Amtrak (AMTK) 301 - EMD F40PH

Steven T Evans photo

The wrecked carbody of F40PH 301.

The springfield quintuplets

Amtrak SDP40F 630 ( far right ) at about 17th Street in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in October 1981, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.

Sometimes things went well, and I got to see some trains while working. This day I was making a delivery to the Budweiser distributor in Ottumwa-which was across the street from the BNSF ex Q main. Good timing-got to see #6 roll by with 19 cars while waiting for the dock.

Three units in storage. 288 & 271 went to work on Ohio Central. I think 301 also did.

Amtrak No.6 heads east on the BN At Aurora, about to pass under the high St bridge....Steve & Dave Collection

AMTK 301 Pushing Tr. 615

Amtrak's Silver Star Heading to New York from Deerfield Beach Florida

This is one of my only, and perhaps my only, good shot of an F40PH taken from above. This was a southbound, which could only be train 68, the "Adirondack" for New York Penn. It's slowing for Plattsburgh station, which is in the distance, around the curve and on the right side of the tracks.

I've always liked!this photo, even if many serious photographers haven't. They say it's "boring," but most of them aren't railfans! From the technical point of view, the contrast is a#bit low, but since it was a gloomy Plattsburgh winter day, if I were to up the contrast on this, the detail and the grit of the scene would be lost. For the railfans, though, it'n a nice shot of an F40PH in the last years of F40 haulage on Train #68, the "Adirondack."

Eastbound Amtrak Empire Builder rolls past PA Jct.