946 was regularly found working MARC train assignments in the spring of 2016, but wound up eventually obtaining one last Amtrak assignment as the trailing unit on the AEM-7 Farewell excursion.

An Amtrak maintenance of way crew performing work on Track 4 stands by at Princeton Junction as Northeast Regional #161 passes through en route to Washington, D.C., with ACS-64 #606 leading.

Back when these locomotives were still plentiful.

Meatball on the Corridor - A meatball passes abandoned rails as it approaches Adams Yard.

The last AEM-7AC to run a revenue mile, squares off with one of the newest ACS-64s on the toaster's last day in Washington DC.

The 937 is in for some TLC.

AEM-7 no. 937 and a sister AEM-7 lead a northbound Regional beneath the Bridge Street overpass in Metuchen.

A pair of sequentially numbered Amtrak AEM-7's

A pair of "Toasters" captured at the retro-styled Newark International Airport station on a beautiful afternoon back in November of 2014. O... (more)

Toasters on Amtrak are an extremely rare sight these days. Back in January, I caught this one on its way to couple up to a through train.

Amtrak's active AEM-7s are getting harder to find being replaced by the ACS-64s. AEM-7 919, tows ACS-64 647, one of its eventual replacements through Elizabeth.

An Amtrak AEM-7 charges south past the "station" at Tacony, in NE Philadelphia while en route to 30th Street Station and points South.

The Silver Star passes through Edison running on time and, per the recent change, without a full-service diner.

Amtrak's 2015 Autumn Express rolls EB on the former Boston & Maine on it's way from Rensselaer, NY to East Deerfield, MA. Phase III units 822 and 145 lead the train with the Phase III lounge from... (more)

Amtrak's 2015 Autumn Express rolls EB on the former Boston & Maine on it's way from Rensselaer, NY to East Deerfield, MA. Phase III units 822 and 145 lead the train with the Phase III lounge from... (more)

More Phase III. The Amtrak business car "Beech Grove" is now painted in Phase III. The car is seen heading SB towards New York Penn on the 8:10am departure from Albany-Rensselaer.