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- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Archived:
- May 31, 2016
- Geography:
- West
- Decade:
- 1970s
Coast Starlight/Daylight led by E9A locomotive No. 418, 1970s.
Color slide showing the Coast Starlight/Daylight (Seattle-San Francisco/Oakland-Los Angeles) alongside a body of water; image dates to the early 1970s.
- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Archived:
- May 31, 2016
- Geography:
- West
- Decade:
- 1970s
Coast Starlight/Daylight led by E9A locomotive No. 418, 1970s.
Color slide showing the Coast Starlight/Daylight (Seattle-San Francisco/Oakland-Los Angeles) alongside a body of water; image dates to the early 1970s.
- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Archived:
- May 31, 2016
- Decade:
- 1970s
RTG Turboliner alongside a body of water, 1970s.
Color slide showing an RTG Turboliner trainset moving alongside a body of water; image likely dates to the 1970s.
- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Archived:
- May 31, 2016
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1970s
Nose of a SDP40F locomotive, 1970s.
Color slide showing the nose of a SDP40F locomotive; image likely dates to the 1970s.
- Type:
- Menu
- Date Created:
- June 1977
- Date Archived:
- May 31, 2016
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1970s
"Sips & Snacks" menu, 1977.
Multi-color printed paper menu issued in June 1977 for display in a food service car. Includes hand drawings of a sandwich and beverage.
- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Created:
- October 1978
- Date Archived:
- April 26, 2016
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1970s
Amtrak tour desk at New York Penn Station, 1978.
Color film slide showing the Amtrak tour desk at New York Penn Station; image dates to October 1978.
- Type:
- Newsletter
- Date Created:
- April 1, 1977
- Date Archived:
- April 26, 2016
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1970s
Amtrak NEWS, April 1, 1977.
Amtrak NEWS. Vol. 4, No. 6 (April 1, 1977): 8. Print. Includes black and white photographs and drawings. From the Amtrak Corporate Collection.
Amtrak NEWS was a bi-monthly newsletter published for Amtrak employees. Feature articles in this issue focus on the start of the Northeast Corridor Improvement Program; a plan to upgrade the Chicago Yard; and the opening of a new tour desk at New York Penn Station.
- Type:
- Poster
- Date Archived:
- April 26, 2016
- Geography:
- Midwest
- Decade:
- 1970s
"Discover Chic Chicago" poster, 1970s.
Multicolor printed paper poster made to promote travel to Chicago on the Black Hawk (Chicago-Rockford-Dubuque); poster likely dates to the mid-1970s.
- Type:
- Route Guide
- Date Created:
- February 15, 1972
- Date Archived:
- March 18, 2016
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1970s
Potomac Turbo route guide, 1972.
Multicolor printed paper route guide issued in February 1972 to promote the experimental Washington-Parkersburg, W. Va., service, which had just been assigned a TurboTrain - an articulated, lightweight trainset with a gas-turbine propulsion. From the Amtrak Corporate Collection.
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Created:
- 1971
- Date Archived:
- March 18, 2016
- Geography:
- South
- Decade:
- 1970s
TurboTrain at Petersburg, Va., 1971.
Color photograph showing the TurboTrain stopped at Petersburg, Va., during its 1971 national tour.
