A pleasant surprise. After spending Good Friday in Folkston, there was enough light to catch one more train....
The American Orient Express (AOE) was a privately owned, ultra-luxurious passenger train that operated in conjunction with Amtrak from 1994 until 2008. Its lineage can be traced back to the Americ... (more)
The Phase VII nose of HHPC AMTK 9750.
The Eastbound Maple Leaf meets the Westbound L030 who returns to the yard after servicing customers out East.
A pair of P42s lead the Floridian into Raleigh.
The eastbound Southwest Chief enters the Glorieta sub at Dalies New Mexico.
The notes I found said this is the 1st time we seen these Dash 8s on Amtrak. Amtrak received 20 of these Dash 8s in 1991. . The Southwest Chief ran via the Santa Fe until 1998, when it was moved t... (more)
The Southwest Chief discontinued service east of Cameron Connection in 1998. Once the BNSF merger got going and the connection was built, the Chief stopped taking the Chillicothe Sub into Chicago.... (more)
The hoarfrost is burning off around Galesburg on this crisp December morning in 1992. The Illinois Zephyr makes good time on its morning trek from Quincy to Chicago. The train is on the BN 4th Sub... (more)
In the late 1990s, the Iowa Northern Railway (IANR) was going through a difficult time and had leased a variety of locomotives to augment its fleet of GP20s and GP38s. A couple of Amtrak units wer... (more)
Amtrak Carolinian train 80 passes CSX L615 at D&S Jct. in Durham.
Amtrak P42C Test Train In Manhattan. On the morning of Wednesday, April 23, 2025, AMTK 9700 (P42C, née-AMTK 184) led Test Train 870 (and trailed on Train 871) between Albany-Rensselaer, Ne... (more)
Amtrak's California Zephyr runs over what appears to be a roller coaster track at sunrise as it heads towards Roggen, Colorado on the Brush Sub.
Amtrak's sharp-looking Operation Lifesaver #203 leads the California Zephyr down from Tunnel #1 and into Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado
We are seeing more and more Phase 7 power on Amtrak.
