Amtrak's south bound Crescent en route to New Orleans reunites with the southbound main, navigating past a maintenance of way semi parked on the rails just to the left of the train.

Venerable Acela trainset #1 takes train 2255(09) south past HOOK interlocking during a warm summer thunderstorm. The mist flies from the catenary as the pantograph kicks it away. HOOK tower, now c... (more)

Amtrak's Keystone rounds an elevated curve just east of the station in Middletown, PA. The original station was problematci as it was located on this curve but a new (and much larger) station was... (more)

Cab Car on the point, a Keystone of Amtrak's Harrisburg to New York service. Captured here, just after sunset at Bristol, PA, along the NEC.

AMTK No 626 brings an eastbound Keystone train to a stop at Elizabethtown, PA. with New York City (via Philadelphia and the NEC) its final destination. The improved high level platforms were part... (more)

Acela's No. 2015 and No. 2016 meet in Glenoldnen, PA, catcing the very last light of day.

Amtrak's premier Acela Express (actually, as of September 2019, simply "Acela"), races past the Liberty Electric Generating natural gas plant located in Eddystone, PA. The train has jus... (more)

An Amtrak Regional Express makes an early evening appearance in Marcus Hook, PA, ducking the former PRR signal bridge while en route to Wilmington, DE and points south.

A late evening Amtrak Keystone train originating in Harrisburg, PA, departs the recently renovated (October 2019) Mount Joy station. The eastbound train is headed towards Philadelphia, eventually... (more)

AMTK No 665 leads a westbound Amtrak Keystone through Middletown, PA, passing the former PRR freight house, seen to the right. PRR's passenger station was at one time just behind the train, while... (more)

AMTK No 656 leads an evening Regional Express through Marcus Hook, PA at sunset.

Marrites Hoeck, or rather, Marcus Hook, came from Dutch colonists and is derived from the word Hook, meaning pr... (more)

A late afternoon Amtrak Regional Express charges into a setting sun, captured here in Bridesburg, bound for 30th Street Station in Philadelphia.

An eastbound early evening Amtrak Regional Express roars past a SEPTA commuter train the Cornwells Heights station just north of Philadelphia, in Bensalem, PA. A soon to set Sun makes its way acr... (more)

The first day of May 2023 finds the first eastbound revenue run of newly wrapped Amtrak ACS-64 #643 promoting Harry Potter on Broadway. Amtrak wrapped two other motors for the same purpose. In a d... (more)

Trifecta. An Amtrak Acela splits between two Septa locals making their station stops.