Amtrak Extra 87 sits in Cedar Hill Yard outside New Haven, CT while crews conduct audio decibel testing on the recently rebuilt CT P40 6711.

In fresh Phase VII Livery, Amtrak 87 leads the 263 westbound rolling by the Village of Cranesville along US Route 5 into the curve at Lock 10 CP-173 in some warm afternoon light and very gusty win... (more)

Catching the last rays of light from the setting sun, GE P42DC 87 leads Amtrak's Pennsylvanian as it cruises west through Tipton, Pennsylvania and heads towards its next station stop in Altoona. T... (more)

Red, White, Blue, and Skyline. On the afternoon of Monday, December 2, 2024, Amtrak Train 235 was led by AMTK 87 (P42DC), the first time that a Phase VII painted unit has led a train on the... (more)

Southbound Star. Amtrak P42DC no. 87 (GE Genesis, 1992-2001) and SC-44 no. 320 (Siemens Charger, 2016-present) are seen leading train 91(22), the southbound Silver Star... (more)

Amtrak On The Selkirk Bypass Track. As part of the process of requalifying crews over this territory for contingency planning, CSX Train P939 with AMTK 87 (P42DC) took the bypass tracks ar... (more)

"Night Owl Diesel Substitute at Stamford"

On the quiet morning of August 29th, 2022, Amtrak Night Owl train 67 makes its scheduled stop at Stamford, CT on Metro-North's New Haven Li... (more)

Not Technically Anything, Actually. Amtrak Train 864 was running along the shores of the Harlem River on the way to Grand Central Terminal as it also parallels the relatively new pipes and ... (more)

An Amtrak New Haven-Springfield shuttle crosses the Enfield Falls Canal and prepares to cross the much longer bridge over the adjacent Connecticut River. The circa-1829 canal was built to circumve... (more)

The southbound Vermonter dodges the late afternoon shadows as it arrives in Meriden.

Annual Grand Central Terminal training run following 12 minutes behind Empire Service Train 236 at CP 99. The training is to keep up qualifications if Amtrak needs to divert to GCT.

Amtrak shuttle to New Haven at Windsor.

As time nears one year without Amtrak's Vermonter Service in the state of Vermont. Amtrak ran a "requalification" train to the northern terminus of the route and back to allow crews to s... (more)

A Downeaster on the Western Route south of Wilmington Junction is rare enough, but a Downeaster with P42 on each end on the Western Route south of Wilmington Junction may as well be a Halley's Com... (more)