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- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Archived:
- July 8, 2015
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1970s
New York Penn Station ticket counter, 1970s.
Color slide showing the ticket counter at New York Penn Station; image probably dates to the 1970s.
- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Archived:
- July 8, 2015
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1970s
New York Penn Station information desk, 1970s.
Color slide showing the information desk at New York Penn Station; image probably dates to the 1970s.
- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Created:
- September 1978
- Date Archived:
- July 8, 2015
- Geography:
- South
- Decade:
- 1970s
Amtrak Miami station, 1978.
Color slide showing the new Miami station in September 1978.
- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Archived:
- July 8, 2015
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
Train on the Northeast Corridor, 1980s.
Color slide showing a train on the Northeast Corridor crossing a river; image probably dates to the 1980s.
- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Archived:
- July 8, 2015
- Geography:
- West
- Decade:
- 1980s
Western long-distance train along a river, 1980s.
Color slide showing a western long-distance train along the shore of a river; image likely dates to the 1980s.
- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Archived:
- July 6, 2015
- Geography:
- California
- Decade:
- 1970s
Los Angeles Union Station main entry, 1970s.
Color slide showing sun passing through latticework over the main entry of Los Angeles Union Station; image likely dates to the late 1970s.
- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Archived:
- July 6, 2015
- Geography:
- California
- Decade:
- 1970s
Los Angeles Union Station waiting room, 1970s.
Color slide showing the waiting room at Los Angeles Union Station; image likely dates to the late 1970s.
- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Archived:
- July 6, 2015
- Decade:
- 1970s
Red Caps at work, 1970s.
Color slide showing Red Caps moving sacks and parcels between a train and depot; image likely dates to the late 1970s.
- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Archived:
- July 6, 2015
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
Track work on the Northeast Corridor, 1970s.
Color slide showing Amtrak employees replacing ties on the Northeast Corridor; image likely dates to the late 1970s or early 1980s.
- Type:
- Brochure
- Date Archived:
- July 2, 2015
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1970s
"What is Amtrak?" booklet, 1970s.
Printed paper booklet with black-and-white photographs describing the formation of Amtrak and improvements to the intercity passenger rail system. Dates to 1972 or later. "Amtrak was established to fill an essential need in a balanced transportation system...its purpose is to improve and develop intercity passenger rail service." From the Patricia Saunders Collection.
