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1/29/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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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:  860   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:  1007   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:  844   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:  514   Comments: 0
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:  277   Comments: 1
Meet at CP 293
Title:  Meet at CP 293
Description:  Q271 waits for a new crew on the NYSW, having just come up from Binghamton while an eastbound Amtrak Empire Service train passes as it approaches its Syracuse station stop.
Photo Date:  7/13/2002  Upload Date: 9/28/2013 1:57:48 AM
Location:  Syracuse, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CSX 7884(C40-8W) HLGX 6620(C36-7) CSX 7743(C40-8W) AMTK 831(P40DC)
Views:  971   Comments: 1
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:  357   Comments: 1
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:  492   Comments: 0
Big action at King St
Title:  Big action at King St
Description:  The Washington Metro stop at King Street in Alexandria is adjacent to the Amtrak station, and it is possible to see a lot of interesting things there. Here a Metro train stops along with the northbound Crescent.
Photo Date:  1/6/2013  Upload Date: 11/22/2013 1:39:22 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MTA 3048(Electric M.U.) AMTK 835(P40DC)
Views:  208   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) AMTK 836(P40DC)
Views:  688   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:  822   Comments: 0


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