{"id":35783,"date":"2023-04-06T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=35783"},"modified":"2023-04-05T19:55:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T23:55:36","slug":"amtrak-915-1981-and-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/amtrak-915-1981-and-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak 915\u20131981 and 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Over the last few months as I’ve continue to organize the tens of thousands of slides that comprise my collection, I been looking for a few specifics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January, I paid a visit to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, where Amtrak AEM-7 915 is on display. I made several photos of this classic locomotive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I find odd, is that old 915 was nearly brand new when I paid my first visit to the museum back in 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amtrak AEM-7 915 and Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 number 4800 at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg. January 2023. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nikon Z7-2 image exposed in January 2023.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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This led to a search for 915 when it was in service. Initially, I thought this shouldn’t be too difficult, since I spent a lot of time along the electrified Northeast Corridor during the 1980s and 1990s when the AEM-7s were plentiful and still wore their as-delivered paint scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, as I scoured my countless Amtrak slides, 915 seemed to elude me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, the other night I found a vintage Kodachrome slide of 915 doubleheaded with its sister 916 on a train at New Haven, Connecticut. I’d made this view from the front of an MTA\/CDOT multiple unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amtrak AEM-7s 915 and 916 at New Haven, Connecticut in December 1981. K64 with Leica 3A.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Enlarged version of the same slide. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I scanned this slide using a Nikon LS5000 scanner and adjusted the TIF scan using Adobe Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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