You can date a tree by counting the number of rings it has in its trunk when you cut it down, you can date a cab car by the types of locomotives it's set up to operate with. Despite a recent refu... (more)
Keystone train racing down the NEC westbound.
With the start of the newly improved Keystone Service, Amtrak has started using electric push-pull sets now which provides a nice addition to trainwatching on the Northeast and Keystone Corridors.... (more)
Southbound Amtrak Shuttle cuts through the late evening haze just north of Hartford.
Pushed by AMTK 103, Cab car 9644 leads south toward Hartford past a CSX load on the siding. Taken with Canon Digital Rebel.
Springfield train arrives in New Haven to make a mainline connection.
Formerly a metroliner, cab car 9640 leads the Amtrak 435 Springfield to New Haven shuttle pushed by Amtrak 54 south towards Windsor. Taken with Pentax K1000.
Having the cab car leading on this Springfield-New Haven shuttle train was a bit disappointing, but the weather was nice and the lighting good, so why not snap a shot?
With a former Penn Central Metroliner cab car in the lead, this train approaches its destination of New Haven. That catenary tower in the background is the northernmost one on the old NH.
Metroliner cab car on a shuttle train gets a hosedown
Note Cab Signal Display Unit
