Generations Apart

Passenger trains from two different times share the storied Rockville bridge on the former PRR Middle Division. Amtrak’s eastbound Pennsylvanian with a l... (more)

Double-header steam excursion with PRR 7002 & PRR 1223 from Strasburg to Harrisburg uses the wye at Rockville to turn the train for its return trip. This puts the train on Rockville Bridge, waitin... (more)

The Boston section of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited gets underway out of South Station. It's headed for Albany and its Chicago connection beneath the semaphores that were a distinctive part of South... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound Lake Shore Limited speeds by old New York Central tombstone milepost 215.

Amtrak's California Zephyr train #6 glides east through Spanish Fork Canyon amid colorful oak brush near Castilla.

Running nine and half hours late as a result from a NS derailment in Gastonia, Amtrak's sounthbound Crescent races to its next stop in Atlanta. F40PH's 267 and 300 hustle their train for the ult... (more)

At Selma the NS line from Raieigh to the coast crosses the old ACL north-south main. Here the SB "Palmetto" rattles the diamond while a NB CSX freight does likewise. This is where we found sever... (more)

Amtrak started service with a variety of motive power supplied by the carriers whose passenger service Amtrak took over. So during the early Amtrak days a lot of Penn Central power was on the head... (more)

Ex-New York Central E-8A 4052 (built in 1952), now working for Amtrak, rips out of the tunnel at Breakneck Ridge.

Northbound Empire Service train approaches Breakneck Ridge tunnel

DC to Martinsburg train in solid Phase 1 paint