FL9 locomotives No. 486 and No. 491 coupled together, 1982.
Black and white photograph from February 1982 showing FL9 locomotives No. 486 and No. 491 at Rensselaer, N.Y.
- Photograph Details
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- Date Archived:
- September 24, 2013
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
- Data Format:
- Image
- Date Created:
- February 1982
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The streamlined FL9 electro-diesel locomotives were originally built by the General Motors Electro-Motive Division for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (the "New Haven") from 1956 to 1960. Since part of the New Haven was electrified, the FL9 was capable of diesel-electric operation or could be electrically powered from a third rail. Following the Penn Central merger, these 1750 horsepower locomotives eventually passed to Conrail and a dozen were later sold to Amtrak.
Rebuilt FL9s were used by Amtrak until the arrival of the new P32AC-DM locomotives in the mid-1990s. In this image, the locomotives, built in 1957, wear the Phase III paint scheme introduced by Amtrak in 1979. The Erastus Corning Tower across the river in Albany is visible in the background.
Photographer: William Kratville (American, 1929-2011) for Amtrak. From the Blair Slaughter Collection.
