{"id":44032,"date":"2026-04-18T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=44032"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:02:48","slug":"fresh-paint-on-a-classic-emd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/fresh-paint-on-a-classic-emd\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Paint on a Classic EMD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The GP38 was introduced the same year as me, which gives me a certain fondness for this EMD classic diesel. Amtrak’s GP38-3s represent an upgrading of old GP38\/GP38-2 models to more modern standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In March, I was visiting with my friend Doug Scott on the station platform at Newark, Delaware. We heard a distant whistle and after a while and unscheduled train approached Davis interlocking (east of the station) on a secondary track. This was an Amtrak maintenance-of-way move carrying a Loram ballast cleaning train and some freshly shopped Amfleet cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The train entered the mainline, pulled up to the station and stopped in front of us to change directions. This was a nice surprise. Leading was Amtrak GP38-3 744 wearing fresh Phase 7 paint. It was the first of this class of locomotives that I’de seen wearing Amtrak’s latest interpretation of its classic livery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The locomotive, now 54 years old was built new for Penn Central as its 8032 in 1972. Gosh, it is an antique!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to this selection of digital photos, I also exposed a few slides, and in fact finished off the roll of Ektachrome the I’d loaded into my dad’s old Leica M4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A lot of Amtrak color in this photo; GP38-3 744 holds on the mainline as an eastward (northward) Regional train zips by with ACS-64 642 at the back. This was painted to support America’s Veterans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The GP38 was introduced the same year as me, which gives me a certain fondness for this EMD classic diesel. Amtrak’s GP38-3s represent an upgrading of old GP38\/GP38-2 models to more modern standards. In March, I was visiting with my friend Doug Scott on the station platform at Newark, Delaware. We heard a distant whistle … Continue reading Fresh Paint on a Classic EMD<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6060,10,6108,48],"tags":[5028,5070,8047,7672,31],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Amtrak_744_w_Loram_ballast_cleaner_Newark_Del\u00a9BrianSolomon_DSC_5998.jpg?fit=2048%2C1158&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BVuC-bsc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44032"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44044,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44032\/revisions\/44044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}