As new Siemens ACS-64 locomotives arrive, older EMD/ASEA AEM-7 locomotives are being retired. Built in October 1980, Amtrak 907, poking out of the shops at Amtrak's Ivy City facility is still in ... (more)
One doesn't often associate Amtrak with coaling towers, but in the middle of the carrier's Ivy City engine terminal, a remnant of the past still stands. Amtrak SW9 792 swings around one leg of th... (more)
A pair of brand new Siemens ACS-64 electric locomotives soak up some sun at Amtrak's Ivy City engine terminal in Washington DC on a chilly January 22nd, 2015. Amtrak 625 and 626 were built by Sie... (more)
Siemens is currently building new electric power for Amtrak near Sacramento, California. The new engines, model ACS-64, are high-tech engines that will replace the now mothballed HHP-8s and the r... (more)
Built by then-new EMD (formed by the merger of General Motors' EMC and part of Winton Engine on January 1, 1941) in December 1941, Amtrak SW1 737 is still alive and well 73 years later! Th... (more)