Amtrak's 40th anniversary P42 pulls the eastbound Capital Limited into Harpers Ferry. Not only does Amtrak celebrate 40 years of service, 2011 also marks the 175th anniversary of the Baltimore & O... (more)

Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief enters the Wootton Curve, made famous by AT&SF publicity photos of yore.

With a fresh crew aboard for the final leg of its journey to the Capital City, specially adorned P42 145 gets ready to depart the Queen City.

40 years... and almost as many paint jobs.

The Cap zips thru the Cumberland Yard with the Heritage Unit up front.

The first of four P42DC units to wear a historic commemorative paint scheme prepares to make a station stop in Cumberland, Maryland. Amtrak 145 is painted in Phase III and the lead unit on train 3... (more)

Leading it's first train since being painted into the Phase III Heritage Paint scheme, Amtrak 145 takes a break at the Cleveland Depot at 2:40 a.m. en route to Washington on the Capitol Limited.

One of Amtrak's 40th Anniversary locomotives hustles through the night on the point of the eastbound Capitol Limited. The train is running wrong-main, dodging slower freights in an attempt to make... (more)

An hour late into Toledo but worth the wait for the first run on the point of the new "retro" Amtrak unit!

You saw it here first. Three Purdue Railroad Club members paced the northbound Hoosier State, hauling in its first public appearance #145 with its special Phase III heritage paint scheme. Club s... (more)

After a high-speed jaunt across southern Colorado from La Junta to Trinidad, and a low-speed traverse of Raton Pass south of Trinidad, the westbound Southwest Chief cools its heels as passe... (more)

Amtrak 145/154 lead the westbound Southwest Chief, rolling off Raton Pass on approach to Raton, NM, before hitting the racetrack that will take these passengers west to Los Angeles.

Amtrak P42DC #145 leads a late running train 3 the Southwest Chief down the Cajon Pass & through the old station of Cajon.

Amtrak #145 races through Lockport, kicking up the dust on its way for a station stop at Joliet Union Station

Amtrak #5 is about 12 minutes late (even though it arrived in Denver about 15 minutes early), seen here approaching Tunnel 1 on Colorado's Front Range on a glorious morning.