Amtrak Cardinal passing the University of Virginia Turf Field at Copeley Road.

AMTK 40 (P42DC) leads the California Zephyr through the golden aspen trees at Tolland, Colorado.

Winter’s Early Arrival

Steady snowfall overnight left nearly a foot of fresh snow on Cescent, CO and most of the eastern slope of Colorado. 90 degree temperatures 36 hours pr... (more)

Winter’s Early Arrival

Steady snowfall overnight left nearly a foot of fresh snow on Cescent, CO and most of the eastern slope of Colorado. 90 degree temperatures 36 hours pr... (more)

Amtrak's westbound Empire Builder makes an on time departure out of downtown Chicago and passes under the PRR signal bridge at CP Morgan on Metra's Milwaukee District.

Wasting no time getting up to speed, Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief races up the Continental Divide, after making its station stop in Gallup, NM, on a chilly October morning.

Amtrak train passes the Long Bridge Park after a day of snow.

Amtrak Cardinal service train 51 arriving Staunton.

Capitol Limited passing WB through downtown Gaithersburg with the Veterans unit, AMTK 42, trailing. The new construction on the right fills the space of the long-ago wye at Gaithersburg, also bui... (more)

The sun has just set over the Northern New Mexico plains as Amtrak #4 splits through the semaphores of Robinson. The train will continue from here to its next stop of Raton, NM.

Splitting the blades, featured here Amtrak's Southwest Chief #4 traverses underneath an illuminated sky as it prepares to knock down the last pair of intermediate semaphore signals that it'll enco... (more)

Amtrak's Southwest Limited accelerates up to track speed after departing Fort Madison and clearing the Mississippi River bridge.

Amtrak Northeast Regional train 194 departing Richmond Main Street Station.

Running more than 15 minutes ahead of schedule, Amtrak's westbound Cardinal No. 51 heads for Huntington, W.Va., from Charleston, W.Va., on the CSX's ex-C&O mainline. With a scheduled arriva... (more)

Running a few minutes ahead of schedule, Amtrak's westbound Cardinal No. 51 blows through St. Albans at dusk.