Amtrak Photo Archive
the Switchers
an unofficial Amtrak site


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engine number to view a larger image

RS-1 now have their own page

SSB 1200 now have their own page

SW-1 now have their own page

SW1000 - now located here
Numbered 790-799

 2003

 Wilmington DE
look what Amtrak is testied in 1999!

August 21, 1999

 Jeff Lubchansky

CRITTERS
   

 Location and Information

 Date

 Photo Credit
 7  Beach Grove
former 77 -
a 45 ton loco for shop switching
built May 1941		 October 1979  Bob Elliott
9  Beach Grove
a 65 ton loco for shop switching		 early 80's from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
1100

 Beach Grove shops

former #9 ???

 Spring 2007  from the
collection of
Albert Phleep

MP15 #530-539 built in 1970
  MP15 # Location & Information Date Photo Credit
 530  Framingham MA  September 26, 1999  Dick Leonhardt
531  Springfield MA  November 7, 1999  Bill Hakkarinen
531  Springfield MA  October 29, 1999  Dick Leonhardt
532  Wellesley Farms MA  September 12, 1999 Dick Leonhardt
532  Boston MA  October 29, 1999 Dick Leonhardt

 

532
 Boston MA  October 29, 1999  Dick Leonhardt
532 New Haven Ct  Nov 27, 1994  Glenn Rowe
. 536 Kingston RI 1998 Paul McGrane
. 536  Framingham MA  September 26, 1999  Dick Leonhardt
. 536  Kingston RI  June 26, 2000  Dick Leonhardt
537  Albany-Rensselaer NY March 30, 2002  Bill Schopp 
  no photo yet 538      
539  Albany-Rensselaer NY  September 21, 2001  Jim Hebner
539

 Albany-Rensselaer NY

  September 24, 2001  Dick Leonhardt

SW8 747-750

Former New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal switchers, built in 1953
 

SW8

 Location and Information

 Date

Photo Credit
    NOUPT switcher #3 and Amtrak E-9 #433 at New Orleans shops - - noupt3-2.jpg   April 1977  Gary Morris
 NOUPT 3      Gary Morris
 748  Chicago IL  May 1988  Jim Hebner
 749  Chicago IL  Oct 10, 1993  Glen Beans
750  Chicago IL June 1990 Bill Hakkarinen
750  Chicago IL  unknown
date		  from the
collection of
jim Hebner

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Most of the photos on this site are from original photos/slides or submissions. Some photos are from the web - I have tried to get permission to use on all of them, but a few may have slipped through. Please, let me know if that has happened.

This archive was first accessed August 1996