AMTK 948

View out the cab of AMTK 948.

AMTK 948 only has six more months of service ahead of it.

After backing into the station AMTK 948 waits for its passengers to board.

AMTK 948 is about to pass under the CSX mainline.

AMTK 948 will be placed in storage in July 2015.

AMTK 948 moves slowly around the wye at the grade crossing.

AMTK 948 is turning a train on the wye at Ivy City.

AMTK 948 heads north with Train #98 (Silver Metor).

Retired Amtrak AEM-7 stored at the car shops in Bear for disposition

An Amtrak train passes the site of the former PRR Lawrence Station on its way toward New York City.

Amtrak "Veternns Unit" amongst the yard power

Along side the two brand new Amtrak City Sprinters are hoppers loaded with ballast. These were brought in to be used at the derailment site further north at Frankford Junction

AMTK #521 pulls the three electric locomotives out of the engine facility and through the yard

AMTK #643 & #642 ("Honoring Our Veterans"), at the Race St engine facility after being delivered to begin service on the Northeast Corridor

Built September 1988.

Pushing a Keystoner.

Amtrak train 98(18) with reman AEM7's 943 and 948 crosses the snow and ice covered Susquehanna River on the big bridge.

Considering that Amtraks AEM-7 electric locomotives are being retired, the engineroom is still much cleaner than it would be in a diesel-electric locomotive. This is one of the two hallways in AEM-7AC 948 (built in 1988), which has the components arrayed in the center of the locomotive. (Photogaphed on railroad property with permission and full PPFE.)

Awaiting its departure time at Washington DCs Union Station, Amtrak AEM-7AC 948 is in charge of one of the carriers many, many Northeast Regional trains, which connect population centers all along the eastern seaboard. Buit as an AEM-7 in 1988, and converted to AC power in July 2001, motor 948 is nearling the end of its service life as Amtraks 900s are replaced with newer Siemens-built 600-class ACS-64 locomotives. (Photographed on railroad property with permission and full PPE.)

Amtrain train 20(29) with reman AEM7 948 leading on number 2 track at Magnolia, MD.

West at 1534.

train 43 Pennsylvanian arriving

Keystone Service train 666 arriving Newark Penn Station

Northbound on Track 2.

Northeast Regional train 148.

Amtrak train 89(24) with reman AEM7 948 goes through the big curve on number 3 track at Principio, MD.

Amtrak train 98(2) with reman AEM7 948 kicks up some snow as it starts by on number 2 track at Bengies, MD, PW Line.

train 98 Silver Meteor passing through North Philadelphia Station