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| 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) |
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544 Comments: 1 |
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| 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: |
684 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
734 Comments: 0 |
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| 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 |
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711 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
580 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
706 Comments: 0 |
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| 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: |
618 Comments: 0 |
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