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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.

Preparing train orders, 1986.

Color photograph showing Operator Jack Robertson preparing train orders; image dates to 1986.

The Restored Union Station Main Hall

Redevelopment brought bustling life to the restored Main Hall of Washington's Union Station.

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.

SPV2000 No. 996

These self-propelled passenger cars were used for lighter traffic.

Aerial view of construction at Washington Union Station.

Taken during the restoration of the 1980s.

The Broadway Limited on Horseshoe Curve, 1980s.

Black and white photograph showing train No. 40 descending the famous curve outside of Altoona, Pa.

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.

Inaugural Run of the Virginian.

Also an excursion by members of the National Railway Historical Society (NRHS), Old Dominion Chapter, on October 28, 1984.

Atlantic City Express brochure.

Color printed paper brochure for the Atlantic City Express.