Amtrak tested the Swedish X2000 tilting train in 1993.

Ex-AT&SF SW1200 rebuilt by AT&SF into a SSB1200 sold to Amtrak in 1984. The F7A is a Maryland DOT (MARC) commuter train engine.

D.C. Transit cars looked clean and appealing right to the very end in 1962. Nearly 60 years later, streetcars have made a return in the nation's Capital. There appears to be another car in the d... (more)

Now here's a way to get to the train. And, like the Staten Island Ferry, it'll only set you back a quarter. Thanks to John Bromley for location ID assistance.

A street corner scene in the nation's Capital at the height of cold-war tensions. The streetcars were soon gone. Almost 50 years later they are Railroad: D.C. Transit
Locomotive: PCC
Location: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Locomotive #: 1171
Train ID: 40 Lincoln Park
Photo Date: November, 1961

Late in the DC Transit streetcar era.

Going to GW and living in Georgetown, I had witnessed the B&O Georgetown local from the inside of a Metro Bus on K Street at night. But this was the only time I saw it in daylight. Here it is pass... (more)

A Southbound VRE commuter train catches the last few rays of the day's sun as it leaves the L'Enfant Plaza Station.

Dwarf signals high and low

An original Rohr Industries 1000 series train makes a station stop at the Ft Torren Metro Station. Due to an accident in 2009 only a short distance behind the train in the photo, 1000 series cars... (more)

It's 101 years old, and while there have been many changes, such as the digital arrival/departure sign, D.C. Union Station's massive and ornate design never fails to impress.

A late night Orange Line Train pauses at McPherson Square. Shortly afterward, the station agent ran me off.

Power for the Crescent lays over in Ivy City yard and awaits it's turn to lead the Southern Railway's premier passenger train south.

A Southbound CSX stack train passes a Northbound mixed freight at L'Enfant Plaza.