Southbound Floridian is close to on-time on a beautiful summer afternoon.

Amtrak E-60 No. 975 leads a northbound train of Amfleet cars by Substation No. 17, just north of the 69.5 signal. The 975 was built by GE for Amtrak in March, 1976.

The Marine Layer (fog) hangs over the coast well into the early evening as Amtrak no. 11, the southbound Coast Starlight, passes through the Faria Beach Colony making it's way Los Angeles

Santa Fe Lives On. AMTK 510, a General Electric (GE) B32-8BWH built in 1991 soaks up the late evening light across from the newly restored turntable here at Amtrak's Redondo Junction locomo... (more)

Amtrak 161 leads Amtrak's Northeast Regional through Manassas, Virginia on a warm October morning.

The northbound Floridian is just a few hundred feet short of Union Station. The engineer has just restarted his train after stopping for an SCL employee to drop from the lead SDP. The SCL man is... (more)

The California Zephyr reflects in the still water of Barr Lake in Brighton, Colorado.

New SDP40Fs - a trio, no less - are in stark contrast to shabby, old Union Station and its shed.

Cruising through Santa Susana while giving a Metrolink maintenance of way maintainer ahead a call, Amtrak's northbound Coast Starlight passes the movie studio at Corriganville as it heads f... (more)

688 departs Irvine to a plume of smoke, not from the GE on the rear but the F59PH that led the train!

Amtrak train number 6, the eastbound "California Zephyer" hugs the coastline as it passes under the San Francisco Bay Trail in Pinole, CA.

Posing in beautiful, golden hour light, the private car Northern Sky shows off its drumhead as it and along with another pair of private cars, the Montana and Yerba Buena, coo... (more)

Amtrak 14, the northbound Coast Starlight, with the newly painted Phase I 50th Anniversary Unit on the point pauses in Santa Barbara for its scheduled station stop here beneath the swaying palm tr... (more)

Diamonds Are Forever. Sitting forlorn in the foreground amongst a sea of weeds, one of the original Redondo Junction diamonds sees the passage of yet another passenger train, this one being... (more)

The California Zephyr heads towards the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel, giving the crew and passengers a view of the amazing golden aspen that are coloring the valley.