| Posted by beano on August 15, 2021 | |
How dare they take her wings away, but I know she still flies down the track working for Amtrak. Just my thinking but these engines even looked good hauling freights an even old piggy trains. Look at the sign on the train station , a new way to spell old. Great photo Roger. Westbound to the coast. But I do miss those wings. O, look ,I see a GN dome liner in skyblue and also past that a bit a NY Central aqua painted 50 ft. double doored boxcar. Lot to sea in this photo. They probably have a rail gang working full time if not two keeping those nuts and bolts tight on that precise trackage.
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This is Amtrak #15 Texas Chief departing Chicago Union Station. The date would be before October 1972. From mid-May 1972 to early-September 1972, Amtrak leased 12 UP E8s and E9s (with option to purchase) for assignment on its Chicago-Texas Texas Chief trains #15/16. All the UP markings were removed and the units renumbered into the Amtrak 1300(2 E8As, 2 E8Bs) and 1400(5 E9As, 3 E9Bs) number series. No Amtrak markings were ever applied to these units while in Amtrak Texas Chief service, and these units were only used on the Texas Chief during this time period. These twelve leased UP E8s and E9s were purchased by Amtrak and renumbered by eliminating the "1", and given other assignments. Santa Fe's 300 Class F units normally assigned to Texas Chief #15/16 were reassigned to Amtrak Calofornia service and "Chief" trains #19/20 during the summer of 1972. Santa Fe's 300 Class F units were returned to Texas Chief trains #15/16 in September 1972. I have many slides of these E units on Amtrak #16 at Houston Union Station during the summer of 1972.
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That massive, brick edifice, in the near background labeled PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, caught my attention as well.
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