"Amtrak Avelia Liberty Departs Philly" Amtrak's brand new Alstom Avelia Liberty (Acela 21) highspeed trainset heads south from Penn Coach Yard in Philadelphia heading towards Washington D.... (more)

Ex conrail 8635 rests behind a facility she serves in northeast Philadelphia, where the locomotive has seen service for many years. the locomotive still regularly comes to life to service local fa... (more)

Amtrak's "Silver Meteor," train 97, pulls out of Philadelphia's 30th Street Station with an on-time departure.

Once upon a National Train Day. May 10, 2014, Juniata Terminal E8A 5809 (ex-Conrail 4020, exx-Amtrak 315 [and others], nee-PRR 5809), was on display at Philadelphia 30th Street Station in Philadel... (more)

Amtrak road and maintenance of way power gathers at the Race Street facility adjacent to Philadelphia's 30th Street Station.

The last Acela

For now... On Saturday, March 21st, 2020 at 5:15 pm, the last scheduled Amtrak Acela Express departs Philadelphia, PA, southbound for Washington D.C. Upon reaching its dest... (more)

An Amtrak Regional Express, one of but a handful this day, finds an opening under a tunnel of catenary for a pose while departing Philadelphia, southbound towards Wilmington. Due in part to the C... (more)

Empty Palace

Supplementing the light from the five story high windows, ten enormous Art Deco chandeliers hang from the 95' high ceiling ceiling of Philadelphia's 30th Street Station in Pe... (more)

On a beautiful spring morning, Amtrak ACS-64 no. 637 shoves train 644 through Overbrook on its way to Harrisburg. The historic station sports a curved interlocking complete with PRR signals and sw... (more)

The Great Valley Flyer passes through the Overbrook station with a train full of Philadelphia-bound commuters. Overbrook is a unique station with US 1 passing overhead and a curved interlocking th... (more)

Arriving Philadelphia. One of the many passenger trains to travel the NEC arrives at the 30th Street Station on this brisk morning. The Philadephia Museum of Art stands in the background.

With less than a week before Septa's PCC trolleys go away on Hiatus for route construction, I headed down to the City of Brotherly Love for a glimpse at living history. Here, Car 2322 heads down t... (more)

Hope is a good thing, perhaps the best of things. While SEPTA withdrew the PCC-IIs from service and that the Route 15 will have bus operation only indefinitely, concurrently construction seems to ... (more)