| Amtrak E8A-R 444 at about 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in Sepember 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 444 was completed by EMD on June 10, 1946 as ACL E7 532. In 1953 E7A 532 was wrecked and rebuilt in July 1953 into an E8A with the same road number on EMD Order 8027A. It became SCL 575 upon merger, was leased to Amtrak becoming AMTK 233. Upon expiration of the lease, it was rebuilt to E8A-R 444 in September 1973 and retired in July 1981. |