Nostalgia & History > BB: AMTK Rainbow: NP, GN, UP, BN, AMTK in Montana 1972

A going away shot by Bruce Black, taken on Oct. 3, 1972 near Logan, MT. NP F's & AMTK F, heading a string of passenger equipment in a variety of schemes. The second pic, also by Bruce, same same day, same train, immediately after the first one. I have checked for an oncoming view of this train, but don't remember if I ever found one and searched TO for my posts and didn't see such a shot. No guarantees on that though, as I may have simply not defined the search criteria that would find a match.

---

---

Glad the slides of the train are around. Very cool. Thanks for posting.

Very nice shots.
Is that the diner Lake McDonald in the first picture to the right?
Gary

gcm Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Very nice shots.
> Is that the diner Lake McDonald in the first
> picture to the right?
> Gary


Yes it is, just zoomed the scan

That must have been a fun train to ride with those domes.

This was a typical Amtrak Train during the beginning of Amtrak operations across the country, a mixture of many different railroad passenger cars. The only exception for this were many of the former Pennsylvania R.R. and New York Central R.R. equipment which because of the merger of those two lines to form Penn-Central, operated mostly passenger equipment from those two lines including locomotives, especially here along the Northeast Corridor. Very nice photos for sure.
John in White Marsh, Maryland

Is the car behind the diner a lounge or a sleeper?

41 Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Is the car behind the diner a lounge or a sleeper?

Looks like a former AT&SF Palm-series 10-6 sleeper.

North Coast Hiawatha?

Uncle Joe
Seffner,Fl.

Bruce made annual trips to Montana every October. This is one of the reasons why he was never disappointed.

I found it

---

fantastic, didn't even see the 3rd unit went platinum, so busy looking at the cars.

you guys see the BN passenger service spread in the current trains? wish we had amtraks NCH, or or better the BN service. Many q routes were freight only, but the northern lines almost all had service, maybe due to their remoteness.

Amazing, no one on the highway

WAF Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Amazing, no one on the highway


That's because they saw Bruce's car and turned around :-)

kbehling Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> I found it

what was subject line or date? I probably didn't have my search words correct

now I found it too:

Date: 12/05/15 06:51
BB: AMTK's North Coast Hiawatha 'rainbow': Front View



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/20/17 13:34 by valmont.

The pavement is old US 10 now secondary to I-90 built to the south. The trestle the train is about to pass under is the MILW branch to Gallatin Gateway, Bozeman and Anceny once partly electrified as the Gallatin Valley Electric. Bruce used to shoot action of SW-1 road power on the trestle.

The lead unit is one of a pair of NP's FP7 locomotives, the only NP passenger power without dynamic brakes. They were ordered for Canadian service.






WAF Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Amazing, no one on the highway



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/20/17 13:41 by fbe.

fbe Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> The pavement is old US 10 now secondary to I-90
> built to the south. The trestle the train is about
> to pass under is the MILW branch to Gallatin
> Gateway, Bozeman and Anceny once partly
> electrified as the Gallatin Valley Electric. Bruce
> used to shoot action of SW-1 road power on the
> trestle.
>

yup, and I think I've posted a shot he took of MILW SW1 on that trestle

How's this?

---

sweet

What a job, out and back the same day all in daylight. The way working on the railroad should be. I miss those days.