Running 30 minutes late, Amtrak train 314 departs from a town in central Missouri behind P42DC 66, belching smoke and temporarily drowning out the music from the town’s Octoberfest celebration, ... (more)

Amtrak train 1, the westbound Sunset Limited, is due into Los Angeles Union Station at 8:30 am, but the train arrived much earlier as it was already in the station shortly after 7:00 am. B... (more)

Amtrak Rohr Turboliner power car No. 66 trails northbound train 243 as it speeds toward the tunnels at Breakneck Ridge at Cold Spring, New York at 9:00 a.m. on April 11, 1991.

Tom Golden photo.

Tom Golden photo.

The 16:00 (4:00 pm) departure time for Amtrak train 313, the westbound Missouri River Runner, is approaching. In just under ten minutes, AMTK P42DC 66 will pull its four-car train away fro... (more)

AMTK 66 sits in the front lot of Amtrak's Beech Grove facility, still dressed in its phase two heritage scheme. The unit has been OOS since hitting a truck back on February 19th, 2016.

With a string of baggage cars and former Pennsylvania Railroad coaches awaiting their weekday use in Chicago to Valparaiso commuter service in the background, an Amtrak Turboliner navigates the ma... (more)

Amtrak Heritage Unit flies through Lemont on the Texas Eagle with a friendly engineer at the helm

The DPU on UP Train CNAIM9 14 slams past Amtrak Train #313, stopping in Hermann to pick up passengers for points west, and Kansas City. The Phase 2 Heritage Unit on the point was a nice treat as ... (more)

Amtrak Train #314 has just dropped off its passengers, including me, and blasts out of town towards St. Louis from Kansas City. The Phase 2 Heritage Unit on the point was a nice treat as well. <... (more)

Fatal Bumps and Bruises?

Sitting forlornly outside Amtrak's Beech Grove Shops is P42DC 66, damaged in a wreck involving a semi truck on February 19, 2016. This engine, wearing the ca... (more)

A wide range of locomotive types and paint schemes can be seen at Amtrak's Beech Grove shops. This includes AMTK 1000 (GE 80 Tonner) in the foreground and #66 sporting Amtrak's Phase II heritage p... (more)

Amtrak crews at the former Big Four shops have no shortage of projects. This includes AMTK 66 in phase II heritage paint which has been out of service since February. It encountered a semi truck a... (more)

With the Phase II heritage unit leading the way, Amtrak train 303 heads south past Global 4 in Joliet.