The 'bloody nose' Phase I heritage locomotive begins its push up the grade of Raton Pass after making its final stop in Colorado in the town of Trinidad. Though hard to imagine, within the next 24... (more)

A look back to the end of summer 2023 as the Phase I heritage livery knocks down the intermediates between Wagon Mound and Levy, NM. As modernization continues, the blades continue to fall across ... (more)

Dashing Up the Surflline - AMTK 503, a Dash 8 typically assigned to yard duty in Los Angeles, has been deployed onto the Surfline after numerous failures with the new Siemens locomotives ca... (more)

Surflline Debut - After numerous equipment failures within the last few weeks, Amtrak has deployed an array of different equipment originally on standby from Northern California to the sout... (more)

When Eras Collide - As the sun rises upon Downtown LA, the 1927 built ATSF 3751 begins its two mile shove movement along the Los Angeles River from Amtrak's north yard to Union Station for the 202... (more)

Rail crews have just cleared the chassis of the truck from the front of the train, revealing the true detail into how much damage the lead unit took upon impact with the water truck. There are rep... (more)

Only just an hour into the northbound Coast Starlight’s journey, disaster has struck. A large truck was fouling the single main around 11:15 AM Wednesday morning when Amtrak #14 came through at ... (more)

Only just an hour into the northbound Coast Starlight’s journey, disaster has struck. A large truck was fouling the single main around 11:15 AM Wednesday morning when Amtrak #14 came through at ... (more)

A BNSF rail train is overtaken by Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief after having just completed a joint operation with Herzog crews along the siding. Freight trains are an uncommon sight along th... (more)

A Blast to the Past - The 'Pepsi Can' heritage paint, which pays tribute to the early paint schemes found on Amtrak's fleet of Dash-8 locomotives, lives on shielding a P42 locomotive as Amt... (more)

The LA bound Southwest Chief snakes the twists and turns of Glorieta Pass, outrunning thunderstorms that have taken over the mountains behind. This colorful consist includes two Surfliner cars and... (more)

Another day, another westbound Chief through the small town of Chappelle, NM as monsoonal moisture builds overhead. Four Los Angeles natives are tagging along for the trip through semaphore land, ... (more)

After a day of thunderstorms stretching from Raton to the Arizona border, a small break in the clouds allow rays of sunlight to cast upon the intermediates at Bernal as #3 knocks them down. These ... (more)

The eastbound Southwest Chief slowly crawls through color on a backup of eastbound commuter traffic with a colorful duo of heritage leaders on point.

Sunshine has casted over the Cajon Subdivision as passengers aboard the Southwest Chief wake up to the Californian high desert. This train usually rolls through the area under the cover of darknes... (more)