Very nice.
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Thanks Marty!
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Wonderful photo but something's amiss. The last six visible cars are Amfleet I's (the II's won't arrive for another three years) and were/are not used on our Florida trains. If they are in service there is a generator car out of view on the rear as the G's don't have HEP.
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It's also hard to tell if any of the first three cars are sleepers. I remember HEP cars occasionally being tacked on the hind end of trains in that era, so maybe this was one of those cases. Based on the shadows, I wonder if it could be "The Minute Man," from Boston to DC, although I think that train was all-Amfleet by then. Or- perhaps it's "The Crescent" with Amfleet cars deadheading to DC. (I believe the photo was taken on a Sunday evening.)
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If this is indeed September 1978, then it's not the Crescent - Southern didn't turn it over to Amtrak until the following year.
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Perhaps it's Train 173, arriving in Baltimore at 5:55, with deadheading cars.
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