#EMD E8a

[collinthenychudson]

Keeping up with 45 hour schedule, Rock Island E8 No. 643 and two booster units lead the Westbound Golden State across the Great Plains region of Kansas. Once arriving at Tucumcari, New Mexico, the train will be handed over to the Southern Pacific for the remainder of the journey to Los Angeles California.

Models and Route by: Trainz Auran and Download Station

[guerrerense]

ERIE #835 & #834 por Jim Strain Por Flickr: E8A 835 & 834 pullling a fantrip. Location unknown. Kodachrome my collection, photographer unknown.

[railwayhistorical]

Joliet This image shows a Rock Island outbound commuter train clacking over the ATSF/GM&O tracks at Joliet, Illinois. This has always been a great spot for rail enthusiasts.

The wonderful station here is made from Indiana limestone, of which I'm a fan, growing up amongst the quarries of southern Indiana. The locomotive is an EMD E8A built for the Union Pacific in 1953.

Image by Richard Koenig; taken in 1976.

[20th-century-railroading]

Disco Stripes

New Jersey Transit EMD E8A 4334 (ex-Southern Railway) sits forlornly out back of the Elizabethport shop. It's wearing an odd white paint job with classic NJT "disco stripes".

Elizabethport, New Jersey November 1983

[aryburn-trains]

NYC 4042 EMD E8A leads TH&B 372 from Hamilton to Welland and Buffalo enroute to New York City. This equipment ran through from Buffalo to Toronto over the NYC to Welland, TH&B to Hamilton and CPR CNR Joint Section although the diesels were changed at Hamilton. Stoney Creek, Ont. 8/21/1963 Peter Cox

[blackros78]

Pennsylvania Railroad EMD E8A #5703 and E7A #5840 in Chicago, Illinois on June 1, 1959.

[zponds]

Just a bit ago, I released a post showing all my OCs from the New York Central System. And like with those OCs, in that past, I made several posts showing my OCs from the Pennsylvania Railroad. So this post will show all the PRR OCs together in one post.

Now these engines are of Norfolk Southern’s Pennsylvania Railroad heritage fleet…

and they can only be found on railroad territories that were once under the jurisdiction and ownership of the Pennsylvania Railroad. And these OC engines from “The Standard Railroad of the World” are…

Glenn, the brunswick green five-stripe GG1 #4927

Gracie, the tuscan red five-stripe GG1 #4877

Garrison, the brunswick green five-stripe GG1 #4919

Gabby, the tuscan red five-stripe GG1 #4913

Torpedo, the streamlined 4-6-2 K4 #3768

Bullet, the 4-4-4-4 T1 #6110

Storm, the 6-4-4-6 S1 #6200

Moto-Moto, the 2-10-0 I1a #4483

Quinton, the 4-4-6-4 Q2 #6181

Pete Everest, the 4-8-2 M1b #6755

Tyler, the 2-10-4 J1a #6448

Taylor, the 2-10-4 J1a #6468

Freddy, the EMD E7 #5875

John, the EMD E8a #5706

Tom, the ALCO PA #5752

Michael, the ALCO PA #5755

Anchor, the Baldwin RF-16 “sharknose” #2012

Chum, the Baldwin RF-16 “sharknose” #5771

Eden, the GE E44 #4453

Emma, the GE E44 #4461

Ethan, the GE E44 #4432

Galen, the EMD GP7 #6553

Gerry, the EMD GP9 #8799

Graydon, the EMD GP9 #8550

[marmarinou]

Another C&NW commuter train at Clybourn

May 1979

Chicago

Photo by D.W. Davidson

[retroboldphotography]

[trainmaniac]

Six months and counting by Kevin Cavanaugh Via Flickr: IIRC it took five sets of equipment to cover the rotations of the City of Los Angeles/Challenger over the UP/Milwaukee Road between LA and Chicago. Here, are two of the five, meeting at Colton, CA on the Santa Fe's Third District on October 4 , 1970. Eastbound train #104 behind E8A 926 is about to cross the SP while a somewhat tardy train #103 passes by on the adjacent main. #103 was due at San Bernadino straight up at 11:00 AM while #104 was to stop at 2:40 PM. Assuming the e/b was close to on time, this meet should have taken place somewhere between LAUPT and East Los Angeles. Oh well, my win....

[aryburn-kc]

EMD E8A 2010 passes through Olathe, KS in April of 1967.

[thefakeray]

RF&P E8A 1014 With the East Coast Champion and More. 1014 was built in October 1953 and she became Amtrak 222 -- 4 Photos by Marty Bernard Via Flickr: On February 6, 1971 RF&P 1014 posed with SCL E7A 554 in Richmond, VA. Thanks girls!

[guerrerense]

Green and Gold por Joe McMillan Por Flickr: New York Central EMD E8A 4055 idles outside the shop at Harmon, New York, August 7, 1965. This unit was painted black with a gold stripe. This was a one-of-a-kind experimental paint scheme, I believe—photo by Joe McMillan. The 4055 eventually became Amtrak 270 and was retired in May 1976.

[railwayhistorical]

La Salle Street Station

Here we see a commuter train in La Salle Street Station. The Rock Island locomotive in an EMD E8A built for the Union Pacific in 1953.

I was fifteen years old at the time, but was able to travel to Chicago with a railroad club. This was really something for a young lad from a smallish Midwestern town. I can't tell you how I, as a budding rail enthusiast, loved the smell of diesel fuel and exhaust.

In the end, I'm glad I got to capture the soon-to-be fallen flags (railroads that ceased to exist) and cab units such as this one. My photography of the time is nothing special in terms of the technique, but serves as a solid record of things that have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Image by Richard Koenig; taken September 20th 1975.

[20th-century-railroading]

PC 4326, South Amboy, NJ

Penn Central power lays over at the former PRR facility in South Amboy a few days before the Conrail startup. E8A 4326 is easily identified as a former New York Central unit as it does not have the lift rings on the nose that was a standard on all covered wagon A units built by EMD for the "Pennsy". The last Pennsylvania RR steam engines ran out of this facility in October of 1957.

3-27-1976

[aryburn-trains]

AMTK Train No. 180

Eastbound Amtrak (AMTK) Train No. 180, the "Pilgrim", with EMD E8A No. 495 providing power at Westwood, MA

Unknown photographer May 14, 1978.