The two Talgo series 6 trainsets owned by Washington State, are headed for scrap in LA. WSDOT retired all of the Series 6 trainsets and they were implicated by the NTSB in the severity of the 12/... (more)

Amtrak 91 throttling up to make up time.

Amtrak 91 running a bit late pours it on trying to make up time.

The Westbound "Capitol Limited" is seen arriving in Harpers Ferry, WV. The daily train runs from Washington DC to Chicago.

Amtrak Regional train 156 is seen departing Roanoke and passing the old N&W East End Locomotive Shops.

Busy Morning in the Ditch. The rail corridor through Columbia, SC, created in the 1980s to alleviate some rail congestion in the city, is known as the Ditch and has CSX and NS tracks side ... (more)

The morning California Zephyr was running 3 hours late, making it possible to get this angle from Barr Lake in Brighton, Colorado.

Amtrak's Empire Builder rolls by the former Milwaukee Road depot as it slows for its stop at Red Wing, MN on a cloudy October morning. The station has been restored and is used by Amtrak. The Miss... (more)

Treading Upon Devil's Throne - In the sunset hours of a summer evening, a late westbound Southwest Chief glides westward through Waldo Canyon. After the train passed, it was back to work to... (more)

Having just departed from Las Vegas, NM, Amtrak's Southwest Chief #3 splits the first pair of semaphore signals that it'll encounter West of Las Vegas.

The westbound Southwest Chief continues its westward trek toward Los Angeles, with weather conditions improving toward Lamy and Albuquerque. Two target signals guard the west siding switch with St... (more)

Blades Under Threatening Skies - The westbound Southwest Chief splits through the 774 intermediate semaphores and into the sun. Behind the radiant show of sunflowers, lit by a break in the ... (more)

Amtrak’s westbound California Zephyr climbs toward Big 10 Curve between Rocky and Eisele, Colorado, on June 2, 2013.

"...and graveyards full of rusty automobiles." A late #59 led by #129 rolls past the small unincorporated town of Glover, MS just north of Lake Cormorant, MS.

As seen through a window in a covered bridge, the Coast Starlight drifts through Westfir, Oregon and crosses the Willamette River for the first time on its journey to Seattle.