334 rolls towards Chicago as it passes through Gurnee, IL with AMTK 514 leading.

Way up high over Lake Glenview, we spot a pair of Amtrak Dash 8 locomotives sandwiching three Superliners on this evening's version of the Borealis, racing past the Glenview North Metra station on... (more)

Amtrak 514, one of the few active B32-8WH locomotives on the Amtrak roster, rolls past the historic Deerfield, IL depot with Hiawatha train 342 in tow.

...or is it St. John's River Bridge? The debate continues, as they call it by both. At any rate, it's almost impossible to get a locomotive of this class leading here, so you celebrate in the ov... (more)

An exceptionally rare leader brings 98 north on a wet and unsettled afternoon heading toward Palatka, running on time. The dash 8 leaders only happen every few years it seems.

A snow squall fills the air as Amtrak's westbound Maple Lead gets out of Rochester, New York behind one of Amtrak's Dash 8 locomotives. The train has just crossed under the Rochester & Southern's ... (more)

Amtrak 69 makes a station stop at Plattsburgh with the northbound Adirondack.

Three trains meet (they're all moving) as two Pennsy icons (GG-1 No. 4859 and N6B caboose 980016) are repositioned for station trackwork in 2014

After some warm temperatures melted most of the remaining snow, Amtrak train 64 the eastbound "Maple Leaf" passes over a raging high fall with a rare GE P32BWH leading.

One of the few Amtrak P32BWH's leads the westbound "Maple Leaf" as it passes over the Erie Canal on the CSX Rochester Sub.

Out on the road. Amtrak 63 (Maple Leaf) is one of the trains that usually receives an engine change from a dual mode P32AC-DM to a straight diesel at the Albany-Rensselaer Station while going nort... (more)