Amtrak's Silver Star has changed a bit over the years now without a diner and one less sleeper.

The Silver Star in western / rural Volusia county.

Running only minutes off of the advertised, we see Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief #4 as it makes it's way past the E. Glorieta signals on a beautifully crisp mid-Autumn afternoon.

You can grab an ice cream while watching trains run through the streets of town at this spot.

The Capitol Limited pulls into Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, as it crosses the Potomac.

A southbound Northeast Regional makes its over the trestle by the Marina in amazing evening light with a sky that looks more like a reflection than the real thing.

The California Zephyr is moved around the yard while corridor trains are serviced.

With a fast sinking sun, daylight was fading fast. With such a vivid sky I figured I'd end up getting skunked, but luckily this regional came just in the nick of time. The employees of the marin... (more)

The southbound Regional to Lynchburg awaits a meet with the eastbound "Cardinal" at Remington.

Back when it looked like North Dakota may actually have a real winter, a freight unit lends a hand to a very late eastbound Empire Builder accelerating southward out of Grand Forks.

The sun is starting to break through the fog bank as Amtrak #7 breaks out of the fog at Gold Bar, WA just after sunrise on 1/27/07.

Amtrak's Empire Builder finally reaches the Twin Cities station in St. Paul after a couple days of fiasco in the form of locomotive problems and weather out west. Apparently, the BNSF unit was on... (more)

Amtrak 161 leads train #11 (13) out of Tunnel 5 and up the Tehachapi's at Cliff.

The eastbound Empire Builder is about two hours late, but making up time as it zips along the single track between Becker and Big Lake.