Amtrak eastbound 174 emerges from the Hudson River tunnel into a brief section of daylight before returning underground for its Penn Station stop.

The 2002 eastbound Montana by Steam excursion, shown here a few miles east of Garrison, MT, is on leg 2 (Missoula-Bozeman) of a three day trip across western Montana. Former SP&S 700 and MRL F45 ... (more)

Shatner on the Shore Line. Much of the filming for the 1979 ABC-TV movie 'Disaster on the Coastliner', set in California, actually took place in Southeastern Connecticut. Here, a disgruntled eng... (more)

Train wrecks seem to be popular on RP. How about a train wreck of a color scheme? Amtrak was still in its relative infancy when its classic RDCs and GG1s were subjected to cruel and unusual pigm... (more)

DRGW 5389 leads a trio of SDs and a load of coal eastbound near Yampa on the Craig branch.

Eastbound freight 150, its caboose marred with graffiti, skims the outskirts of Leadville on its way to Pueblo. The closure of the Tennessee Pass line was only a few years in the future; this wou... (more)

How many of us remember that Amtrak operated F7s into the 90s? Not their own, of course. But Amtrak was (and is) the operator for Shore Line East, the Connecticut DOT New Haven - Old Saybrook - N... (more)

The westbound Boston section of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited crosses a reservoir in Ashland, just west of Framingham. Full disclosure: I'm no fan of the Genesis units, but here the boxy side of th... (more)

Three high-hood Geeps, one a "torpedo boat" with air reservoirs topside, power train 555 northward across the Trading Cove trestle from Uncasville into Norwich just before 7:00 PM. Today the firs... (more)

Not a race--two eastbound intermodal trains wait out a traffic jam just west of Winslow. The SD75M wears "Santa Fe" on its nose, but "BNSF" on its flanks--the last roundup for newly painted warbo... (more)

During the so-called Blizzard of '96 in New England, Amtrak 175 (westbound) scores a point for the "all-weather mode" as it crosses the Niantic River drawbridge (Nan). An offshore breeze is keepi... (more)

Today's pop quiz: What VIA train is this? Well, before there was a Rocky Mountaineer, today's private-operator luxury cruise train, VIA ran its own version, called Rockies By Daylight, establishi... (more)

Back when it was Metro North Commuter Railroad, a pair of its FL9s, 2010 and 2013, lead train 860 north on the causeway just north of the Peekskill station a few minutes before 1 pm. The backlit,... (more)

The shop building (now gone), and perhaps the rails, date to the days of the New Haven Railroad. And while the unit is of the era as well, the NH owned FL9s, not F7s. Rather, the NH-painted 6691 ... (more)

On its first excursion weekend after restoration, the 611 leads her eastbound train upgrade a few miles out of Roanoke. (I would appreciate a more exact location from anyone familiar with the area... (more)