NJ Transit ALP-46A #4634 slows for its stop at the Edison Station.

As the AEM7 era on Amtrak draws to a close, here’s a look at the early part of that age. Six month old number 913 wheels a southbound train through Morrisville, Pennsylvania.

A four car set of Metroliners approaches the junction controlled by Morris Tower in Morrisville, Pennsylvania. This is the point where the Trenton Cutoff diverged from the Northeast Corridor. The ... (more)

A pair of Regional Transit District silver-liners pull from RTD's 38th Street station and ditch the Denver skyline as they head farther toward the outskirts of town in the day's last bit of deteri... (more)

Two E44s are heading west through COLA Interlocking in the long-hood forward mode, wearing Conrail's "minimalist" paint scheme with no markings except the cab numerals. No. 4454 was bui... (more)

NJ Transit ALP-46A No. 4644 leads M&E train 6431 over the Hogback Bridge in Far Hills, NJ on its way to Gladstone. The Hogback Bridge is a through truss bridge over the South Branch of the Raritan... (more)

The National Limited is westbound to Harrisburg for an engine change to diesels on its daily run to Pittsburgh, Columbus, Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Kansas City. At KC, a through-sleeper was sw... (more)

New Jersey DOT 4877, repainted in PRR’s Tuscan scheme, lays over in the South Amboy engine terminal. In the right background, an E8 can be seen on one of the engine house tracks. The 4877 surviv... (more)

Dusty E-44s 4433 and 4456 power a northbound mineral train past the classic old PRR gooseneck lamps at Aberdeen. Conrail is only two months old, and some units have already been painted with the ... (more)

Two elephant-style E-44s are southbound on No. 3 Track, just north of Aberdeen's station. The E-44s weighed in at just over 192 tons and were almost 70 feet long; top speed was 70 mph. 66 were b... (more)

The fireman's long locks are catching the breeze as a westbound manifest parallels Water Street on the Enola Branch. Conrail is in its 2nd month, and the grimy Penn Central freight electrics only... (more)

The one-of-a-kind 10,000 horsepower EMD GM10B is waiting on a crew by the ancient PRR grade crossing sign along South Front Street. EMD borrowed some design technology from ASEA/Sweden (Allmänna... (more)

Iowa Traction Railway steeple cabs Nos. 60 and 51 switch the yard at Emery on the west side of Mason City, Iowa, on April 15, 2008. No. 60 was built in 1917, while sister No. 51 is four years youn... (more)

The RTD commuter rail service between Denver International Airport and Denver's Union Station, dubbed 'The Train to the Plane', is now up and running.

Two "Hoovers" (they sounded like giant vacuum cleaners) power a westbound mineral train in the summer of 1978, during the rebuilding of the Enola Branch. Note the old stick rail between... (more)