About 2 years ago a friend of mine was able to take advantage of a rear vestibule ride on early morning Amtrak Regional Train 170 and provided me with a set of photos to process and upload. Well it took me a while, but I finally got them. The set covers the NEC from Philly to Boston and dates from March of 2013 so it's a bit of a step back in ( Read more... )

Back in February I took an early morning Amtrak train up to Boston for an event. Normally I would have been tempted to take the overnight train 66, however it is about 2 hours slower than other Regional trains, is full of loud party-goers all the way to NYC and finally i find it nearly impossible to fall asleep on until departure from NYC since I ( Read more... )

It's the holiday season and that means it is once again time for me to dig into my big bag of toys and pull out an extra special present for everyone. Between March of 2002 and July of 2003 there was a small window of opportunity where I not only had a "newfangled" digital camera, but also the means to employ it on huge epic day trips to the New ( Read more... )

Amtrak has always been a political creature and often has to curry favor with those that might not be its biggest supporters. Over the years Amtrak has named a P42 after former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and also named an interlocking after the 40th President of the United States Ronald Ragan. Well drawing from the same ( Read more... )

Just in case you were wondering this is not some photo set documenting some long standing commemoration of Confederate civil war dead. No, it's just me happening have been booked on Amtrak Train 20 (northbound Crescent) on Memorial Day 2012. I've taken this trip before, but this was the first time that my train was substantially late before it ( Read more... )

If you remember from last week I mentioned that the set would be the last featuring my 2006 Olympus 510UZ camera*, well Christmas came a bit early on 2011 because in this set I will be out on Christmas eve riding the Nostalgia Train with my brand new Cannon SX30 camera with 35x optical zoom and 720p HD video capability. That's right, its time to ( Read more... )

While currently out touring the west coast, last summer Amtrak's 40th Anniversary Train made a rather interesting weekend layover at the Perryville MARC station in Perryville, MD. As other commitments would cause me to miss its appearance in Philly, Baltimore or Washington DC, Perryville became my only option. The upside was that because ( Read more... )

Have a little winter preview here taken last February at the Princeton Junction train station on a foggy evening with snow on the ground and a nice winter mix falling from the sky. Not a huge photo set, but still interesting.

Here we see an ALP-46 pulling out of the eastbound platform past the 470 signal on 2 and 3 tracks.
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In another annual custom that has become a yearly tradition each year I meet up with Chuchubob on the Wednesday before thanksgiving to go driving around the Philadelphia area with an eventual stop on Amtrak Northeast corridor to catch the somewhat augmented schedule of Regional and Keystone train rushing people back to their families. SEPTA also ( Read more... )

When Amtrak is offering triple (or more) points for travel on National Train Day, one would be stupid not to take up offer. This is my second year in a row traveling on NTD, which in 2009 I used to complete my epic survey of the PRR Main Line. This year my ambitions were much more modest and in fact I can't even remember the reason for the ( Read more... )