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- Type:
- Newsletter
- Date Created:
- September 1978
- Date Archived:
- May 15, 2018
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1970s
Amtrak NEWS, September 1978.
Amtrak NEWS. Vol. 5, No. 9 (September 1978): 12. Print. Includes black and white photographs. From the Ed Von Nordeck Collection.
Amtrak NEWS was a newsletter published for Amtrak employees. Feature articles in this issue focus on an Amtrak commissary worker who found and returned a negotiable check worth $175,000; the opening of a new station in Dearborn, Mich.; and money saved by acquiring items through the federal excess property program.
- Type:
- Newsletter
- Date Created:
- June 1978
- Date Archived:
- May 15, 2018
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1970s
Amtrak NEWS, June 1978.
Amtrak NEWS. Vol. 5, No. 6 (June 1978): 12. Print. Includes black and white photographs. From the Ed Von Nordeck Collection.
Amtrak NEWS was a newsletter published for Amtrak employees. Feature articles in this issue focus on a successful sale of surplus equipment, from obsolete upholstery fabric to retired passenger cars; the reasons that Philadelphia was the Northeast Corridor nominee for station of the year; and 10-year-old Peter Kreunen, who developed a selection of Amtrak luggage tags and buttons.
- Type:
- Newsletter
- Date Created:
- March 1978
- Date Archived:
- May 15, 2018
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1970s
Amtrak NEWS, March 1978.
Amtrak NEWS. Vol. 5, No. 3 (March 1978): 8. Print. Includes black and white photographs. From the Ed Von Nordeck Collection.
Amtrak NEWS was a newsletter published for Amtrak employees. Feature articles in this issue focus on the re-equipped Montrealer; a new building at the Chicago 16th Street maintenance yard for indoor fueling and watering of up to nine F40PH locomotives; operations during a recent blizzard in the Northeast; and the opening of a new Amtrak headquarters near Washington Union Station.
- Type:
- Newsletter
- Date Created:
- January 15, 1978
- Date Archived:
- May 15, 2018
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1970s
Amtrak NEWS, January 15, 1978.
Amtrak NEWS. Vol. 5, No. 1 (January 15, 1978): 8. Print. Includes an illustration and black and white photographs. From the Ed Von Nordeck Collection.
Amtrak NEWS was a newsletter published for Amtrak employees. Feature articles in this issue focus on faster schedules for 27 trains; an order for eight electric locomotives to be built by the GM Electro Motive Division based on the ASEA Rc4a tested previously; and a detailed look back at major events during the previous year.
- Type:
- Newsletter
- Date Created:
- December 20, 1977
- Date Archived:
- May 15, 2018
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1970s
Amtrak NEWS, December 20, 1977.
Amtrak NEWS. Vol. 4, No. 23 (December 20, 1977): 8. Print. Includes a map and black and white photographs. From the Ed Von Nordeck Collection.
Amtrak NEWS was a newsletter published for Amtrak employees. Feature articles in this issue focus on the reinstatement of service on multiple train routes that had been cut due to insufficient funding; opening of the Rensselaer, N.Y., maintenance facility; and reinstatement of sleeping cars, provision of lounge facilities and upgrades to the meal service on the Panama Limited.
- Type:
- Newsletter
- Date Created:
- October 15, 1977
- Date Archived:
- May 15, 2018
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1970s
Amtrak NEWS, October 15, 1977.
Amtrak NEWS. Vol. 4, No. 19 (October 15, 1977): 12. Print. Includes a map, a histogram and black and white photographs. From the Ed Von Nordeck Collection.
Amtrak NEWS was a newsletter published for Amtrak employees. Feature articles in this issue focus on President Paul Reistrup's testimony before Congress detailing the plans and funding needed to operate Amtrak; reroutings required due to poor track conditions in Indiana; and Amtrak's extensive new five year plan, which includes new long- and short-distance routes.
- Type:
- Newsletter
- Date Created:
- October 1, 1977
- Date Archived:
- May 15, 2018
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1970s
Amtrak NEWS, October 1, 1977.
Amtrak NEWS. Vol. 4, No. 18 (October 1, 1977): 8. Print. Includes black and white photographs. From the Ed Von Nordeck Collection.
Amtrak NEWS was a newsletter published for Amtrak employees. Feature articles in this issue focus on upgrading, refurbishing and improving Metroliner cars; automation of personnel record keeping; and the first offering for sale of Amtrak jackets, ties and scarfs.
- Type:
- Newsletter
- Date Created:
- April 15, 1977
- Date Archived:
- May 15, 2018
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1970s
Amtrak NEWS, April 15, 1977.
Amtrak NEWS. Vol. 4, No. 7 (April 15, 1977): 8. Print. Includes an illustration and black and white photographs. From the Ed Von Nordeck Collection.
Amtrak NEWS was a newsletter published for Amtrak employees. Feature articles in this issue focus on Amtrak's rebuttle of charges of unfair competition by Greyhound; the official start of work on the five-year $1.7 billion Northeast Corridor Improvement Project at Odenton, Md.; and the opening of the new on-board crew quarters in Chicago Union Station.
- Type:
- Newsletter
- Date Created:
- March 15, 1977
- Date Archived:
- May 15, 2018
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1970s
Amtrak NEWS, March 15, 1977.
Amtrak NEWS. Vol. 4, No. 5 (March 15, 1977): 8. Print. Includes black and white photographs. From the Ed Von Nordeck Collection.
Amtrak NEWS was a newsletter published for Amtrak employees. Feature articles in this issue focus on Amtrak's transcontinental steam excursion from Birmingham, Ala., to Portland, Ore.; repainting Amtrak GG-1 No. 4935 in Brunswick green with gold pinstriping; and Amtrak's special train from Washington to Mount Clare in Baltimore to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
- Type:
- Newsletter
- Date Created:
- March 1, 1977
- Date Archived:
- May 15, 2018
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1970s
Amtrak NEWS, March 1, 1977.
Amtrak NEWS. Vol. 4, No. 4 (March 1, 1977): 8. Print. Includes a table and black and white photographs. From the Ed Von Nordeck Collection.
Amtrak NEWS was a newsletter published for Amtrak employees. Feature articles in this issue focus on Amtrak's rejection of having its St. Louis stop at Union Station; Amtrak's creation of a vice president of Computer Systems Services position; and the authorization of $6.8 million to modernize the 12th Street car and 16th Street engine maintenance yards in Chicago.