Amtrak special 156 will soon be pushing the California Zephyr through the Moffat Tunnel and the Rocky Mountains.

Amtrak Train 3, the Southwest Limited, makes its daily ascent to Raton Pass, seen here at Gallinas, Colorado. Today’s train has three baggage cars and seven Superliners.

Sound Transit Train 1511 pulls out of the Coach Yard at Lander Street and backs down the main up to King Street Station in downtown Seattle.

An Amtrak Cascades unit leads this southbound Sounder commuter out of King Street Station. A large number of Sound Transit locomotives were down for maintenance thus the need to borrow power from ... (more)

The Super Continental has arrived at Boston Bar, and the passengers are taking the opportunity to walk around a bit. Soon the train will start the last leg of its trip to Vancouver.

VIA #2 crosses the Mud River bridge at mile 219 Caramat Sub, running somewhat on time this day.

Exiting the brief dark of the Norden snowshed, Amtrak's westbound California Zephyr (with a heritage unit trailing) continues its westbound trek after the long climb out of Truckee.

A FrontRunner train passes on the high fill over Bridge Junction as a UP stack train waits to depart Ogden.

Change is in the air as a westbound VIA train makes its station stop at Brockville, Ontario. A new station track and a new cantilever signal are under construction. Soon Brockville will lose its o... (more)

The Veterans Cabbage leads 583 from San Diego to LA as the train passes CP-Olympic and begins the short trek along the LA River. On the left is the east bank of Metrolink's River Sub while the Ala... (more)

Heading Out of the Setting Sun is Amtrak train #4, the eastbound Southwest Chief. The train, led by P42DCs 42 (the Veterans unit) and 174, this nine-car train is about to make its s... (more)

A weekend Trenton to New York train passes over the massive structure of Dock Bridge in Newark NJ (over the Passaic River).

The morning California Zephyr leaves Denver's Union Station sporting a triple header lashup in anticipation of running through heavy snow in the Colorado Rocky Mountains.

An MBTA FP-10 and a string of leased GO Transit coaches await their departure from Lowell, MA, for Boston. The little machine to their left was a British Leyland railbus that ran for a short time ... (more)