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Amtrak Voices: Mike Lustig, Part 1
Amtrak Voices is an occasional series in which we talk with long-time Amtrak employees to discover what attracted them to the company, recount its early days and explore changes they witnessed in...
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Amtrak Voices: Mike Lustig, Part 2
Amtrak Voices is an occasional series in which we talk with long-time Amtrak employees to discover what attracted them to the company, recount its early days and explore changes they witnessed in...
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A Closer Look: The Pere Marquette
Regular service began August 5, 1984.The Amtrak Archives contains dozens of buttons and pins that span the company’s 45 year history. Primarily developed by the Marketing department, they highlighted...
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Meet an Amtrak Bridge Operator
A Northeast Regional train skirts Long Island Sound before crossing the Niantic River over the Niantic River Bridge between East Lyme and Waterford, Conn.During hot summer days, it’s hard not to think...
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A Closer Look: Fleeting Summer
The Montrealer along Lake Champlain at East Alburg, Vt. This watercolor by artist Gil Reid was featured on the 1990 Amtrak calendar.The bright blue waters of Lake Champlain, famed green hills of...
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Stations Then and Now: Tour 3
The Amtrak Marketing department photo library contains thousands of slides that we are working to sort, digitize and make available to the public. The collection includes images of trains traveling...
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On Board the Pennsylvanian
The daily Pennsylvanian (New York-Philadelphia-Pittsburgh) covers a 444-mile route that crosses over the Rockville Bridge– the oldest stone masonry arch railroad viaduct in the world – and famed...
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Amtrak Year-by-Year: 1986
“In many ways, fiscal year 1986 was one of Amtrak’s most successful years,” wrote then-Amtrak President W. Graham Claytor, Jr. in that year’s annual report. “Through it all Amtrak kept a keen eye on...
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A Closer Look: Fort Worth Union Depot
Often times, photographs and slides found in the Amtrak Archives have no identifying information. Picking out familiar elements can help narrow down the possibilities of time and place, and sometimes,...
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Celebrating the Hell Gate Bridge Centennial
The Hell Gate Bridge carries the Northeast Corridor over the East River in New York City. It opened to passenger rail traffic on April 1, 1917.April 1, 2017, marks the centennial of regularly scheduled...
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Refreshing the Amfleet
Rendering showing newly upholstered seats in a refurbished Amfleet coach car.Amtrak recently announced that it is investing in an extensive overhaul of the interiors of the famed Amfleet I cars. First...
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Amtrak’s “Star City” Homecoming
State, local and Amtrak officials gathered in Roanoke to celebrate the return of Amtrak service to the city.Cheering crowds gathered in Roanoke, Va., on Oct. 30, 2017, to greet the arrival of the...
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Reconnecting the San Joaquin Valley
In early March 1974, residents of the San Joaquin Valley – one of the world’s most productive agricultural regions, running the length of the California interior between Los Angeles and San Francisco –...
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A Guide to Amtrak Liveries and Logos
EMD E9A locomotive No. 418, leading the Coast Starlight/Daylight, wears the first Amtrak livery introduced in 1972.One of the most common questions we receive through the Amtrak History website is,...
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Stations Then and Now: Tour 4
The Amtrak Marketing department photo library contains thousands of slides that we are working to sort, digitize and make available to the public. The collection includes images of trains traveling...
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