A high green signal allows Amtrak Pacific Surfliner 583, with a mix of Amfleet and Horizon Fleet cars, to depart Fullerton as the sun sets in the west. This train, heading to Los Angeles f... (more)

AMTK 540 heads up the Empire Builder at King St. station as it loads passengers for its trip to Chicago via Stampede Pass to Spokane, then the former GN mainline via Glacier Park to Minneapolis be... (more)

AMTK 536 slows the North Coast Hiawatha to a stop at Livingston, MT. The train will spend some dwell time here while the headend power sets out a former NP FP7A unit for servicing at the BN shops ... (more)

Snow on the Water. Amtrak P32AC-DM no. 711 is leading Empire Service train 238 south through the Hudson Highlands.

The California Zephyr rounds the horseshoe curve in Coal Creek Canyon and will soon enter the first of 29 tunnels before it reaches the Moffat Tunnel at Tolland, Colorado.

The California Zephyr runs through the cut at Coal Creek Canyon as it heads towards Tunnel #1.

Amtrak's Winter Park Express runs through Coal Creek Canyon, which has been frosted with ice and snow from a storm the night before.

Safety Yellow. Amtrak Metroliner cab car 9632 is on the West end of Keystone Service train 645, seen passing a line of ballast conveyor cars laid up at the railroad's Durant Yard... (more)

After Amtrak train 313, the westbound Missouri River Runner, arrives in Kansas City in the evening, the train heads further west to Santa Fe Junction to be turned on the wye there. Just be... (more)

Amtrak's Desert Wind heads for Vegas as it rolls past Cajon.

"New Geeps For the Springfield Line"

On the afternoon of February 26th, 2024, Amtrak EMD GP38-3's 734 & 728 trail on "Amtrak Extra 123" as it pulls into Springfield Union Station in M... (more)

Amtrak train 475, a Springfield MA to New Haven CT Hartford Line train, is about to depart Springfield's Union Station. Amtrak "control coach" 9641 (ex-AMTK Metroliner Coa... (more)

Electric Ballast Conveyer Car Move. Plasser American describes that the MFS40 has the "ability to transport, store, load and unload up to 41 cubic yards of ballast, spoils, or other ma... (more)

Light Snow is falling at the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel as the Amtrak Winter Park Express Ski Train climbs the grade through Tolland, Colorado.

Heavy snow is falling at Plainview, Colorado as the California Zephyr 5 train runs towards Tunnel #2 on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.