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By:TS _Illinois
Dates:7/1/1978 - 8/12/1989
Album Info:A few Amtrak photos from here and there spanning the 80s. Hope to be adding more soon...
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The National Ltd
Title:  The National Ltd
Description:  My first ever photo of an Amtrak train. My only photo of an Amtrak E-unit. And my only shot of The National Ltd which would be discontinued a little more than a year after this photo was taken. The vantage point for this shot was in the lead cab of a Conrail freight that had stopped in Caseyville, IL to let the passenger train go by. The date is uncertain - I only know for sure that it was the Summer of 78.
Photo Date:  7/1/1978  Upload Date: 5/18/2012 3:38:34 PM
Location:  Caseyville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  InCab,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 430(E9A)
Views:  536   Comments: 1
Amtrak 291
Title:  Amtrak 291
Description:  The Southwest Limited pulls into the station at Galesburg, IL.
Photo Date:  12/29/1980  Upload Date: 6/17/2011 10:18:07 AM
Location:  Galesburg, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 291(F40PHR)
Views:  669   Comments: 0
Amtrak 274
Title:  Amtrak 274
Description:  Amtraks Fort Pitt rolls through Sand Patch, PA on a sunny January morning in 82.
Photo Date:  1/4/1982  Upload Date: 11/22/2011 12:07:13 AM
Location:  Sand Patch, PA
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Winter,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 274(F40PH)
Views:  720   Comments: 0
Amtrak 366
Title:  Amtrak 366
Description:  The northbound Ann Rutledge crosses the Wood River bridge in Alton, IL.
Photo Date:  3/24/1982  Upload Date: 11/22/2011 12:12:29 AM
Location:  Alton, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger
Locomotives: 
Views:  705   Comments: 0
The St. Louis Mule
Title:  The St. Louis Mule
Description:  #290 leads the Amtrak St. Louis Mule from Kansas City around the bend just prior to its station stop in Kiriwood, MO.
Photo Date:  1/23/1983  Upload Date: 6/17/2011 10:20:49 AM
Location:  Kirkwood, MO
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Winter,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 290(F40PHR)
Views:  574   Comments: 0
Amtrak test train
Title:  Amtrak test train
Description:  Hoping to take advantage of the anticipated increase in passenger flow heading to the 1984 Worlds Fair in New Orleans, Amtrak hatched a plan to connect its Kansas City/St. Louis traffic to the southbound City of New Orleans. To accomplish this, a short run was needed between St, Louis and the IC main in south-central Illinois. Two potential routes were evaluated: the Southern, which would catch the CoNO in Centralia; and IC which would intercept in DoQuoin. Here, one of the evaluation trains checks out the IC line through Belleville. Eventually, however, the Southern route was selected, and the resultant River Cities would ply the rails from April 1984 until November 1993.
Photo Date:  3/17/1983  Upload Date: 5/18/2012 3:23:29 PM
Location:  Belleville, IL
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 370(F40PHR)
Views:  692   Comments: 0
Unexpected Superliners
Title:  Unexpected Superliners
Description:  I know this was either the Ann Rutledge or the St. Louis Mule, but neither of those trains ran with anything but cram-fleet equipment -- except on this fine Fall day in 86. It may have been a special Thansgiving weekend football consist...
Photo Date:  11/28/1986  Upload Date: 5/18/2012 3:45:02 PM
Location:  Kirkwood, MO
Author:  TS _Illinois
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 259(F40PHR)
Views:  605   Comments: 0


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