In 2015 I managed the employee store holiday sale. We used the 85999 and 10020, and here they were in place and ready for the day ahead.

Trifecta of Acela

The Obama unit gets a bath.

New and old meet.

Plenty of passengers pass by the 944, but not a one pays it any attention.

It's a beautiful and warm Fall evening, right at rush hour. Union Station is alive with all sorts of arrivals and departures. Amtrak 80, the Carolinian, has arrived from the South, and her replace... (more)

I ran into the 668 as it was being delivered from the Siemens factory in California, and here it is in its natural habitat with siblings 608 and 660.

Fresh paint for an unsung hero of the NEC.

6 in 1! Hard to do outside of a yard of station. In a rare instance, all 5 throat tracks of WUT are occupied, and even a WMATA Metro train is passing.

A Northeast Regional enters Washington Terminal coming around the curve under New York Avenue.

MARC AEM7 4903, with the first afternoon “Penn Line” train to Baltimore (MARC 404), is departing Washington Union Station. The AEM7 was built in December 1986 and delivered to MARC in January... (more)

The man this Washington Terminal Heritage unit is named after, Pete Grosso, worked as a Train Director in K Tower (on right) and later as a conductor on yard engines like this.

Compare and contrast two modern Siemens products, one diesel-electric, the other electric.

The Washington Terminal heritage unit rolls around its namesake terminal with a cousin in the background.

My first time seeing the 2nd Phase II heritage unit in person. It's quite the contrast with the more modern Acela in the background.