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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:6/1/1976 - 12/29/2014
Album Info:Amtrak trains systemwide.
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Amtrak 268 east
Title:  Amtrak 268 east
Description:  Amtrak 268 leads an eastbound past the old Blue Circle Cement plant at CP 293 on the Syracuse/Solvay border.
Photo Date:  7/29/2001  Upload Date: 12/13/2013 1:18:25 AM
Location:  Syracuse, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 268(F40PHR)
Views:  227   Comments: 0
Lake Shore late again
Title:  Lake Shore late again
Description:  A late Lake Shore Limited rolls through CP 293 approaching its stop in Syracuse, where it will arrive in less than three minutes.
Photo Date:  4/14/2002  Upload Date: 10/12/2013 11:47:29 PM
Location:  Syracuse, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 92(P42DC) AMTK 50(P42DC)
Views:  775   Comments: 0
Amtrak 703
Title:  Amtrak 703
Description:  Amtrak 703 leads a westbound at Cranesville NY, seen from the NY State Barge Canal Lock 10.
Photo Date:  5/26/2002  Upload Date: 9/21/2013 3:45:36 AM
Location:  Cranesville, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 703(P32AC-DM)
Views:  246   Comments: 0
Broadway on the bridge
Title:  Broadway on the bridge
Description:  Amtraks Broadway Limited crosses the Rockville Bridge as it approaches Harrisburg.
Photo Date:  6/2/2002  Upload Date: 10/5/2013 11:39:17 PM
Location:  Marysville, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 188(P42DC) AMTK 58(P42DC)
Views:  570   Comments: 0
Empire Service
Title:  Empire Service
Description:  Amtrak Empire Service is represented at Solvay with a P40 and six cars passing he old Blue Circle Cement plant. It will make its Syracuse stop in about three minutes.
Photo Date:  7/14/2002  Upload Date: 9/28/2013 2:36:57 AM
Location:  Syracuse, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 831(P40DC)
Views:  297   Comments: 1
Dual mode south
Title:  Dual mode south
Description:  An Empire Service train rolls south along the Hudson behind one of Amtraks dual mode units, capable of running on third rail power into Penn Station.
Photo Date:  10/19/2003  Upload Date: 10/25/2017 5:23:25 AM
Location:  Manitou, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  60   Comments: 0
Very Late Shore
Title:  Very Late Shore
Description:  Train 48, the Lake Shore Limited, usually an early afternoon showing here, is a good three hours deep as it passes on the east side of the river.
Photo Date:  10/19/2003  Upload Date: 10/25/2017 5:26:36 AM
Location:  Manitou, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  50   Comments: 0
Maple Leaf
Title:  Maple Leaf
Description:  GEs now hold sway where once legions of F 40s ruled. Train 63, the Maple Leaf to Toronto, arrives at Utica.
Photo Date:  5/12/2004  Upload Date: 10/26/2017 5:05:55 AM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 110(P42DC)
Views:  234   Comments: 0
GE past an old Central tower
Title:  GE past an old Central tower
Description:  Train 281 passes Signal Station 30(the number on the side of the tower) just east of Utica station as it slows for its stop there. It will be in Niagara Falls in about five hours. Note the MA&N plow at far left.
Photo Date:  5/12/2004  Upload Date: 6/1/2017 3:55:14 AM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 708(P32AC-DM)
Views:  189   Comments: 0
Lake Shore
Title:  Lake Shore
Description:  Train 48-actually, 48/448 here, the Boston section will split at Albany-makes its stop at Utica with a pair of GEs in charge.
Photo Date:  5/12/2004  Upload Date: 10/26/2017 5:02:52 AM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 98(P42DC) AMTK 73(P42DC)
Views:  517   Comments: 0
Maple Leaf
Title:  Maple Leaf
Description:  Amtraks Maple Leaf is in full cry for Toronto as it blows through Weedsport with a typical five car consist.
Photo Date:  5/19/2004  Upload Date: 9/18/2017 4:41:52 AM
Location:  Weedsport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 110(P42DC)
Views:  291   Comments: 2
Hope they brought the Tim Hortons
Title:  Hope they brought the Tim Hortons
Description:  The eastbound Maple Leaf rolls through CP 285, and will shortly pass Dewitt Yard, then get up to speed for its next stop at Utica.
Photo Date:  5/19/2004  Upload Date: 9/18/2017 4:44:03 AM
Location:  Syracuse (CP285), NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 823(P40DC)
Views:  216   Comments: 1
Headed for Niagara
Title:  Headed for Niagara
Description:  Amtrak train 287 will shortly be at the new transportaion center near Carousel Mall on its way to Niagar Falls. Here it passes CP 285 just west of Dewitt yard.
Photo Date:  5/19/2004  Upload Date: 1/6/2013 2:54:20 AM
Location:  Syracuse, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 708(P32AC-DM)
Views:  265   Comments: 0
Amtrak 711
Title:  Amtrak 711
Description:  Amtrak 711 leads 5 cars of train 286 east at Weedsport
Photo Date:  7/29/2004  Upload Date: 12/7/2012 1:24:55 AM
Location:  Weedsport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 711(P32AC-DM)
Views:  338   Comments: 0
Pretty ride
Title:  Pretty ride
Description:  An Acela skirts one of the bays along Long Island Sound on its way to New York.
Photo Date:  10/12/2004  Upload Date: 6/11/2017 4:54:59 AM
Location:  Niantic, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  74   Comments: 0
Amfleet to Boston
Title:  Amfleet to Boston
Description:  An AEM 7 rolls a Boston bound train through Niantic.
Photo Date:  10/12/2004  Upload Date: 6/11/2017 5:01:10 AM
Location:  Niantic, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  81   Comments: 0
Thames River
Title:  Thames River
Description:  An Amtrak train rolls across the Thames River in New London on its way to Boston.
Photo Date:  10/12/2004  Upload Date: 6/11/2017 5:02:21 AM
Location:  Niantic, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 605(ACS-64)
Views:  238   Comments: 1
Acela under the wires
Title:  Acela under the wires
Description:  Boston electrification allowed electric to run the entire length of the Northeast Corridor. Here we see an Acela headed for Boston at a place where New Haven I 5s and DL 109s once trod
Photo Date:  10/12/2004  Upload Date: 9/13/2012 5:09:06 PM
Location:  New London, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 2011(Acela Power Car)
Views:  215   Comments: 0
Eastbound in the snow
Title:  Eastbound in the snow
Description:  Amtrak 705 leads 5 cars of train 282 toward Syracuse in a winter wonderland.
Photo Date:  2/6/2005  Upload Date: 11/19/2012 12:57:14 AM
Location:  Weedsport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 705(P32AC-DM)
Views:  352   Comments: 0
Amtrak 707 west
Title:  Amtrak 707 west
Description:  Amtrak 707 leads train 287 toward Buffalo in familiar surroundings for upstate NY in Frebruary.
Photo Date:  2/6/2005  Upload Date: 11/19/2012 12:59:00 AM
Location:  Weedsport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 707(P32AC-DM)
Views:  265   Comments: 1
Niagara bound
Title:  Niagara bound
Description:  This westbound approaches the overpass at Weedsport. I didnt get a train number, but judging by the time of day, its likely the Maple Leaf.
Photo Date:  4/2/2006  Upload Date: 5/22/2018 5:16:13 AM
Location:  Weedsport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  224   Comments: 0
Empire service train
Title:  Empire service train
Description:  Eastbound Empire Service train 284 rolls into Weedsport en route to its next stop in Syracuse
Photo Date:  4/2/2006  Upload Date: 11/4/2012 12:38:16 AM
Location:  Weedsport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 717(P32AC-DM)
Views:  278   Comments: 0
Lake Shore
Title:  Lake Shore
Description:  The Lake Shore Limited, behind a pair of GEs, is about 25 minutes out of Syracuse on the ex NY Central.
Photo Date:  4/2/2006  Upload Date: 11/4/2012 12:43:24 AM
Location:  Weedsport, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 194(P42DC) AMTK 206(P42DC)
Views:  551   Comments: 0
Turning
Title:  Turning
Description:  One of the Amtrak Missouri!River Runner trains has dropped its passengers at KC Union Station and is now turning the train for the departure to St Louis, making its back up move through Santa Fe Jct to return to Union Station
Photo Date:  10/18/2014  Upload Date: 11/5/2014 2:07:19 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 59(P42DC)
Views:  161   Comments: 2
Pulling around
Title:  Pulling around
Description:  Amtraks Missouri River Runner comes around the connection at Santa Fe Jct as it turns its train to return to St Louis.
Photo Date:  10/18/2014  Upload Date: 11/5/2014 2:10:58 AM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 59(P42DC) AMTK 59(P42DC)
Views:  128   Comments: 1
Oak Grove
Title:  Oak Grove
Description:  Amtrak California car Oak Grove on train 714.
Photo Date:  3/31/2015  Upload Date: 9/1/2018 5:44:55 AM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  165   Comments: 1
Amtrak California San Gabriel River
Title:  Amtrak California San Gabriel River
Description:  Amtrak California has their own equipment. This car was on train 714.
Photo Date:  3/31/2015  Upload Date: 9/1/2018 5:29:36 AM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  98   Comments: 1
Santa Clara River
Title:  Santa Clara River
Description:  Another one of Amtrak Californias cars on train 714
Photo Date:  3/31/2015  Upload Date: 9/1/2018 5:31:43 AM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  79   Comments: 1
Cab car
Title:  Cab car
Description:  The San Joaquins are operated as push pull trains. This is train 714, its cab car Mt Whitney, which you can almost see from here, leads into Stockton.
Photo Date:  3/31/2015  Upload Date: 9/1/2018 5:35:44 AM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  80   Comments: 1
Mt Whitney
Title:  Mt Whitney
Description:  The car name adorns the front of the cab car leading train 714.
Photo Date:  3/31/2015  Upload Date: 9/1/2018 5:37:16 AM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  88   Comments: 1
Imperial Valley
Title:  Imperial Valley
Description:  The diner on train 714.
Photo Date:  3/31/2015  Upload Date: 9/1/2018 5:41:22 AM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  73   Comments: 1
Special power
Title:  Special power
Description:  Amtraks state supported services in California have their own equipment. Were looking at train 714 headed to Bakersfield, the power pushing as it leaves Stockton.
Photo Date:  3/31/2015  Upload Date: 9/1/2018 5:25:18 AM
Location:  Stockton, CA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CDTX 2006(F59PHI)
Views:  156   Comments: 2
Just arrived
Title:  Just arrived
Description:  This Acela has just arrived at Union Station, and now will be serviced for its next trip to New York.
Photo Date:  12/1/2017  Upload Date: 12/9/2017 4:28:47 AM
Location:  Union Station, DC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 2007(Acela Power Car)
Views:  69   Comments: 0
Waiting for the next run
Title:  Waiting for the next run
Description:  An Acela waits at Union Station for its next assignement to New York or Boston.
Photo Date:  12/1/2017  Upload Date: 12/9/2017 4:32:42 AM
Location:  Union Station, DC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 2038(Acela Power Car)
Views:  80   Comments: 0
New units
Title:  New units
Description:  Amtrak recently took delivery of the new power to replace the AEM 7s-which I remember as replacing the E 60s and even GG 1s. Where has 35 years gone??
Photo Date:  12/1/2017  Upload Date: 12/9/2017 4:26:21 AM
Location:  Union Station, DC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 665(ACS-64)
Views:  205   Comments: 1
Coming from afar
Title:  Coming from afar
Description:  One of the things I wanted to do was get a shot of the Southwest Chief while in the Albuquerque area. The timing was good to catch it at Rio Puerco, about 35 miles west of town, and more convenient to my host, who lives in Belen. Plus, there was the added attraction of a scenic spot. The westbound Chief rolls toward Rio Puerco across the scrub, the Sandia Mountains looming in the distance.
Photo Date:  9/16/2023  Upload Date: 10/8/2023 6:08:52 AM
Location:  Rio Puerco, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 154(P42DC)
Views:  39   Comments: 1
Between the signals
Title:  Between the signals
Description:  Amtrak #3 passes between the eastbound home signals at Rio Puerco. A few miles farther east, the line splits, the north track going to the Laguna Sub toward Albuquerque, the south track, the Gallup Sub, going to Belen, which carries almost all of the freight traffic. The dispatcher moved him to the south track at Dalies, 6 1/2 miles to the east, well see why in a moment.
Photo Date:  9/16/2023  Upload Date: 10/8/2023 6:18:28 AM
Location:  Rio Puerco, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 154(P42DC)
Views:  47   Comments: 2
Opening up
Title:  Opening up
Description:  The GEs open up the throttle, giving us a little smoke as they accelerate through the interlocking.
Photo Date:  9/16/2023  Upload Date: 10/8/2023 6:24:34 AM
Location:  Rio Puerco, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 154(P42DC)
Views:  48   Comments: 1
Pouring it on
Title:  Pouring it on
Description:  Its not a Santa Fe PA, but the two Amtrak GEs are doing a good impression as they notch out after passing Rio Puercos interlocking.
Photo Date:  9/16/2023  Upload Date: 10/8/2023 6:37:28 AM
Location:  Rio Puerco, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 154(P42DC)
Views:  47   Comments: 2
Close up view
Title:  Close up view
Description:  It seems almost pointless to use a wide angle view out west, the scenery is so vast. But this does offer a close up look at the six car Southwest Chief as it rolls on west, next stop Gallup, behind a pair of GEs
Photo Date:  9/16/2023  Upload Date: 10/9/2023 5:29:59 AM
Location:  Rio Puerco, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 154(P42DC)
Views:  59   Comments: 1
Why #3 is on the south track
Title:  Why #3 is on the south track
Description:  Going away shot of the Southwest Chiefs last car as it rolls through the point where the north and south tracks split. An eastbound is in the distance.
Photo Date:  9/16/2023  Upload Date: 10/9/2023 5:35:09 AM
Location:  Rio Puerco, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 7832(ES44DC) UP 6005(AC44CWCTE) BNSF 7708(ES44DC)
Views:  80   Comments: 1
All of it
Title:  All of it
Description:  The entire consist of the westbound Chief heads west on the south track, as the eastbound approaches the interlocking.
Photo Date:  9/16/2023  Upload Date: 10/9/2023 5:41:12 AM
Location:  Rio Puerco, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 154(P42DC) BNSF 7832(ES44DC) UP 6005(AC44CWCTE) BNSF 7708(ES44DC)
Views:  90   Comments: 1
Amtrak #4
Title:  Amtrak #4
Description:  I did not expect to see the eastbound Chief, since it was scheduled into Albuquerque before noon, and we usually lingered over breakfast. On the 18th, the tracking site showed it was delayed out in Arizona, and was about five hours late. We went out to Rio Puerco to shoot freights, with the thought in mind we might catch it. We did; it showed about 30 minutes after we arrived, amidst a parade of seven freights. Heres #4 approaching Rio Puerco on the north track.
Photo Date:  9/18/2023  Upload Date: 10/9/2023 5:50:01 AM
Location:  Rio Puerco, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 154(P42DC)
Views:  44   Comments: 1
A little closer
Title:  A little closer
Description:  The Chief closes in on our position at Rio Puerco behind the same two GEs it went west with two days prior, and six cars.
Photo Date:  9/18/2023  Upload Date: 10/9/2023 5:54:15 AM
Location:  Rio Puerco, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 154(P42DC)
Views:  61   Comments: 1
Big sky
Title:  Big sky
Description:  Montana doesnt have a lock on big sky. Theyre everywhere out here. Amtrak #4 rolls east under a tall cloud.
Photo Date:  9/18/2023  Upload Date: 10/9/2023 5:55:57 AM
Location:  Rio Puerco, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 154(P42DC)
Views:  63   Comments: 2
The meet
Title:  The meet
Description:  The Chief meets a westbound stack, holding on the south track. Hell disappear behind the stacker, and take the north track to Dalies, then the Glorieta Sub to Albuquerque.
Photo Date:  9/18/2023  Upload Date: 10/9/2023 6:03:36 AM
Location:  Rio Puerco, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 154(P42DC) BNSF 6756(ES44C4) BNSF 7361(ES44DC) BNSF 9790(SD70MAC)
Views:  91   Comments: 3
Westbound Chief
Title:  Westbound Chief
Description:  Amtrak #3, the westbound Southwest Chief, splits the signals at Rio Puerco behind yet another pair of P 42s. I was hoping for a Charger, but it was not to be.
Photo Date:  9/18/2023  Upload Date: 10/9/2023 6:07:32 AM
Location:  Rio Puerco, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 192(P42DC) AMTK 181(P42DC)
Views:  45   Comments: 1
Close up
Title:  Close up
Description:  The Chief rolls past our position on Landfill Rd as it heads west. The clouds were moving in by this point, not unusual in the afternoon this time of year.
Photo Date:  9/18/2023  Upload Date: 10/9/2023 6:09:33 AM
Location:  Rio Puerco, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 192(P42DC) AMTK 181(P42DC)
Views:  57   Comments: 2
Capitol
Title:  Capitol
Description:  No, not the Amtrak train that runs on the ex B&O. This is southbound Lincoln service train in Lincolns home town, passing the state Capitol as it makes its way towrad St Louis.
Photo Date:  10/16/2023  Upload Date: 12/4/2023 5:38:45 AM
Location:  Springfield, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  IDTX 4623(SC-44)
Views:  48   Comments: 2
Rolling in
Title:  Rolling in
Description:  Train 305 rolls into the station at Springfield, the automatic showing red for northbound traffic as the train occupies the block.
Photo Date:  10/16/2023  Upload Date: 12/4/2023 5:58:02 AM
Location:  Springfield, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  IDTX 4623(SC-44)
Views:  42   Comments: 1


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