Amtrak Photo Archive
the Switchers
an unofficial Amtrak site

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engine number to view a larger image

RS-1 now have their own page

SSB 1200 now have their own page

SW-1 now have their own page

SW1000 - now located here
Numbered 790-799

 2003

 Wilmington DE
look what Amtrak is tested in 1999!

August 21, 1999

 Jeff Lubchansky

CRITTERS

 Location and Information

 Date

 Photo Credit

 7
 Beach Grove
former 77
45 ton loco for shop switching
built May 1941
October 1979
 Bob Elliott
 Beach Grove
65 ton loco for shop switching
early 80's
from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
  10 80 ton ex USA 1600
listed as retired 2009		    
  11 80 ton ex USA 1602    
1000 Beach Grove shops
former #10		 25 July 2014 R Levow
from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
Wimington DE shops
built Jan 1952
April 2013
John K

Beach Grove shops
former #11
 Spring 2007
 from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
  1100 Wilmington Shops in September 2013   tj

MP15 #530-539 built in 1970
  # Location & Information Date Photo Credit
 530  Framingham MA  Sept 26, 1999  Dick Leonhardt
530 Seattle WA
ready for Super Bowl XLVIII		 Feb 1, 2014 Chris Fussel
531  Springfield MA  November 7, 1999  Bill Hakkarinen
531  Springfield MA  October 29, 1999  Dick Leonhardt
532  Wellesley Farms MA  September 12, 1999 Dick Leonhardt
532  Boston MA  October 29, 1999 Dick Leonhardt

 

532
 Boston MA  October 29, 1999  Dick Leonhardt
532 New Haven Ct  Nov 27, 1994  Glenn Rowe
533 Washington DC Sept 4, 2009 Dick Leonhardt
  533 Washington DC July 26, 2010 Dick Leonhardt
534 Albany-Rensselaer NY 2001 Geoff Dunn
  535      
536 Kingston RI 1998 Paul McGrane
536  Framingham MA  Sept 26, 1999  Dick Leonhardt
536  Kingston RI  June 26, 2000  Dick Leonhardt
537  Albany-Rensselaer NY March 30, 2002  Bill Schopp 
  no photo yet 538      
539  Albany-Rensselaer NY  Sept 21, 2001  Jim Hebner
539

 Albany-Rensselaer NY

  Sept 24, 2001  Dick Leonhardt
  539 Washington DC Feb 2, 2010 Dick Leonhardt

SW8 747-750

Former New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal switchers, built in 1953
 

SW8

 Location and Information

 Date

Photo Credit
  NOUPT
1		   March 1978 John Hepp
    NOUPT switcher #3 and Amtrak E-9 #433 at New Orleans shops
noupt3-2.jpg 		  April 1977  Gary Morris
NOUPT
3		 New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal had three SW8's built in December 1953. Number 2 was sold to Jones & Laughlin Steel in around 1960, but 1 and 3 survived long enough to receive an Amtrak paint scheme. Retained NOUPT reporting marks. They were sold to NASA in August 1990 and provided parts to maintain the space agency's fleet of ex-Air Force SW8's at the Kennedy Space Center.    Gary Morris
 
  747      
748  Chicago IL  May 1988  Jim Hebner
   

Amtrak 748 now belongs to LASTA,
Louisiana Steam Train Association,
near New Orleans.  It is currently being restored.

Built as NYC 9625, Changed to NYC 8625, then PC 8625, then AMTK 748.

    
749  Chicago IL  Oct 10, 1993  Glen Beans
750  Chicago IL June 1990 Bill Hakkarinen
750  Chicago IL  unknown
date		  from the
collection of
jim Hebner

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Most of the photos on this site are from original photos/slides or submissions. Some photos are from the web - I have tried to get permission to use on all of them, but a few may have slipped through. Please, let me know if that has happened.

This archive was first accessed August 1996