The 3-hour late Silver Meteor #98 rolls through the town of Centralia, VA as it approaches its next stop in Richmond. The hot and humid morning makes for some interesting low-hanging cloud covera... (more)

Regional train 186 crosses the Buckingham Branch diamond at Doswell on their way up the RF&P.

The southbound Auto Train heads through Doswell in the late evening, passing the Buckingham Branch yard.

New Paint, Old Engine: Unsurprisingly, this P42DC expelled some dark exhaust upon throttling up through the Cherry Hill Road crossing which goes to show that while Amtrak may be pursuing a new ima... (more)

A Charger leads the southbound Silver Star through Ashland.

515 to the Rescue - The night prior P099 broke down near Woodbridge, VA, so they decided to send 515 from the Auto Train terminal in Lorton. Since the P42 wouldn't magically be fixed overnight, 17... (more)

Running about 20 minutes behind schedule, Amtrak Northeast Regional Train has just completed its station stop in Ashland, Virginia and is back on the move accelerating south. The CSX RF&P Subdivis... (more)

Rescuing the Regional: Amtrak Dash 8s, once fairly common on Northeast Regionals through this area, are incredibly hard to come by on anything other than the Auto Train these days…and even thatâ... (more)

Though ALC-42’s have been making more frequent appearances on the Chicago-bound Cardinal service, it’s P42DC #148 in charge of the train as it arrives at Alexandria Union Station on track 2.

An uncommon P42DC takes charge of this edition of the northbound Auto Train as they chase the nearby M300 on the adjacent track. With no time to waste, every bit of track speed was being utilized ... (more)

Old Meets New: One of the newer ALC-42s in Amtrak’s roster as of May 2024 tugs Silver Star #91 with an aging P42DC in tow. It was the last train for us on this hot afternoon in the Potomac Shore... (more)

Amtrak 194 and 65 meet on the elevated trackage at Rivanna Jct. on the former C&O main in Richmond.

Virginia regional train 194 arrives in Richmond.

The Silver Meteor passes a crowd in Ashland behind a P42 pair.

Relatively new ALC-42 #329 leads southbound Silver Star #91 under our drone near the Potomac Shores neighborhood. The once bustling, now indefinitely closed, Tim’s Rivershore Restaurant can be s... (more)