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In USA traveling by car or
airplane is very popular, so the railway has strong competitors
and has to find its niche place in the transportation system. For
long-distance passenger trains the Amtrak company is quite
sucessful and offers a country-wide service with comfortable,
speedy trains. Only the East coast line Washington- Philadelphia-
New York - Boston is electrified. The freight trains are
profitable, because they are very long, sometimes more than 2km
long, the longest in the world.
Line Washington - Philadelphia - NewYork
The
Amtrak High-Speed train on the East Coast line is the fastest
train in America.
Photo: H. Suzuki, 2002-07
Line Washington - Chicago
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The Acela Regonal Train 194 in Richmond VA in 2001-06-03
Photo: Pete Pisczek
An Amtrak express train at Ruther Glenn VA in beautiful autuum
colors 2001-10-22
piture taken by: Pete Pizscek
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An Amtrak express train at Ruther Glen VA in 2001-10-22
piture taken by: Pete Pizscek
downloaded from the amtrak-railfan homepage in 2003-01
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Amtrak Express on heavy rail
Date: 2001-08-18 Picture taken by: Pete Pizscek
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BNSF 1494, a GP15, leads the westbound freight train over the
Media trestle.
Location: Media, IL
Date: 23, 2002-11-23
Picture taken by: Nick Suydam
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The skyscrapers of Chicago IL in the background say good-bye to
this Amtrak express leaving the underground Chicago Union
station. The old engines type 413 were almost all replaced in
2002. Chicago is the one of the busiest stations in America and
the central station connecting the East and West railway line
system. Chicago has also many freight railway stations.
Date 1994-07 Photo Mike Raia
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Line Chicago - Denver towards Rocky Mountains
A container train runs westwards near Emerald NE
Photo by Grumpy, Date: 2002-11-23
A modern BNSF locomotive with train 63 runs towards Denver ,
picture taken near Cobb, NE
Photo by Grumpy 2002-11-23
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Six engines in front of this long-distance freight train at
Maryhill, WA 101
Photo Dan Schwanz 2002-11-23
Pictures from the Canjon pass appear often in articles about USA
railways. BSNF locomotives lead a intermodel freight train
westbound.
Photo Wayne Buser 2002-11-23
The Amtrak express No.6, California Zephyr connecting San
Francisco with Chicago, at Donner pass near Cutch Flat, CA,
heading towards Reno, NV. Here, in the Rocky Mountains tourists
can enjoy watching the wild life and nature. The Sequoia trees,
which grow in Eastern California, are the oldest and highest
tress in the world.
Photo Chris Kinoshita, 1999-05-02
downloaded from http://lib2.clark.cc.oh.us/amtrak/amtSCENIC3 in
2003-01
Nostalgic train with the most
powerful and largest steam locomotive of the world running
through the rockies at Cahon pass. Three water supply cars are
necessary.
Photo Hiroshi Sugie in "North and South American steam
locomotive journey" (in Japanese) published by
Seibundoushinkousha, Tokyo 1999
