The southbound Crescent about to cross Lake Pontchartrain after its last station stop in Slidell, LA before reaching New Orleans.

Disappearing Crescent: The southbound Crescent, Train #19, obscures itself in snow as it passes through Metuchen, NJ en route to a warmer climate in New New Orleans on Saturday, Jan... (more)

Amtrak 20, the northbound Crescent, rolls through Temple, GA with a rough looking 130, a P42DC in the phase 2 heritage scheme, leading the way.

Amtrak 130, the 2nd phase 2 heritage unit (replacing #66), leads train #19, the Crescent, through Birmingham, Alabama.

20 on 20. A battered P42DC number 20 leads a 2 hour late Amtrak Crescent Train Number 20 north with a friendly engineer.

The southbound Amtrak Crescent sprints past a stopped freight train in the quiet town of Lula as they make a late morning appearance after multiple delays in South Carolina. The train is a ... (more)

The northbound Crescent from New Orleans runs through some very un-New-Orleans-like weather as it makes its final push towards New York Penn Station on the Northeast Corridor.

The northbound Crescent arrives at the station in Meridian, MS.

AMTRAK #20 the north bound Crescent rolls over I-85 on a clear and cold fall morning. This train was nearly 9 hours late which allowed for the early morning shot.

The southbound "Crescent" hurtles by MARC 634 stopped at the BWI station

Amtrak 20 glides through Monroe, VA where the Southern once had a depot, yard, roundhouse, and wye. All that remains is the single track mainline that the Crescent still traverses daily, now behin... (more)

As if seeing NS 8099 on point wasn't enough, The Crescent had 156 trailing yesterday with several of freshly painted Phase III cars in its consist. After leaving the station, it met a NB military... (more)

Running slightly behind the advertised schedule, a ~3 hour late Crescent pulls into the nations capitol behind a P42DC pair as the cherry blossoms show their beauty.

Amtrak's Crescent rolls under an old cantilever signal bridge, the last of its kind west of Birmingham. So far, it has survived the PTC signal massacre, with no evidence of imminent replacement.

The northbound Crescent heads over the Potomac River after passing Reagan National Airport on its way into Washington DC. Trees are in bloom and spring is already in the air.