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The Amtrak Susquehanna River Bridge is a Howe deck truss structure that carries two tracks of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor line across the Susquehanna River between Havre de Grace and Perryville, Maryland.[
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Amtrak’s 50th anniversary unit No. 161 leads Amtrak California Zephyr No. 5 entering Rocky, CO on a cold winter morning.
Amtrak's California Zephyr is a treat for the visual senses. The train, like the original, traverses the scenic portions of the route in daylight hours. For the passengers on the eastbound run, the train parallels San Pablo Bay and the Carquinez Straights for 15 scenic miles. Here, at Pinole, the eastbound Zephyr skirts the calm waters of San Pablo Bay.
Amtrak 161 leads the northbound northeast regional through Rockfish, Virginia, led by one of the Phase I- 50th anniversary units.
AMTK 134 and 175 split the Duplainville searchlights as they lead the westbound Empire Builder (Amtrak #7) under gloomy skies. Taken on the Canadian Pacific Watertown Subdivision on 6/26/21.
Amtrak 91 is rolling again after CSX came to rescue, here seen pulling the train south out of Jacksonville.
Amtrak 145, painted in Phase III colors, heads west on the point of the westbound Capital through Gaithersburg, MD.
Afternoon train 291 is seen heading southbound under the tunnels at Oscawana as it makes its journey to Burlington, Vermont.
AMTK 130, sporting Phase II color, leads the southbound regional toward Roanoke, Virginia, through Red Hill, Virginia.
Union Station, Portland Oregon.
The final image in this long series. Thanks everyone for traveling along with me.
Amtrak 519, a Dash 8, leads the westbound Cardinal through Fishersville, Virginia, along the Buckingham Branch.
In the first day back into regular service, Amtrak #197 and #74 lead the California Zephyr No. 5 through the twist and curves of Tolland, Colorado bound for Emeryville, CA
AMTK 2115 leads an eastbound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner through Del Mar, California, as it continues its journey eastbound toward San Diego.
AMTK 519, a Dash 8, leads the westbound Cardinal into Charlottesville, Virginia, over the Woolen Mills along the Buckingham Branch.
Two IDTX Chargers lead Amtrak's California Zephyr near Buda, IL. First long-distance revenue run for these new and unique locomotives!
AMTK 519, a Dash 8, leads the westbound Amtrak Cardinal through Jarman Gap, on the outskirts of Crozet, Virginia, the along the Buckingham Branch.
On a beautiful summer afternoon, westbound train five, Amtrak's California Zephyr, passes through Yuba Gap, CA.
Winter Park Express is rolling through the tightest tangent on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision near Pinecliff cutting through Tunnel 29. Collaboration with Jeremy Frankovis. With nearly a fresh foot of snow or is that powder for those skiers bound for winter park resort overnight leaves a beautiful coating of flock on the forests and granite face of the canyon.
The next stop on our epic Sunday adventure was Harpers Ferry West VA, situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, where the U.S. states of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia meet. We arrived at the train station just minutes before this Amtrack passenger train. See first comment box below for the train shot from our last visit here. This trip for me was not all about the trains though. Harpers Ferry is built on a pretty steep hill and so I had walked down the hill from the station parking lot, across the main street which is set up with all old period store fronts. Being only just over a month past surgery and tiring easily, Anita probably thought it was safe to leave this decrepit oldie on a nice (hard) wooden park bench with arrangements to come back in a bit to pick me up in the car. But that park bench and I did not get along well and I decided I might as well start the hike back and so I did and made it more than 3/4 of the way before Anita caught up with me! She had hiked along the trail that borders the train tracks and goes right up to the tunnel. I think I probably covered about 3/4 of a mile or so. LOL
AMTK 301, the Day One Charger Unit, leads the eastbound Cardinal, through the Woolen Mills in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Welcome to The Silver State, AMTK 300! Amtrak's brand new ALC-42 locomotive makes it's maiden journey across Nevada on the California Zephyr. On the point is AMTK 7, one of 200 plus P42DC locomotives, the workhorse of Amtrak intercity and cross country trains. Eventually, the ALC-42 will take control of trains like the California Zephyr. For now, the P42 is in charge of Train 6 as it rolls through Verdi, CA.
Amtrak 160, the Pepsi Can, leads the westbound Cardinal through Ronceverte, West Virginia, along the CSX Alleghany Subdivision.
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The Alviso Marina County Park in Alviso, California, is always fun to visit. It's only 20 min from home, so I like to go there once in a while for sunset. I took this shot of an Amtrak train half an hour after sunset with a Canon 50mm f1.2 vintage lens at f1.2.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and carefully pulled the curves.
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The second new Amtrak ALC-42 from Siemens Mobility in Sacramento, CA was released on July 16, 2021. The following day, AMTK 301 was sent east on the California Zephyr. The locomotive is painted in the Amtrak ":Day One" scheme. Using a Penn Central E-unit, Amtrak added the pointless arrow to each side. Blue stripes, with white diagonal stripes, ran across the nose. This scheme on the ALC-42 looks very sharp!
Amtraks Pacific Surfliner rolls eastbound through Del Mar, California, as it continues its journey toward San Diego.
Visitors check out F40 non-powered control unit No. 406, which was part of the Amtrak 40th anniversary train that made a visit to Jackson, Michigan, in October 2011. (Scanned from a slide)
December 11, 2021 was the 30th birthday of Amtrak's Capitol Corridor service, connecting the Bay Area with Sacramento. When service began in 1991, there were three round trips. Today, there are 15, with five additional planned. The Capitol Corridor is now the fourth busiest line on Amtrak's system. Who knows what the next thirty years will bring. On it's 30th birthday, eastbound Capitol Corridor train 732 departs Emeryville bound for Sacramento. Happy birthday, Capitol Corridor!
Train 5, the California Zephyr, is seen beginning its journey into the Colorado Rockies as they approach the first tunnel of their journey along the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision with P42 DC No. 11 in the lead.
During late January, early February 2020, Amtrak assembled a train to test the efficiency of Siemens SC-44 Charger locomotives on long distance trains. The train traveled the routes of the Empire Builder, Coast Starlight, and California Zephyr. The two units, borrowed from the Amtrak Midwest fleet, were tested in unfamiliar mountain territory across the west. Here, the test train rolls through a snow storm at Yuba Gap, CA, on Northern California's Donner Pass.
Amfleet equipment was a product of the 1970s whereas Charger locomotives and Venture fleet cars are products of the second decade of the 21st century. The old and new are on display in the consist of Wolverine Service No. 351 as it takes the signal to get onto the NS Chicago Line in Porter, Indiana.
Once the conductor gives a highball, Amtrak's eastbound Capitol Limited will have a signal to depart the Cleveland Station. Although most of the signals show red, the track on which Train 30 is resting shows red over green. (Scanned from a slide)
The southbound Inter-American is making its station stop in Springfield, Illinois, in March 1977. On the point is SDP40F No. 590. Although not visible, the trailing unit is No. 591. The big cowl units would continue to pull the train through late summer when F40PH locomotives and Amfleet equipment arrived. (Scanned from color negative film)
Amtrak Wolverine Service Train No. 350 (left) has been waiting for counterpart No. 353 to crossover in Jackson, Michigan. With 353 clear of the switches No. 350 should get getting a clear signal shortly.
Two Amtrak GE B32-8WH's in the "Pepsi Can" paint scheme lift westbound Train #3, the Southwest Chief up the steep eastern slope of Raton Pass on January 25, 1992. Thirteen cars trail month old B32-8WH's 515 and 511, (both built in December 1991) nearing Gallinas, Colorado headed to the next station stop at Raton, New Mexico. The steepest section of the grade, (approaching three and one half percent) lies just ahead in the next five miles to the summit of the pass at Raton Tunnel, elevation 7588 feet, highest point on the Santa Fe Railway.
Gallinas Colorado was named for the Spanish word "gallina" meaning hen for a nearby creek along the railway of the same name. At one time the railroad facilities at Gallinas consisted of a two story railroad depot, a wooden interlocking tower, a 43' steel water tank, a large coaling trestle and a wye for turning helper engines. With installation of CTC on the line, servicing facilities began to be phased out starting in the 1930's and ending with yard tracks and a passing siding removed by 1950. At the time of the photo all that remained were the station sign, a pair of steel cantilever signals guarding the cross-over switches and a small MofW shed.
The rear engineer's side door to P42DC No. 4 is slightly open as the eastbound Capitol Limited sits at the Cleveland station. I'm not sure if this is on purpose or it was inadvertently left this way. (Scanned from a slide)
Amtrak train #40, the Broadway Limited, is heading down the CSX P&W Sub at 2:05pm on January 8, 1994 at West Pittsburg, PA. The train had broken apart twice, and the crew had outlawed, due to some extreme cold (below zero) and snow. The train was recrewed at New Castle yard before continuing on East, running several hours late.
As Fall 2023 approaches, let’s throw it back to Halloween of 2022. Here, AMTK 44 leads the westbound Cardinal through Jarmans Gap in peak Fall Color.
It 's so hot this afternoon that I decided to take a walk down the mud slough to see if I could catch the train. I found some new wildflowers by the bank of the salt pond. With the train streaking by, I laid my Nikon low to take this shot. I then processed the RAW file using the built-in processing functions of the camera.
Amtrak Wolverine Service 351 passes subdued fall foliage in Chesterton, Indiana. In the background is the bridge carrying Interstate 94.
A late running Amtrak #5, the westbound California Zephyr races toward Denver on the Brush Subdivision passing the U.S. Highway 2 overpass west of Barr Lake, Colorado on January 20, 1994.
Two nearly new P40DC's, the 824 (built in September 1993) and the 834 (built in November 1993) lead seventeen cars at Milepost 528.0 on Burlington Northern's busy former Chicago Burlington & Quincy route between Chicago and Denver.
High desert terrain, plateaus and storm clouds dominate the background as Amtrak Train #5 rolls westbound at Milepost 404.0 on former Denver & Rio Grande Western trackage at Grand Valley Siding, Colorado, June 10, 1992. Originally called Pahchouc (meaning twins) by the Ute people, early settlers mispronounced the word as Parachute so the town was renamed Grand Valley in 1908. Located in the Colorado River valley exactly half way between Glenwood Springs and Grand Junction, in the 1980's the name Grand Valley was changed back to Parachute.
Leading the thirteen car California Zephyr this day are Amtrak F40PH's 297, (built with parts from SDP40F 586 in June, 1979. After retirement, sold to LTEX and scrapped) and 244 (built with parts from SDP40F 563 in September, 1977 and later sold to the Alaska RR). Grand Valley Siding, at 5200 feet in length is located 102 miles west of Minturn, Colorado and 45 miles east of Grand Junction. Parachute's elevation is 5089' and the 2020 census lists the population at 1390 people.
Every now and then, an unlucky driver in Oakland's Jack London Square takes a wrong turn onto the tracks. On this night, it wasn't a bad GPS to blame, but too much alcohol. Luckily, the driver drove his vehicle onto the Oakland Yard lead, and not onto the main, occupied by a passing Amtrak Capitol train, running at speed. Minutes later, authorities arrived, and carted the driver to the drunk tank.