Amtrak Photo Archive
the Cabooses

an unofficial Amtrak site

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Amtrak got it's cabooses as a part of the 1973 Northeast Corridor purchase.
Their intended use was in work train service over the 228 miles.
As near as I can tell, Penn Central sold the oldest N5 cabooses it had.

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 Location & Information

 Date

Photo Credit
ex-PC 19016
ex-PRR 477246
May 1980
 from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
Boston MA
built Sept 1918
March 1986
Jim Hebner
14001
 Harrison NJ
ok ok 14001 is trailing 764 but you can tell a lot about it - before it became
pumpkin orange
ex-PC 19019
ex-PRR 477413
Built 9-23
 Nov 17, 1980
 from the
collection of
Joseph Testagrose
(sz)
 Hartford CT
FRESH pumpkin Orange paint!
 May 6, 1983
 from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
New Haven CT
Built December 1926
ex-PC 19001
Feb 2, 1977
from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
 Providence RI
June 20, 1982 
Ralph Phillips 
 
Providence RI
end detail 
June 20, 1982  
Ralph Phillips  
 Providence RI
ex-PRR 478881
 April 1, 1981
Steve Schwartz
Windsor CT
May 25, 1985
Carl Weber
 New Haven CT
 June 27, 1981
 Ralph L. Phillip
 Reading PA
built Feb 1917
 August 28, 1981
 Steve Schwartz
 former Penn Central 19021
August 1978 
 from the
collection of
Jim Hebner 
 Metuchen NJ
built Aug-1918
no longer in service BUT used by Amtrak as an office on the NEC
 Feb 25, 2000
 Jeff Lubchansky
14006
Now owned by Ocean Gate
Historical Society with
plans to return it to PRR paint- in 8 years this caboose will 100 years old!
June 2010
 Philadelphia PA
ex-PRR 477115
 May 15, 1977
 from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
 NEC
May 1979 
 from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
 Princeton Jct NJ
 July 16, 1979 
 Mike Barton
 Kingston RI
 June 26, 2000
 Dick Leonhardt
 Hillham
 Sept 1981
  from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
 Harrisburg PA
 June 1983
  from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
 Glenn Dale MD
former PC 19015
 February 1978
 Dick Leonhardt
  Hinsdale NH
Preserved at the
Boston & Maine Station
 1998
 Ken Hawkins
 Craig T Anderson's
Book
"Amtrak Annual
1978-79"
 
 Hartford CT
 Sept 1979
from the
collection of
Jim Hebner 
 no photo yet
 14012
photo soon
 14013
ex PC 19006
 Now Gettysburg RR 14014
14015
still in PC green
Amtrak
yard just west of
Newark NJ
April 4, 2002 
 Jeff Lubchansky
.
14015
Sunnyside Yard
 former PC 19008
 March 15, 1977
 Trenton NJ
built Dec 1926
 April 18, 1984
Richard Louderback 
14017
-14022
 ex-PC no photos
Wilmington DE 
Jan 1, 1982 
 John Benson
 Washington DC
ex-FEC
April 2, 1980 
 John Benson
 Rensselear NY
 June 6, 1987
  from the
collection of
Frank Szachacz
14025
Wilmington DE
July 1982
from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
Amtrak 14026 and 14027 are former B&LE cabooses - The Bessemer had 20 class NE1 cabooses that were acquired from Greenville Steel Car Company in 1941. These cars were the first all steel cabooses and the first bay window design cars the Bessemer ever acquired.
 Boston MA area
ex-BLE 203 built 12/57
listed as for sale in
March 2003
 Ralph Carter
New Haven CT 
 Nov 25, 1985
 from the
collection of
Frank Szachacz
 Philadelphia PA
ex-BLE 202 built 12/57
listed as for sale in
March 2003 - sold in 2005 from Cedar Yard - now in Hinsdale NH
 Feb 7, 1998
 Jeff Lubchansky
14030     Kevin Wong
  1403!      
 Chicago IL
built March 1970 by PC
Lub plate seems to indicates that
Amtrak had it on
Sept 18, 1985
July 29, 1986
 Paul Hunnell
18566
 still in Chicago - never renumbered
 Philadelphia PA
taken during the
Amtrak Historical Society
3rd Annual Conference
 May 3, 1997
 Amtrak Historical Society
 Philadelphia PA
same day,
slightly different angle
 May 3, 1997
 Amtrak Historical Society
 Wilmington DE
 June 24, 1998
 Bill Waller
 Wilmington DE
 June 24, 1998
 Bill Waller
 Wilmington DE
former Conrail N11
anyone know the Conrail number?
 June 24, 1998
 Bill Waller
 Wilmington DE
 June 24, 1998
 Bill Waller
somewhere on the NE corridor 
 May 29, 1999
 Wilmington DE
used in weekly movement of cars
on the NEC
 May 2001
 Bruce Friedman
 Wilmington DE
used in weekly movement
of cars on the NEC
 May 2001
 Bruce Friedman
preserved on the
Cape May Railroad!
 Stan Feldman
 in New Jersey
 June 19, 1999
 Jeff Lubchansky
  18036      
  18037 Odenton maryland Oct 29, 1988 Andrew

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This archive was first accessed August 1996