In addition to our diverse corporate holdings, the Amtrak Archives includes generous donations from former employees and the public. Many of these items come with colorful backstories.

Colorful fall scenery often plays a starring role in advertisements for the Vermonter, Adirondack and Cardinal.

The pages of the August 1980 issue of Amtrak NEWS offer a look at the step-by-step process of converting older cars to modern head-end power.

Meant to keep tickets safe, jackets are also used to tout customer service initiatives, highlight new equipment and showcase the stunning scenery along various routes.

Through a partnership between the state of New York and Amtrak, passenger rail service returned to the Champlain Valley in August 1974.

At New Orleans, the Sunset Limited crosses the Mississippi River over the Huey P. Long Bridge. One of the longest steel trestle railroad bridges in the world, it has appeared in various Amtrak marketing campaigns.

Long-term investments came to fruition as Amtrak gained an all-electric fleet, installed a new nationwide ticketing and reservation computer system and moved towards completion of the Northeast Corridor Improvement Project.

In Amtrak's early decades, regional trains in the Northeast carried a variety of individual names--with many referencing the Revolutionary War era.

An Amtrak history exhibit at the Museum of Transportation—St. Louis gives us a chance to share our past with visitors—and provide a glimpse into our future.

A depot's big move to make way for an intermodal center helps shed light on a celebratory scene.