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Amtrak in the City
Title:  Amtrak in the City
Description:  AMTK 576
Photo Date:  10/31/1974  Upload Date: 2/3/2010 9:10:38 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Tom Golden
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 576(SDP40F)
Views:  411   Comments: 1
AMTK 576
Title:  AMTK 576
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/22/2014  Upload Date: 6/22/2014 6:58:16 PM
Location:  Tullytown, PA
Author:  Dave Wolfe
Categories:  Roster,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 576(SDP40F)
Views:  456   Comments: 0
Half done
Title:  Half done
Description:  A Milw. detour put me back on pass. for a day. Milw.(AMTK) 7, 8, 9 and 10 were re-routed due to a problem on their normal route. I caught 7 and 10 from Chicago to Savanna and return. The entire round trip took a whole 5hr. 35min. The RFE (portly gentleman with the felt hat) thumbin' a ride, rode with me on the westward leg.
Photo Date:  4/12/1975  Upload Date: 1/3/2010 10:17:16 AM
Location:  Savanna, IL
Author:  Karl Rethwisch
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 577(SDP40F)
Views:  566   Comments: 2
1037-08 Eastbound Amtrak Hiawatha on BN/GN passenger main near Snelling Avenue
Title:  1037-08 Eastbound Amtrak Hiawatha on BN/GN passenger main near Snelling Avenue
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1977  Upload Date: 6/10/2007 3:31:22 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 577(SDP40F)
Views:  517   Comments: 0
1037-09 Eastbound Amtrak Hiawatha on BN/GN passenger main overtakes CNW freight on freight main near Snelling Avenue
Title:  1037-09 Eastbound Amtrak Hiawatha on BN/GN passenger main overtakes CNW freight on freight main near Snelling Avenue
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1977  Upload Date: 6/10/2007 3:31:53 PM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 577(SDP40F)
Views:  418   Comments: 0
1002-11 Eastbound Amtrak Empire Builder on BN Willmar line passing Oakland Road
Title:  1002-11 Eastbound Amtrak Empire Builder on BN Willmar line passing Oakland Road
Description:  Note BN Bidirectional ABS Signal at MP. 20.5
Photo Date:  8/1/1975  Upload Date: 2/10/2010 2:49:15 AM
Location:  Minnetonka, MN
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Signal,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 578(SDP40F)
Views:  607   Comments: 0
w/b Amtrak mini-Builder led by SDP40F #578
Title:  w/b Amtrak mini-Builder led by SDP40F #578
Description:  at Cut Off
Photo Date:  9/20/1975  Upload Date: 9/27/2020 8:24:04 AM
Location:  Milwaukee, WI
Author:  Gerard Putz
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 578(SDP40F)
Views:  191   Comments: 1
1032-08 Amtrak coach-only Twin City Hiawatha prepares to depart Mpls GN Depot
Title:  1032-08 Amtrak coach-only Twin City Hiawatha prepares to depart Mpls GN Depot
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/1/1976  Upload Date: 12/20/2009 3:27:18 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 578(SDP40F)
Views:  415   Comments: 0
1032-09 Amtrak coach-only Twin City Hiawatha prepares to depart Mpls GN Depot
Title:  1032-09 Amtrak coach-only Twin City Hiawatha prepares to depart Mpls GN Depot
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/1/1976  Upload Date: 12/20/2009 3:27:32 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Station,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 578(SDP40F)
Views:  464   Comments: 0
1032-10 Amtrak coach-only Twin City Hiawatha prepares to depart Mpls GN Depot
Title:  1032-10 Amtrak coach-only Twin City Hiawatha prepares to depart Mpls GN Depot
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/1/1976  Upload Date: 12/20/2009 3:27:45 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Station,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 578(SDP40F)
Views:  472   Comments: 0
1032-11 Amtrak coach-only Twin City Hiawatha departs Mpls GN Depot
Title:  1032-11 Amtrak coach-only Twin City Hiawatha departs Mpls GN Depot
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/1/1976  Upload Date: 12/20/2009 3:28:05 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Station,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 578(SDP40F)
Views:  299   Comments: 0
1032-14 Amtrak coach-only Twin City Hiawatha departs Mpls GN Depot
Title:  1032-14 Amtrak coach-only Twin City Hiawatha departs Mpls GN Depot
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/1/1976  Upload Date: 12/20/2009 3:28:18 PM
Location:  Minneapolis, MN
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Winter,Yard,Station,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 578(SDP40F)
Views:  311   Comments: 0
AMTK 526
Title:  AMTK 526
Description:  Race Street Engine Facility.
Photo Date:  5/24/2015  Upload Date: 5/24/2015 10:41:37 PM
Location:  Philadelphia, PA
Author:  Dave Wolfe
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  AMTK 526(GP38H-3) AMTK 578(SDP40F) AMTK 623(ACS-64)
Views:  499   Comments: 0
AMTK 579
Title:  AMTK 579
Description:  Elephant style Amtrak 579 leads a Chicago bound passenger train.
Photo Date:  5/1/1975  Upload Date: 8/12/2007 9:45:51 AM
Location:  Pullman Junction, IL
Author:  Michael ONeil
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 579(SDP40F)
Views:  767   Comments: 0
Amtrak SDP40F 579
Title:  Amtrak SDP40F 579
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/18/1975  Upload Date: 1/21/2024 8:37:12 PM
Location:  Milwaukee, WI
Author:  Mike Sosalla
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 579(SDP40F)
Views:  83   Comments: 0
Amtrak SDP40F 580
Title:  Amtrak SDP40F 580
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1974  Upload Date: 1/21/2024 8:39:20 PM
Location:  Milwaukee, WI
Author:  Mike Sosalla
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 580(SDP40F)
Views:  71   Comments: 0
Amtrak SDP40F 580
Title:  Amtrak SDP40F 580
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1974  Upload Date: 1/21/2024 9:21:01 PM
Location:  Milwaukee, WI
Author:  Mike Sosalla
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 580(SDP40F)
Views:  85   Comments: 0
Amtrak SDP40F 580 Nose
Title:  Amtrak SDP40F 580 Nose
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/1/1974  Upload Date: 1/21/2024 8:40:08 PM
Location:  Milwaukee, WI
Author:  Mike Sosalla
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 580(SDP40F)
Views:  72   Comments: 0
AMTK 580
Title:  AMTK 580
Description:  A pair of Amtrak's ill-fated SDP40Fs at Denver Union Station with the San Francisco Zephyr. AMTK 580, just a year old in this shot, would be withdrawn from service just two years later, with many of its components being used to construct F40PHR #255 (built 11/77). Date of this photo approximate.
Photo Date:  8/1/1975  Upload Date: 5/23/2009 12:25:36 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 580(SDP40F)
Views:  1107   Comments: 0
Diesel Roundup
Title:  Diesel Roundup
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/6/2011  Upload Date: 8/8/2011 6:21:25 PM
Location:  Morristown, NJ
Author:  Jonah P
Categories: 
Locomotives:  ME 7215(RS11) ME 18(C424) ME 19(C424) AMTK 580(SDP40F)
Views:  893   Comments: 0
RRPX 563
Title:  RRPX 563
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/4/2011  Upload Date: 12/5/2011 5:04:40 PM
Location:  Cedar Knolls, NJ
Author:  Jonah P
Categories: 
Locomotives:  RRPX 563(SSB1200) AMTK 580(SDP40F)
Views:  461   Comments: 0
AMTK 581
Title:  AMTK 581
Description:  AMTK 581
Photo Date:  6/26/1975  Upload Date: 7/3/2007 9:25:00 PM
Location:  La Grange, IL
Author:  Tim Vermande
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 581(SDP40F)
Views:  727   Comments: 0
AMTK 581
Title:  AMTK 581
Description:  Heading for Galesburg and points West.
Photo Date:  8/1/1975  Upload Date: 3/12/2009 6:41:04 PM
Location:  Aurora, IL
Author:  Michael ONeil
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 581(SDP40F)
Views:  478   Comments: 0
Amtrak SDP40F 582
Title:  Amtrak SDP40F 582
Description:  Amtrak SDP40F 582 and two others wheel the SFZ towards Denver
Photo Date:  10/1/1974  Upload Date: 12/24/2017 2:20:56 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 582(SDP40F) AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  273   Comments: 0
SOU 6905
Title:  SOU 6905
Description:  A colorful assortment of power sits at the Ivy City Engine Terminal in Washington DC on a September day in 1975. Front and center is Southern Railway E8A 6905 (ex-SOU 2928, built 9/51), still in passenger service for the Southern Railway (which did not initially join the Amtrak system when it was formed in 1971). Hiding behind the E-unit is Baltimore & Ohio 6606, a steam-generator equipped GP9 used on Washington to Baltimore commuter trains. And behind that is an assortment of Amtrak SDP40F diesels (582 and, behind that, 609, with others not visible).
Photo Date:  9/1/1975  Upload Date: 2/3/2013 9:49:08 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Douglas G. Walker
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  SOU 6905(E8A) BO 6606(GP9) AMTK 582(SDP40F) AMTK 609(SDP40F)
Views:  929   Comments: 0
Amtrak SDP40F #582
Title:  Amtrak SDP40F #582
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Pullman Junction, 95th & Stoney Island Ave., Chicago.
Photo Date:  10/11/1975  Upload Date: 1/26/2007 10:24:28 PM
Location:  Burnside, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  453   Comments: 0
Amtrak SDP40F #582
Title:  Amtrak SDP40F #582
Description:  Digital image from Kim E. Piersol original 35mm Kodachrome transparency. Pullman Junction, 95th & Stoney Island Ave., Chicago. Note the B&O-type CPL signal.
Photo Date:  10/11/1975  Upload Date: 6/1/2006 11:06:56 PM
Location:  Burnside, IL
Author:  Kim Piersol
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  479   Comments: 0
AMTK 582
Title:  AMTK 582
Description:  AMTK 582
Photo Date:  10/11/1975  Upload Date: 7/5/2007 7:54:43 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Tim Vermande
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  639   Comments: 0
Peanut Special
Title:  Peanut Special
Description:  For the inauguration of Jimmy Carter as president on 20 January 1977, the Carter Campaign Committee chartered an 18-car train to bring supporters from Plains, Georgia to Washington and back. Even though the official trip originated and terminated at Plains, the train was assembled at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal and dead-headed to Plains and back via the Louisville & Nashville and Seaboard Coast Line. Here is the train about 20 minutes after leaving NOUPT, stopped at the L&N's Gentilly Yard in eastern New Orleans. The water was being drained out of the locomotives' internal water tanks because of concern about the units' weight and the water sloshing around.

The PEANUT SPECIAL consisted of SDP40Fs 582, 595 and 588 with coaches 5404, 5475 and 5442; 11-bedroom sleepers 2252 STAR LEAF, 2263 PLACID LAKE and 2203 SILVER SWAN; 10-6 sleeper 2638 PACIFIC TRAIL, lounge 3409, dining room car 8800, kitchen-dormitory 8801, sleeper-lounge 3205 GULF STREAM, 11-bedroom cars 2201 SILVER QUAIL, 2250 STAR BAY, 2215 INDIAN MAID, 2211 INDIAN DRUM and 2214 INDIAN LAKE; and 10-6 sleepers 2626 PACIFIC PLATEAU and 2618 PACIFIC LODGE.
Photo Date:  1/18/1977  Upload Date: 3/15/2010 1:48:41 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  1874   Comments: 3
PEANUT SPECIAL
Title:  PEANUT SPECIAL
Description:  At 1:00 PM on Tuesday 18 January 1977 a urio of Amtrak SDP40F units - 582, 595 and 588 - was about to pull out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal with the 18-car PEANUT SPECIAL. All of the train's trucks and underbody had just received a coat of fresh black paint at NOUPT. The train was made up of three coaches, four sleepers, a piano-lounge car, a full diner, a kitchen-dormhtory car, a sleeper-lounge and seven more sleepers. It deadheaded to Plains, Georgia via the L&N and SCL so it could bring supporters of Jimmy Carter to his presidential inauguration in Washington on 20 January. After the inauguration it returned to Plains and then deadheaded back to New Orleans behind the 643, 588 and 595.
Photo Date:  1/18/1977  Upload Date: 6/23/2017 5:51:18 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 582(SDP40F) AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  437   Comments: 0
View of Ivy City engine facility from commuter train - 1977
Title:  View of Ivy City engine facility from commuter train - 1977
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/23/1977  Upload Date: 3/13/2012 2:04:49 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Frank A. Phillips Jr.
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 702(P30CH) AMTK 606(SDP40F) AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  784   Comments: 1
Amtrak 582 & 606
Title:  Amtrak 582 & 606
Description:  Amtrak 582 and Amtrak 606 both SDP40Fs in Phase 1 Paint leading 18 cars on Train 81/91 the Silver Star at Richmond VA during the Winter 1978
Photo Date:  2/1/1978  Upload Date: 3/13/2006 12:44:51 AM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Bill Moye
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  505   Comments: 0
Amtrak 582
Title:  Amtrak 582
Description:  Amtrak 582 and another SDP both in Phase 1 Paint leading 18 cars on Train 81/91 the Silver Star at Richmond VA during the Winter 1978
Photo Date:  2/1/1978  Upload Date: 3/13/2006 12:44:51 AM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Bill Moye
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  486   Comments: 0
AMTK 582 and Amtrak 274
Title:  AMTK 582 and Amtrak 274
Description:  Amtrak 582 leading Train 81/91 at Richmond VA meeting Amtrak 274 leading Train 90 the Palmetto
Photo Date:  2/1/1978  Upload Date: 3/13/2006 12:44:52 AM
Location:  Richmond, VA
Author:  Bill Moye
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  597   Comments: 0
Amtrak SDP40F 582
Title:  Amtrak SDP40F 582
Description:  Amtrak SDP40F 582 at Washington, DC, on an unknown day in May 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler.
Photo Date:  5/1/1979  Upload Date: 7/24/2011 9:32:35 AM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  391   Comments: 0
AMTK 582 southbound at the Amtrak Station
Title:  AMTK 582 southbound at the Amtrak Station
Description:  Watering the engines and the rest of the train always made this operation interesting, if you were too close to the hoses you could end up getting soaked.
Photo Date:  12/31/1979  Upload Date: 11/28/2009 3:23:21 PM
Location:  Jacksonville, FL
Author:  Robert Truett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  458   Comments: 0
AMTK 582
Title:  AMTK 582
Description:  One of the interesting thing about the Big 40's was the numbers added on the "B" end of the engine. I believe after the initial order was deleivered from EMD the Black was added to the upper part and brought around. At some point the vertical numbers of the unit were added but this was not always consistent. On my photo of 649 in this album it has no numbers and of course was the last of the big SDP40F's delivered to Amtrak.
Photo Date:  12/31/1979  Upload Date: 11/28/2009 3:23:21 PM
Location:  Jacksonville, FL
Author:  Robert Truett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  515   Comments: 0
AMTK 582 and another big red nosed 40 bringing the Meteor or Champion into the Amtrak Station
Title:  AMTK 582 and another big red nosed 40 bringing the Meteor or Champion into the Amtrak Station
Description:  Next to the 645, the 582 was another unit I would usually try to catch to photograph. It was the only locomotive in the Florida Power Pool out of the middle third of the 40s.
Photo Date:  12/31/1979  Upload Date: 11/28/2009 3:23:22 PM
Location:  Jacksonville, FL
Author:  Robert Truett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  387   Comments: 0
AMTK 582 - A Big Red Nose!
Title:  AMTK 582 - A Big Red Nose!
Description:  Even though I worked in Reservations, then Training and finally in a support role for the Field Sales Department in my almost 23 years at Amtrak there were a lot of fond memories both from getting to ride the trains pulled by these brutes as well as spending lots of free time photographing them.
Photo Date:  12/31/1979  Upload Date: 11/28/2009 3:23:22 PM
Location:  Jacksonville, FL
Author:  Robert Truett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  433   Comments: 0
AMTK 582 waiting to depart
Title:  AMTK 582 waiting to depart
Description:  With the 10 to 15 minute dwell time and watering engines and cars it made for nice photo opportunities.
Photo Date:  12/31/1979  Upload Date: 11/28/2009 3:23:23 PM
Location:  Jacksonville, FL
Author:  Robert Truett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 582(SDP40F)
Views:  434   Comments: 1
AMTK 583 - San Luis Obispo, CA - 7/2/74
Title:  AMTK 583 - San Luis Obispo, CA - 7/2/74
Description:  Amtrak train #11, the "Coast Starlight," passes through the pastures of Cal Poly University (which has an extensive agricultural program) in San Luis Obispo, California, on July 2, 1974. SDP40Fs 583 and 587 are in charge of this train as it heads from Seattle to Los Angeles.
Photo Date:  7/2/1974  Upload Date: 1/27/2011 12:33:39 PM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Craig Walker
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 583(SDP40F) AMTK 587(SDP40F)
Views:  746   Comments: 3
Waiting to Go
Title:  Waiting to Go
Description:  The SFZ waits the signal to depart Denver Union Station.
Photo Date:  9/1/1974  Upload Date: 6/29/2017 2:53:26 PM
Location:  Denver, CO
Author:  Bob Jordan
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 583(SDP40F)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
Eastbound Amtrak #6 San Francisco Zephyr
Title:  Eastbound Amtrak #6 San Francisco Zephyr
Description:  Randy Curlin Collection
Photo Date:  6/13/1975  Upload Date: 9/16/2023 2:36:20 AM
Location:  Alta, CA
Author:  Randy Curlin Collection
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 583(SDP40F)
Views:  144   Comments: 1
AMTK 583
Title:  AMTK 583
Description:  AMTK 583 leads westbounbd Train #5, the "San Francisco Zephyr" out of Chicago.
Photo Date:  8/25/1976  Upload Date: 12/25/2014 3:57:12 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 583(SDP40F)
Views:  251   Comments: 0
AMTK 583
Title:  AMTK 583
Description:  AMTK 583 left EMD in May 1974 and returned as a trade-in in 1979.
Photo Date:  8/25/1976  Upload Date: 12/25/2014 3:57:44 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Ron Hawkins
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AMTK 583(SDP40F)
Views:  245   Comments: 0
1095-27 AMTK 621 and 583 in the depot
Title:  1095-27 AMTK 621 and 583 in the depot
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/1977  Upload Date: 5/3/2007 1:15:18 PM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 621(SDP40F) AMTK 583(SDP40F)
Views:  654   Comments: 0
1099-01 AMTK 621 and 583
Title:  1099-01 AMTK 621 and 583
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/1977  Upload Date: 5/7/2007 11:43:55 AM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AMTK 621(SDP40F) AMTK 583(SDP40F)
Views:  566   Comments: 0
1099-02 Amtrak departs depot
Title:  1099-02 Amtrak departs depot
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/1/1977  Upload Date: 5/7/2007 11:44:45 AM
Location:  Cheyenne, WY
Author:  John Hill
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 621(SDP40F) AMTK 583(SDP40F)
Views:  536   Comments: 0
AMTK 583
Title:  AMTK 583
Description:  Back to back SDP40Fs in the original paint scheme handle train #6, the inbound San Francisco Zephyr. Date of photo approximate.
Photo Date:  9/1/1978  Upload Date: 9/29/2009 11:49:43 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Mike Woodruff
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 583(SDP40F)
Views:  445   Comments: 2
No. 6 at Riverside, IL.
Title:  No. 6 at Riverside, IL.
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/15/1974  Upload Date: 11/26/2009 12:02:00 PM
Location:  Riverside, IL
Author:  Karl Rethwisch
Categories:  InCab,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 584(SDP40F)
Views:  983   Comments: 3


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