Running several hours earlier than normal, the westbound Black Mesa is seen sweeping around the curve at Cow Springs.

A Long Way From Maryland: One of two MARC sets on loan to Amtrak passes through the Edison, New Jersey train station on the the busy Sunday-after-Thanksgiving travel day.

Early E-60 action, without a windshield grille. No. 953 leads a heavy southbound into 30th Street, with its pantograph depressed to a low level to clear the covered platforms. The high headlight... (more)

Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha rolls north along Puget Sound at Meadowdale Pier on its way east from Seattle to Chicago via the former GN to Spokane, and the former NP through Montana. With its ecl... (more)

Blowing downhill

Two of the twelve Budd SPV-2000s purchased by the Connecticut DOT for Amtrak Springfield-New Haven service get underway out of Springfield station. Due to chronic mechanical problems these second-... (more)

Three Amtrak SDP40F hood units hardly two months old yank Train 3 the combined Super Chief - El Capitan up Raton Pass near Gallinas, Colo. on Sept. 2, 1973. AT&SF wound up buying some of the SDP... (more)

One of the twelve Budd SPV-2000s purchased by the Connecticut DOT for Amtrak Hartford line service but later relegated to commuter duties approaches the mainline junction at Devon, CT, while runni... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

When the Connecticut Department of Transportation purchased 12 Budd SPV-2000s for Amtrak Hartford line service in 1980, it also acquired a 13th car, CDOT 50, for use on Metro North's Waterbury and... (more)

Amtrak Metroliner #889 is on a Harrisburg to Philadelphia train as it runs around a SEPTA commuter train

The Amtrak HHP-8 locomotives were introduced around 2000 and were retired by 2014. Here, one of the now gone fleet leads a westbound "Regional" train.

With the tracks at GA Power's Plant Bowen all filled up, the loaded coal drag is forced to move down to the siding track at Emerson, where it will sit over 24 hours until some track space is freed... (more)

In a heavy rain, Amtrak No. 5, the San Francisco Zephyr, makes its way through the curves at Yuba Gab. Note that the track the train is on--which runs around the tunnel--is no longer there.