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Amtrak Arriving At The Station

by John Morris in Railroading on 08/10/2008
5 Comments

The 4000 hp General Electric Genesis

Bloomsbury Estates in the background

Collecting passengers

The last carriage

At the crossing

Whirring off into the night

5 Comments:

dbearhug
08/11/2008

This is always a favorite activity when going downtown for supper. The #74 Piedmont comes in from Charlotte around 8:30 and then the #91 Silver Star makes its way into Raleigh from New York to Miami around 9:30. The Raleigh Amtrak station is one of the busiest in regards to boardings along the corridor, and occasionally one gets a surprise when a private railcar is attached to the rear. Thanks for the pictures, as always!

Peace and All Good

John
08/11/2008

dbearhug – Once again, I can’t thank you enough for enlightening both me and readers of this site with the details of Raleigh’s rich history and current activities with regard to rail travel and freight moving.

Private railcar?! That’s one I haven’t seen, and will now need to hang out there more often to try and get a glimpse of one!

Thanks for commenting and thanks for the kind words.

A*Sue of Green Grounded
08/11/2008

If I could always enjoy Raleigh through your vision, I’d live here forever… I just don’t see it, except for at night, when I’m forced to sleep instead… bah!

Makes me miss my college days when I stayed awake all night and slept in.

Ari
08/11/2008

Ah, the Amtrak…. Good times, good times. Took it to Washington, DC once in ’03. Raleigh Station -> Union Station. ‘Bout a six hour ride. I had dinner on that train… They make great hot dogs :-) It really wasn’t dinner or lunch, as I had dinner after I got to my Aunt’s house where I was staying. OK I’m gonna go check out Goodnight, Asheville! now.

dbearhug
08/12/2008

Good Evening, Good People!

The American Association of Private Railcar Owners has a website of available private varnish available for charter. Their website is http://www.aaprco.com. We’ve see the J Pinkney Henderson come through from Charlotte as well as the Georgia 300 which is based out of Fernandina Beach, FL. The most awesome spectacle we saw was a 4-car consist of former California Zephyr streamliners owned at the time by Quad Graphics from Sussex, Wisconsin. That was a rare treat, indeed.

We’ve also seen the Dover Harbor, but it was usually parked up in Washington, DC Union Station. But, the one I keep hoping to see is the Hollywood Beach beacause it’s an old Seaboard Air Line lounge/sleeper which has a glass roof in the rear section. Because of the tunnels going in/out of NY Penn Station, it was one of only three cars in existence which had a glass roof and still be able to go from New York to Miami with a quick stop in Raleigh. It’s now owned by the same people who own the J Pinkney Henderson in Lancaster, SC.

Peace