The terminated Empire Builder, re-oriented north/west, pulls into the service yard.

Heading to the showers. Through the exhaust you can see the sprayers ready to clean Amtrak 115.

A terminated eastbound Empire Builder has flipped its direction via the Canal Street Wye, and now is entering the Amtrak yard from the south to get a wash down and servicing before going back out ... (more)

Metra 203 heads toward the sheds until rush hour, passing by the 10 diamonds controlled by 16th Street Tower.

Inbound on left passes outbound on right. The new Trump Tower is visible under construction on the far right.

Turning a pair of SD70Ms around on the Canal Street wye ... they will transverse the whole wye and return to Canal Street Yard, from whence they came. These cabs are facing opposite directions, so... (more)

Before retiring to the Colorado Railroad Museum, Georgetown Loop 130/140, GE 52-tonners, sat around in Silver Plume.

Brought around for the return trip to Bellows Falls, today's earlier rainstorm has the 405 looking particularly shiny.

Amtrak 709 has just been added to the Ethan Allen Express, joining 713, which brought the train down from Rutland. Amtrak 700 idles with the 12:05 southbound Empire Service train 23... (more)

Through the tunnel of trees, southbound toward Manchester, VT.

A heavy rainstorm abates just in time for a steamy ride on the Green Mountain Flyer, awaiting a 2:30 departure from Bellows Falls to Chester, VT.

Pushing in behind 16th Street tower, toward LaSalle Street Station.

Metra 207 rolls over one of my favorite bridges in Chicago. If you look closely at the two squares on the concrete bridge, you can read "New York Central" and "Rock Island." The trains this brid... (more)

An Amtrak control unit in Phase II paint, in 2008. How did this get two phases behind? This train is making an evening departure toward Detroit/Pontiac.