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- 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.
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Archived:
- April 21, 2011
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
The Broadway Limited on Horseshoe Curve, 1980s.
Black and white photograph showing train No. 40 descending the famous curve outside of Altoona, Pa.
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Archived:
- April 14, 2011
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
Locomotives AEM-7 No. 901 and E-60 No. 966, 1980s.
Color photograph depicting AEM-7 No. 901 and E-60 No. 966 at the Ivy City Yard in Washington, D.C.; dates to the early 1980s.
- Type:
- Photograph
- Date Created:
- October 24, 1984
- Date Archived:
- April 14, 2011
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
Inaugural Run of the Virginian.
Also an excursion by members of the National Railway Historical Society (NRHS), Old Dominion Chapter, on October 28, 1984.
- Type:
- Brochure
- Date Archived:
- April 14, 2011
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
Atlantic City Express brochure.
Color printed paper brochure for the Atlantic City Express.