Los Angeles' iconic city hall provides the backdrop as Amtrak train 3, The Super Chief, has arrived on Los Angeles Union Station's Track 12 with a trio of new SDP40F diesels for power: AMT... (more)

On the American Bicentennial, Amtrak train 5, the San Francisco Zephyr , departs downtown Chicago’s Union Station for a trip to Oakland, California. AMTK SDP40Fs 622 and 627, built two ... (more)

Amtrak train 14, the northbound ("westbound" on the Southern Pacific’s Los Angeles Division) makes it stop in San Luis Obispo as it makes its way from Los Angeles to Seattle. A pair of recently... (more)

On America’s 200th Birthday, Amtrak’s train 40, the eastbound Broadway Limited, departs downtown Chicago for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where the train will be split, with one section co... (more)

It was the Seventies. A time when one could pull into a service station and the attendant would fill your tank, check the air and oil, and wipe your windshield. And all for 39.9¢ per gall... (more)

With a line of speeders behind it, former AMTK 644/ATSF 5266/BNSF 6976 (still wearing its special Maersk paint) sits as the first excursion of the day holds the main.

I have been interested in photos that I have seen over the years of aircraft fuselages moving over former Burlington Northern lines. I was surprised to see that I had recorded one moving west on t... (more)

Southbound Floridian is close to on-time on a beautiful summer afternoon.

The northbound Floridian is just a few hundred feet short of Union Station. The engineer has just restarted his train after stopping for an SCL employee to drop from the lead SDP. The SCL man is... (more)

New SDP40Fs - a trio, no less - are in stark contrast to shabby, old Union Station and its shed.

Couplers have knuckles but no fingers.

The only active SDP40F on the planet sees regular service hauling Rail Explorers' Railbikes and customers up the grade back to the museum in Boulder City, NV. The locomotive was built new by EMD ... (more)

612 leads two other SDP40Fs with the nb Floridian. The train was due in Montgomer in mid-morning and was - in my experience - rarely late.

I think the Mountaineer was one of those trains where Senators and Congressmen from along the route threw their weight around to establish/continue a service that might have been hard to justify b... (more)

Employees chat during the crew change at Montgomery. One of only two times that I saw four SDPs on Floridian. Guess they were ferrying SDPs to Florida.