Amtrak (AMTK) 321 - EMD F40PHR

L Zeutschel photo

Randy Curlin Collection

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Coming east and about to pass through Northtown Yard, the Empire Builder is running late this winter day.

Amtrak train No. 1, the Westbound Sunset Limited, is switched at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal - Track 5. This is during the transcontinental era of the Sunset Limited. Inbound off the CSX this train's consist was P40 809, F40 321, 1208, 39914, 32073 California, 32039, 38015, 33025, 34057, 39954, & 31033. At New Orleans the third car, sleeper 32073 California, was set out for mechanical issues and replaced with sleeper 32105 Oregon. I would ride this train from New Orleans to Lake Charles where I would meet Lowell McManus and begin an epic road trip to Mexico.

Train 8 is running quite late as it passes Newport Tower at 75 mph on a cold day. The tower was shutdown later this year and moved just south of here and is now a museum.

Gates are down, two toots, they're leaving and so are we. Off to a nice dinner, a couple of cocktails and a motel in Rouses Point. Tomorrow we head to Montreal.

Here is one more shot for a better view of the tower. This tower was a dispatching office for many years with BN/Milwaukee Road staffing it with employees from both companies. the 4 jobs were split between the two railroads.

Construction progresses on the new station at Ann Arbor as westbound train #355 (Twilight Ltd.) passes.

Amtrak train #353 "Lake Cities" heads west at CP Lake, e. of Chelsea.

Amtrak F40PHR 321 at 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois on March 22, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.

Amtrak F40PH 302 at 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois on March 22, 1983, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.

Northbound Amtrak approaching Joliet

As part of Steamtown's Railfest, there was a Saturday Whistle Stop train with DL RS3s as seen here pulling into Moscow station.

AMTK 321

Amtrak 448 exits the "new" State Line tunnel on track 2. The second bore was part of the NYC&HRRR upgrade of the B&A performed in 1912.

The westbound Boston section of the "Lake Shore Ltd", train 449 blows through Westfield at 17:57.

Train 669 passing the old station at Windsor Locks.

Departing tr.171, behind the 261, meets arriving tr.12 just west of Old Saybrook station.