Amtrak 519, 522 and 90222 make their shove move at Union Avenue as they're in the process of wyeing for positioning in the yard at 18th Street.

Dash 8's And Cityscapes. After arriving and disembarking passengers at Chicago Union Station, Amtrak's inbound Cardinal has finished its wye move and is seen shoving into the yard at 18th S... (more)

AMTK P32-8BWH #519 leads Amtrak Borealis Service train 1333 into Red Wing, MN for its station stop. Photo taken 8/6/24.

Amtrak B32-8WH 513, with eastbound 42, the Pennsylvanian, on the NS Pittsburgh Mainline at Latrobe, Pennsylvania. May 6, 2014. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

515 to the Rescue - The night prior P099 broke down near Woodbridge, VA, so they decided to send 515 from the Auto Train terminal in Lorton. Since the P42 wouldn't magically be fixed overnight, 17... (more)

Rescuing the Regional: Amtrak Dash 8s, once fairly common on Northeast Regionals through this area, are incredibly hard to come by on anything other than the Auto Train these days…and even thatâ... (more)

The westbound Borealis makes its Red Wing station stop. AMTK 519 is pinch hitting for a P42DC, and making its second trip in a row on the Borealis.

A B32-8WH leads the westbound Borealis out of Lake City. It has been many years since one of these locomotives last led a train near the Twin Cities. Amtrak's B32-8WHs are typically assigned to ya... (more)

Amtrak 519 departs the Dells with the Westbound Borealis, passing over the Kilbourn dam.

AMTK 519 leads 1333 West out of Milwaukee

Amtrak train 36, the eastbound Desert Wind (Los Angeles CA to Ogden UT) cuts through the haze as it passes the old Santa Fe station sign for Casa Blanca (White House), a neighborhood in Riv... (more)

Amtrak 504 departs put of Chicago with a Westbound Hiawatha.

A high green signal allows Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 583, with a mix of Amfleet and Horizon Fleet cars, to depart Fullerton as the sun sets in the west. This train, heading to Los Angeles f... (more)

Amtrak's Desert Wind heads for Vegas as it rolls past Cajon.

High above the Shasta Valley, the northbound Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon in summer 1994. An Amtrak engineer once told me that if the signals were all green and the train was making track sp... (more)