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- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Archived:
- April 22, 2011
- Geography:
- West
- Decade:
- 1980s
Dining car crew on the Southwest Chief, 1985.
Color photo showing the dining car crew of the Southwest Chief (Chicago-Los Angeles) in 1985.
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Created:
- 1980
- Date Archived:
- April 22, 2011
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
Reservation Center in Bensalem, Penn.
Mainframe computing made it possible to centralize the reservation system
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Archived:
- April 22, 2011
- Geography:
- National
- Decade:
- 1980s
Engineer on an F40, 1980s.
Black and white photograph showing an engineer on an F40 locomotive looking ahead intently. Image likely dates to the 1980s.
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Archived:
- April 22, 2011
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
Self Serve Ticketing kiosk, late 1980s.
Color photograph of a passenger using the new Self ServeTicketing kiosk at New York Penn Station, c. late 1980s.
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Created:
- February 25, 1988
- Date Archived:
- April 22, 2011
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
Train dispatcher using CETC, 1988.
Color photograph showing a train dispatcher at the Centralized Electrification and Traffic Control (CETC) center at Philadelphia 30th Street Station; image dates to February 1988.
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Created:
- 1986
- Date Archived:
- April 22, 2011
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
Preparing train orders, 1986.
Color photograph showing Operator Jack Robertson preparing train orders; image dates to 1986.
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Created:
- 1988
- Date Archived:
- April 22, 2011
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
The Restored Union Station Main Hall
Redevelopment brought bustling life to the restored Main Hall of Washington's Union Station.
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Created:
- September 1988
- Date Archived:
- April 22, 2011
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
W. Graham Claytor, Jr. in front of Washington Union Station, 1988.
Color photograph showing Amtrak President and Chairman W. Graham Claytor, Jr. with recently restored Washington Union Station in the background. Image dates to 1988.
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Archived:
- April 22, 2011
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
SPV2000 No. 996
These self-propelled passenger cars were used for lighter traffic.
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Archived:
- April 21, 2011
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
Aerial view of construction at Washington Union Station.
Taken during the restoration of the 1980s.
