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)
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)
The westbound Borealis makes its Red Wing station stop. AMTK 519 is pinch hitting for a P42DC, and making its second trip in a row on the Borealis.
A B32-8WH leads the westbound Borealis out of Lake City. It has been many years since one of these locomotives last led a train near the Twin Cities. Amtrak's B32-8WHs are typically assigned to ya... (more)
Amtrak 519 departs the Dells with the Westbound Borealis, passing over the Kilbourn dam.
AMTK 519 leads 1333 West out of Milwaukee
Amtrak train 36, the eastbound Desert Wind (Los Angeles CA to Ogden UT) cuts through the haze as it passes the old Santa Fe station sign for Casa Blanca (White House), a neighborhood in Riv... (more)
Amtrak 504 departs put of Chicago with a Westbound Hiawatha.
A high green signal allows Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 583, with a mix of Amfleet and Horizon Fleet cars, to depart Fullerton as the sun sets in the west. This train, heading to Los Angeles f... (more)
Amtrak's Desert Wind heads for Vegas as it rolls past Cajon.
High above the Shasta Valley, the northbound Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon in summer 1994. An Amtrak engineer once told me that if the signals were all green and the train was making track sp... (more)
The Coast Starlight is running behind schedule as it pulls away from Mount Shasta on a summer morning in 1994.
Amtrak 504 leads Hiawatha 334 East under the searchlights at Tower A3.
AMTK 519 leads Hiawatha train #339 out of Chicago passing under the signal bridge at Green Street.
AMTK 519 pushes Hiawatha train #338 by Tower A5 as it rolls out its final miles to Chicago Union Station.
