The Rohr Turboliner in Chicago-Milwaukee service.

A two hour late #8 Empire Builder drops down Shortline Hill and will shortly make it's Twin Cities stop at St Paul Union Depot.

The northbound Silver Star departs Cary over 6 hours behind schedule.

An Amtrak Turboliner rolls through the town of Porter, on the Michigan line, in 1978.

Amtrak P092 comes out of Plant City on a cool, clear day.

With Chicago's skyline in the background, an Amtrak Turboliner is seen departing Union Station. Tom Golden photo.

Amtrak No. 6 passes the BNSF yard in Burlington, IA, as it heads for the crossing of the Upper Mississippi River into Illinois.

Nearing its first station stop is Amtrak Train 316 sprinting up Independence Hill on the UP Sedalia Sub. at Wilson Road.

Locomotive: AMTK 64

9-9-16
Independence, MO

AMTK 64 leads four Amfleets around the wye at W 18th Street.

Amtrak's first southbound Lincoln Service train of the day, 301 eases by on the NS Pass preparing for a stop at Hazel Dell to wait on NS 33J.

Amtrak 64 leads southbound Lincoln Service 303 south through the snow in Lockport.

Dedicated on July 12, 1978, the Amtrak station in Rochester, NY was the first Amtrak designed station in the country. Numerous other examples cropped up around the system when Amtrak needed a new... (more)

Amtrak P42 64 highballs through Lockport with the southbound Lincoln Service 303.

The Southwest Chief starts its descent of Raton Pass now that it has crossed into New Mexico, seen here from exit 454 off of I-25. There is nothing like the American west to remind you that a tra... (more)

Amtrak 64 leads the descent on the west slope of Raton Pass. Until the early 1950's this stretch was double tracked on both sides of the pass. Now, the second portal is sealed and the west slope h... (more)