Toasters on Amtrak are an extremely rare sight these days. Back in January, I caught this one on its way to couple up to a through train.
Soldiering on - Amtrak AEM-7 #917 roars westbound (south) through Edison ducking the position lights just ahead of the NJT station. The plume of snow in its wake is remnants of the season's first... (more)
Two For One With the amount of remaining AEM-7's in the single digit numbers, trying to photo one is hard enough. 917 and 919 lead train no. 86 railroad east, towards Newark and ul... (more)
A remanufactured AEM-7AC leads the northbound Silver Meteor through Edison on the Northeast Corridor. Amtrak's Long distance trains are starting to look like traditional passenger trains again no... (more)
The sun is setting rapidly, like a metaphor for the locomotive leading this train. Almost half of the trains I saw this day had ACS-64s; the replacement for the AEM-7 and HHP. As my dad says, &q... (more)
E60 608 and AEM-7 917 occupy two bays of the Wilmington Shops in 1999, both in Phase III. The E60 would only have a few more years of life left before being retired and scrapped.
A Northeast Regional speeds off into the sunset on its way to Washington, DC.
Snaking through the narrow rock cuts of the Connecticut Shoreline, Amtrak train 137 makes its way towards New York and Washington; next stop, Old Saybrook.
An Amtrak AEM-7 and consist traverses the 1906 PRR built bridge over the Susquehanna River racing the sun for an evening arrival in Washington D.C.
Eastbound Northeast Regional service flies through Milford, which is not an Amtrak stop.
8 Amfleet coaches rush along northbound behind AEM-7 917 just east of CP Phil on the NEC.
A Keystone train pushing east to New York meets an NJ Transit express speeding west at Jersey Avenue in New Brunswick. Note the missing Amtrak logo on the nose of AEM-7 no. 917.
I'm not sure what's more impressive here, the quadruple track mainline or the fact that three of the tracks have concrete ties.
An AEM-7 passes the BWI station.