One of two HHPs still in service has just completed its run.
Now retired, but at the time the 664 was bringing a Northeast Regional into Washington DC.
Only two Amtrak HHP-8 locomotives, Nos. 651 and 655, remain in service. The new Siemens ACS-64 have deemed most of the ill-fated HHP-8 locomotives surplus. Soon, both of the remaining HHP-8s will ... (more)
Kicking up the snow on a crisp morning.
Amtrak 653 approaching its destination in Washington, DC passing by K Tower while working through a maze of tracks and catenary.
Life comes at you fast on the NEC even when the speed is restricted to 100 mph along this stretch..
The engineer pops his head out the window of this HHP to say hello before departing on a foggy morning.
An HHP led Northeast Regional passes the rather massive Dock Tower; one of the few manned towers still on the NEC.
Dying breed - HHP-8 nearing end of the line on Amtrak; here 660 races north on the nec approaching a station stop at 30th St. in Philly as a streetcar crosses overhead.
A southbound Amtrak train, pulled by an increasingly uncommon HHP-8, passes a southbound NJT train stopped at Elizabeth.
Time is limited for the HHP-8, although this one is well in charge of a DC bound Metroliner.
Train 95 left Boston behind HHP-8 654, and didn't make it too far before problems developed on the engine, so a second HHP-8, 661, was added to power the train the rest of the way to Washington, D... (more)
An endangered hippo heads up the Vermonter on a muggy early summer morning.