High above the Shasta Valley, the northbound Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon in summer 1994. An Amtrak engineer once told me that if the signals were all green and the train was making track sp... (more)
Los Angeles' iconic city hall provides the backdrop as Amtrak train 3, The Super Chief, has arrived on Los Angeles Union Station's Track 12 with a trio of new SDP40F diesels for power: AMT... (more)
Amtrak Dash 8-32BWH 508 switches a cut of autoracks at Amtrak’s Sanford Auto Train Station. Southbound Auto Train number 52 arrived thirty minutes earlier, and several Amtrak Dash 8-32BWHs are ... (more)
A pair of Amtrak GE B32BWH “Pepsi can” locomotives with the eastbound Southwest Chief fly out of Ancona in a panned photograph on the afternoon of May 15, 1993. Neatly-planted rows of corn tha... (more)
A very clean Amtrak Dash 8-32BWH 508 switches autoracks at the carrier’s southern terminus for its Auto Train on a hot, humid morning. (Sanford, Florida – August 7, 2017)
Amtrak's Southwest Chief crosses the former Rock Island mainline as it slows to a stop at Joliet, IL on its last lap into Chicago. At this time, the lead unit no. 508 was fairly new, and forecast ... (more)
On November 19th, 1974, an eastbound (southbound) Amtrak San Diegan makes a stop at Fullerton, California. Power for this six car train is SDP40F 508 and E9B 452. The SDP40F is new, havin... (more)
Practically new (built in July 1973), Amtrak SDP40F 508 sits at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal after arriving with train #3, the Southwest Limited on July 9th, 1973.
When Amtrak took over (most of) America's passenger rail operations in May 1971, they had to make due with a hodge-podge of diesels, mainly E-units, built in the 1940s and 1950s that were, to put ... (more)
The road power has just shoved the second cut of passenger cars to the platform while the yard switcher has already grabbed all the auto cars off the rear of the train and is waiting to yard those... (more)
The Illinois Zephyr creeps through Riverside with a Dash 8 leading today.
The cab car's horn failed on the morning Hiawatha, so when the train got to CUS, they tacked this thing on. Good thing, too!
Coast Starlights meet. NB (closer with Pepsi Can 508) waiting for SB (Pepsi Can 512) to clear the station.
Got an early start out of Muskegon, snowing most of the way to Holland, then a break in the clouds. Heard this might be leading, and sure enough, lucked out with strong sunlight and the dark snows... (more)
