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- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Archived:
- April 26, 2016
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1980s
Amfleet II food service car interior, 1980s.
Color photograph showing the central cafe section of an Amfleet II food service car; image likely dates to the 1980s.
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Created:
- 1981
- Date Archived:
- April 26, 2016
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1980s
Amfleet coach car No. 21800 interior, 1981.
Black and white photograph showing the interior of Amfleet coach car No. 21800; image dates to 1981.
- Type:
- Newsletter
- Date Created:
- October 1980
- Date Archived:
- March 4, 2016
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1980s
Amtrak NEWS, September-October 1980.
Amtrak NEWS. Vol. 7, No. 8 (September-October 1980): 16. 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 a Family Days celebration in Los Angeles and inauguration of the Prairie Marksman (Chicago-Peoria).
- Type:
- Newsletter
- Date Created:
- November 1980
- Date Archived:
- November 20, 2015
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1980s
Amtrak NEWS, November 1980.
Amtrak NEWS. Vol. 7, No. 9 (November 1980): 16. Print. Includes black and white photographs. From the Amtrak Corporate Collection.
Amtrak NEWS was a monthly newsletter published for Amtrak employees. Feature articles in this issue focus on the Amtrak national sales convention; inauguration of the Hoosier State (Chicago-Indianapolis); and the dedication of the BWI Airport station.
- Type:
- Menu
- Date Archived:
- October 26, 2015
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
Montrealer menu, 1980s.
Multi-color printed paper, bilingual English/French menu issued for use on the Montrealer (Montreal-Washington). In addition to breakfast and dinner options, the menu features "Soup, etc./Potage plus" - a hot bowl of soup accompanied by a loaf of French bread, gouda cheese and a chilled apple. The daytime Vermonter (St. Albans, Vt.-Washington) replaced the Montrealer on April 1, 1995. From the Ann Owens Collection.
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Created:
- October 1983
- Date Archived:
- October 13, 2015
- Decade:
- 1980s
Heritage sleeping car No. 2467, 1983.
Black and white photograph from October 1983 showing Heritage sleeping car No. 2467 from above.
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Created:
- February 1982
- Date Archived:
- October 13, 2015
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
FL9 locomotive No. 491 in the snow, 1982.
Black and white photograph from February 1982 showing FL9 locomotive No. 491 at Rensselaer, N.Y.
- Type:
- Brochure
- Date Created:
- May 1984
- Date Archived:
- September 1, 2015
- Geography:
- Midwest
- Decade:
- 1980s
River Cities brochure, 1984.
Multicolor printed paper brochure issued in May 1984 to promote the new River Cities (Kansas City-St. Louis-New Orleans). The train extended existing Kansas City-St. Louis service east to Centralia, Ill., where through cars were combined/uncoupled from the City of New Orleans (Chicago-New Orleans). Creation of this direct route built on excitement over the Louisiana World Exposition held in New Orleans in summer 1984. From the Ann Owens Collection.
- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Archived:
- July 28, 2015
- Geography:
- West
- Decade:
- 1980s
Western long-distance train led by F40PH locomotive No. 217, 1980s.
Color slide showing a western long-distance train led by F40PH locomotive No. 217 through a mountainous landscape; image likely dates to the 1980s.
- Type:
- Film Slide
- Date Archived:
- July 28, 2015
- Geography:
- West
- Decade:
- 1980s
Western long-distance train in a desert landscape, 1980s.
Color slide showing a western long-distance train in a desert landscape; image likely dates to the 1980s.