This photo was taken 40 years to the day from when the first Amtrak train operated. Heritage units painted by the Beech Grove shops displaying each of Amtrak's locomotive liveries were posed in th... (more)

A long lost heritage unit? No. There's no direct lineage of the New York Central to Amtrak. While the NYC had a long history, the unthinkable happened when it merged with rival PRR to form Penn Ce... (more)

Up close and personal with the the one and only SW1001 on the roster.

Get your shots now, it won't be that long before these trains are gone and the next generation is the new norm.

It's not a common thing to find an Amtrak engine or car wrapped, and this one is a long way from its intended area. The wrap advertises the Winter Park Express partnership with Lyft, which ran be... (more)

Under H Street on the lower level of Washington Terminal.

An unlikely couple. MARC 68 rescued an Acela that encountered a problem enroute to DC, leading it into Union Station long hood forward.

A very rare visitor, an Amtrak Cascades F59PHI, came to Washington on its way to North Carolina for a temporary assignment filling in on Piedmont trains after its career in the Pacific Northwest w... (more)

A Sprinter gets a bath because as Yardmaster Brickhouse always said, "A clean train is a happy train."

Not long ago, this would have been AEM-7s and a few HHPs sprinkled throughout.

VRE laying over in the Coach Yard as seen from Ivy City with its iconic B&O signals.

An inbound train negotiates the many switches of Washington Terminal on it's last mile of track before the end of the line.

A Western Maryland GP40-2 leads an eastbound train through Washington, DC. This is taken in the vicinity of the Metro Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood station.

In the spring of 2000, I was on a class trip in which we visited Union Station to eat dinner. I couldn't pass up the opportunity to take some snapshots of one of Amtrak's busiest terminals. A... (more)

Wearing its new Chessie System colors, Baltimore & Ohio passenger GP9 6607 leads an evening rush hour commuter train out of Washington Union Station. Leased Amtrak coaches make up the consist.