The UP4322 leading a late westbound AGBMI autorack train meets the WP806A leading the Trains Unlimited recreation of the California Zephyr shown loading passengers at Emeryville, CA.

Engineer Phil Gosney revs up the rebuilt covered wagon (still cold from the night) and manages to get in a wave! This is the Trains Unlimited/Amtrak sponsored recreation of the CA Zephyr traveling... (more)

The Silver Solarium dome observation brings up the rear of the Trains Unlimited recreation of the California Zephyr. The train is shown here loading a few hundred passengers at Emeryville, CA.

The Trains Unlimited/Amtrak sponsored recreation of the CA Zephyr is ready to depart the West Oakland Coach Yard for the trip east over Donner to Sparks, NV!

Amtrak is helping out with this trip. Seen here are brand new HEP cables being delivered to mate between the WP806A and the Amtrak P42's.

After getting the WP nose logo and hoodside lettering painted on (today adn tomorrow), this will lead the WPRRHS recreation of the CA Zephyr. This all PV train with Amtrak loco assistance will lea... (more)

This is F-9AU ex-VIA6304 (ex-CN6304?) which was bought by a private owner, painted WP orange and silver (sans-letering/WP numbers) at the SRY shops in British Columbia, and shipped south to Oaklan... (more)

One of the (now numerous) Amtrak F40PH donations to museums over the last few years includes the AMTK281 seen here at it's new owner - the CSRRM. It is seen here on a pit track in SP's old GRIP lo... (more)

Whose been peeling off that (left) wing?

Woo hoo, an unpatched Cotton Belt GP40-2!

Amtrak #4 with AMTK82 on point (and four other P42's) sits on track 12 at L.A. Union Station as passengers board the Superliners. The second freight half of train #4 sits to the right on track 11 ... (more)

Amtrak switcher AMTK795 pushes back a block of empty Amtrak boxcars into the L.A. Union Station freight loading track adjacent to the boarding Amtrak #4 with phase IV AMTK82 up front.

Rare (for today) Phase IV AMTK82 was put on at Los Angeles as the lead unit for train #4. Here it poses at L.A. Union Station under the shadow of the MTA (Southern California Metropolitan Transit ... (more)

In what may be one of the last colorful Amtrak ever assembled, the LAX-CHI Southwest Lmited is backed into L.A.'s Union Station just after sunset. The five P42 unit lash-up also included one phase... (more)

In what may be one of the last colorful Amtrak lash-ups ever assembled, the LAX-CHI Southwest Lmited is backed into L.A.'s Union Station just after sunset. The five P42 unit lash-up also included ... (more)