Amtrak New Haven. On Sunday, October 24, 2021, Amtrak Train 868 operated from Rutland, VT to Burlington, VT (returning as train 869) to start qualifying Amtrak crews over this future extens... (more)

When the California Zephyr #6 left Denver's Union Station to continue the journey to Chicago, the train has to back through the BNSF engine yard before it took the main track towards the Brush Sub... (more)

Amtrak 406 and company roll south past the Vermont Mable Museum as they complete the first round trip qualifying run for the day. Amtrak has recently been running qualification trains along the VT... (more)

While it didn't translate well in any stills, #100 south is meeting #100 north....as in both trains were pulled by an engine numbered 100. One of those moments we wish the SunRail train sets had ... (more)

With a rather special visitor for today's qualification runs, Amtrak 406 leads the first southbound for the day. Amtrak has been qualifying on the Ethan Allen Express extension to Burlington the p... (more)

It's very rare to see Amtrak 20, The Crescent, at High Point in daylight. I got lucky today as it was running 1hr 32 min late. Here at 8:33 am, the sun has not yet broken through the clouds. But t... (more)

Just seconds from making their stop and go at Ashland (no passengers on/off), Amtrak train 67 headed for Newport News features the 50th Anniversary P42DC #161, the new Phase I livery heritage loco... (more)

The future of VIA Rail. One of VIA Rail's new Charger locomotives is at the Montreal Maintenance Centre, the day after an entire Charger trainset arrived directly from Siemens' factory in C... (more)

Metrolink 732 passes CP-Citrus as the R-CAL0151 San Jac crew awaits a signal down the branch behind them.

Metra's Milwaukee road heritage unit backs down from Western Avenue to Union Station for its afternoon run.

A loaded DMV&W coal train rolls through the North Dakota landscape near Baldwin as they close in on Bismarck.

Anniversary Engines. Amtrak 145 (Phase 3 - 40th Anniversary, P42DC) and 100 (Midnight Blue - 50th Anniversary, P42DC) were the power for train 870 on Sunday, September 26, 2021. This train ... (more)

It looks like the additional member in the cab of today's Amtrak 777 is really pondering something as the train prepares to exit the sweeping curve just west of Camarillo.

Raton: Still Seeing Passengers More Than 100 Years Later. Moments away from finally having a chance to cool its heels and dynamic brake fans, Amtrak 3, the westbound Southwest Chief,... (more)