The evening is cold and snowy as the Winter Park Ski Train, led by AMTK 406 (NPCU), pulls into the Winter Park station. It will pick up passengers that have spent the day skiing or snow tubing an... (more)

The engineer for Amtrak's Winter Park Ski Train climbs aboard and gets ready to head into the 6.2 mile-long Moffat Tunnel on the journey back to Denver's Union Station. Denver is the only major A... (more)

The afternoon "Downeaster" arrives in Boston with the heritage cab control car (painted to look like an F40 locomotive in Phase III paint).

A Full Amtrak has been shoved into the Museum of the American Railroad for the Amtrak exhibit train. No Amtrak service actually runs on the BNSF Madill Subdivision.

Amtrak Phase III NPCU 406 leads the eastbound Illinois Zephyr through Hinsdale.

Amtrak Phase III NPCU 406 leads the eastbound Carl Sandburg into Naperville.

Amtrak's SB afternoon Milwaukee-St. Louis train, the Prairie State, calls at the old Sturtevant depot on a beautiful spring afternoon. The 406 started life as the Milwaukee Road 30C.

For this year's Amtrak Winter Park Ski Train, the cars are wrapped in this pink and blue Winter Park Express graphic. On this morning the Ski Train was joined at Denver's Union Station by the Cal... (more)

Amtrak #406 leads the Ski Train as it pulls into the Winter Park ski resort to pick up passengers for the evening trip back to Denver. Last year Amtrak positioned 406 at the end of the train for ... (more)

The Amtrak Winter Park Ski Train's AMTK 406 is 'tail end charlie' for the morning run between Denver's Union Station and the ski resort. 406 will be on point for the evening run back to Denver.

As the day's snow storm subsides, Amtrak's phase 3 painted NCPU leads the last Boston-bound Downeaster passed the recently restored B&M Plaistow depot.

Amtrak 406, a NPCU, leads Amtrak 380 (Illinois Zepher) out of the Naperville station.

Amtrak 406 crests Lake Hill in Milwaukee, WI with a Chicago-Milwaukee (or the Prairie States ??) train in October of 1974. Bob Ferge photo from my collection.

Amtrak "Downeaster" 692 flies by Newton Junction with AMT Phase III heritage 406 leading. It's nice to see Amtrak employees keep the Downeaster-only tradition of wearing a wreath on the nose duri... (more)