Something no longer seen on passenger trains today are the wisps of steam that, on cooler days, enveloped much of the train. Amtrak SDP40F 503, powering San Diegan 770, is clearly equipped with a... (more)
Unofficial MAERSK publicity train ran at request of MAERSK photographer posing at CP Badger on PHL Alameda Corridor Sub with Badger (railroad) and Commodore Heim (auto) bridges in background. The ... (more)
BNSF 6976, painted in a special Maersk scheme for grand opening of new Pier 400 facility opening in the port of Los Angeles was leading a photo special at CP Mole on Terminal Island.
Amtrak 535 awaits departure on a grimy winter evening at King St. Station in Seattle, WA. The North Coast Hiawatha has an evening departure for Everett, Wenatchee and Spokane in Washington, then o... (more)
Amtrak train 14, the northbound ("westbound" by Southern Pacific's timetable) Coast Starlight is just about at the station in San Luis Obispo, California, on July 2, 1974. Amtrak... (more)
In January 1975, Amtrak train 772, the mid-morning San Diegan, crosses from Fullerton into Anaheim on its way from Los Angeles to San Diego. SDP40F 511 can easily pull this four-car train ... (more)
The southbound Inter-American passes Lenox Tower.
An eastbound San Diegan was rounding the 15 mph curve at Redondo Jct heading for San Diego. This is the site of the tragic crash of a pair of Santa Fe RDC cars in JAN 1956.
Trailing a variety of classic equipment including two domes, a pair of Amtrak SDP40Fs storm through Auburn, WA, with train 11, the southbound Coast Starlight, just beginning its long trek from Sea... (more)
Amtrak EMD SDP40F 502 and 501. Photographer Mike Bledsoe.
Behind a pair of SDP40Fs, Amtrak No. 5 glides downhill toward whee it will pass under the uphill track. Like SP's FP7s, the SDPs have icicle breakers on their roofs to snap off ice hanging from th... (more)
Eastward Train #6 leaving Cold Stream Canyon and approaching Truckee.
Eastbound National Limited #30 rolls along the Missouri River as it approaches Jefferson City, MO.
Westbound National Limited #31 approaches the station in Warrensburg, MO.
Amtrak 601 battles through the smoke of a just passed BN E8. Only the steam at the rear end of the SDP40F is produced from this engine
