Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) EMD F40PH No. 171 waits out the weekend at the commuter yard at Harvard, Illinois, on April 26, 1987. Metra (short for Metropolitan Rail) was formed in 1985... (more)
It's not often two passenger trains meet at Beaver Street, much less one of them coming off the FEC. Here, the then-annual CSXT Charity Train is departing FEC at the Prime Osborn Center and is ta... (more)
Amtrak Downeaster 681 reverses off the connecting track that leads to Portland's train station. After clearing the interlocking the train will continue north to Brunswick, ME. The NPCU comes in ... (more)
In what looks more like a scene from a model train layout, Amtrak ran 4 Chargers on point when the California Zephyr 6 train headed to Denver, Colorado. It was odd not seeing the venerable P42's o... (more)
Amtrak train 8, the eastbound Empire Builder, approaches the only active railroad tunnel in Wisconsin at appropriately-named Tunnel City on September 27, 1987.