Something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime... the seemingly impossible happened as a dash 8 found itself on the long distance Texas Eagle. Thanks to PTC issues. A easy and fun chase took pla... (more)

Something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime... the seemingly impossible happened as a dash 8 found itself on the long distance Texas Eagle. Thanks to PTC issues. A easy and fun chase took pla... (more)

The northbound Coast Starlight passes the junction with the Siskiyou Line on a perfect spring morning.

A pair of Amtrak dash-8's lead a loaded ballast train out of Michigan City to help work on the Amtrak Michigan Line.

AMTK 518 getting serviced in one of their Chicago Yard buildings

The northbound Coast Starlight is a couple of miles from exiting the Golden State as it approaches the west portal of Tunnel 18.

Amtrak power awaits its next assignment at the Amtrak shops in downtown Chicago. On the head of these two tracks is on of the GE B32-8WH's and a Siemens Charger for Illinois state sponsored servic... (more)

A P32 substitutes for the normal cab car as Hiawatha Service #337 heads for Milwaukee and another quick turn back to Chicago.

The Coast Starlight flies low across Butte Valley on Memorial Day weekend 1994.

Out of the rain
On a rainy spring day in California, a woman waits for her train at the former Santa Fe station in Stockton on March 13, 1995.

Amtrak 518 leads a Hiawatha set through North Glenview.

Amtrak Dash 8 518 leads Lincoln Service 302 north over a frozen Kankakee River in Wilmington. The new bridge is in place.

The Coast Starlight rolls in the shadow of Mount Shasta on Memorial Day weekend 1995.

An Illinois Zephyr service train rolls down the triple track of BNSF as the train makes its last lap into Chicago from Quincy, IL. The train is at Laverne, IL, just west of Cicero and will soon be... (more)

The 1979 Pacific Railroad Society "Mountain Outin" passenger special, with Amtrak SDP40F AMTK 518 and AMTK 517, is rolling westbound towards Bakersfield through Cable. I am taking this photo from ... (more)