The California Zephyr glides along San Pablo Bay on a clear Spring afternoon.

eastbound San Joaquin arriving Fresno Amtrak station

Northbound Cascades Service train 506 departs the first stop in Washington State with a full load of clients anticipating the Thanksgiving holiday. The shove comes from a Genesis unit substitutin... (more)

763 sports a rare guest for San Diego... Oddly enough one of its sisters is also serving a sentence on the Surfliners, spending the night at the other end of the line.

Amtrak Coast Starlight #14 glides downgrade over the Tehachapi Creek just south of Rowen, on its June 22nd detour over the Mojave Subdivision.

In the heart of Tehachapi Pass, detoured northbound train #14 winds through the curvature in Clear Creek Ravine between Cliff and Bealville.

Between Mojave and Tehachapi, detoured northbound train #14 works upgrade through Cameron and along Highway 58.

After having crested the summit, Amtrak's detoured Coast Starlight #14 drifts downgrade through Marcel, nine miles railroad north of Tehachapi.

Chartered equipment from the "Friends of 261" and Amtrak passes through downtown Moline on its way home to St. Paul, MN.

Chartered equipment from the "Friends of 261" and Amtrak passes the John Deere Pavilion in downtown Moline on its way home to St. Paul, MN.

Chartered equipment from the "Friend of 261" and Amtrak lays over in Rock Island while the family who chartered the train atteneded a family reunion over the weekend.

A Friends of the 261 private charter train heads west along the Missisisippi River at Pepin en route from Rock Island, Ill. to St. Paul.

Looking like a mini-Hiawatha where the Burlington Twin Zephyrs once ran, a private charter train heads east along the Missisisippi River at Maiden Rock en route from St. Paul to Rock Island, Ill.

Private charter coming down the hill into St. Paul on the former Milwaukee Road, now owned by Canadian Pacific. Those orange coaches are right at home here - the Hiawatha once ran over these trac... (more)

Rare private special run with an Amtrak locomotive and Milwaukee Road equipment rolls along the Mississippi River between Diamond Bluff and Hager City, on the former CB&Q main line.