Amtrak's Cardinal is seen passing through Battle Ground, IN roughly 2 hours late with a P32-8 leading the Beech Grove section of the train to Indianapolis.

Amtrak 500 leads a Hiawatha East under the searchlights at KK Bridge.

A Hiawatha train to Chicago makes it station stop at Sturtevant in the 10 inches of fresh snow received over the weekend.

As multiple Amtrak train sets await servicing and or departures out of the city, Dash 8 #500 shuffles Superliners around the 14th Street Coach Yard. #519 can also be seen in the foreground patient... (more)

Amtrak 500 leads Hiawatha 338 East out of Morton Grove.

Getting close to its station stop at Glenview, Hiawatha #336 sports one of Amtrak's classic GE Dash 8's on the point. This is a nice change of pace from the usual Chargers that dominate these Hiaw... (more)

Winter is always a rough time for the Amtrak Charger units. With a number of them suffering failures, P32BWH #500 got a chance to lead numerous Hiawathas between Chicago and Milwaukee. Train #333 ... (more)

Amtrak 500, a B32-8WH, kicks up some snow as it leads train 338 through Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin.

A nice Hiawatha set made the 11 am departure out of Milwaukee on 334. Although these B40's are in the wrong paint scheme, they still look cool on the front of passenger trains. Here the train pass... (more)

A pedestrian takes in the passage of Amtrak Hiawatha train #337 as it makes way under the Pennsy signal bridge at CP Morgan. Today's 337 features a Dash 8 leader, a nice change of pace from the Ch... (more)

Out with the new and in with the old? Due to a mechanical issue, the SC44 which normally leads the Illinois Zephyrs was out of action. Amtrak decided to put a classic GE Dash 8 on the head end of ... (more)

On Martin Luther King Day, an Amtrak Dash 8 cruises to a stop in Naperville, IL.

Amtrak 500 leads the Illinois Xephyr east into Naperville.

Amtrak #3, the outbound Southwest Chief, hustles west through Aurora, passing a stopped eastbound coal train at the High Street bridge. Those shadows were making me sweat a bit as I awaited Amtrak... (more)

Thursday night, I made it out to Kansas City Union Station to shoot Amtrak no. 3 coming into town with an old Pepsi Can on the point. Here's the Southwest Chief, as it arrived in KC with the #5... (more)