Things you don't see anymore -- a turbo set and an FL9 share the shop tracks at Amtrak's facility in Rensselaer. The shop serves Amtrak's Empire Service trains along the Hudson and to points west.
On a fall day seven months before Amtrak would take over, a pair of Penn Central Empire Service trains headed up by ex-NYC E8s meet at the Albany-Rensselaer station.
A back to back set of sequentially numbered Phase III dual modes are pulling the 12:10pm Empire Service train out of the yard at Rensselaer. AMTK 702 and 701 are headed to the station in preparati... (more)
A once familiar face on Empire Service trains, this unit was used as protect and work train power after its days of revenue service were over. I believe the 485 is owned by the Morristown & Erie,... (more)