A very rare visitor, an Amtrak Cascades F59PHI, came to Washington on its way to North Carolina for a temporary assignment filling in on Piedmont trains after its career in the Pacific Northwest w... (more)

A special Talgo operation for Oregon DOT heads south on the Siskiyou Line near Ashland.

Amtrak train #73, the Piedmont, passes through Raleigh, North Carolina, on September 8, 2018. The train, heading from Raleigh to Charlotte, is led by Amtrak F59PHI 470, and has RNCX F59PH 1... (more)

Cascades in the Carolinas. While a couple NCDOT units were out for PTC installation, Amtrak sent a Cascade F59PHI unit to pinch-hit. Here, train 75 rolls over the Yadkin River to en route Charlott... (more)

While some of the normal power is in Colorado for Positive Train Control testing, a borrowed Amtrak Cascades locomotive leads Amtrak's Piedmont service train number 74 north through Greensboro, NC... (more)

During a break between storms, some nice evening sun illuminates Cascades 507 and Mt Rainier, in the north end of the Puyallup Valley.

On a warm Saturday morning, Amtrak 502 races north along the Puget Sound near Steilacoom, WA with F59PHI #470 on point.

The 470 brings up the markers on this Amtrak Cascades train headed into the station at Edmonds with a ferry in the background. The F59PHI locomotives have been a mainstay since the inception of t... (more)

Putting on a dog and pony show for Oregon DOT, a Cascades Talgo heads for Medford on CORP. It was quite incongruous to see the "high speed" train rolling along at 25 MPH on the Siskiyou ... (more)

Two of a kind.

An Amtrak Cascades unit leads this southbound Sounder commuter out of King Street Station. A large number of Sound Transit locomotives were down for maintenance thus the need to borrow power from ... (more)

Amtrak's midday southbound Talgo passes the world's largest egg.

In June 1999, Oregon DOT sent a Cascades Talgo set to Medford as a promotion for thruway bus service. Aside from a rare mileage excursion in 1996, it was the first public passenger train on the Si... (more)

The Coast Starlight has departed southbound from Portland Union Station and the next activities will involve a Cascadian (left) to Seattle and a bit later, The Empire Builder to Spokane.

An Amtrak Cascades talgo rolls smoothly past OMSI and the Oregon Rail Heritage Center as it heads for Eugene.