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CR 8403
Title:  CR 8403
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/1/1977  Upload Date: 7/11/2013 5:36:16 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Bill Padgett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8403(SW1)
Views:  454   Comments: 0
CR SW1 8403
Title:  CR SW1 8403
Description:  Conrail SW1 8403 at about 21st Street in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in June 1978, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  6/1/1978  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 12:20:15 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Bridge
Locomotives:  CR 8403(SW1)
Views:  237   Comments: 0
AMTK Fuel Tender 400
Title:  AMTK Fuel Tender 400
Description:  Amtrak 400 at about 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois sometime in July 1978, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Searching the Internet for more information about this, I found the following:

Yeah Ed, I was involved in some of those issues about 20 years ago when I was working on Amtrak's Fuel Tender program. We had an old E-8 loco that had both engines removed and replaced with (6) 1350 gallon aux. water tanks from the old SDP40-F's. Total fuel capacity in the E-8 including belly tanks was 9300 gallons of #2 fuel. The fuel level gauge was removed from one side of the fuel tanks on two F-40's and replaced with a float switch. One F-40 at each end of the E-8. Every time the float switch dropped, pumps would kick on in the E-8 and transfer fuel to the F-40's through hoses with quick disconnects. Of course, the transfer rate on those pumps didn't need to be high capacity. On one trip from Chicago to Seattle, we got to Seattle with almost enough fuel on board to return partway to Chicago WITHOUT refilling in Seattle. We used a fuel consumption rate of 2 gpm per F-40 (that's gallons per mile!) plus fudge factors. On the return trip when we passed through Spokane, where there was a drive-up fuel truck alongside the station track...he was going to pump fuel no matter what until we explained we didn't need his services on this trip (guess he didn't get the message). All this got started due to the fact that the contract RR's were no longer using the fuel stanchions at the end of the passenger station platforms. The EPA tried to get the contract RR's to clean up those areas, but they explained that Amtrak was the only one using them. Sooooo, the EPA went after Amtrak to clean up the mess. Amtrak had about 180 fuel sites across the country and thought that one way to eliminate the problem (and excessive cost) would be to carry the fuel and eliminate the need for en-route refuelling. Evidently, the cost of a fleet of "fuel tenders" was excessive. I think Amtrak has since gone back and put containment pads in and improved the fuel nozzle shutoff features. Just a little history from my RR'ing days. cb

http://chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=53047&view=next

Photo Date:  7/1/1978  Upload Date: 4/20/2011 10:00:25 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AMTK 400(Fuel Tender) CR 8403(SW1)
Views:  3053   Comments: 2
CR SW1 8403
Title:  CR SW1 8403
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/26/1980  Upload Date: 2/26/2013 1:14:15 PM
Location:  Fort Wayne, IN
Author:  Alan Gaines
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8403(SW1)
Views:  541   Comments: 0
CR 8404
Title:  CR 8404
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/18/1981  Upload Date: 10/30/2015 10:33:28 PM
Location:  Elizabethport, NJ
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8404(SW1)
Views:  190   Comments: 0
CR 8406
Title:  CR 8406
Description: 
Photo Date:  2/1/1978  Upload Date: 12/27/2015 2:23:38 PM
Location:  Cleveland, OH
Author:  Bill Padgett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8406(SW1)
Views:  291   Comments: 0
CR 8407
Title:  CR 8407
Description:  Ex-CNJ "Blue-dip"
Photo Date:  1/5/1979  Upload Date: 10/28/2012 10:49:14 PM
Location:  Elizabethport Yard, NJ
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8407(SW1)
Views:  436   Comments: 4
Conrail 8407
Title:  Conrail 8407
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/23/1980  Upload Date: 3/21/2008 7:02:46 PM
Location:  Elizabethport Yard, NJ
Author:  andrew koenigsberg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8407(SW1)
Views:  474   Comments: 0
Conrail (CR) EMD SW1 No. 8407
Title:  Conrail (CR) EMD SW1 No. 8407
Description: 
Photo Date:  4/13/1980  Upload Date: 2/2/2009 7:19:36 AM
Location:  Elizabethport Yard, NJ
Author:  Bill Rogerson
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 8407(SW1)
Views:  637   Comments: 0
CR/8407
Title:  CR/8407
Description:  "Blue dip" paint job.
Photo Date:  4/19/1980  Upload Date: 12/14/2012 12:12:47 AM
Location:  Elizabethport, NJ
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8407(SW1)
Views:  320   Comments: 1
CR 9278
Title:  CR 9278
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/24/1980  Upload Date: 12/14/2012 12:13:04 AM
Location:  Elizabethport, NJ
Author:  Tim Darnelk
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 9278(NW2) CR 9240(NW2) CR 8407(SW1) CR 8520(SW1) SOU 6908(E8A)
Views:  841   Comments: 2
CR 8408
Title:  CR 8408
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/5/1978  Upload Date: 4/22/2015 10:06:35 AM
Location:  Elizabethport Yard, NJ
Author:  andrew koenigsberg
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8408(SW1)
Views:  509   Comments: 0
CR SW-1 8408
Title:  CR SW-1 8408
Description:  With CR E-8A 4256 behind, ex-CNJ SW-1 8408 rests whitelined in fresh blue in the Elizabethport service line in February, 1979.
Photo Date:  2/28/1979  Upload Date: 11/1/2015 5:41:20 AM
Location:  Elizabethport, NJ
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 8408(SW1)
Views:  353   Comments: 0
CR 7836
Title:  CR 7836
Description:  Always liked going here, lots to see
Photo Date:  4/15/1979  Upload Date: 6/25/2023 6:35:37 PM
Location:  Elizabethport, NJ
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 7836(GP38) NJT 5902(GP7) NJT 5906(GP7) NLL 1800(RS36) CR 3108(GP40) NJT 4167(U34CH) CR 8408(SW1) CR 9269(NW2) NJT 4180(U34CH)
Views:  230   Comments: 2
CR 8408
Title:  CR 8408
Description:  There were many safe visits here, but today for some reason I was asked to leave. Figures, look at all the good stuff here today!! Luckily, I used the E'port station platform to shoot some of it.
Photo Date:  8/8/1979  Upload Date: 4/5/2020 10:54:06 PM
Location:  Elizabethport, NJ
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 9269(NW2) NJT 4167(U34CH) PNCX 1114(SW8) CR 3272(GP40) CR 5428(GP8) CR 8408(SW1)
Views:  522   Comments: 1
CR SW1 8408
Title:  CR SW1 8408
Description:  CR SW1 8408 (ex-CNJ 1012) and 8870 (ex-CNJ 1082) rest in the Elizabethport service line in August, 1979.
Photo Date:  8/17/1979  Upload Date: 10/31/2015 9:16:01 PM
Location:  Elizabethport, NJ
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 8408(SW1) CR 8870(SW7)
Views:  326   Comments: 0
Pocono Northeast 601
Title:  Pocono Northeast 601
Description:  Former PNER 601, CR 8408, CNJ 1012.
Photo Date:  1/2/2009  Upload Date: 2/6/2009 6:42:36 PM
Location:  Duryea, PA
Author:  Mark Obrzut
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PNER 601(SW1) CR 8408(SW1) CNJ 1012(SW1)
Views:  1338   Comments: 0
 CR SW-1 #8409 is the trailin unit on an engine changer at Frankford Junction
Title:  CR SW-1 #8409 is the trailin unit on an engine changer at Frankford Junction
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/22/1979  Upload Date: 1/25/2009 4:28:44 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Michael Desoi
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 8409(SW1)
Views:  400   Comments: 1
CR SW-1 #8409 is the last unit on an engine changer heading west through Frankfor Junction Station
Title:  CR SW-1 #8409 is the last unit on an engine changer heading west through Frankfor Junction Station
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/22/1979  Upload Date: 8/10/2011 8:39:58 AM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Michael Desoi
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CR 8409(SW1)
Views:  370   Comments: 0
CR 8411 and 9997
Title:  CR 8411 and 9997
Description:  Conrail power outside Dewitt Shops
Photo Date:  8/23/1980  Upload Date: 9/14/2009 11:57:59 PM
Location:  Syracuse, NY
Author:  Bob Zimmermann
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8411(SW1) CR 9997(RS3M)
Views:  1050   Comments: 0
Alongside retired T-6 9847, CR SW-1 waits for assignment
Title:  Alongside retired T-6 9847, CR SW-1 waits for assignment
Description:  Alongside retired T-6 9847, CR SW-1 rests at the Croxton yard engine terminal in August, 1979.
Photo Date:  8/17/1979  Upload Date: 10/12/2018 5:06:38 PM
Location:  Secaucus, NJ
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 8414(SW1)
Views:  244   Comments: 2
CR 8414 (RF)
Title:  CR 8414 (RF)
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/31/1979  Upload Date: 10/14/2007 3:20:42 PM
Location:  Secaucus, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 8414(SW1)
Views:  482   Comments: 1
CR SW1
Title:  CR SW1
Description:  Croxton yard,date stamp on slide says 8/81
Photo Date:  8/15/1981  Upload Date: 4/12/2012 10:21:22 PM
Location:  Secaucus, NJ
Author:  albert kwolek
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 8414(SW1)
Views:  419   Comments: 0
CR SW1 8415 (ex-CNJ)
Title:  CR SW1 8415 (ex-CNJ)
Description:  CR SW1 8415 (ex-CNJ) at Elizabethport yard.
Photo Date:  11/18/1978  Upload Date: 12/23/2015 4:24:58 PM
Location:  Elizabethport, NJ
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 8415(SW1)
Views:  237   Comments: 0
CR SW1 8415 (ex-CNJ)
Title:  CR SW1 8415 (ex-CNJ)
Description:  CR SW1 8415 (ex-CNJ) at Elizabethport yard.
Photo Date:  11/18/1978  Upload Date: 12/23/2015 4:27:40 PM
Location:  Elizabethport, NJ
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 8415(SW1)
Views:  182   Comments: 0
CR 8415, 8578 on the dead line
Title:  CR 8415, 8578 on the dead line
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/23/1980  Upload Date: 10/30/2015 10:33:23 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8415(SW1) CR 8578(SW1)
Views:  270   Comments: 0
CR 8415
Title:  CR 8415
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/24/1980  Upload Date: 5/30/2024 10:08:45 PM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8415(SW1) CR 8578(SW1)
Views:  52   Comments: 2
CR SW1 8419 at the Bethlehem roundhouse
Title:  CR SW1 8419 at the Bethlehem roundhouse
Description:  Former LV SW1 8419 (CR 8419) takes a rest at the Bethlehem roundhouse in April, 1977..
Photo Date:  4/9/1977  Upload Date: 4/17/2015 6:27:31 PM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 8419(SW1)
Views:  286   Comments: 2
Former LV SW1 8419
Title:  Former LV SW1 8419
Description:  Former LV SW1 8419 idles at the Bethlehem engine terminal
Photo Date:  8/27/1978  Upload Date: 12/26/2015 8:15:00 AM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 8419(SW1)
Views:  185   Comments: 0
CR SW1 8419
Title:  CR SW1 8419
Description:  Ancient former LV SW1 115 (CR 8419) rests at the Croxton engine terminal in March, 1979.
Photo Date:  3/1/1979  Upload Date: 9/8/2016 7:47:05 PM
Location:  Secaucus, NJ
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 8419(SW1)
Views:  137   Comments: 1
CR SW1 8419
Title:  CR SW1 8419
Description:  Ancient SW1 8419 rests at the Croxton engine terminal in March, 1979.
Photo Date:  3/1/1979  Upload Date: 9/8/2016 7:55:04 PM
Location:  Secaucus, NJ
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 8419(SW1)
Views:  104   Comments: 0
CR 8419 (RF)
Title:  CR 8419 (RF)
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/16/1979  Upload Date: 7/17/2007 6:29:56 AM
Location:  Secaucus, NJ
Author:  Jim Gavin
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 8419(SW1)
Views:  574   Comments: 0
CR 8419
Title:  CR 8419
Description:  Colorful deadline at Scranton.
Photo Date:  3/23/1980  Upload Date: 3/21/2009 10:10:47 AM
Location:  Scranton, PA
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8596(SW1) CR 9246(NW2) CR 8419(SW1)
Views:  781   Comments: 1
A former LV SW-1 idles in front of the power plant building
Title:  A former LV SW-1 idles in front of the power plant building
Description:  A former LV SW-1 idles in front of the power plant building at Bethlehem in August, 1978.
Photo Date:  5/28/2016  Upload Date: 6/6/2016 7:34:20 AM
Location:  Bethlehem, PA
Author:  Alan Page
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CR 8419(SW1)
Views:  193   Comments: 0
First generation goodies
Title:  First generation goodies
Description:  Were passing the Chicago engine facility just outside Union Station, where first generation power is holding sway. A pair of Es, a GP 7 from the PC Valpo train, and an SW 1 shop switcher dominate the scene, quite typical of the time. Note the building in the background, the Continental Paper Grading Co. I had no idea my teachers were sending my term papers here to get graded. I thought they did it all themselves :-)
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 12/8/2016 4:58:50 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  AMTK 412(E9A) AMTK 473(E9B) CR 8420(SW1) CR 5959(GP7)
Views:  786   Comments: 2
In and out
Title:  In and out
Description:  The action is heavy at the station throat. Ex UP 763 pushes the Southwest Chief into the station, as an ancient Conrail SW 1 pulls storage mail out of the Post Office for assingment to Amtrak trains.
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 12/9/2016 4:06:23 AM
Location:  Chicago Union Statio, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 763(GP9) AMTK 516(SDP40F) AMTK 511(SDP40F) CR 8420(SW1)
Views:  807   Comments: 1
CR SW1 #8420
Title:  CR SW1 #8420
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/31/1979  Upload Date: 8/11/2021 9:16:00 PM
Location:  Chicago Union Statio, IL
Author:  Gerard Putz
Categories:  Roster,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CR 8420(SW1)
Views:  101   Comments: 0
CR 8420
Title:  CR 8420
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/14/1980  Upload Date: 8/4/2022 11:36:25 AM
Location:  Toledo, OH
Author:  Alan Gaines
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8420(SW1)
Views:  90   Comments: 0
CR 8423
Title:  CR 8423
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/4/1978  Upload Date: 5/8/2012 3:32:34 PM
Location:  Collinwood, OH
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories:  Winter
Locomotives:  CR 8423(SW1) CR 6244(SD40)
Views:  435   Comments: 0
CR 8424
Title:  CR 8424
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/25/1978  Upload Date: 5/24/2009 1:20:27 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Tom Golden
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8424(SW1)
Views:  431   Comments: 0
Putting it together
Title:  Putting it together
Description:  A section crew works near the coach yard for the CR train, getting good and sweaty on this hot August day. The yard power behind them is an ancient SW 1, and even more ancient P 70 coaches, still in their Penn Central green.
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 11/17/2016 5:04:29 AM
Location:  Chicago Union Statio, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  CR 8424(SW1)
Views:  234   Comments: 1
CR SW1 8424
Title:  CR SW1 8424
Description:  Conrail SW1 8424 at about 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in September 1979, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler..
Photo Date:  9/1/1979  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 11:20:59 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  CR 8424(SW1) AMTK 463(E8A)
Views:  492   Comments: 0
CR 8424
Title:  CR 8424
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/12/1981  Upload Date: 5/9/2012 10:30:54 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  C.W. Lahickey
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8424(SW1)
Views:  317   Comments: 0
CR 8424
Title:  CR 8424
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/3/1983  Upload Date: 8/4/2022 11:37:32 AM
Location:  McCook, IL
Author:  Alan Gaines
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8424(SW1)
Views:  96   Comments: 0
CR 8427
Title:  CR 8427
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/4/1981  Upload Date: 8/4/2022 11:38:33 AM
Location:  Detroit, MI
Author:  Alan Gaines
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8427(SW1)
Views:  54   Comments: 0
Conrail 8429
Title:  Conrail 8429
Description:  SW1 8429 switches cars at the Albany Amtrak station.
Photo Date:  8/15/1978  Upload Date: 12/17/2020 10:23:16 AM
Location:  Albany, NY
Author:  James Sponholz
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8429(SW1)
Views:  199   Comments: 0
CR 8429
Title:  CR 8429
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/17/1979  Upload Date: 4/14/2020 9:44:13 PM
Location:  Selkirk, NY
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8429(SW1) CR 1937(B23-7) CR 6468(SD40-2)
Views:  286   Comments: 2
CR 8429 works at raritan Steel
Title:  CR 8429 works at raritan Steel
Description:  Trial scan with phone camera
Photo Date:  4/1/1982  Upload Date: 9/25/2019 10:10:04 PM
Location:  Perth Amboy, NJ
Author:  Tim Darnell
Categories: 
Locomotives:  CR 8429(SW1)
Views:  272   Comments: 1
CR SW1 8429
Title:  CR SW1 8429
Description:  Conrail SW1 8429 at about Roosevelt Road in Chicago, Illinois on June 7, 1982, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  6/7/1982  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 11:36:24 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  CR 8429(SW1)
Views:  259   Comments: 0
CR SW1 8429
Title:  CR SW1 8429
Description:  Conrail SW1 8429 at about 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois on July 12, 1982, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 8429 was built in May 1949 as NYC SW1 603 (c/n 6409, second SW1 #603) on EMD Order E999, later renumbered to NYC 8429 before becoming PC and CR 8429. This locomotive might be a SW1m, modified to also function as a portable bike rack.
Photo Date:  7/12/1982  Upload Date: 3/24/2011 12:21:55 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  CR 8429(SW1)
Views:  663   Comments: 1


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