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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:6/1/1976 - 12/29/2014
Album Info:Amtrak trains systemwide.
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Rolling away
Title:  Rolling away
Description:  The Adirondack rolls away onto the D&H, having departed the Schenectady station. The track to the left is former NYC and heads down the Mohawk Valley toward Utica and Buffalo. It carries primarily Amtrak trains. There may have been Conrail local service on it at the time of the photo. All through freight used the Selkirk Branch, which joined the Chicago Line at CP 169 near Amsterdam.
Photo Date:  11/16/1991  Upload Date: 2/17/2015 3:53:13 AM
Location:  Schenectady, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 150(Turboliner)
Views:  667   Comments: 0
Amtrak on the lock
Title:  Amtrak on the lock
Description:  Amtrak 283 rolls past the lock and dam at Cranesville as it apporaches Amsterdam.
Photo Date:  5/29/1992  Upload Date: 2/9/2015 3:51:55 AM
Location:  Cranesville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 194(GP40TC)
Views:  234   Comments: 0
Rainy Maple Leaf
Title:  Rainy Maple Leaf
Description:  Amtraks Maple Lear is on its way after making its stop in Utica. Part of the train shed can be seen in the right rear of the photo. The satation, which had been restored to its early splendor, was a work of art.
Photo Date:  5/29/1992  Upload Date: 2/9/2015 3:55:04 AM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 198(GP40TC)
Views:  573   Comments: 0
Canadian unit goes to Canada
Title:  Canadian unit goes to Canada
Description:  Train 63, the Maple Leaf, rolls toward its next stop at Utica with a unit that will be right at home at destination in Toronto
Photo Date:  5/29/1992  Upload Date: 2/7/2015 2:55:08 AM
Location:  Little Falls, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 199(GP40TC)
Views:  363   Comments: 131073
Sleek
Title:  Sleek
Description:  A westbound turbo rolls along the Mohawk past lock 10.
Photo Date:  5/29/1992  Upload Date: 2/9/2015 3:57:56 AM
Location:  Cranesville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  80   Comments: 0
Going for a ride
Title:  Going for a ride
Description:  A passenger approaches the spot where this westbound turbo will stop as it rolls into the station
Photo Date:  5/31/1992  Upload Date: 2/9/2015 3:49:36 AM
Location:  Amsterdam, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 157(Turboliner)
Views:  248   Comments: 0
Turbo on the river
Title:  Turbo on the river
Description:  Amtrak turbine heads toward Albany and NY City along the Mohawk River at NY Barge Canal lock #10.
Photo Date:  5/31/1992  Upload Date: 5/22/2011 4:36:57 PM
Location:  Cranesville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 157(Turboliner)
Views:  262   Comments: 0
Turbo east
Title:  Turbo east
Description:  An eastbound Empire Service train rolls past CP 285 and into the Amtrak station at Dewitt with a set of turbos covering the schedule.
Photo Date:  4/24/1993  Upload Date: 1/27/2015 2:15:53 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 150(Turboliner)
Views:  932   Comments: 0
Turbo in Empire Service
Title:  Turbo in Empire Service
Description:  Before Amtrak went to all Amfleet in New York state, they ran several sets of gas turbines from Grand Central to Niagara Falls. One of them is at Syracuse.
Photo Date:  4/24/1993  Upload Date: 1/15/2012 11:55:12 PM
Location:  Syracuse, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 153(Turboliner)
Views:  528   Comments: 0
Going home
Title:  Going home
Description:  What should show up on train 63 but a Canadian expatriate, one of GO Transits GP40TCs. In a few hours it will be in familiar territory. The Syracuse station was the ex NYC facility put up in the late 50s across from Dewitt yard after the passenger line downtown was abandoned. Now its I 690, and the station is out by Carousel Mall.
Photo Date:  4/24/1993  Upload Date: 1/27/2015 2:20:01 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 199(GP40TC)
Views:  617   Comments: 0
X2000
Title:  X2000
Description:  Then experimental train X2000 rolls through Waverly NY, past an ex Erie semaphore during its barnstorming tour of the US. CP was a sponsor of the research that went into its development.
Photo Date:  7/26/1993  Upload Date: 11/27/2011 3:14:24 AM
Location:  Waverly, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 351(F40PH) AMTK 388(F40PHR)
Views:  561   Comments: 0
X 2000
Title:  X 2000
Description:  The experimental X 2000 passes Terrace Drive as it enters East Binghamton yard in Conklin NY as it makes its way to Buffalo via CP.
Photo Date:  7/26/1993  Upload Date: 1/8/2012 3:07:57 AM
Location:  Conklin, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 351(F40PH) AMTK 388(F40PHR)
Views:  952   Comments: 1
Old Dewitt station
Title:  Old Dewitt station
Description:  Amtrak train 286 makes its station stop at the Dewitt station, the 1957 structure that replaced the old passenger station downtown whose right of way now carries I 690. The new bus and train station near Carousel Mall would open in a couple of years, closing this station far out on the east side of Syracuse. Note LV 353 sitting in the pocket track at left.
Photo Date:  11/26/1993  Upload Date: 1/8/2015 4:58:08 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  828   Comments: 0
Maple Leaf
Title:  Maple Leaf
Description:  Amtak 63, the Maple Leaf for Toronto, passes TV 13 and Frontier Yard just after leaving Depew. It will outrun the van racing it on NY 130
Photo Date:  5/27/1994  Upload Date: 9/19/2014 3:12:16 AM
Location:  Cheektowaga, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CR 6779(SD50) AMTK 392(F40PHR)
Views:  531   Comments: 0
AEM7 on the big bridge
Title:  AEM7 on the big bridge
Description:  Train 102 rolls across the bridge over the Susquehanna River approaching Perryville on Independence Day
Photo Date:  7/4/1994  Upload Date: 9/1/2014 2:50:40 AM
Location:  Perryville, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 916(AEM7)
Views:  283   Comments: 0
Rolling off the bridge
Title:  Rolling off the bridge
Description:  Amtrak train 102 behind a workhorse AEM7 rolls off the Susquehanna River bridge at Perryville.
Photo Date:  7/4/1994  Upload Date: 9/16/2014 2:35:48 AM
Location:  Perryville, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 916(AEM7)
Views:  337   Comments: 0
201 going on the bridge
Title:  201 going on the bridge
Description:  A toaster leads train 201 toward Baltimore and Washington as it starts across the Susquehanna.
Photo Date:  7/4/1994  Upload Date: 9/16/2014 2:44:06 AM
Location:  Perryville, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 923(AEM7)
Views:  1000   Comments: 0
Doubleheaded on the bridge
Title:  Doubleheaded on the bridge
Description:  Train 104 rolls across the Susquehanna with a pair of AEM7s in the lead.
Photo Date:  7/4/1994  Upload Date: 9/1/2014 2:54:58 AM
Location:  Perryville, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 926(AEM7) AMTK 938(AEM7)
Views:  447   Comments: 0
Rolling for New York
Title:  Rolling for New York
Description:  A pair of toasters rolls off the big bridge en route to New York with 11 cars.
Photo Date:  7/4/1994  Upload Date: 9/16/2014 2:46:00 AM
Location:  Perryville, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 926(AEM7) AMTK 938(AEM7)
Views:  442   Comments: 0
Double toasters
Title:  Double toasters
Description:  A pair of AEM7s leads 10 cars of train 101 onto the long bridge across the Susquehanna.
Photo Date:  7/4/1994  Upload Date: 9/16/2014 2:47:21 AM
Location:  Perryville, MD
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 936(AEM7) AMTK 943(AEM7)
Views:  418   Comments: 0
Crescent
Title:  Crescent
Description:  One of the things about late August is you realize the days are getting shorter. The light was already going when I caught the southbound Crescent at Alexandria.
Photo Date:  8/29/1994  Upload Date: 8/31/2014 2:13:19 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 802(P40DC) AMTK 834(P40DC)
Views:  769   Comments: 0
Over the river
Title:  Over the river
Description:  And on to Chicago. The westbound Broadway crosses Rockville Bridge just after leaving Harrisburg on its trip west.
Photo Date:  8/30/1994  Upload Date: 8/31/2014 2:02:17 AM
Location:  Marysville, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 374(F40PHR) AMTK 194(GP40TC) AMTK 309(F40PH)
Views:  552   Comments: 0
Crescent and the Masonic Memorial
Title:  Crescent and the Masonic Memorial
Description:  The northbound Crescent stops at Alexandria, its head end just down the street from the George Washington Masonic Memorial. Seen from the Washington Metro King St station
Photo Date:  8/30/1994  Upload Date: 6/19/2012 1:14:51 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 835(P40DC) AMTK 805(P40DC)
Views:  921   Comments: 0
Intermodal meet
Title:  Intermodal meet
Description:  Not exactly a cross platform transfer, a Washington Metro train stops while the northbound Crescent works at Alexandria. The George Washington Masonic Memorial is in the background.
Photo Date:  8/30/1994  Upload Date: 6/19/2012 1:16:52 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Transit,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 835(P40DC) AMTK 805(P40DC)
Views:  760   Comments: 0
Turbo
Title:  Turbo
Description:  Amtraks turbo trains were still working in Empire Service in the mid 90s. Heres 160 leading train 281 at the old Syracuse station.
Photo Date:  9/2/1994  Upload Date: 8/29/2014 2:52:58 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 160(Turboliner)
Views:  407   Comments: 0
Night moves
Title:  Night moves
Description:  An ex GO Transit GP40TC heads up this westbound train at the Syracuse station as the light fades out.
Photo Date:  9/2/1994  Upload Date: 8/29/2014 2:54:34 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 197(GP40TC)
Views:  243   Comments: 0
Niagara train
Title:  Niagara train
Description:  Train 281 makes its station stop at the Amtraks Dewitt station, built by NYC in 1957 to replace the station downtown when the passenger line was abandoned. It would be replaced a couple of years later by a new station out at Carousel Mall. That station would also serve Centro and Greyhound.
Photo Date:  3/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/17/2014 1:55:11 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 153(Turboliner)
Views:  275   Comments: 0
Eastbound for New York
Title:  Eastbound for New York
Description:  An Amtrak F40 l;eads this eastbound into the station at Dewitt, prior to the opening of the new transportation center at Carousel Mall, which was still abuilding at this time.
Photo Date:  3/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/26/2014 1:23:31 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 338(F40PH)
Views:  268   Comments: 0
Toronto bound
Title:  Toronto bound
Description:  Train 63, the Maple Leaf, makes its Syracuse stop behind the usual F40
Photo Date:  3/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/26/2014 1:25:02 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 352(F40PH)
Views:  243   Comments: 1
Toronto start
Title:  Toronto start
Description:  The eastbound Maple Leaf makes its approach to Syracuse.
Photo Date:  3/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/26/2014 1:27:12 AM
Location:  Syracuse (Dewitt), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 391(F40PHR)
Views:  333   Comments: 0
Amtrak westbound
Title:  Amtrak westbound
Description:  An Amtrak Empire Service train picks up speed leaving Utica
Photo Date:  6/4/1995  Upload Date: 5/22/2011 4:43:46 PM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 198(GP40TC)
Views:  661   Comments: 0
Rolling to Buffalo
Title:  Rolling to Buffalo
Description:  Actually Niagara Falls. A four car westbound Empire Service train passes Lock 10 at Cranesville.
Photo Date:  6/18/1995  Upload Date: 8/14/2014 2:12:12 AM
Location:  Cranesville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 353(F40PH)
Views:  214   Comments: 0
Silver service
Title:  Silver service
Description:  A pair of AEM7s lead 14 cars of combined train 81 and 91 at Wilmington Del.
Photo Date:  7/22/1995  Upload Date: 8/14/2014 2:16:44 AM
Location:  Wilmington, DE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 920(AEM7) AMTK 951(AEM7)
Views:  889   Comments: 0
Virginia bound
Title:  Virginia bound
Description:  Train 95 makes its stop at Wilmington
Photo Date:  7/22/1995  Upload Date: 8/14/2014 2:20:30 AM
Location:  Wilmington, DE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 944(AEM7)
Views:  290   Comments: 0
Eastbound in early snow
Title:  Eastbound in early snow
Description:  Its November and the snow has already started as this eastbound approaches Syracuse.
Photo Date:  11/10/1995  Upload Date: 5/15/2014 3:34:25 AM
Location:  Memphis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  398   Comments: 0
Zephyr rolls east
Title:  Zephyr rolls east
Description:  An Illinois Zephyr kicks up the snow behind an F40 on the last lap to Chicago.
Photo Date:  1/6/1996  Upload Date: 7/31/2014 2:39:29 AM
Location:  Berwyn, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 361(F40PHR)
Views:  260   Comments: 0
Pepsi cans
Title:  Pepsi cans
Description:  A pair of B32-8s roll through Berwyn with the Cal Zephyr. The paint job on these units was referred to as a "Pepsi can" due to the red white and blue that resembled the colors on the can.
Photo Date:  1/6/1996  Upload Date: 6/22/2014 3:28:56 AM
Location:  Berwyn, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 506(B32-8WH) AMTK 504(B32-8WH)
Views:  548   Comments: 0
Eastbound Chief
Title:  Eastbound Chief
Description:  Amtrak 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, rolls toward its Albuqerque stop and on to Chicago behind a trio of GEs
Photo Date:  2/11/1996  Upload Date: 8/4/2014 1:22:09 AM
Location:  Los Lunas, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 842(P40DC) AMTK 507(B32-8WH) AMTK 504(B32-8WH)
Views:  688   Comments: 0
Westbound on the Water Level Route
Title:  Westbound on the Water Level Route
Description:  A westbound Amtrak train for Niagara Falls splits the signals at Memphis
Photo Date:  6/21/1997  Upload Date: 3/30/2014 3:13:00 AM
Location:  Memphis, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 265(F40PHR)
Views:  254   Comments: 0
Amtrak 815 leads on the ex Pennsy
Title:  Amtrak 815 leads on the ex Pennsy
Description:  What I'm guessing is the City of New Orleans rolls past the CR pig yard in Chicago on its last lap into Union Station
Photo Date:  6/5/1999  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 12:02:08 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 815(P40DC)
Views:  446   Comments: 0
Pepsi can
Title:  Pepsi can
Description:  An Amtrak St Louis train rolls north along I 55 in one of those "Hold up the camera and pray" shots of one of the red, white and blue GE's dubbed "Pepsi cans"
Photo Date:  6/7/1999  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 12:03:15 AM
Location:  Bloomington, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 507(B32-8WH)
Views:  467   Comments: 0
Sunset at mid day
Title:  Sunset at mid day
Description:  In June 1999 I did a round trip from Laredo to El Paso and back. On the trip out I came across the Sunset near Sanederson
Photo Date:  6/15/1999  Upload Date: 3/3/2014 12:37:46 AM
Location:  Sanderson, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 840(P40DC) AMTK 832(P40DC)
Views:  414   Comments: 0
Westbound at Willis
Title:  Westbound at Willis
Description:  A westbound Empire Service train leaves Syracuse behind as it rolls through CP 293 behind a NY only P32DM
Photo Date:  7/19/1999  Upload Date: 3/2/2014 11:57:45 PM
Location:  SYRACUSE (CP293), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 705(P32AC-DM)
Views:  243   Comments: 0
Double headed
Title:  Double headed
Description:  The train that usually gets multiple units is the Lake Shore. Occasionally one of the Empire Service trains will get a second unit, such as this one.
Photo Date:  9/11/1999  Upload Date: 2/23/2014 4:38:05 AM
Location:  SYRACUSE (CP293), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  571   Comments: 0
Missouri Mule
Title:  Missouri Mule
Description:  One of the St Louis trains rolls north toward Chicago as seen from I 55 in a hold up the camera and pray shot.
Photo Date:  3/16/2000  Upload Date: 2/17/2014 1:28:42 AM
Location:  Bloomington, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 51(P42DC)
Views:  396   Comments: 0
Illini
Title:  Illini
Description:  One of the Carbondale trains makes its stop at Centralia
Photo Date:  4/9/2000  Upload Date: 2/17/2014 1:33:20 AM
Location:  Centralia, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 19(P42DC)
Views:  509   Comments: 0
Empire train
Title:  Empire train
Description:  One of the Empire Service trains appraches Willis Av on its way to Niagara Falls
Photo Date:  8/3/2000  Upload Date: 1/23/2014 1:43:38 AM
Location:  Syracuse, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 708(P32AC-DM)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
Lake Shore
Title:  Lake Shore
Description:  Or more likely, the Late Shore. The train should have been passing this point around 8 AM, this was obviously taken much later in the day.
Photo Date:  8/3/2000  Upload Date: 1/23/2014 1:40:51 AM
Location:  Syracuse, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 76(P42DC) AMTK 387(F40PHR)
Views:  711   Comments: 0
Lucky 13
Title:  Lucky 13
Description:  The westbound Sunset Limited rolls through the sagebrush between Alpine and El Paso
Photo Date:  1/27/2001  Upload Date: 7/15/2012 2:26:18 AM
Location:  Sierra Blanca, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 13(P42DC)
Views:  599   Comments: 0
Ready for pick up.
Title:  Ready for pick up.
Description:  Three Amtrak California units are ready for NS to pick up at Alstom in Hornell NY.
Photo Date:  7/15/2001  Upload Date: 10/27/2013 2:44:47 AM
Location:  Hornell, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  AMTK 2012(JT42BW) AMTK 2011(JT42BW)
Views:  1599   Comments: 2


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