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)

Early AEM-7 action, with the 901 South leading four Maryland DOT cars and one Amfleet car past the now-gone northbound shelter at Perryville. No. 901 was built by EMD in April, 1980, and was rebu... (more)

Morning fog lifts as the sun comes out.

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 AEM-7 #940 leads a long distance train over freshly fallen snow westbound through Princeton Junction.

An Amtrak train, powered by AEM-7 939 (with mismatched numberboards), is seen at Washington DC's Union Station on October 11th, 1986.

Looking Down the Barrel of the NEC

Amtrak fires off an AEM-7 round down the barrel of the NEC. AEM-7's were becoming scarce by mid-January, in 2016, as Amtrak was in the process of swit... (more)

Amtrak Keystone train 650 approaches Irishtown Road on its way east to Philadelphia and New York City. This picture, taken in 2011 (but feels like yesterday), is an example of how quickly thing... (more)

One of the last survivors of the AEM7 fleet heads west through the Hamilton station. At the time of this photo, there were only three AEM7s left on Amtrak's in-service roster.

Rivals Square Off...
The newest ACS-64 and a veteran AEM-7 appear to be in a face-off just east of North Elizabeth station . A two-car test train heads east toward Lane interlocking o... (more)

The Twilight Years: Amtrak's AEM-7 fleet has served the railroad well for over 35 years. They plied the Northeast Corridor for almost as long as the venerable GG1 electrics they replaced. But now,... (more)

Amtrak AEM-7 921 leads a passenger train out of Newark on it's way North. The day this photo was taken I took the morning and headed to the Northeast Corridor to try and catch some of the new ACS-... (more)

An AEM-7 hangs out with a GP38H-3 in the yard while P42s and ACS-64s handle the revenue trains.