With Just A little Paint. AMTK 909 (AEM-7, EMD/ASEA, 10/1980) was not one of the "toasters" selected for upgrade to AC electronics, but was repainted, and looks fairly respectable... (more)
An Amtrak AEM7 leads a Washington-bound train through the station area of Bowie, Maryland. The tower, which was closed by this time, would later be moved back from the tracks and become the center... (more)
The #909 shows signs of the road, despite it having yet to reach 1 year of service at the time of this image. A Rich Lorntzen original Kodachrome slide from my collection.
An Amtrak Regional Express whips past Bristol station on the express tracks over freshly fallen snow led by a rather pristine AEM-7 bound for Philadelphia.
As the sun drops low in West Haven, CT, an Amtrak AEM-7 on the point of a Boston-Washington train speeds beneath a bank of the unique stubby semaphores installed here by the New Haven Railroad in ... (more)
A trio likely never to be seen together again. AEM-7 909, ACS-64 623 and HHP-8 651 are shuffled around by SW1000r 792, representing three generations of Amtrak mainline electric power on t... (more)
I know this paint job was unpopular with a lot of fans, but it was my favorite Amtrak-era GG-1 paint scheme. Only 7 units were painted like this, and it added some color on drab days. Although- ... (more)
An Amtrak corridor train from Boston has completed the diesel-to-electric power swap at New Haven, and AEM-7 909 is ready to depart for New York and Washington. New Haven Union Station, in the bac... (more)
Amtrak's small but powerful AEM-7 electrics were such a dominant presence on the Northeast Corridor for more than thirty years that I find it difficult to think of them as a vanished breed. A pair... (more)
Farewell! The HHP was done with service in November of 2014, and now we say farewell to the AEM-7 tomorrow, June 18, 2016. The ACS-64 is likely to be the face of conventional trains on the... (more)
The 909 trots over the Bush River as a jet skier heads in for the afternoon.
One of seven GG1s painted in Amtrak's "Platinum Mist" scheme, the 909 pauses briefly at Lancaster's 1929-built high-level platform with the westbound Broadway Limited. (The other six G... (more)
An Amtrak regional headed to DC. Lead by an almost retired AEM-7
Amtrak's Vermonter strolling North through Perryville.
