In anticipation of delivery of seven AEM7’s, SEPTA wanted to test the new locomotives’ burden on its electrical distribution supplying the former Reading electrification. A Sunday, the slowest... (more)
Trailing a variety of classic equipment including two domes, a pair of Amtrak SDP40Fs storm through Auburn, WA, with train 11, the southbound Coast Starlight, just beginning its long trek from Sea... (more)
An NJ Transit westbound departs Newark Penn Station on 3 track. Since Raritan Valley Line trains typically depart from 5 track, this might have been a North Jersey Coast Line train destined for B... (more)
Eastbound Silverliners, traveling through the beautiful farmland of western Lancaster County. The 208 is one of 38 PRR Class MP85B cars from 1963.
A string of Rio Grande SW-1000s moves through the diesel service area in Denver.
I am in the cab of Milwaukee Road SD40-2 MILW 187, looking out at the various power in the diesel service area at the UP North Platte yard. It was quite an experience for my wife and I to get a V... (more)
Amtrak EMD SDP40F 502 and 501. Photographer Mike Bledsoe.
Santa Fe 5997 East, a pig train out of northern California, grinds slowly past a herd of sheep as shepherds work to maintain control of their flock as the big, noisy machines roar past. Forage is ... (more)
Amtrak Turboliners built by Rohr Industries---7 sets (14 power units numbered) 150-163. These sets were based at Rensselaer, N.Y., and used in the New York-Niagara Falls corridor. The New York-Bu... (more)
Empire Builders meetWe’re looking out the door window on the rear sleeper of Amtrak’s eastbound Empire Builder moving through a siding over a frigid and barren eastern Montana lands... (more)
Conrail C30-7As 6581,6566 and SD60 6791 are about to crest Washington summit.
SD45-2 5822 leads an eastbound towards Crozier Canyon, past permanent way renewal work.
A consist of six 4-axle units haul a manifest up the steep grade at Wpodford, CA, bound for Barstow.
Conrail 6583 leads an eastbound intermodal into the south tunnel at Gallitzin.
From one of my favorite snowy trips, let’s return to Tuesday, February 16, 1993. The vintage Canadian National Railway Company electric equipment was all on borrowed time in Montreal, Quebec as ... (more)
