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Metrolink in Southern California has retired it's only F40PH (ex-Amtrak 396) when they received the grant from the CARB (California Air Resources Board) to purchase the new F125s to replace the older F59PH, F59PHI, and the F40PH in the fleet and as part of the agreement, they were forced to...
The Pioneer has made the overnight run from Seattle and pauses at Salt Lake City for a fuel stop around 6:30 in the morning. The Pioneer was discontinued in 1997. This shot was from a trip I took around 1986.
Amtrak 67 and 318, Chicago, IL, Sept. 1979, photo by Chuck Zeiler
The 67 is a ANF-Frangeco built Turboliner delivered to Amtrak in 1975. The 318 is an EMD F40PH built around August 1979 (c/n777107-15).
Here is the Talgo at the Vancouver Amtrak depot doing work on Main #2 and the BNSF Subraru job with the BNSF #2935 (RCL'ed) comes up Main #1 to go down to the Port of Vancouver with his autoracks in tow from North Portland Jct. Yard (Terminal 6). This BNSF job has gone to remote control the...
This is one of my favorite photos & was used by the Virginia Railways Express for one of their cover photos on their Commuter Weekly Paper read by about 20,000 Commuters a day.
Good morning America how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of Rockland,
I'll be gone two hundred miles when the day is done.
AMTK 216 w/ #26 "The Pioneer" arriving at the Union Pacific Depot in Salt Lake City, UT., 1982. This place is a shopping center now and the depot houses a Virgin Record store among other things.