Meeting of Amtrak units at Chicago's 18th Street Amtrak locomotives facility, nice and interesting panorama for any visitor, especially who like trains. In the background, a classic icon of the ci... (more)

Amtrak's southbound Vermonter train 55-27 arrives at the Randolph, Vermont, station stop with a decent size pickup of passengers gathered on the platform and within the warmth of their vehicles on... (more)

AMTK 184 thunders east through Smithton, Mo while on point of the 314 Missouri River Runner.

The eastbound Southwest Chief races along nearly six hours late due to a late departure out of Los Angeles two evenings prior. Train #4 has also routinely been running late for the past few weeks ... (more)

Amtrak F59PHI # 461 sits in beautiful San Diego just before heading north to LA on Pacific Surfliner Train # 583. Time is running out for the Amtrak F59PHI's, especially getting them with the San ... (more)

The westbound Cardinal pulls into the station at Culpeper, Virginia.

The leafs are starting to finally turn in the southern part of NC as the warm glow of the last few minutes of sunlight reach through to barley touch the Amtrak Autumn Leaf special as it races nort... (more)

Antique search lights of the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe guide Amtrak's Southwest Chief up the Raton Subdivision through the high plains of northern New Mexico.

Both are now gone.

The former ATSF art-deco style station in La Plata, MO is still maintained and operated by Amtrak as a twice-a-day station stop for the Southwest Chief. The Amtrak decorations varying from the dif... (more)

A P40 leads The Chief into LAP for a late station stop as evening light falls.

It isn't a pretty spot where the Palmetto, northbound on the former ACL mainline, is seen crossing the Southern Railway in 1980. But it is a very historic one as Southern began life here one hundr... (more)

Amtrak's Southwest Cheif is slowing down for the station stop at La Plata. The train is running around a hour late. Next stop will be Ft Madison, IA, in 90 miles. BNSF's signal gang is hard at wor... (more)