Amtrak has pulled into Minneapolis to pick up and drop off passengers. The Milwaukee Road's Skytop lounge, Cedar Rapids, sits in wait for the next excursion with the 261.
The Empire Builder flies east past an automated reader on CP's River Subdivision.
Amtrak's Empire Builder runs smoothly and on time southbound out of Wisconsin Dells and along the Wisconsin River on its daily run from Seattle to Chicago. Locos 150 and 3 are pulling a pair of Am... (more)
In an unusual move, the crew is turning the power before heading into the Rocky Mountains with the California Zephyr. The train was parked at Denver's Union Station.
Amtrak's Empire Builder slows for a stop at Columbus, running about 2:45 down.
A late running Empire Builder cuts across the autumnal Wisconsin landscape.
Amtrak California train 521 is seconds away from making a station stop at Emeryville early on a Sunday morning.
It appears that Amtrak P42DC 150 has had some sort of grisly encounter (perhaps an animal on the tracks?) on a Hiawatha Service train.
After some rain showers wiped out any photo ops of P-095, the sun broke through and Autotrain broke squelch on the scanner......and all was good!!!
The old Milwaukee Road Hiawatha rolls down river doing all of 60+ not wasting anytime. As I blinked he was gone.
The eastbound Chief makes its stop in Winslow.
The northbound "City of New Orleans", led by engine 150, streaks by the Pyramid in downtown Memphis on a cloudy and humid night. (Canon 20D; ISO 100; 10 seconds; f/5.6; 18mm; AWB)
Amtrak 150 travels over the wye track and approaches the CSX interchange.
