January 5, 2015. Roughly midway through its cross-country journey and with some friendly waving from the crew, Amtrak's Southwest Chief #4 makes an on-time appearance as it travels though Rowe, NM... (more)

There is always a flurry of activity when a passenger train arrives in Fullerton (and there are many of them each day!), but there is extra activity when Amtrak's Southwest Chief arrives - ... (more)

The eastbound Cardinal approaches Hawks Nest as viewed from the Lovers Leap overlook at 9:18 a.m.

On a cool, early fall morning, Amtrak train 77 rolls across the Rappahannock River as the water sits calm between high tide and low tide.

Train No. 8, the Empire Builder rounds the curve at Trinidad Loop in late afternoon lighting as it climbs out of the Columbia River valley between Rock Island and Quincy, WA.

Amtrak 19 starts away from its station stop at Gainesville at the beginning of a southern summer day. This general scene hasn't changed a lot since the Southern days, as the Crescent of that era r... (more)

Amtrak 19 makes its classic on-time arrival into Gainesville at sunrise. This general scene hasn't changed a lot since the Southern days, as the Crescent of that era ran on a similar schedule.

Amtrak's eastbound 380 train aka the "Illinois Zephyr" gets the go ahead from the conductor and pulls out of the Galesburg Amtrak station headed for Chicago. The train in a few feet will... (more)

Amtrak 80 heads east out of the Pomona Yard on Main 2 just after sunrise.

Three P42DCs, led by AMTK 25, are in charge of the day's California Zephyr #6 as it rolls through Eckley. This was a bit unusual as normally there are only two units leading this train.

Amtrak #14 heads north near the base of Mt. Shasta at Cougar, CA on 6/30/13. Code line is still in use on this section of the UP Black Butte Sub.

At 7:51am The Coast Starlight was running over two hours down at this point, which afforded a pretty daylight view of the train along the northwestern flanks of Mount Shasta. On top of their othe... (more)

The headlamps of Amtrak P42DC locomotive #25 illuminate the path ahead as the engineer prepares to throttle up the eastbound Empire Builder through the FO Switch down the Hillsboro subdivis... (more)

Amtrak # 5 is about to knock down the restricting at East Emeryville, about an hour and 10 minutes early with AMTK 822 second out.

Amtrak’s California Zephyr crosses McDonald Creek under the imposing cliff of Dodge’s Bluff just east of Utaline, Colorado, on June 13, 2009. This portion of this former Rio Grande route is al... (more)