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Amtrak Panama
Title:  Amtrak Panama
Description:  A quartet of E-units were waiting to couple on to an 18-car PANAMA LIMITED at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. Notice the carman squatting down between the engines and the train. The locomotives were Amtrak E8A's 203 and 205 (both ex-B&O), Illinois Central Gulf E9A 4034 in Amtrak colors, and Amtrak (ex-UP) E9B 468; while the train was made up of baggage car 1102, sleepers 2012 GULL and 2152 SILVER HYACINTH, dome-sleeper 9211, diner 8026, bar-lounge 3353, coaches 5473, 4509, 4520, 5404 and 5233, lunch counter-diner 8102, and coaches 5457, 4441, 5649, 4467, 6058 and 5452. The purple discoloration next to the 203 came with the slide :)
Photo Date:  2/17/1974  Upload Date: 9/3/2017 8:26:16 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 203(E8A)
Views:  999   Comments: 1
Servicing Engines
Title:  Servicing Engines
Description:  On a sunny December afternoon, 6-month-old Amtrak SDP40F 615 and ex-B&O E8A 203 were being fueled and watered after having arrived on the PANAMA LIMITED. On the right is the locker building, where engine crews registered going on and off duty. The next two tracks closer to us were ready tracks, the track in the center is used by trains backing into the station (off to the right) from the wye, while in the foreground is the train inspection pit. The outbound track is on the other side of the locker building.
Photo Date:  12/18/1974  Upload Date: 6/18/2009 3:33:11 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 615(SDP40F) AMTK 203(E8A)
Views:  1460   Comments: 2
Amtrak E-Units
Title:  Amtrak E-Units
Description:  Amtrak E8A 205 and Illinois Central Gulf E9A 4034 were the two middle units on the northbound PANAMA LIMITED at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal.
Photo Date:  2/17/1974  Upload Date: 11/1/2017 12:04:26 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives:  AMTK 204(E8A) IC 4034(E9A) ICG 4034(E9A)
Views:  1262   Comments: 0
Amtrak Train No. 58
Title:  Amtrak Train No. 58
Description:  Amtrak E8A 208 was on train 58 – the northbound PANAMA LIMITED – at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal with a couple of Illinois Central units. The locomotive had been built in October 1953 as Baltimore & Ohio 32 and was renumbered B&O 1452 in 1957. After it became Amtrak 208 in 1971 it spent most of its short Amtrak career on the IC/ICG before being retired. The 208 was one of about 80 E-units retired on 28 May 1975, and it was sold for scrap to Naparano Iron & Metal in New Jersey that October. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  9/1/1973  Upload Date: 6/21/2020 1:03:22 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 208(E8A)
Views:  735   Comments: 0
Panama Power
Title:  Panama Power
Description:  Amtrak E8A 208, Illinois Central E8A 4024 and ICG E8A 4029 in Amtrak colors were backing in to New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal to couple onto train No. 58, the northbound PANAMA LIMITED. The 208 was previously Baltimore & Ohio 1452 and was one of the first Amtrak units that was regularly used on the PANAMA. (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  12/1/1973  Upload Date: 9/7/2021 2:43:09 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. image
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  AMTK 208(E8A)
Views:  485   Comments: 0
Amtrak Train No. 58
Title:  Amtrak Train No. 58
Description:  Amtrak train No. 58 – the northbound PANAMA LIMITED – was on its way out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, between the South Broad Street Overpass and Jefferson Davis Parkway (now South Norman C. Francis Parkway). No. 58 had E8A 208, E9B 450 and ICG E9A 2040 with 10 cars: baggage car 1062, baggage-dormitory car 1400, sleeper 2702 ST. PETERSBURG, diner 8025, coached 4843 and 5213, lounge 3800, coaches 4437, 5209 and 6058.
Photo Date:  6/9/1974  Upload Date: 8/17/2022 9:52:43 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 208(E8A)
Views:  503   Comments: 0
E-Unit Trucks
Title:  E-Unit Trucks
Description:  A pair of E-units trucks were sitting outside the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal diesel shop. They didn't have any traction motors, and were left over after E8A 293 had been cannibalized and scrapped here. The cement plant was on NOUPT property and has been gone for a while now.
Photo Date:  7/2/1978  Upload Date: 3/9/2017 5:36:03 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  AMTK 293(E8A)
Views:  667   Comments: 1
Amtrak No. 58
Title:  Amtrak No. 58
Description:  Amtak SDP40F 614 and E8A 352 were hustling train 58, the northbound PANAMA LIMITED, along the north side of the Illinois Central Gulf's MAYS YARD on its way out of New Orleans. The speed limit here was 60 miles per hour.
Photo Date:  5/19/1975  Upload Date: 5/21/2018 12:33:01 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  PAUL H. OLIVER, JR. photo
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 614(SDP40F) AMTK 352(E8A)
Views:  515   Comments: 0
AMTK 368, 493 and 492
Title:  AMTK 368, 493 and 492
Description:  Having been displaced by new locomotives, Amtrak E8A 368 (UP 929), FP7 493 (SP 6454) and FP7 492 (SP 6453) were stored at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. The 368 was retired at New Orleans in 1981, while the two F-units left the roster in 1980. All three were sold for scrap to Precision National Corp.
Photo Date:  9/25/1977  Upload Date: 9/20/2022 2:59:11 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  AMTK 368(E8A)
Views:  388   Comments: 0
Amtrak E-Units
Title:  Amtrak E-Units
Description:  Amtrak E9A fuel tender 400 (ex-B&O 1454, nee 34) and E8A 368 (ex-438, exx-326, nee UP 929A) were soaking up the Sunday afternoon sun at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. By the time, there wasn't much work for Amtrak's remaining E-units.
Photo Date:  2/25/1979  Upload Date: 10/13/2017 4:40:54 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  AMTK 400(Fuel Tender) AMTK 368(E8A)
Views:  1236   Comments: 0
AMTK 436
Title:  AMTK 436
Description:  A pair of Amtrak E-units were with ICG 2039 at the NOUPT sand tower. They had just arrived on the PANAMA LIMITED.
Photo Date:  6/8/1974  Upload Date: 2/27/2009 10:56:54 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AMTK 436(E8A) AMTK 452(E9B)
Views:  1564   Comments: 0
Stored Power
Title:  Stored Power
Description:  By the time this photo was taken Amtrak had retired most of its E and F units, and stored many of its remaining older locomotives. Here are six of the surviving older engines stored at the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal coach yard: E8Am 436, E9A 419, FP7A's 493 and 492, and E8A's 368 and 353. The 436 was built in May 1952 as Illinois Central 4029, and was upgraded by the IC into E10 2021 in February 1969. Amtrak bought it in February 1973, and it was the only IC unit purchased by Amtrak. The 419 was built in December 1963 as Union Pacific 419, and it had the distinction of being the last E-unit ever constructed. Both of these units were scrapped at NOUPT by Precision National Corp. in 1982.

The 493 and 492 were two of 14 FP7's acquired from the Southern Pacific, and the last two in existence. Originally SP 6454 and 6453, they became Amtrak 117 and 116 in July 1972, were renumbered 377 and 376 in April 1976, and renumbered to 493 and 492 in July 1977. Both were retired in May 1980 and sold to Precision National Corp. for scrap. E8A 368 was built in August 1950 as UP 929. It was subsequently Amtrak 326, 438, 368 and 469 before being retired in June 1981 and sold to PNC. E8A 353 was built in October 1953 as Baltimore & Ohio 26A and was renumbered B&O 1447 in 1957. It wore Amtrak numbers 203, 353 and 467 before being retired.
Photo Date:  11/11/1977  Upload Date: 2/4/2010 9:37:00 AM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 436(E8A) AMTK 419(E9A)
Views:  1999   Comments: 3
AMTK 440
Title:  AMTK 440
Description:  This unit was originally RF&P 1012, and then Amtrak 220.
Photo Date:  1/25/1977  Upload Date: 2/27/2009 11:03:34 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AMTK 440(E8A)
Views:  854   Comments: 0
AMTK 441
Title:  AMTK 441
Description:  Amtrak 441 was one of about a dozen E-units that were stored at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. Within a few months, all but one were sold to Precision National Corp. and scrapped here. The 441 was built as Louisville & Nashville E8A 794 in May 1951 and it still wore the F-unit number boxes which the L&N had added. It was renumbered Amtrak 224, rebuilt to E9 specifications in June 1974, and renumbered 441 in November 1975 to make room for F40's. When photographed here it was one month shy of its 30th birthday.
Photo Date:  4/26/1981  Upload Date: 10/21/2007 3:22:30 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 441(E8A)
Views:  1496   Comments: 2
AMTK 498
Title:  AMTK 498
Description:  This locomotive was built as Pennsylvania Railroad 5809 and was subsequently renumbered Penn Central 4309 before becoming Amtrak 315. It received a Head End Power generator at Altoona in September 1974 and was renumbered 498 in November 1975, when all of the remaining E-units were put into the 400-series. In 1983 it was traded to Conrail for a pair of SW8's and became CR 4020. When CR was broken up, it was assigned Norfolk Southern 1000; but was sold and regained its original number as Juniata Terminal 5809.
Photo Date:  10/1/1977  Upload Date: 1/29/2009 11:29:24 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Michael Palmieri
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AMTK 498(E8A)
Views:  1172   Comments: 1


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