RAILROAD SIGNALS of the U.S.
Amtrak's 40th Anniversary Train
In New York City
NY
National Train Day
May 12th, 2012
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The train in Baltimore MD Most of the detail shots are on this page
The train in Perryville MD
The train at the
Strasburg RR in Strasburg PA
The train in
Harrisburg PA
The train in Scranton
PA at Steamtown
The train in Jackson
MI
The train in Ft Worth
TX
The train in Richmond
VA
The train in
Wilmington DE
The train in New York City
Amtrak could not have picked a better place to end the tour of their Anniversary Train!
If ya'll missed the train in New York City, you missed a most excellent time. In addition to the Anniversary train, on display was also: an Acela Train, a couple of Metro North engines, several of the latest Metro North cars, a number of heritage fleet cars, several observation cars, including one from Amtrak. Upstairs where the displays and booths were, the place was packed with elbow room only. The longest line was for people to go thru the heritage cars.
The train must have been very cool to see coming down from Albany with the attached heritage cars, but it did so under the cover of darkness, so pictures were not possible. I'm not sure when it returned.
For those of you that were there, you may have noticed that the power car, #406, was not on display, this is because it was too big to fit through the tunnels.
I would like to thank ALL of the Amtrak and non-Amtrak people who volunteered their time over the past year to help with the train, as they ALL did a great job and were about as nice and helpful as anyone could be. Kudos also have to go to the Amtrak Police Department and other security people involved for allowing us railfans to run all over the place, sometimes even to places we weren't supposed to go.
Pictures were not always easy to get because of the narrow platforms and the droves of people in the way.....
We say goodbye to Steve Ostrowski, who has been just the best as the train's Trainmaster over the past year
George and Fran selling Amtrak souvenirs upstairs
The Amtrak Observation Car #10001
Dunno, forgot to get her name :-(
One of the newer Metro North cars, the cab is slightly more complicated than 40 years ago :-)
General pictures, mostly upstairs
BTW, if you happened to have one of the
National Park Service's
Stamp Book, they had a stamp for the day!
L to R, my original Passport Book from October 1987 (it's binding has left the
book in pieces :-), my first "official" visit to one of the National Park
sights, before I bought the book, the first stamp from the Chiricahua National
Park in Arizona, the stamp from National Train Day 2012, and the new 25th
Anniversary Edition Passport Book I got when the Anniversary train was in
Scranton at Steamtown
NEW 5/6/2012
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Modified 03-Jul-2015