A run-of-the-mill P42 and former F40PH framed by solar powered switches are being hostled around the Amtrak Chicago maintenance facility.
An inbound Michigan train crosses 21st in the first major snowstorm of the year.
Amtrak 353 is running with an old Phase III NPCU today. Because of the Holidays, the train consist is much longer than usual.
NPCUs 90219, built in 1976, and 90368, built in 1981, still bring back memories of their hey day in Phase III paint.
Delayed by freight train interference ahead, Amtrak #352 passes BO Tower enroute to Detroit. The tower is undergoing a roof tear-off by contractors.
Amtrak 90219 is the trailing engine on Train 352 as it departs from the Detroit Woodward Avenue station.
While it may only be the hollowed out core of an F40, Amtrak 90219 is still a treat to catch leading a train. She's still painted in classy Phase III paint to boot.
Under the watchful eye of Old Glory, Amtrak Phase III NPCU leads the morning Lincoln Service 300 through Lemont, bound for the windy city.
Amtrak 90219 trails behind on Train 353 as it passes through Milwaukee Junction as a typical Detroit warehouse towers above it.
It's a cool and frosty spring morning as Amtrak's Pere Marquette crosses the Kalamazoo River en route to Chicago.
AMTK 351 is running an hour late due to a heavy snow during the night.
This Hiawatha service train is close to its arrival at CUS.
Amtrak cabbage car 90219 leads a southbound Hiawatha by the station - it is to be replaced in a few months by a new one north of this site...
Amtrak Hiawatha service approaches the station - the building will soon be replaced by a new station just to the north...