Racing south along with rush hour traffic a nicely matched set of Amfleet "airliners on wheels" is keeping up and perhaps gaining a little. Hey, I used to own one of those Nissan 510s!

W003 came to a stop for a half hour while work was completed on the geometry equipment. Because of it's stop at MP 21.5 it gave the opportunity to move down and grab this shot as CSX 9969 pulls th... (more)

High above the Shasta Valley, the northbound Coast Starlight crosses Dry Canyon in summer 1994. An Amtrak engineer once told me that if the signals were all green and the train was making track sp... (more)

The FRA research train exits Payne Yard in Fieldale.

The FRA research train operating as 93G, exits the Philpott siding on a very pleasant February afternoon.

The second Piedmont of the day deadheads into Raleigh station as they cross the Raleigh & Fayetteville NS Line at Boylan.

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While "conventional" rolling stock on the VIA corridor trains between Ottawa and Quebec becomes more rare, the morning westbound VIA 33 had a combination of two LRC and three HEP cars be... (more)

Power Move with Cars Amtrak 30 rolls out of Cumberland with more engines than cars. Up front is a regular P42, then a seldom-seen Dash 8, and then 4 brand new ALC-42 Chargers being deliver... (more)

VIA 35 for Ottawa is passing Turcot Ouest.

September Snow. New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA) R146 no. ST304, a snow thrower buiilt by RPM Tech in 2003, is seen on the front of a transfer train from 38th Street Yard to Cone... (more)

Don't know what you've got, as they say....the novelty on these models has already worn off, but they appear to be in Silver Service for good.

The FRA inspection train rounds the curve at Hypoluxo North on its way down to Miami. This year, the agency sent DOTX 216, a former Amtrak Metroliner car originally built by Budd for the Penn Cent... (more)

Having been probably switched in at Montreal (the morning 33 train, wich in Ottawa would turn on to 26, was a conventional LRC set), a fairly new Siemens Charger set with cab car 2308 leading, is ... (more)

The Amtrak Pennsylvanian heads west through Cresson while one of the railfans (a common species in this area) looks at whatever it was that kicked up all that dust.