Happy Birthday Amtrak! The May 1 southbound Vermonter train leans into the curve as it departs the Windsor, VT station on the New England Central's Roxbury Subdivision with P42DC 204, the standar... (more)

Happy Birthday Amtrak! Southbound Vermonter train 54 rolls across the flood-level White River at West Hartford, VT, with P42DC 204 leading the 5-car consist and P42DC 102 trailing.

Happy Birthday Amtrak! Northbound Amtrak Vermonter train 54-01 is rolling under a trademark New England wooden bridge in West Hartford in the last rays of sun late on May 1, 2011.

Amtrak P42DC 204 leads the northbound Vermonter train out of White River Junction and past an old mill complex north of the New England Central Railroad's yard at mile 16.

Amtrak's southbound Vermonter train 55 is seen rolling through pristine Vermont wilderness and Muddy Pond - complete with a Canada goose - with P42DCs 204 and 102 bracketing the typical 5-car Amfl... (more)

Amtrak 204 leads train 683 out of Durham as the engineer says "smile!" over the radio.

Amtrak #5 coasts downgrade at Uintah with an old California Zephyr dome car on the rear. This train was detouring due to track work on the Moffat line.

The Feather River Express is seen in East Davis while it works towards Portola, CA.

Fresh in from Bear, Delaware, Amtrak 204 has been parked with 5 P40DCs, the disposition of which is unknown (at least to me). In line behind 204 are 815, 818, 832, 821, and 837. Taken on premises ... (more)

Amtrak 204 leads train 66 around a curve as it exits a small cut barely a mile from its first scheduled station stop at Williamsburg, VA.

Speeding south

The southbound Texas Eagle meets a UP manifest at Tower 55.

The Portland section of the Empire Builder waits in Spokane for the arrival of the rest of the train from Seattle, as a Union Pacific freight passes.

Amtrak 6 is seen following the Colorado River on the Dotsero cutoff - 29/08/2007