An Amtrak Acela begins to pick up speed again after making the 30th Street Station stop for Philadelphia. Here it is passing through University City with the City of Brotherly Love's expanding sky... (more)

An Amtrak Acela Express navigates a reverse s-curve eastbound through Croydon, PA. For those wondering, the square objects protruding the inner express tracks are dragging equipment detectors.

Roof lines in Union Station.

A morning northbound San Joaquin flies through vineyard country between Modesto and Stockton CA,.

The first Acela southbound carves a path through 2 feet of snow the day after the big 2010 blizzard that threw the mid Atlantic into chaos. Amtrak however kept running, though with fewer trains.

Inbound Amtrak California train #531 is about to the Jack London Stop in Oakland. This train is in the Capital Corridor and runs between Sacramento and Oakland Coliseum.

Amtrak Train 2190 arriving at Union Station in New london.

Amtrak Acela the day after the 2010 blizzard in the Washington DC area

The day after the first blizzard an Acela service blasts through the 24 inches of snow.

Amtrak Acela Train 2167 seen here at Brook Interlocking.

With no passengers waiting on the platform Amtrak Acela train passes through the Old Saybrook station.

Acela Express Train going away shot kicks up some ice after a storm that passed through the night before.

Because of computer technology, an obsolete Nassau Tower in Princeton Jct. is now only a silent observer as the fastest train in the nation speeds past.

Amtrak Capitol pushes it's way past the historic C&H sugar refinery in Crockett

Southbound bound Amtrak Acela racing through MARC Halethorpe MD station on an unusally crystal clear DC Metro July afternoon.