It is 6:30 in the afternoon (18:30) and Amtrak San Diegan 775 is making its next-to-last stop as it heads from San Diego to Los Angeles. A pair of SDP40F, built earlier this year, lead thi... (more)

Amtrak Work Train KP701 brings a load of old concrete railroad ties through Davis Interlocking and onto the Reybold Secondary in Newark, DE. From here, the ties will be brought to Rocla Concrete i... (more)

Work train KP701 passes MP3 on the Reybold Branch on a pleasant September morning in northwest Delaware.

Amtrak work train crew KP701 passes under the position light signals at DAVIS interlocking prior to entering the NS Delmarva Secondary. The train is shuttling tie flats between Wilmington and Bear... (more)

Photo by Gary Zeitler, from my collection. Scapegoat?Maybe. A major wreck was determined to be caused by the trucks, at high speed, so the entire class was scrapped (oops, recycled). I have to ... (more)

Returning From The Return. On April 19, 2016, Amtrak Train 975, with AMTK GP38-3H 520 (GOT/CN 500, GP40TC, GMD, 11/1966) was passing Allen Road on the former Delaware & Hudson Railroad now ... (more)

Amtrak 520, a GP38H-3 rests in the yard at Albany - Rensselaer where it spends most of its time. This locomotive can be used in passenger and M.O.W. service depending on where its needed.

Diners to go! Just after leaving the CAF plant in Elmira, NY, Amtrak/Norfolk Southern Corp Train 975 is awaiting its pilots in Eldridge Park on Tuesday, December 12, 2017. This special move will b... (more)

AMTK 520 puts out a bit of exhaust as it shuffles ballast hoppers around the north end of the storage yard at the Rensselaer station. Ballast is being trucked in and loaded in hoppers at the stora... (more)

After taking the Adirondack from Rensselaer to Montreal and back, AMTK 520 has cut off inbound 68 and heads for the shops. It is moving NB on station Track 4.

Well that was unexpected. With word from upstate New York railfans that AMTK 69 (the northbound Adirondack) left Albany with a GP38H-3 as sole power yesterday, I was one of many rail... (more)

Amtrak #68 is out of Montreal Central Station with a rare leader on Amtrak ; one of the 8 EMD GP38-H3's in service. Originally a GMD GP40TC, they were built by General Motors Diesel (GMD), for GO ... (more)

Rensselaer, NY - 1/26/17

Only eight GP40TC diesels were built by GMD (EMD's Canadian division), originally Canadian National 600-607. One of two variants of passenger-equipped GP40s... (more)

Amtrak's construction of the second track between Albany and Schenectady is well underway now. A work extra with 3 units (MP15's # 531 & 535 plus 520) hauls 3 flat cars with concrete ties and 48 l... (more)

Amtrak has been doing its own "freight" work on the former D&H (now Norfolk Southern) bring passenger cars to and from the CAF Plant in Elmira, NY. Here we catch the return segment in crossing ov... (more)