The late afternoon sun catches Amtrak F40 212 on a Springfield-New Haven shuttle run passing a searchlight signal just south of the station at Berlin, CT. The second main track here was removed a ... (more)

Amtrak # 6 the Zephyr is making it way up Spanish Fork Canyon.

On a day when an F40/Amfleet set is substituting for the Turbo equipment indicated in Amtrak's timetable, the eastbound Empire State Express pulls into the station at Amsterdam, NY, on its way fro... (more)

The Coast Starlight rolls north on the Shasta Route. In a few minutes, the train will enter Oregon.

With its paint still fresh and gleaming, one of Amtrak's leased Bombardier LRC sets makes an early morning stop at New London, CT, while running as Boston-New York train 151. The squat little LRC ... (more)

With snow coming down hard, Amtrak Washington-Boston train 168 pulls into the Route 128 station in suburban Boston behind F40PH 350. The 1960s vintage NH station seen here was replaced by the curr... (more)

One of two Chicago-Valparaiso evening commuter trains makes a station stop in Hobart on the former PRR Fort Wayne line.

Conductor at work. Son Jeff observes, as the Chicago-Valparaiso commuter train makes a station stop in Hobart on the former PRR Fort Wayne line.

EMD's first F40, and the first of the more than 200 that Amtrak would own, pauses at New London, CT, with a Boston-bound corridor train. New London Union Station, in the background, was opened in ... (more)

Although Hohman Interlocking was one of Chicagoland's busiest junctions, it had not seen passenger trains since Amtrak left the former Erie Lackawanna mains in the late 1970s. Due to a gas leak, ... (more)

Amtrak EMD F40PH No. 306 pulls a 4-car passenger train equipped with Amfleet cars out of Chicago Union Station past Harrison Street Tower in May 1982. This view is from now-removed Polk Street ove... (more)

An Amtrak corridor train from Boston has completed the diesel-to-electric power swap at New Haven, and AEM-7 909 is ready to depart for New York and Washington. New Haven Union Station, in the bac... (more)

The 742 was prepped for sale at the Wilmington Shops after decades of service switching terminals on the east coast in Albany-Rensselaer and Washington DC.

Two of the twelve Budd SPV-2000s purchased by the Connecticut DOT for Amtrak Springfield-New Haven service get underway out of Springfield station. Due to chronic mechanical problems these second-... (more)

The celebratory inaugural run of Amtrak's Cape Codder weekend service between New York and Hyannis, MA, pauses at Buzzards Bay behind flag-flying F40PH 349. This train ran seasonally in various co... (more)