Amtrak Super Chief awaits departure in Los Angles

Texas Chief ready to depart

Westbound Valparaiso-Chicago commuter service passes through Hammond. Tom Golden photo.

UP GP40X and Amtrak 321 and 322 depart Denver Union Terminal with the westbound San Francisco Zephyr.

Outbound for Chicago, the San Francisco Zephyr makes a brief stop in Fort Morgan before continuing on toward Chicago. Note the ex-CB&Q A unit followed by a pair of Union Pacific E8/9 B unit... (more)

Amtrak train 9, the westbound North Coast Hiawatha, makes a station stop in Livingston on a cold and snowy December day. The power for this train, SDP40Fs 531 and 576, has been "blue ... (more)

PURCELL OK July 29 1979 — Amtrak SDP40F 526 leads the northbound Lone Star as it transitions from Santa Fe's Northern Division to Middle Division. Note peculiar font used in fireman-side number ... (more)

Amtrak's eastbound Toronto-New York Niagra Rainbow headed up by a pair of E-8s passes under the Marion branch bridge over CP15 in Newark, NY in November 1978. The Marion branch bridge was removed ... (more)

On America’s 200th Birthday, Amtrak’s train 40, the eastbound Broadway Limited, departs downtown Chicago for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where the train will be split, with one section co... (more)

Amtrak's "Hoosier State", train P851, glides in to Lafayette, IN, during the short time period while it was operated by Iowa Pacific Holdings.

AMTK 408 gets a refill of fuel and water at its La Crosse, WI stop with train 18, the North Coast Hiawatha. Soon it will be on its way to Milwaukee and Chicago, having originated in Seattle, WA. N... (more)

The engineer for Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha checks things over as the train loads passengers at Minneapolis. At start up, Amtrak chose to make one stop in the Twin Cities and decided on Minneap... (more)

AMTK 264 leads the westbound North Coast Hiawatha which is stopped at Baring, WA siding for an eastbound BN freight with caboose BN 10597 bringing up the rear. The Amtrak head end crew was on the ... (more)

Southbound Floridian is close to on-time on a beautiful summer afternoon.

I think the Mountaineer was one of those trains where Senators and Congressmen from along the route threw their weight around to establish/continue a service that might have been hard to justify b... (more)