One of the five ex-PRR E8s that Amtrak rebuilt with HEP capability for use on Northeast Corridor Amfleet consists leads two-car train 153, the Beacon Hill, out of South Station. This was a Boston-... (more)

Diesel power backing down onto the westbound "Twentieth Century Limited" during the engine change at Harmon. The P-motor (P-2b) electric that brought the train out from Grand Central Te... (more)

Engineer Micheal Polk gives a friendly wave from GRYR Train PEX-03 crossing Long Creek on the Ex-IC Grenada District with the 13:00 departure of The Polar Express out of Batesville, MS on the rail... (more)

ACL E8 No.500 and E6 No.518 with train 2, the East Coast Champion at Miami, Florida December 20, 1962. ACL E8 No.500 began life in 1939 as ACL's first passenger diesel E3(A) No.500, but was de... (more)

After Amtrak’s formation in 1971, South Amboy, New Jersey became the base for Penn Central’s largest concentration of E-units. Here a bunch of them spend the weekend at the engine terminal jus... (more)

OKLAHOMA CITY Oct 1975 -- Amtrak E8A 210 is shown at the FAA's Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center on the west side of Will Rogers World Airport. It was built as a B&O unit and at the time of this ... (more)

An early Penn Central version of the "South Wind", as it approaches Louisville. Note the red/white "worms" on the PC emblem on the second unit

VLIX 6913 is a part of a huge display of many flamboyant locomotives, from several different fallen flag Tennessee roads, as it basks in the April morning sunlight, on the old K-25 diffusion plant... (more)

A Iowa Pacific passenger special heads east past 80th Ave in Tinley Park.

Preparing to back on to the Sunset Golden State. 6018 was the only E8 SP had. A Roger Puta Photograph

Westbound #5, the Rock Island Quad Cities Rocket, pulls into Joliet Union Station with two coaches and a very dirty E unit on the point.

When Conrail first decided upon blue and white as its corporate image, quite a few units were painted without the correct lettering, and without the wheel-on-rail “can opener” logo. Outlying s... (more)

One of Conrail’s former Erie/EL E8’s escaped the fate of its roster mates, who gave up their prime movers to the DeWitt Geep RS3 re-engine program. Shortly after the consolidation, Conrail’... (more)

Only two of Conrail’s immediate predecessors rostered E8’s, and both contributed examples to the Conrail roster. Many of the Penn Central’s large roster of the EMD passenger units were conv... (more)

653 waits at Blue Island Round House with a mate.