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Type:: Button
Date Created:: 1984
Date Archived:: November 14, 2012
Geography:: Midwest
Decade:: 1980s

Pere Marquette button, 1984.

Promotional button celebrating the Pere Marquette inaugural in August 1984. Metal button with pin; measures approximately 2 1/4" across.

Type:: Brochure
Date Created:: 1981
Date Archived:: September 7, 2012
Geography:: National
Decade:: 1980s

Amtrak Family Days 1981, Tenth Anniversary Booklet.

Eight-page printed paper booklet illustrated with line drawings; from 1981, in celebration of the 10th anniversary.

Family days have been a company tradition honoring the employees. In 1981, the company showcased its new Amfleet, Superliner, Turboliner, Metroliner and SPV-2000 equipment as well as the refurbished Heritage fleet. This brochure provides a convenient overview of all of this rolling stock.

Type:: Press Release
Date Created:: February 6, 1986
Date Archived:: September 7, 2012
Geography:: National
Decade:: 1980s

Press release on Accord to Take Over Engineers and Train Conductors, 1986.

Press release from February 6, 1986, announcing that Amtrak would take over employment of its train conductors and engineers from the contract railroads on service outside the Northeast Corridor. This news brought with it momentous implications for improving service all over the system. Amtrak had taken over Northeast Corridor operating crews on January 1, 1983.