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Nostalgia & History > Toss Back Tuesday: Q paint in Portland!Date: 02/04/25 08:26 Toss Back Tuesday: Q paint in Portland! Author: santafe199 Digging into my Gibson Collection scans I can always seem to find a gem that I haven’t posted before. Here’s an E-unit shot that Bill had ID-ed as an Amtrak unit, and I’m assuming it eventually got an Amtrak paint job. Also, this is a train I’m not familiar with. So someone will have to supply this train’s counterpart train #. Thanks in advance...
1. AMTK 9954, still in CB&Q paint points train #198, the "Puget Sound" at Portland, OR on August 16, 1972. Original Kodachrome slide by William A. Gibson (WAG) Sr, now in the James T. Wilson collection. Thanks for looking back! Lance Garrels (santafe199) Jim Wilson (jtwlunch) Remembering the late Bill Gibson, aka ‘WAG Sr’ ![]() Date: 02/04/25 08:35 Re: Toss Back Tuesday: Q paint in Portland! Author: dan looks like some UP side panels were grafted onto it, or is that primer looks pressure washed in prep for some paint?
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/04/25 12:54 by dan. Date: 02/04/25 09:32 Re: Toss Back Tuesday: Q paint in Portland! Author: swaool This would be BN 9954, nee-Q 9948B (11704, 9/50), which eventually became Amtrak 347:1 (see http://www.trainweb.org/emdloco/11700.htm). Amtrak Train no. 198 was a Portland-Seattle train offering a dome coach and cafe coach. Depart Portland 9 AM, arrive Seattle 12:45 PM (see https://streamlinermemories.info/Amtrak/Amtrak72-6TT.pdf)
mike woodruff north platte ne Date: 02/04/25 09:41 Re: Toss Back Tuesday: Q paint in Portland! Author: Notch7 Great picture. That old CB&Q E still looks every bit the war horse they were. Eventually we got three ex-CB&Q E's in the Florida pool. On my runs they didn't lead because they did not have RF&P train control. I remember one engine was still in near pristine CB&Q paint, and another had green safety stripes on it's nose.
Posted from Android Date: 02/04/25 16:18 Re: Toss Back Tuesday: Q paint in Portland! Author: refarkas As some say, there is a prototype for everything. Those yellow panels make this a modeler's dream.
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