AMTRAK E8's, late 1970's... Bonus, AMTRAK FL9's, 1996
161K views · Aug 31, 2016 · Autos & Vehicles
Comments · 261
@loganbaileysfunwithtrains606 · 10 years ago
Amtrak was gritty and grimy in the 1970s, and I love it even though I was born decades after this.
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@mikeggg5671 · 7 years ago
Sad to think that AMTRAK was so poor, they couldnt afford wash racks!
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@hakeemsd70m · 6 years ago
I would do anything to see an E8 in action, some of my personal favorite six-axles. What a time it must have been to be alive...
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@cehayes74 · 9 years ago
Give me Amtrak from the 1970's anytime, that was real RRing back then !!!
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@davidbrown4823 · 3 years ago
Early Amtrak was something one could model so easily.
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@soyounoat · 5 years ago (edited)
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR6JCWCdhDo&t=291">4:51</a> Big Burly Horn.
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@gezag.hanniker1940 · 1 year ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR6JCWCdhDo&t=469">7:49</a> … cool to see the 3rd rail shoe brake off track device.
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@arcadebw · 3 years ago
This was great. If I could back in time to experience this in person, I would. Just long enough for a quick trip. Then back to the future.
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@tommythomason6187 · 6 years ago (edited)
The Penn Central paint scheme looked good on those E8s. Amtrak put all the Es through a reconditioning program when they took over, but they're looking pretty worn, at this juncture. Read in Trains Magazine, long back, that Amtrak approached EMD about building more of the E units, but the carbody blueprint had been thrown away, which made costs for such a locomotive - an E10, so to speak - prohibitive.
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@BrickifyYT · 3 years ago
The Classic e8 are My favorite Classic Locomotives on Amtrak even though they look dirty and old idc and they do go well with the train consist
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@FrehleyFan3988 · 8 years ago (edited)
This is real heirtege here! I rode the Broadway limited when PRR still operated, and when it was on it's last run, I rode it for the last time.
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@devsworld6399 · 2 years ago
Man I love these old good day trains
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