Spring Fog and Snow Melt Typical spring weather near Coal Creek Canyon

Phase Seven San Joaquin. Amtrak P42DC no. 82 is seen leading San Joaquin train 713 through Rodeo, CA on the shore of the San Pablo Bay.

Denver Zephyr! Morning tradition for decades relived in 2022 with a severely late Number 6 running in excess of 12 hours behind graces the Front Range in full splendor.

Pacific Phase Seven. Amtrak P42DC no. 82 is on the rear of San Joaquin train 718 as it shoved through the marshlands east of Martinez, CA. Also if particular interest is the sin... (more)

The Borealis slowly makes its way out of downtown Milwaukee with Phase VII #82 leading the way.

The outbound Borealis train to Saint Paul splits the signals at "Milwaukee W", led by a P42DC in the Phase VII scheme.

Amtrak 82 leads the California Zephyr West through Brookfield.

One of Amtrak's P42 workhorses to receive the railroad's new paint scheme (Phase VII) leads the southbound Silver Meteor though Boca Raton on a heavily overcasted July evening. It really is nice t... (more)

New Paint, Old Engine: Unsurprisingly, this P42DC expelled some dark exhaust upon throttling up through the Cherry Hill Road crossing which goes to show that while Amtrak may be pursuing a new ima... (more)

Amtrak engine #82 (P42DC in the new Phase VII paint) leads the California Zephyr out of the Moffat Tunnel at Winter Park, Colorado.

A pair of new Phase VII 42's lead the California Zephyr through Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado.

Amtrak 5 with an Phase VII P42DC leading, heads westbound on the UP Moffat Subdivision in a May snowstorm in the Rocky Mountains.

Amtrak #4 makes their way into Iowa as they cross the Des Moines River. The Chief has less than 20 miles to the next stop at Ft. Madison, and is making good time from LA with nearly on-time schedu... (more)

Snow is falling as Amtrak engine 82 leads the California Zephyr 5 train out of the west portal of the Moffat Tunnel at the Winter Park Ski Resort

Amtrakā€™s eastbound California Zephyr has just exited Tunnel 1 at aptly-named Plainview, Colorado, late in the afternoon of March 22, 2024. Leading the train is recently-repainted GE P42DC No. 82... (more)