Nostalgia & History > OTD: Amtrak @ Rawlins, WY (1977)

Amtrak #586 leading eastbound Amtrak @ Rawlins,WY  7/19/77
my shot

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Looks hot and humid, just like today...

Nice shot!  Old UP RR Denver, CO based train crews worked to and from Green River, WY. Denver based engine crews worked to and from Rawlins. Rawlins engine crews worked to and from Green River.
 

Looks like they didn't bother to light the white class lights.

timz Wrote:
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> Looks like they didn't bother to light the white
> class lights.
Why? Is this an extra?

Uncle Joe
Seffner,Fl.

Don't think Amtrak 5/6 ever appeared in UP's timetable--
not in 1977, anyway.
 

no dome on a train that should have them

Railfan2 Wrote:
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> no dome on a train that should have them
Not in 1976-77
 

Railfan2 Wrote:
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> no dome on a train that should have them

Agreed.  If this is the San Francico Zephyr, I road it east from Osceloa IA to Sacramento in 1976 and west from Sacramento to Denver and in 1977.  My east bound trip had two domes, a short dome (might have been ex-GN) and a long dome (might have been ex-SP) but my eastbound trip had no domes, and through the Sierra's that was a big disappointment for this teenager at the time!

I almost never got car sick, but on the east bound trip I remember getting off the train in Cheyenne WY for some fresh air and felt dizzy and a bit sick, from the motion of the train.  I felt train sick.  It wan't major but enough to feel crappy.  Only happened that one time.  During my train-off, I got treated to the pair of SDP40F's running around the train to haul it backwards down to Denver where I de-trained.

Cheers, Jim

Nice shot!

Randy Lundgren
Elgin, TX
 

SP didn't give their ok for regular domes till 78?

I don't know the origin of the long dome I road in on the SFZ prior to 77, but I recall it had lighted plexiglass hand rails on a staircase that wend down on one end.

Cheers, Jim

SPDRGWfan Wrote:
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> I don't know the origin of the long dome I road in
> on the SFZ prior to 77, but I recall it had
> lighted plexiglass hand rails on a staircase that
> wend down on one end.
>
> Cheers, Jim

That dome may have been a former California Zephyr Budd-built dome.  They did have the beautiful plexiglass handrails up to the dome.

dan Wrote:
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> SP didn't give their ok for regular domes till 78?

Correct
 

WAF Wrote:
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> Railfan2 Wrote:
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> > no dome on a train that should have them
> Not in 1976-77
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SP was afraid of icicles in the tunnels knocking out windows. I believe the only approved domes were the ex SP home built domes...