The Way It Was: Amtrak's Northeast Corridor in 1987 05 28

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This is another video shot by my friend Paul, who I got connected with via my Dad through their work. Paul was a big time railfan in the 80s and has some amazing footage, and I'm honored to get to share it with you. This video in particular was shot 5/28/87 in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

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@USArailfan2000 Жыл бұрын

From 1981 on through 2014, The AEM-7 'toaster' was Amtrak's tough high-speed workhorse on the NEC!

@bobbybrisk643 3 ай бұрын

False 1979 to 2016

@Trainrider1 2 ай бұрын

@@bobbybrisk643 The reason why it wasn’t as soon as it came into service or as soon as service with the toaster ended is beacuse that when AEM-7 were the main loco on NEC

@Trainrider1 2 ай бұрын

So it was from 81 to 2014

@bobbybrisk643 2 ай бұрын

@@Trainrider1 1979 900 was tested at pueblo and they ran it for miles and miles around the circuit track first A7 to hit the corridor was 901 ( May 1980! ), 917/927/942/46 were the last runners primarily in the spring of 2016 until the farewell run took place The “ baby “ Acelas were retired after the many shipments of the city sprinters were shipped to Southhampton yard and Ivy City. I rode in 917s cab for the last time ( March 2016 ) guess how many miles for a small engine… 5 million miles! So as I stated before 1979 to 2016.

@kennethstein8394 2 ай бұрын

They lasted as long as the GG1s. Something to think about.

@Conrailfan2323 Жыл бұрын

The 3 E8's on that Transit train is one of the sickest clips I've seen in a long time.

@timregan1005 9 ай бұрын

i remember this in the nineties. stopping to swap diesel loco for electric coming from boston

@ianhardy9375 Ай бұрын

Amtrak's silver meteor has 15 cars and two baggage cars towards Aburnadale where they split the train, one to Tampa and the other to Miami

@Stev417 Ай бұрын

This was not too long after the chase Maryland collision

@gondoravalon7540 3 ай бұрын

Who's bright idea was it to put a cafe car all the way at the end of a 13-car Amtrak train? Why does this - that it seemed to be common to put cafe cars at the end of many amtrak trains in the 80s and 90s vs closer to the middle - bother me so much?

@paulw.woodring7304 3 ай бұрын

Let me take a stab at this. I was an Amtrak Washington, DC-based cafe attendant in this time period. On most trains where you would see the cafe at the far end were probably trains going to or from south of Washington, where cars would be either subtracted at DC going south or added going north. On those trains the cafe would be in the section going through. Usually the extra cars between NY and DC were on the rear of the train for removal at DC during the change to Diesel, and on the front going North, added with the AEM7 at DC. Sometimes on a busy day there might be two working cafes on a particularly busy train going all the way from/to Boston, not just the usual cafe/club car (another reason the cafe car would be at the very end of the train - to isolate the Club passengers). You'd have to see the markings on the car to know what it was. And sometimes things just got so hectic that they stuck the cafe car in the consist wherever they could. They also would occasionally use a cafe car just as an unattended coach if they were short on equipment at the time. I'm not sure exactly which train you were referring to, so I couldn't tell you for sure what was going on, but they usually tried to put the working cafe somewhere close to the middle if that worked out. And during the holidays all bets were off and anything with wheels and seats would be thrown onto a train.

@sepa2401 10 ай бұрын

Beautiful K5LA on that NJT Comet II at 33:04!

@michaeltischer7195 3 ай бұрын

Now we really can see how amtrak looked like in the 1980s!!!

@jmream2618 11 ай бұрын

Nothing beats Amtrak’s E60s

@Kendrickhobbs189 2 ай бұрын

In the 80s

@kennyt1674 Ай бұрын

Wow

@MSRTA_Productions Жыл бұрын

24:42 why it sound like a Audi, or a RB211 🤣

@michlo3393 10 ай бұрын

lol damn, good call.

@maciekkra539 5 ай бұрын

Cool to watch. I didn't get to watch the Corridor untill early 90s. By that time NJT E60 were being replaced by ALP44. Only saw 958 under power by then and it was i think only on standby. Other than no E8s everything else was same. The European guests (X2000 and ICE), deffinitely added to the variety. BTW those E60s were especially cool to see as they raced with heavy trains leaning to the side on uneven tracks.

@VietTheKong Жыл бұрын

Can't beat those Toasters

@Likeroftrains-zl1su 10 ай бұрын

Hello, I was wondering if I could get permission to use clips from this video? I am working on a documentary about transit proposals in New Jersey and this would be perfect for when I talk about Newark. You will be given full credit in the video of course.