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3/6/2025
 
 
 
 
 
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Penn Central 272
Title:  Penn Central 272
Description:  An EMD E8A in Amtrak service, near Albany, May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/17/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 8:18:12 PM
Location:  Rensselaer, NY
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  PC 272(E8A)
Views:  433   Comments: 0
Amtrak 277
Title:  Amtrak 277
Description:  An EMD E8A in the first Amtrak paint scheme at South Station in Boston in December 1975.
Photo Date:  11/20/1975  Upload Date: 9/12/2013 3:43:30 PM
Location:  Boston South Station, MA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 277(E8A)
Views:  521   Comments: 0
Amtrak 299
Title:  Amtrak 299
Description:  An ex-PC EMD E8A, battered and tattered, like South Station, in Boston, November 1975.
Photo Date:  11/14/1975  Upload Date: 9/10/2013 6:19:53 PM
Location:  Boston South Station, MA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  AMTK 299(E8A)
Views:  418   Comments: 0
South Station in Boston in 1975.
Title:  South Station in Boston in 1975.
Description:  Amtrak meets Penn Central meets the PRR in November 1975 at South Station in Boston.
Photo Date:  11/12/1975  Upload Date: 9/10/2013 11:23:01 AM
Location:  Boston South Station, MA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 300(E8A) PC 4254(E8A)
Views:  767   Comments: 0
Amtrak 328
Title:  Amtrak 328
Description:  At Croton-Harmon, diesel locomotives take over from electrics in May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/22/1976  Upload Date: 9/10/2013 8:47:16 PM
Location:  Croton Harmon, NY
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 328(E8A)
Views:  457   Comments: 0
Amtrak 328
Title:  Amtrak 328
Description:  An EMD E8 at Albany, NY, in March 1977.
Photo Date:  9/10/2013  Upload Date: 9/10/2013 4:53:57 PM
Location:  Rensselaer, NY
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 328(E8A)
Views:  486   Comments: 0
Amtrak 345
Title:  Amtrak 345
Description:  A Florida train passes Potomac Yard in April 1976.
Photo Date:  4/17/1976  Upload Date: 9/12/2013 1:19:33 PM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 345(E8A)
Views:  429   Comments: 0
Amtrak 443
Title:  Amtrak 443
Description:  An EMD E8A at Albany-Rensselaer in May 1976 photographed from the dome car on the Adirondack.
Photo Date:  5/22/1976  Upload Date: 9/12/2013 1:16:02 PM
Location:  Rensselaer, NY
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 443(E8A)
Views:  371   Comments: 0
Amtrak 453
Title:  Amtrak 453
Description:  A brace of EMD E8s (headed by AMT 453) roll the eastbound Broadway Limited past a Conrail freight train in Marysville, PA, in September 1977.
Photo Date:  9/10/1977  Upload Date: 9/10/2013 6:24:14 PM
Location:  Marysville, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 453(E8A) CR 6147(SD45)
Views:  469   Comments: 0
Amtrak 495
Title:  Amtrak 495
Description:  Amtrak 495 (formerly Amtrak 284 and Penn Central 4276) was one of five older EMD E units rebuilt with HEP to operate with the new Amfleet equipment seen in the background. It also received a new livery, compare it with the older pointless arrow scheme on the E unit in the background. Philadelphia, April 1977.
Photo Date:  4/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/10/2013 11:36:33 AM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Track
Locomotives:  AMTK 495(E8A)
Views:  443   Comments: 0
CNW 514
Title:  CNW 514
Description:  An EMD E8A at Northwestern Terminal in Chicago on August 5, 1977.
Photo Date:  8/5/1977  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 10:11:28 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CNW 514(E8A)
Views:  341   Comments: 0
CNW 518
Title:  CNW 518
Description:  An EMD E8A at Northwestern Terminal in Chicago on August 5, 1977.
Photo Date:  8/5/1977  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 10:12:31 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CNW 518(E8A)
Views:  417   Comments: 0
CNW 518
Title:  CNW 518
Description:  An EMD E8A at Northwestern Terminal in Chicago on August 5, 1977.
Photo Date:  8/5/1977  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 10:13:09 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CNW 518(E8A)
Views:  340   Comments: 0
CRIP 644
Title:  CRIP 644
Description:  La Salle Street Station, Chicago, August 1977.
Photo Date:  8/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/13/2013 7:26:34 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CRIP 644(E8A)
Views:  303   Comments: 0
CRIP 639 and 649
Title:  CRIP 639 and 649
Description:  Two EMD Es at La Salle Street Station, Chicago, August 1977.
Photo Date:  8/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/13/2013 7:27:58 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CRIP 639(E7A) CRIP 649(E8A)
Views:  416   Comments: 0
CRIP 652
Title:  CRIP 652
Description:  This was Independence, an EMD E8A, the Rock Island bicentennial unit, bringing in the Quad Cities Rocket in August 1977.
Photo Date:  8/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/13/2013 7:45:59 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CRIP 652(E8A)
Views:  339   Comments: 0
CRIP 655
Title:  CRIP 655
Description:  An EMD E8A arrives with a Rocket at La Salle Street Station in August 1977.
Photo Date:  8/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/13/2013 7:25:41 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CRIP 655(E8A)
Views:  322   Comments: 0
CRIP 655
Title:  CRIP 655
Description:  Although the Rock Island had once been a mighty fine line, by the late 1970s, it was rather run down. At La Salle Street Station in Chicago, an EMD E8A rests at the head of the Peoria Rocket in August 1977.
Photo Date:  8/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/13/2013 7:31:36 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CRIP 655(E8A)
Views:  364   Comments: 0
CRIP 657
Title:  CRIP 657
Description:  EMD E9A on a local train at La Salle Street Station in Chicago in August 1977.
Photo Date:  8/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/13/2013 7:24:18 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A)
Views:  456   Comments: 0
CRIP 657
Title:  CRIP 657
Description:  La Salle Street Station, Chicago, August 1977.
Photo Date:  8/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/13/2013 7:32:27 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CRIP 657(E8A)
Views:  428   Comments: 1
CRIP 660
Title:  CRIP 660
Description:  La Salle Street Station, Chicago, August 1977.
Photo Date:  8/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/13/2013 7:28:59 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CRIP 660(E8A)
Views:  295   Comments: 0
CRIP 661
Title:  CRIP 661
Description:  An EMD E8A waiting its peak-hour run at La Salle Street Station in August 1977.
Photo Date:  8/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/13/2013 7:29:52 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CRIP 661(E8A)
Views:  302   Comments: 0
CRIP 661
Title:  CRIP 661
Description:  An EMD E8A at La Salle Street Station in August 1977 photographed from a Blue Island local leaving the station.
Photo Date:  8/15/1977  Upload Date: 9/13/2013 7:50:49 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  CRIP 661(E8A)
Views:  281   Comments: 0
E-L 828
Title:  E-L 828
Description:  An EMD E8A in the scrap line at Altoona in March 1978.
Photo Date:  3/18/1978  Upload Date: 8/19/2013 9:37:33 AM
Location:  Altoona, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  EL 828(E8A)
Views:  264   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4081
Title:  Penn Central 4081
Description:  An ex-New York Central EMD E8A in the scrap line at Morrisville, PA, in May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/22/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 8:59:09 PM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PC 4081(E8A)
Views:  326   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4095
Title:  Penn Central 4095
Description:  A fully repainted Penn Central E8A in the scrap line in Morrisville in May 1976.
Photo Date:  5/22/1976  Upload Date: 8/26/2013 9:06:48 PM
Location:  Morrisville, PA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories: 
Locomotives:  PC 4095(E8A)
Views:  338   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4254
Title:  Penn Central 4254
Description:  An EMD E8A between assignments at South Station in Boston in November 1975.
Photo Date:  11/15/1975  Upload Date: 8/24/2013 9:43:28 PM
Location:  Boston South Station, MA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  PC 4254(E8A) PC 4261(E8A)
Views:  812   Comments: 1
Penn Central 4261
Title:  Penn Central 4261
Description:  This ex-PRR EMD E8A was in passenger service when I photographed it in Bostons South Station in December 1975
Photo Date:  12/10/1975  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 7:49:18 PM
Location:  Boston South Station, MA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  PC 4261(E8A)
Views:  453   Comments: 0
Penn Central 4326
Title:  Penn Central 4326
Description:  An EMD E8A in Newark, NJ, in February 1976. This was likely one of the North Jersey Coast units that was in Newark for the weekend.
Photo Date:  2/14/1976  Upload Date: 8/27/2013 5:53:46 PM
Location:  Newark, NJ
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  PC 4326(E8A)
Views:  402   Comments: 0
Southern 6900
Title:  Southern 6900
Description:  Ivy City engine terminal, Washington, August 1976.
Photo Date:  8/14/1976  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 11:24:24 AM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOU 6900(E8A)
Views:  694   Comments: 0
Southern 6901
Title:  Southern 6901
Description:  This photo always reminds me of favorite train trip to Florida. Instead of taking Amtrak there directly from Philadelphia, I took the then-independent Southern Crescent to Birmingham and then took the Amtrak Floridian (a Chicago to Florida train) from Birmingham to Miami. Heres the Crescent in Birmingham in August 1976.
Photo Date:  8/15/1976  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 11:06:37 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6901(E8A)
Views:  854   Comments: 0
Southern 6902
Title:  Southern 6902
Description:  Southern was one of the railroads that did not join Amtrak in 1971 and operated a dwindling number of passenger trains including the Southern Crescent, seen here in Alexandria, VA, in March 1978.
Photo Date:  3/11/1978  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 10:49:35 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6902(E8A)
Views:  331   Comments: 0
Southern 6904
Title:  Southern 6904
Description:  EMD E8s on the Southern Crescent at Birmingham, AL, in February 1978
Photo Date:  2/27/1978  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 11:00:28 AM
Location:  Birmingham, AL
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6904(E8A)
Views:  334   Comments: 0
Southern 6907
Title:  Southern 6907
Description:  The motive power for the Southern Crescent wore these ugly patches for the Bicentennial. Ivy City engine terminal, Washington, August 1976.
Photo Date:  8/14/1976  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 11:23:26 AM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  SOU 6907(E8A)
Views:  447   Comments: 0
Southern 6909
Title:  Southern 6909
Description:  The second unit (of four) on the Southern Crescent at New Orleans on February 28,1978.
Photo Date:  2/28/1978  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 10:56:36 AM
Location:  New Orleans - NOUPT, LA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6909(E8A)
Views:  310   Comments: 0
Southern 6911
Title:  Southern 6911
Description:  Just starting its long journey to New York, the Southern Crescent leaves New Orleans on February 28, 1978.
Photo Date:  2/28/1978  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 10:52:13 AM
Location:  New Orleans - NOUPT, LA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  341   Comments: 0
Southern 6911
Title:  Southern 6911
Description:  The Southern Crescent leaves New Orleans in February 1978.
Photo Date:  2/28/1978  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 10:53:17 AM
Location:  New Orleans - NOUPT, LA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  329   Comments: 0
Southern 6911
Title:  Southern 6911
Description:  Just before starting its long journey to New York, the Southern Crescent prepares to leave New Orleans on February 28, 1978.
Photo Date:  2/28/1978  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 10:58:08 AM
Location:  New Orleans - NOUPT, LA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6911(E8A)
Views:  300   Comments: 0
Southern 6914
Title:  Southern 6914
Description:  Four EMD E8s head the Washington-bound Southern Crescent outside Alexandria, VA, in March 1978. Less than a year later, Amtrak would take over the operation of this train.
Photo Date:  3/11/1978  Upload Date: 9/14/2013 10:50:47 AM
Location:  Alexandria, VA
Author:  John Hepp
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  SOU 6914(E8A)
Views:  516   Comments: 0


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