AMTK 17

3.29.2020. Little Rock Tunnel. AMTK 17 heads up the eastbound Cardinal down the Blue Ridge grade. It is about to enter the Little Rock Tunnel, the shortest tunnel on the grade at ~100 feet and the last remains tunnel of the four (Greenwood, Brooksville, Little Rock, and Blue Ridge) that were originally built in the 1850's by the Virginia Central Railway for access to the Shenandoah Valley through Rockfish Gap.

Amtrak 17 crosses Highway 436 with the midday Meteor.

A southbound Amtrak train pulls into the station for a couple minutes before continuing south

AMTK 17

he Amtrak Cardinal Train 50 is passing through Gordonsville where it makes its move north toward Culpeper, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and ultimately New York.

he Amtrak Cardinal Train 50 is passing through Gordonsville where it makes its move north toward Culpeper, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and ultimately New York.

The Amtrak Cardinal Train 50 is passing through Gordonsville where it makes its move north toward Culpeper, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and ultimately New York.

(GNW&B "Gritty Palace")

(GNW&B "Gritty Palace")

AMTK 80 with an unexpected Private car on the head end (GNW&B "Gritty Palace")

CP Mebane

AMTK 20 at its station stop at Danville

AMTK 20 about to make its station stop with 203 trailing

National Train Day @ the Lake Superior Railroad Museum

National Train Day @ the Lake Superior Railroad Museum

Amtrak #8 is about two hours off the advertised approaching its Winona MN station stop.

EB BNSF Mendota Sub

EB BNSF Mendota Sub

EB BNSF Mendota Sub

EB BNSF Mendota SubA

A southbound Silver Meteor enters Maitland’s Lake Lilly Park behind Amtrak 17.

A southbound Silver Meteor crosses Maitland behind Amtrak 17.

The Empire rolls east at 1437.

AMTK Train 3 approaches a horizontal blade (red signal) at West Colmor. Behind the cars in this shot is some dark clouds from small, but very severe storm to the north that I drove through just a few minutes after taking this shot.

a tardy Empire Builder heads east for Chicago

train 29 Capitol Limited ready to depart for Chicago