Amtrak train number 22, the Texas Eagle, screams through Atlanta, Illinois doing the track speed of 79miles-per-hour, on Sunday morning Feb. 13, 2011 behind locomotive #145 , the first of four locomotives that are planned to wear historic paint schemes. P-42 145 carrys a paint scheme first introduced in 1979.
Each locomotive had been previously scheduled to receive a new paint job and is being painted at the Amtrak maintenance facility in Beech Grove, Indiana, according to an Amtrak press release.
STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO
A long distance train between Chicago and San Antonio that serves several large cities along the route, including St. Louis, Little Rock, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Austin. Three times a week it carries through cars to Los Angeles via a connection with the S
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