Freshly painted Amtrak 231 ran on the point of the daily trains the last weekend of September 2024.

Amtrak F40PH 231, OLS leads the Baseball Special on the Arizona & California at Parker, Arizona, April 17, 1998. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

The northbound Mount Rainier is running a couple of hours late as it arrives at Vancouver on a summer morning. This locomotive was preserved and now resides at a museum in Nevada.

Passenger cab units from different eras repose on a sunny afternoon in the Northwest.

Next Stop - Fullerton!

Amtrak's Operation Lifesaver unit, F40PH 231, shoves San Diegan #578 eastbound through Metrolink's Norwalk/Santa Fe Springs station on February 18, 1997... (more)

Visitors to Railfair 1999 prepare to board a special Amtrak train lead by their Operation Lifesaver painted F40PH 231.

Inspired by Joe McMillan's "High Green To Marceline", the superelevated curve and church at Dahinda along the Santa Fe transcon in Illinois provides the stage for the Southwest Chief, running righ... (more)

Amtrak's Operation Lifesaver unit, F40PH 231, leads "San Diegan" #781 westbound at the station at Fullerton, California. Eastbounds normally use the south main, so finding a westbound here is unu... (more)

Amtrak's Operation Lifesaver unit, F40PH 231, hustles "San Diegan" #779 through Basta, two miles west of the Fullerton, California, station, as the train heads from San Diego to Los Angeles and, e... (more)

Amtrak's Operation Lifesaver unit, F40PH 231, shoves on the rear of "San Diegan" #590 as it heads to San Diego from Los Angeles. The Fullerton station stop is two miles ahead. Note the privately... (more)

Amtrak's Operation Lifesaver unit, F40PH 231, leads "San Diegan" #781 westbound into the station at Fullerton, California. Eastbounds normally use the south main, so finding a westbound here is u... (more)

Amtrak Southwest Chief #3 arrives into Pasadena on a sunny morning in July of 1991 with plenty of mail handling cars up front. The 231 is now preserved and being refurbished at the Brooklyn Roun... (more)

Cotton Belt SD45T-2 6877 waits for Amtrak #11, the southbound "Coast Starlight," to clear the main on a beautiful Spring day along California's central coast in San Luis Obispo.

Amtrak's F40's first worked on the Reno Fun Train in 1978 in combination with SDP40F's and the remaining two ex-SP FP7's. Twenty-three years later, in 2001, they would make their last trips on the... (more)

With the temperature below freezing, AMTK 231 leans into the curve at Mogul, just West of Reno, on its way home with the Reno Snow Train. With a nod to tradition, the 231 is flying white flags not... (more)