Beech Grove employees with the Amtrak Veterans Locomotive, 2013.
Color digital image showing employees of the Beech Grove, Ind., heavy maintenance facility posing with the Amtrak Veterans Locomotive; image dates to June 2013.
- Digital Image Details
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- Date Archived:
- November 12, 2014
- Geography:
- Midwest
- Decade:
- 2010s
- Data Format:
- Image
- Date Created:
- June 20, 2013
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To honor all those who have served in the armed forces, Amtrak painted P-42 locomotive No. 42 red, white and blue. It also includes a specially designed “America’s Railroad Salutes Our Veterans” logo and 50 stars around the bottom. The locomotive was painted as part of a regularly scheduled upgrade at the Amtrak Beech Grove, Ind., maintenance facility and is used to pull trains in revenue service on routes throughout the country. In this image, Beech Grove employees who worked on the locomotive pose for a group portrait.
The Veterans Locomotive was unveiled on June 26, 2013 during a ceremony held at Washington Union Station to announce an Amtrak goal of hiring veterans as 25 percent of all new employees by 2015. “The leadership, reliability and high-tech skills veterans bring to the job are a great resource to the operation of America’s Railroad,” said Amtrak President and CEO Joseph Boardman, a Vietnam veteran.
Photographer: Chuck Gomez for Amtrak. From the Amtrak Corporate Collection.
