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AMTK SDP40F 599 |
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Amtrak SDP40F 599 at about 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in June 1978, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The E8 ( number 400 ) was not a locomotive but had been converted to a fuel tender with a capacity of 9300 gallons of diesel fuel. |
Photo Date: |
6/1/1978 Upload Date: 9/30/2018 8:10:01 PM |
Location: |
Chicago, IL |
Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
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Yard |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 599(SDP40F) AMTK 400(Fuel Tender) |
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471 Comments: 0 |
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Experimental Fuel Tender |
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You can find out more about this interesting experiment in the caption of http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2501695. J. J. Buckley photo, from the Ralph L. Phillips collection of the Bay State Model Railroad Museum. |
Photo Date: |
6/2/1978 Upload Date: 10/9/2022 1:46:42 AM |
Location: |
Chicago, IL |
Author: |
J. J. Buckley |
Categories: |
Roster,Yard,Passenger |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 400(Fuel Tender) AMTK 669(Heater Car) |
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216 Comments: 0 |
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AMTK Fuel Tender 400 |
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Amtrak 400 at about 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois sometime in July 1978, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Searching the Internet for more information about this, I found the following: Yeah Ed, I was involved in some of those issues about 20 years ago when I was working on Amtrak's Fuel Tender program. We had an old E-8 loco that had both engines removed and replaced with (6) 1350 gallon aux. water tanks from the old SDP40-F's. Total fuel capacity in the E-8 including belly tanks was 9300 gallons of #2 fuel. The fuel level gauge was removed from one side of the fuel tanks on two F-40's and replaced with a float switch. One F-40 at each end of the E-8. Every time the float switch dropped, pumps would kick on in the E-8 and transfer fuel to the F-40's through hoses with quick disconnects. Of course, the transfer rate on those pumps didn't need to be high capacity. On one trip from Chicago to Seattle, we got to Seattle with almost enough fuel on board to return partway to Chicago WITHOUT refilling in Seattle. We used a fuel consumption rate of 2 gpm per F-40 (that's gallons per mile!) plus fudge factors. On the return trip when we passed through Spokane, where there was a drive-up fuel truck alongside the station track...he was going to pump fuel no matter what until we explained we didn't need his services on this trip (guess he didn't get the message). All this got started due to the fact that the contract RR's were no longer using the fuel stanchions at the end of the passenger station platforms. The EPA tried to get the contract RR's to clean up those areas, but they explained that Amtrak was the only one using them. Sooooo, the EPA went after Amtrak to clean up the mess. Amtrak had about 180 fuel sites across the country and thought that one way to eliminate the problem (and excessive cost) would be to carry the fuel and eliminate the need for en-route refuelling. Evidently, the cost of a fleet of "fuel tenders" was excessive. I think Amtrak has since gone back and put containment pads in and improved the fuel nozzle shutoff features. Just a little history from my RR'ing days. cb http://chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=53047&view=next |
Photo Date: |
7/1/1978 Upload Date: 4/20/2011 10:00:25 AM |
Location: |
Chicago, IL |
Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 400(Fuel Tender) CR 8403(SW1) |
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2989 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
AMTK 400 |
Description: |
Amtrak Fuel Tender 400 at about 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in July 1978, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. |
Photo Date: |
7/1/1978 Upload Date: 2/3/2014 12:22:01 PM |
Location: |
Chicago, IL |
Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 400(Fuel Tender) |
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651 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
AMTK 400 |
Description: |
Amtrak 400 at about 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in July 1978, Ektachrome by Chuck Zeiler. |
Photo Date: |
7/1/1978 Upload Date: 7/27/2012 2:02:07 PM |
Location: |
Chicago, IL |
Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 400(Fuel Tender) AMTK 258(F40PHR) |
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848 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Amtrak Fuel Tender 400 |
Description: |
The piece of equipment was built as Baltimore & Ohio E9 number 34 in 1955, and was subsequently B&O 1454 and Amtrak 400. In the late 1970's, Amtrak gutted the unit and installed the water tanks from four retired SDP40F's, creating a 9300-gallon fuel tender. It was tried on different trains, but wasn't widely used; and is shown here stored at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. |
Photo Date: |
9/4/1978 Upload Date: 2/28/2010 10:57:01 AM |
Location: |
New Orleans, LA |
Author: |
Michael Palmieri |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 400(Fuel Tender) |
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3177 Comments: 4 |
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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) |
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794 Comments: 0 |
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Amtrak E8 430 |
Description: |
Amtrak E8 430 at about 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois on an unknown day in May 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. The single locomotive parked with the MOW equipment was Fuel Tender 400, apparently out of service. |
Photo Date: |
5/1/1979 Upload Date: 2/3/2014 12:50:15 PM |
Location: |
Chicago, IL |
Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
Categories: |
Yard |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 430(E9A) AMTK 400(Fuel Tender) |
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1083 Comments: 0 |
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AMTK RTG-3 59 |
Description: |
Amtrak RTG-3 59 at 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois, on an unknown day in May 1979, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. See Comments below, thanks Jim. This set arrived in 1975, numbered (from this end) 59, 82, 81, 80, 58. The first and fifth units were power-coaches with 44 seats per car, the second and fourth units were coaches with 72 seats per unit, and the third unit had 60 seats and a bar-grill for food service. The bridge in the background is the ICG's Saint Charles Air Line. |
Photo Date: |
5/1/1979 Upload Date: 12/7/2010 10:50:40 AM |
Location: |
Chicago, IL |
Author: |
Chuck Zeiler |
Categories: |
Roster,Bridge,Yard,Passenger |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 59(Turboliner) AMTK 400(Fuel Tender) |
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3093 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Amtrak 400 |
Description: |
This E-unit was used as a fuel tender |
Photo Date: |
3/10/1982 Upload Date: 1/22/2009 7:15:47 AM |
Location: |
Beech Grove, IN |
Author: |
Mitch Cline |
Categories: |
Roster |
Locomotives: |
AMTK 400(Fuel Tender) |
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2127 Comments: 2 |
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