AMTK 124 leads train #4 as it blows its horn to depart Fullerton on the last evening of 2012. A westbound BNSF train passes through the station on track 2.

Amtrak's California Zephyr #6 rolls along the Truckee River at Glenshire after highballing Truckee.

The Empire Builder cruises into Portage, Wisconsin, about an hour late of it scheduled stop at 5:34 PM. The station and platform in Portage is more or less a glorified bus stop, which make... (more)

An abbreviated Builder rolls through the crossovers at Wadsworth.

Just a bit behind the advertised, the eastbound Empire Builder flies through one of the trademark curves south of Lake City in Maple Springs, MN.

Amtrak's Palmetto, which holds the distinction of being the first train I ever rode on my own as a youngster, back in 1976, is seen here 32 years later passing by my window at the L'Enfant Plaza H... (more)

On a rainy autumn day the Amtrak Coast Starlight train 14 rolls north through the truss bridge at Fall Creek Junction. Constructed in 1951, the seven-span bridge traverses the Willamette River. ... (more)

The northbound and southbound Coast Starlights meet in front of the San Luis Obispo train station.

Amtrak 69, the northbound Adirondack, heads into Port Henry running alongside Lake Champlain.

Northbound Amtrak Coast Starlight 14 looks good in the low winter light on the first day of December as it approaches the grade crossing in the small beachfront community of Faria Beach, just nort... (more)

A somewhat late Capitol Limited negotiates the east slope of Sand Patch. Fall has come and gone, leaving a few browned leaves clinging to the trees.

Amtrak Lake Shore Limited blasts through Lake Cities near CP Girard in far northwestern Pennsylvania on its way to the Erie station stop 14 miles east of here.

It's 6:11 A.M. Sunrise is 20 minutes away and the Lake Shore Limited waits in the pre-dawn light for its 7:00 A.M. departure from Cleveland.

Amtrak P42 124 switches out some passenger cars in Chicago with the skyline above it.

Amtrak P42s 40, 124, 153, and 44 await their next assignments. The spectacular Chicago skyline, including the sears tower, look over the engines. Notice the NPCU and the IC GP38-2 hiding behind th... (more)