Amtrak Metroliner 821
Amtrak Metroliner 821 rolls into 30th Street in April, 1977 during the Septa Transit Union 44-day strike. The support buildings with fuel tanks remain in 2016.
Date:
5/27/2016
Location:
Philadelphia, PA
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708
Collection Of:
Alan Page
Locomotives:
AMTK 821(Electric M.U.)
Author:
Alan Page
Picture Categories: Yard,Passenger,Action
This picture is part of album:
Then and now: 30th St Station Amtrak/CR operations(1977 and 2016)
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Peter Hultgren
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Nice photo. Judging by the window band pinstripe color, this looks like the original, very first PRR Metroliner equipment, delivered just about the moment of Penn Central's creation.
6/20/2016 1:10:17 PM
Alan Page
General
Thanks for the great observations, Peter. I saw a number of similarly painted Metroliners a few weeks earlier on the NEC, with some identical as with 821 (800, 803, 815, 816, 852, 864, 880, and 882), but a few had the Amtrak symbol added to the nose(854, 883). They're posted in my Septa stirke NEC album.
6/20/2016 6:44:53 PM
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