The Way It Was: Amtrak's Northeast Corridor in 1987 05 28

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This is another video shot by my friend Paul, who I got connected with via my Dad through their work. Paul was a big time railfan in the 80s and has some amazing footage, and I'm honored to get to share it with you. This video in particular was shot 5/28/87 in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

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@michaeltischer7195 21 күн бұрын

Now we really can see how amtrak looked like in the 1980s!!!

@Conrailfan2323 Жыл бұрын

The 3 E8's on that Transit train is one of the sickest clips I've seen in a long time.

@USArailfan2000 9 ай бұрын

From 1981 on through 2014, The AEM-7 'toaster' was Amtrak's tough high-speed workhorse on the NEC!

@bobbybrisk643 24 күн бұрын

False 1979 to 2016

@johnalder6028 Ай бұрын

Really nice. Looks like a great location for railfanning. Thanx for sharing this !

@sepa2401 7 ай бұрын

Beautiful K5LA on that NJT Comet II at 33:04!

@maciekkra539 2 ай бұрын

Cool to watch. I didn't get to watch the Corridor untill early 90s. By that time NJT E60 were being replaced by ALP44. Only saw 958 under power by then and it was i think only on standby. Other than no E8s everything else was same. The European guests (X2000 and ICE), deffinitely added to the variety. BTW those E60s were especially cool to see as they raced with heavy trains leaning to the side on uneven tracks.

@jmream2618 8 ай бұрын

Nothing beats Amtrak’s E60s

@ChillyChase 14 күн бұрын

You know what i feel the same way. they was not only huge but they were good pullers.

@bobbybrisk643 Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Hopefully theres more

@VietTheKong Жыл бұрын

Can't beat those Toasters

@_mynewcareer Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@Likeroftrains-zl1su 7 ай бұрын

Hello, I was wondering if I could get permission to use clips from this video? I am working on a documentary about transit proposals in New Jersey and this would be perfect for when I talk about Newark. You will be given full credit in the video of course.

@timregan1005 6 ай бұрын

i remember this in the nineties. stopping to swap diesel loco for electric coming from boston

@gondoravalon7540 Ай бұрын

Who's bright idea was it to put a cafe car all the way at the end of a 13-car Amtrak train? Why does this - that it seemed to be common to put cafe cars at the end of many amtrak trains in the 80s and 90s vs closer to the middle - bother me so much?

@paulw.woodring7304 25 күн бұрын

Let me take a stab at this. I was an Amtrak Washington, DC-based cafe attendant in this time period. On most trains where you would see the cafe at the far end were probably trains going to or from south of Washington, where cars would be either subtracted at DC going south or added going north. On those trains the cafe would be in the section going through. Usually the extra cars between NY and DC were on the rear of the train for removal at DC during the change to Diesel, and on the front going North, added with the AEM7 at DC. Sometimes on a busy day there might be two working cafes on a particularly busy train going all the way from/to Boston, not just the usual cafe/club car (another reason the cafe car would be at the very end of the train - to isolate the Club passengers). You'd have to see the markings on the car to know what it was. And sometimes things just got so hectic that they stuck the cafe car in the consist wherever they could. They also would occasionally use a cafe car just as an unattended coach if they were short on equipment at the time. I'm not sure exactly which train you were referring to, so I couldn't tell you for sure what was going on, but they usually tried to put the working cafe somewhere close to the middle if that worked out. And during the holidays all bets were off and anything with wheels and seats would be thrown onto a train.