While work is moving right along with the new VRE station here, the 3rd Track work has ground to a halt. The signal bridge is in place, and a few hundred feet of track are laid, and then the contr... (more)

The Carolinian pulls out of the station leaving the scenic skyline of Raleigh behind on a fine summer day.

As the sunsets on a marvelous day of railfanning one last train rolls through porter and it is a Michigan bound Amtrak with 188 leading as it rolls onto home rails.

Amtrak 188 barrels past a stopped Metra train at Highlands, kicking up a snowstorm from a late season snowfall.

The day's first eastbound Lincoln Service train nears the end of its run as it closes in on the platforms at Union Station in Chicago.

The Capitol Limited consist gets its toilets serviced in the yard as seen from an Amfleet I Coach sitting on the short leg of the wye. Photo taken on RR property observing safety rules and with P... (more)

AMTK 188 leads the eastbound Pennsylvanian along the Juniata River near Losh Run, Pennsylvania.

The eastbound Pennsylvanian passes CP Hunt as it pulls into Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

Amtrak 42 "The Pennsylvanian" throttles up as it leaves Altoona Station and rounds the bend toward CP Works; meanwhile, NS Local CB10 waits for Amtrak to clear so it can back across the main and o... (more)

Operator Mike Myers surveys a rare scene as Amtrak #302 passes Ridgely Tower on the former C&IM mainline. During June 2008 Amtrak and Union Pacific detoured trains thru Springfield over the Illin... (more)

AMTK 188 and a mate rest at the barn during the blue hour.

Sitting in the evening sun... I'll be sitting when rush hour comes... Watching the trains roll in... And I watch 'em roll away again... An unusual guest on the NEC flies though Eddystone, PA at... (more)

Amtrak 06T kicks up a light covering of snow as it speeds between Ardara and Larimer.

The bracket mast CPLs at Hansrote frame the westbound Capital Limited.

The first train of the day for me was the Empire Builder, which is making good time after its stop at Red Wing, Mn. Judging by the look of the front of the 188, it has come into contact with a fe... (more)