Amtrak train 9, the westbound North Coast Hiawatha, makes a station stop in Livingston on a cold and snowy December day. The power for this train, SDP40Fs 531 and 576, has been "blue ... (more)

PURCELL OK July 29 1979 — Amtrak SDP40F 526 leads the northbound Lone Star as it transitions from Santa Fe's Northern Division to Middle Division. Note peculiar font used in fireman-side number ... (more)

Four SDP40Fs are on the headend of train 3, the westbound Southwest Limited, because this train is delivering new locomotive 587, built in May 1974, which will be assigned to Amtrak trains ... (more)

GARDEN CITY KS June 16 1979 — Amtrak SDP40f 505 leads the westbound Southwest Limited as the train slows for a station stop. I have no idea why the red headlight appears to be lighted. My photo.

Los Angeles' iconic city hall provides the backdrop as Amtrak train 3, The Super Chief, has arrived on Los Angeles Union Station's Track 12 with a trio of new SDP40F diesels for power: AMT... (more)

On the American Bicentennial, Amtrak train 5, the San Francisco Zephyr, departs downtown Chicago’s Union Station for a trip to Oakland, California. AMTK SDP40Fs 622 and 627, built two ye... (more)

Amtrak train 14, the northbound ("westbound" on the Southern Pacific’s Los Angeles Division) makes it stop in San Luis Obispo as it makes its way from Los Angeles to Seattle. A pair of recently... (more)

On America’s 200th Birthday, Amtrak’s train 40, the eastbound Broadway Limited, departs downtown Chicago for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where the train will be split, with one section co... (more)

It was the Seventies. A time when one could pull into a service station and the attendant would fill your tank, check the air and oil, and wipe your windshield. And all for 39.9¢ per gall... (more)

With a line of speeders behind it, former AMTK 644/ATSF 5266/BNSF 6976 (still wearing its special Maersk paint) sits as the first excursion of the day holds the main.

I have been interested in photos that I have seen over the years of aircraft fuselages moving over former Burlington Northern lines. I was surprised to see that I had recorded one moving west on t... (more)

Southbound Floridian is close to on-time on a beautiful summer afternoon.

The northbound Floridian is just a few hundred feet short of Union Station. The engineer has just restarted his train after stopping for an SCL employee to drop from the lead SDP. The SCL man is... (more)

New SDP40Fs - a trio, no less - are in stark contrast to shabby, old Union Station and its shed.

Couplers have knuckles but no fingers.