Amtrak Photo Archive
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the early E-8s #200-299


 

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The Amtrak E-8s came from 14 owners. The Amtrak E-9s came from the UP. The E-8Bs came from UP. The E-9Bs came from UP & Milw.
Amtrak owned 216 E units - one third of the total E-8s & E-9s

The E-8s were first numbered in the 200-300 series.

   # Location and Information Date

 Photo Credit
4316  Chicago IL
ex PC 4616 ex PRR 5716A
an experimental paint scheme applied for press releases on day 1 -		  1971  from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
4316

 Chicago IL
later repainted & renumbered 322

later renumbered 461

 May 1972  from the
collection of
Jim Hebner

 

   #  Location and Information  Date  Photo Credit
200  Chicago IL
ex B&O 1439
retired May 28, 1975		  July 1972  unknown
 200 Williamsburg VA
departing on Train #99
a bit grainy but a nice broadside		  1972  GR Harper
 200  Chicago IL  unknown  from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
 201 Montgomery AL  10/19/73   John Cloutier
202  Chicago IL
ex B&O 1446
built October 1953
retired May 28, 1975		  August 12, 1972  John Kuehl
 203  Chicago IL  April 1973  
 no photo ye 204      

205  Chicago IL
ex B&O 1449
built October 1953
retired May 29, 1975		  November 5, 1972  Bruno Berzins
 205  E8 #205 (ex-B&O) Amtrak
shops in Chicago before Amtrak rebuilt the area		  August 1974  Gary Morris
 no photo yet  206      
 207   Chicago IL
ex B&O 1451
built October 1953		  July 1972  

207  Chicago IL
retired May 28, 1975		  October 1972  unknown

208  Chicago IL  September 1,1973  Dan Dover
208  ex B&O 1452
built October 1953
retired May 28, 1975		    
 no photo yet 209       

210  Oakland MD
ex-B&O 1463, exx-B&O 1440, nee-B&O 92.		  Jan 1973  Bill Hakkarinen

210  Chicago IL
Sold to Oklahoma Railfans in 1986. Acquired by ?? in 1994, and currently located at Baltimore & Ohio Museum		  July 7, 1973  George Horna
210  Elizabethport NJ
Leased from NTSB by New Jersey Transit from 5/75 to 5/81.		  April 7, 1979  from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
210  Baltimore MD
at the B&O RR Museum
awaiting restoration		  May 31, 1998  Jeff Lubchansky
 211  Williamsburg VA
with train 99		  1972  GR Harper
211  Swanton MD  February 1973  Bill Hakkarinen
 no photo yet  212
213 Cumberland MD
exRF&P 1001
built November 1949
renumbered Amtrak 437
Nov 1975		  August 20, 1975 F R Kern
214 Nashville TN  February 1, 1974 Ed Bower
217  Tampa FL  January 1973 R.E.Fall
 218  Clearwater FL August 1972 unknown

 220  Washington DC  October 1974  Bill Hakkarinen
222  Washington DC  Jan 16, 1973  unknown
224    Oct 6, 1974 WR
224 Black Rock NY June 20, 1975 from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
224 Black Rock NY June 20, 1975 from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
226
 Chicago IL
 Oct 19, 1974   from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
227  Washington DC  Nov 24, 1974  Steve Salmon
 Jacksonville FL
 Dec 23, 1974
 Bob Carter

 230  Washington DC  May 31, 1972  unknown
 231  Chicago IL  September 1973  Ronald Plazzotta
231  Chicago IL?  June 1973  David Wagner
231 Montgomery AL  11/3/73   John Cloutier
 235    August 31, 1972  R.E.Fall
238  Washinton DC  June 8,1972  from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
 240  Chicago IL  Aug 1972  from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
   245      GR Harper
 246   Washington DC  March 23, 1979  from the
collection of
Jim Hebner

248  Washington DC  March 24, 1973  from the
collection of
Albert Phleep

 Chicago, IL
 March 26,1973
 from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
Clearwater FL
 August 1972
 from the
collection of
Albert Phleep
 Ft. Worth TX
this image from a dark 126 slide does show some thing unusual - an E with four porthole windows
former SCL 595
Built Dec 1952
 unknown
 Roger Huber
  Miami FL
former SCL 598
  Jan 1973
 from the
collection of
Jim Hebner
 258
Before it was Amtrak 258, before it was Penn Central 4040 - NYC 4040 at Wellesley Farms MA
built August 1951, retired May 28, 1975
sold July 1975 to Union Mineral Alloy in Kearney NJ
for scrap
 1958
 Dick Leonhardt
Before it was Amtrak 263 , before it was Penn Central 4047 - NYC 4047 at Wellesley Farms MA
built Novenber 1951,
retired May 28, 1975
 1958
 Dick Leonhardt
 unknown
unknown 
 unknown
 285
New Haven, CT 
 1975
 Robert B Clere
 287
 Boston
 Aug 8, 1974

 Chicago IL
note the lack of black on the nose

later it was reunumbered 456, and before that it was Pennsylvania Railroad E8A (EP22) 5888.

June 1974
 George Horna
from the
collection of
JL Hunt
 Boston MA?
The unit is currently at
the Railway Museum of Greater Cincinnati. The fiberglass panels on both sides are being replaced with steel panels with portholes.
 July 1974
 from the
collection of
Joseph Tesagrose
(wr)

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This archive was first accessed August 1996