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Nostalgia & History > Need Caption HelpDate: 03/21/19 23:30 Need Caption Help Author: MartyBernard 1. AMTK SDP40F 526 in January 1981, The Holiday Inn ought to help in IDing the location and train. 2. BN E8A 9972 in March 1974 as Amtrak power.
Thanks, Marty Bernard   Date: 03/22/19 04:28 Re: Need Caption Help Author: dan pic 2 is denver, SFZ power from chicago has been removed, fresh power added to go west; 1 reno/sparks area ?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/22/19 04:49 by dan. Date: 03/22/19 09:32 Re: Need Caption Help Author: clem dan Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > reno/sparks area ? Reno and Sparks both have depots. 526 seems to have been assigned to Santa Fe/southwest pool so maybe somewhere on the Lone Star or Desert Wind routes. Date: 03/22/19 09:36 Re: Need Caption Help Author: JPB Photo 2 looks like Las Vegas to me but I don't know what lengthy Amtrak Superliner train passed through when Amtrak did serve LV. I thought it was just a short Desert Wind. train.
Date: 03/22/19 09:54 Re: Need Caption Help Author: clem Sure enough. Poles, building, same blue flag, same locomotive, even the same ugly fence. Not many pictures of Amtrak there, and now I know why.
https://csanders429.wordpress.com/tag/las-vegas/ Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/22/19 09:56 by clem. Date: 03/22/19 12:47 Re: Need Caption Help Author: dan thought it was too long of a train for vegas
Date: 03/22/19 12:47 Re: Need Caption Help Author: dan thought it was too long of a train for vegas, never did see a sfz with sdp's and superliners
Date: 03/22/19 13:49 Re: Need Caption Help Author: 2-10-2 #2 is def Vegas; I stayed at that Holiday Inn in the late '70s and could see the whole yard. The train's in front of the Union Plaza hotel Amtrak stop.
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