Very nice, with the GG-1 and E-60 in the photo. Only saw the X996 once, at 30th Street, back when no one cared if you walked down to the platforms to observe trains. It was parked on a side platform in dim light, unfortunately, and I didn't have a tripod.
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| Posted by pjflstc on August 2, 2019 | |
At first glance, X996 reminded me of the "break truck" that drove into our plant at break-time every morning. Drop the side door down, sell coffee, donuts & hot sandwiches to employees who's gathered around. Gee, was Amtrak maybe looking to make a free more bucks at each stop?.....lol.
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| Posted by Kibu on August 2, 2019 | |
There's some interesting small details in this photo, in regards to the unit itself. First and foremost, it looks like they've added an anti-climber to the cab ends of the locomotive. There's also a small F on one end, which is interesting that they've actually designated one cab as being the front. Kinda makes me wonder that, if they had stuck with the program, then a single cab variant might have been developed at some point; not unlike how Siemens has done with some of their designs.
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Great picture ! 6500 and 21000 were very iconic and famous locomotive series at SNCF. They don't run commercial services now, but some units are preserved and run regularly historic trains.
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I'm enjoying the ADMIRAL windows.
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| Posted by on August 3, 2019 | |
A very unique picture and a true gem. Thanks a lot for sharing.
The CC 21000 have hauled the international TEE (Trans Europ Express) "Le Cisalpin" Paris - Lausanne - Milano on the French section between Paris and Vallorbe (Switzerland border station). Here is the picture of the CC 21003 (AMTK X996) with the farewell Cisalpin run in January 1984: https://www.railpictures.net/photo/513913/
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You want fast passenger locos, France has always shown the way. Even in the steam days, France was the leader of fast locomotives.
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| Posted by FSWood on October 20, 2019 | |
I've always like the body styling of these and their BB bretheren. If the styling choice had been mine to make I would have mounted the US headlights vertically centered above windshield as opposed to horizontally low. However, there may well be a technical reason why the US lights had to go down near where the existing headlight wiring was on the low nose.
As a detail note, I'm guessing the 4 round objects low on side panel, starting there by the "F" for front, are the sand fillers.
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Its sad that this rode rough on the NEC's tracks.
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