It’s an easy but not particularly nice under a highway half-mile walk to New Haven-State Street where I see Train #275 pass as I reach the pedestrian overpass that leads to the simple island platform. I head downstairs and photograph a Shore Line East Train powered by leased Amtrak P40s still in their paint scheme […]
Tag: the Inland Route
Shuttle Train #475 arrives in Push-Mode led by the cab car on time. The two conductors open both vestiblue doors and I sit in the cab car before the red, crew only backwards flag. There like three people in normal clothes sitting behind the flag, I believe they are Amtrak employees deadheading. I sit as […]
The Vermonter comes in early at 2:36 on the track closest to the station, led by P42 #156 covered in snow in the heritage paint scheme. I ask the new engineer waiting for the train if I can get a photo of the locomotive. The answer is yes but don’t go beyond the forklift near […]
At 12:54, 2 minutes early, I photograph the short, overpowered Lake Shore Limited: two P42 Locomotives, a Baggage Car, a Viewliner Sleeper, 2 Amfleet-II coaches and an Amfleet-II Lounge car arriving. One conductor has opened the baggage car door for the one piece of checked baggage I noticed on the cart in the station, a […]
Amtrak traditionally ran one or two New York to Boston trains per day via Springfield, know as the inland route, the last regularly scheduled train (last Sunday for example, Amtrak ran a couple emergency trains via the inland route with the costal route closed due to a derailment near New Haven) ran in 2004. Today there is […]