Awaiting Assignment: A collection of several different locomotives (and former locomotives) is visible at Chicago's 18th Street locomotive facility. In this scene from June of 2022, the new... (more)

An eastbound Amtrak Capitol rolls along San Pablo Bay at Pinole, California, on March 12, 1995. The train is led by GE P32BWH “Pepsi Can” No. 501, that was later sold and became California Dep... (more)

It's golden hour at Redondo Junction as AMTK 509 basks in the light adjacent to the ex-Santa Fe Railway turntable here at Amtrak's Redondo Junction locomotive servicing facility. Those with ken ey... (more)

Following days of prep at Amtrak's Redondo Junction locomotive servicing facility, AMTK 203, wearing a commemorative paint scheme celebrating Operation Life Saver's 50th Anniversary, eases off th... (more)

Pepsi Can Meets Real Pepsi Cans. As AMTK 160, Amtrak's "Pepsi Can" painted heritage unit done as part of the company's 50th Anniversary, awaits its next assignment at Amtrak's 8th... (more)

Something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime... the seemingly impossible happened as a dash 8 found itself on the long distance Texas Eagle. Thanks to PTC issues. A easy and fun chase took pla... (more)

Something I never thought I'd see in my lifetime... the seemingly impossible happened as a dash 8 found itself on the long distance Texas Eagle. Thanks to PTC issues. A easy and fun chase took pla... (more)

Four F-Units (AMTK FP7 110, SP FP7 6456, AMTK F7B 161, AMTK FP7 120) from Amtrak train 1, the westbound Sunset Limited, have cut off the train after delivering it to Los Angeles Union Stati... (more)

Amtrak's Phase I Anniversary heritage unit, AMTK 161, leads the charge as Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief works up the north end of the Redondo flyover as the 1927-built Sears building provides... (more)

AMTK 187 steps out onto the turntable at Redondo Junction as it prepares to take a spin following mechanical work.

Amtrak 14, the northbound Coast Starlight, is just an hour into its 1,377 mile journey to Seattle as it slices its way through the rock formations in Chatsworth, Calif., as it prepares to d... (more)

The 600 squares off with the 691, a renumbered HH8.

Amtrak explored the possibility of modern high-speed trains in the early 1990s, and leased two European electric trainsets for testing and revenue service on the Northeast Corridor between Washing... (more)

Plenty of locos present at New Haven back in 1999.

In 1992-93, Amtrak tested the Swedish-built X2000. The train was designed and built by Kalmar Verkstad (later merged with Asea Brown Boveri, Inc.) for the Swedish State Railways (SJ), and leased t... (more)