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By:Tom Beckett
Dates:6/1/1976 - 12/29/2014
Album Info:Amtrak trains systemwide.
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SPV
Title:  SPV
Description:  The SPV 2000 was going to be the return of the RDC. Didnt quite work out so well, enough so that SPV turned out to mean "seldom powered vehicle." This one is owned by Connecticut DOT, and covered the New Haven-Springfield trips.
Photo Date:  3/8/1983  Upload Date: 10/30/2013 1:49:28 AM
Location:  Springfield, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CDOT 50(SPV-2000)
Views:  373   Comments: 0
E60 in rolls
Title:  E60 in rolls
Description:  Amrak 967 rolls a Florida train through Rahway
Photo Date:  4/18/1983  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 12:22:54 AM
Location:  Rahway, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 967(E60)
Views:  325   Comments: 0
Lucky 7s
Title:  Lucky 7s
Description:  Amtrak 777 leads a work train past Rahway. Ironic that this lowly, slow speed train is waht keeps the 120 MPH passenger trains rolling at speed.
Photo Date:  4/18/1983  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 12:29:19 AM
Location:  Rahway, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 777(GP7)
Views:  445   Comments: 1
Class unit
Title:  Class unit
Description:  Amtrak 900 leads a train toward DC
Photo Date:  4/18/1983  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 12:32:50 AM
Location:  Rahway, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 900(AEM7)
Views:  853   Comments: 0
Amtrak 908
Title:  Amtrak 908
Description:  Amrak 908 rolls toward New York with a corridor train
Photo Date:  4/18/1983  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 12:34:24 AM
Location:  Rahway, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 908(AEM7)
Views:  352   Comments: 0
Amtrak 917
Title:  Amtrak 917
Description:  Amtrak 917 leads a corridor train toward New York.
Photo Date:  4/18/1983  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 12:35:29 AM
Location:  Rahway, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 917(AEM7)
Views:  436   Comments: 0
AEM7 944
Title:  AEM7 944
Description:  Amtrak 944 leads a corridor train through the PATH station at Harrison as it approaches New York. CP DOCK and the Passaic River lift bridges are in the background.
Photo Date:  4/25/1983  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 12:18:41 AM
Location:  Harrison, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 944(AEM7)
Views:  326   Comments: 0
Speeding past the platforms
Title:  Speeding past the platforms
Description:  An Amtrak train bound for Washington and points beyond flies past the station at Rahway in charge of a pair of AEM-7s.
Photo Date:  4/25/1983  Upload Date: 1/8/2012 3:01:55 AM
Location:  Rahway, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 924(AEM7)
Views:  359   Comments: 0
Amtrak 927
Title:  Amtrak 927
Description:  Amtrak 927 rolls past the PATH station at Harrison.
Photo Date:  4/25/1983  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 1:08:11 AM
Location:  Harrison, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 927(AEM7)
Views:  298   Comments: 0
Amtrak 973
Title:  Amtrak 973
Description:  Amtrak 973 leads an Amtrak train toward Washington
Photo Date:  5/12/1983  Upload Date: 12/3/2011 12:51:33 AM
Location:  Rahway, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 973(E60)
Views:  401   Comments: 0
Metroliner
Title:  Metroliner
Description:  An Amtrak Metroliner set from the late 60s heads past the Rahway station en route to DC
Photo Date:  5/12/1983  Upload Date: 12/3/2011 12:55:11 AM
Location:  Rahway, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 821(Electric M.U.)
Views:  445   Comments: 0
AEM7 939
Title:  AEM7 939
Description:  AEM7 939 blasts through Rahway with a DC bound train.
Photo Date:  5/16/1983  Upload Date: 11/27/2011 2:57:34 AM
Location:  Rahway, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 939(AEM7)
Views:  493   Comments: 0
SPV 2000
Title:  SPV 2000
Description:  CDOT 50, painted in Amtrak colors, waits at Springfield Mass to head back to New Haven and a Northeast Corridor connection.
Photo Date:  5/17/1983  Upload Date: 11/27/2011 3:04:45 AM
Location:  Springfield, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CDOT 50(SPV-2000)
Views:  1202   Comments: 0
AEM7 941
Title:  AEM7 941
Description:  Amtrak 941 races through Rahway witha Clocker for Philly as a train of Arrows approaches on the adjacent track.
Photo Date:  7/11/1983  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 12:13:59 AM
Location:  Rahway, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 941(AEM7)
Views:  393   Comments: 1
Crescent arrives
Title:  Crescent arrives
Description:  The Crescent arrives at Alexandria behind a elephant style pair of F40s.
Photo Date:  7/15/1983  Upload Date: 11/16/2013 3:48:51 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 259(F40PHR)
Views:  413   Comments: 0
Amtrak 271
Title:  Amtrak 271
Description:  Amtrak 271 rolls into Alexandria behind elephant style F40s. This was a popular configuration this day.
Photo Date:  7/15/1983  Upload Date: 11/16/2013 3:51:01 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 271(F40PH)
Views:  372   Comments: 0
SW 1
Title:  SW 1
Description:  Amtrak had a fleet of SW 1's that worked yards and some stations. Here's 745 at Sunnyside Yard in Queens
Photo Date:  7/15/1983  Upload Date: 11/12/2013 12:47:37 AM
Location:  Sunnyside Yard/ Hunters Point, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 745(SW1) AMTK 951(E60)
Views:  576   Comments: 0
Amtrak 914
Title:  Amtrak 914
Description:  AEM7 914 is ready to go to New York with a corridor train.
Photo Date:  7/15/1983  Upload Date: 11/16/2013 3:53:47 AM
Location:  Washington Union Station, DC
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 914(AEM7)
Views:  343   Comments: 0
Amtrak 268
Title:  Amtrak 268
Description:  Seen from the vestibule of the southbound ferry move to Richmond for the 1983 NRHS convention, a northbound Amtrak train approaches Alexandria
Photo Date:  7/17/1983  Upload Date: 11/12/2013 12:39:19 AM
Location:  Springfield, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 268(F40PHR)
Views:  324   Comments: 0
Amtrak 267
Title:  Amtrak 267
Description:  Amtrak 267 leads a northbound into Staples Mill Rd station
Photo Date:  7/17/1983  Upload Date: 11/18/2013 12:55:06 AM
Location:  Richmond (Amtrak), VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 267(F40PHR)
Views:  344   Comments: 0
Amtrak 276
Title:  Amtrak 276
Description:  Amtrak 268 leads one of the Florida trains south, overtaking the NRHS convention ferry move on the RF&P
Photo Date:  7/17/1983  Upload Date: 11/12/2013 12:42:46 AM
Location:  Fredericksburg, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 276(F40PH)
Views:  378   Comments: 0
Amtrak 383
Title:  Amtrak 383
Description:  Amtrak 383 leads a southbound into Staples Mill station.
Photo Date:  7/17/1983  Upload Date: 11/18/2013 12:49:49 AM
Location:  Richmond (Amtrak), VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 383(F40PHR)
Views:  279   Comments: 0
Amrak 921
Title:  Amrak 921
Description:  Amtrak 921 hammers past Rahway witha short corridor train
Photo Date:  7/18/1983  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 12:40:16 AM
Location:  Rahway, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 941(AEM7)
Views:  207   Comments: 0
E 60 east
Title:  E 60 east
Description:  Even though most corridor trains had gone to AEM7s by 1983, most of the long haul trains ran with E60s due to their superior tractive effort, a plus with heavy trains. Here 970 is on the last leg into New York with a Florida train.
Photo Date:  7/18/1983  Upload Date: 11/5/2013 12:44:59 AM
Location:  Rahway, NJ
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 970(E60)
Views:  228   Comments: 0
Yard action
Title:  Yard action
Description:  Sunnyside yard was always a great place to see Amtrak power and equipment of all sorts. This view from a passing LIRR train shows a pair of SW 1s an E60 and a Metroliner set
Photo Date:  11/15/1983  Upload Date: 11/27/2013 1:37:29 AM
Location:  Sunnyside Yard, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  AMTK 745(SW1) AMTK 731(SW1) AMTK 951(E60)
Views:  794   Comments: 0
Boston bound
Title:  Boston bound
Description:  A Boston bound train heads for Hell Gate, crossing Northern Blvd in Queens.
Photo Date:  11/15/1983  Upload Date: 11/27/2013 1:42:19 AM
Location:  Astoria, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 923(AEM7)
Views:  276   Comments: 0
Rensselaer facility
Title:  Rensselaer facility
Description:  Amtrak built a mainteneance facility adjacent to the Albany Rensselaer station. This is what you could see from the train.
Photo Date:  12/30/1983  Upload Date: 11/27/2013 1:27:20 AM
Location:  Rensselaer, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  AMTK 347(F40PH)
Views:  165   Comments: 0
Busy place
Title:  Busy place
Description:  Amtrak 940 rolls a New York bound train into Stamford. Note the New Canaan train on the far side of the westbound platform, and an approaching communter train from New Haven. Good action for a Saturday.
Photo Date:  1/21/1984  Upload Date: 5/26/2014 3:11:02 AM
Location:  Stamford Rail Station, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 940(AEM7)
Views:  318   Comments: 0
New York bound
Title:  New York bound
Description:  A New York bound train stops at Stamford on the ex New HAven
Photo Date:  1/21/1984  Upload Date: 11/27/2013 1:39:49 AM
Location:  Stamford Rail Station, CT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 940(AEM7)
Views:  324   Comments: 2
Pooches
Title:  Pooches
Description:  A pair of Amtrak P30CHs sit at New Orleans, which was a base for those units. They were commonly seen on the Sunset in that era.
Photo Date:  3/10/1984  Upload Date: 5/26/2014 3:08:03 AM
Location:  New Orleans - NOUPT, LA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 716(P30CH) AMTK 717(P30CH)
Views:  257   Comments: 0
Pooch in the dark
Title:  Pooch in the dark
Description:  An Amtrak P30CH is the trailing unit on this Sunset Limited. The train is adding cars from 21, the Eagle, which has come in from Chicago.
Photo Date:  3/11/1984  Upload Date: 5/22/2014 4:04:47 AM
Location:  San Antonio, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 710(P30CH) AMTK 708(P30CH)
Views:  354   Comments: 0
Amtrak 712
Title:  Amtrak 712
Description:  Amtrak 712 at San Antonio being swiched. Train 1, the sunset, added cars from 21, the Eagle, and went on to LA. We were doing the "backwards" connection, from #1 to #22 to go to Chicago. It was a 5 hour layover in the station in the middle of the night. Aside from the hard benches, not too awful. Ive had worse times in bus stations at that time of day. Not sure where the SP unit came from. It was not on the train when we left New Orleans, and may have been added at Houston, though it may also have just been assisting with the switching moves to combine the train.
Photo Date:  3/11/1984  Upload Date: 5/22/2014 4:14:38 AM
Location:  San Antonio, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Night,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 712(P30CH)
Views:  204   Comments: 0
UP lends a hand
Title:  UP lends a hand
Description:  I took the Pioneer and Cal Zephyr from Seattle to Chicago. This was about a year after the Thistle mudslide on the DRGW, and Amtrak was not yet running trains there. Numbers 5 and 6 detoured over UP from Salt Lake to Denver. UP added a unit, though as I recall, time keeping was not an issue, as the route was faster than the Rio Grande. Here we see UP 3301 leading the Amtrak power at Borie Jct.
Photo Date:  3/11/1984  Upload Date: 5/22/2014 4:18:09 AM
Location:  Borie, WY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3301(SD40-2) AMTK 301(F40PH) AMTK 256(F40PHR)
Views:  621   Comments: 0
Southbound for tidewater
Title:  Southbound for tidewater
Description:  One of Amtraks trains to Newport News pauses at Alexandria
Photo Date:  3/24/1984  Upload Date: 6/22/2014 3:21:59 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 267(F40PHR)
Views:  180   Comments: 0
New York bound
Title:  New York bound
Description:  The northbound Crescent arrives at Alexandria
Photo Date:  3/24/1984  Upload Date: 6/22/2014 3:23:32 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 299(F40PHR) AMTK 285(F40PHR)
Views:  283   Comments: 0
Florida train
Title:  Florida train
Description:  The Silver Meteor works Alexandria, in one of those "close but no cigar" shots with a light pole right in front of the power.
Photo Date:  3/24/1984  Upload Date: 6/22/2014 3:26:05 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 328(F40PHR)
Views:  160   Comments: 0
AMTK 152
Title:  AMTK 152
Description:  Amtrak turbo at Utica NY
Photo Date:  5/1/1984  Upload Date: 2/14/2011 11:20:10 PM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 152(Turboliner)
Views:  525   Comments: 0
Out of the sun
Title:  Out of the sun
Description:  An eastbound Amtrak turbo races out of the sun as it makes its way toward Grand Central.
Photo Date:  6/1/1984  Upload Date: 6/26/2014 2:30:24 AM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 157(Turboliner)
Views:  172   Comments: 0
Niagara bound
Title:  Niagara bound
Description:  A turbo train makes its Utica stop on its way from New York to Niagara Falls.
Photo Date:  6/1/1984  Upload Date: 6/26/2014 2:36:27 AM
Location:  Utica, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 160(Turboliner)
Views:  184   Comments: 0
Lake Shore
Title:  Lake Shore
Description:  The Boston section of the Lake Shore makes its stop at Pittsfield Mass. The Amtrak station here was put in after they restored service in 1975. The former station was a large wooden frame building about 1/2 mile to the west that served the NYC and New Haven, which came up from Danbury.
Photo Date:  7/13/1984  Upload Date: 6/26/2014 2:39:15 AM
Location:  Pittsfield, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 216(F40PH)
Views:  372   Comments: 1
Broadway on the curve
Title:  Broadway on the curve
Description:  The eastbound Broadway approaches Horseshoe Curve behind consecutively numbered F40's as it makes its way to an engine change at Harrisburg, and on to New York. Some trains were still carrying Slumbercoaches in late 1984-note the partial view of the sleeper at the far left.
Photo Date:  9/27/1984  Upload Date: 7/3/2014 3:34:06 AM
Location:  Horseshoe Curve, PA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 366(F40PHR) AMTK 367(F40PHR)
Views:  335   Comments: 0
Southwest arrives
Title:  Southwest arrives
Description:  The Southwest Chief-Santa Fe would not let Amtrak use the Super Chief name-arrives at Albuquerque behind a trio of F40s.
Photo Date:  10/5/1984  Upload Date: 7/10/2014 1:30:01 AM
Location:  Albuquerque, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 251(F40PHR) AMTK 249(F40PHR) AMTK 246(F40PHR)
Views:  646   Comments: 1
Washing up
Title:  Washing up
Description:  At that time, it was preactice to wash the windows, at least on the western long distance trains, in mid trip. The washer has just completed this task on train 3.
Photo Date:  10/5/1984  Upload Date: 7/10/2014 1:35:06 AM
Location:  Albuquerque, NM
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  131   Comments: 2
Boston bound
Title:  Boston bound
Description:  An AEM7 leads a Boston train through Rye
Photo Date:  2/5/1985  Upload Date: 9/26/2014 1:13:58 PM
Location:  Rye, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 909(AEM7)
Views:  233   Comments: 0
Amtrak 940
Title:  Amtrak 940
Description:  Amtrak 940 heads for an engine change at New Haven, mkaing good speed through Rye.
Photo Date:  2/5/1985  Upload Date: 9/26/2014 1:19:52 PM
Location:  Rye, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 940(AEM7)
Views:  246   Comments: 0
Headed for Penn
Title:  Headed for Penn
Description:  A westbound Amtrak train rolls through Rye on its way to New York in the gathering gloom of a February day.
Photo Date:  2/5/1985  Upload Date: 9/26/2014 1:22:52 PM
Location:  Rye, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 941(AEM7)
Views:  203   Comments: 0
AEM 7 headed for New Haven
Title:  AEM 7 headed for New Haven
Description:  An AEM 7 wheels a Boston bound train through the sharp curve at Rye. The catenary gives this away as the ex New Haven
Photo Date:  2/12/1985  Upload Date: 9/13/2012 5:05:06 PM
Location:  Rye, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 909(AEM7)
Views:  270   Comments: 1
Boston section
Title:  Boston section
Description:  The Boston section of the Lake Shore rolls past the Palmer station behind a "ghetto grill" equipped F40, a staple of northeastern passenger trains
Photo Date:  2/19/1985  Upload Date: 9/26/2014 1:09:41 PM
Location:  Palmer, MA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 209(F40PH)
Views:  507   Comments: 0
Headed up the Hudson
Title:  Headed up the Hudson
Description:  An Amtrak Turboliner, standard equipment in Empire Service at the time, blasts by the station at Garrison.
Photo Date:  4/12/1985  Upload Date: 9/30/2014 2:51:16 AM
Location:  Garrison, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 152(Turboliner)
Views:  191   Comments: 0
Going away to Albany
Title:  Going away to Albany
Description:  A westbound turbo makes a fast run for Albany. The turbos tended to have a lot of smoky exhaust, which explains the filthy cab.
Photo Date:  4/12/1985  Upload Date: 9/30/2014 2:52:37 AM
Location:  Garrison, NY
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 157(Turboliner)
Views:  133   Comments: 0


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