In the fall of 2020 Amtrak sent its Rewards members a number of promotional offers in an attempt to rebuild ridership after the collapse in travel due to the COVID pandemic. One of these offers involves 50% off any Acela Express ride and since ticket prices were already pretty cheap due to low demand I took them up on there offer. I have consolidated the photos from these trips into this gallery ( mirror )with the interesting ones highlighted below.
Starting out at the Haddonfield PATCO station, rebuilt car #1026 dwells at the end of a Lindenwold bound train. Despite the rebuilds having been in service for over 2 years, the classic ATO station stop transponders were still in place.
Westbound train arriving with rebuild car #1065.
Due to hygene theatre PATCO had roped off the front pair of seats.
Pair of NS ex-Southern high-hood GP38-2's running lite on the Vineland
Secondary at CP-MILL. #5241 had a very strange Frankenstein numberboard
on the short hood with a more typically marked #5223 behind.
#1056 just after arriving at at 15th-16th and Locust. Due to COVID the SEPTA Regional Rail was runing too infrequently to reliably make connections to 30th St station from PATCO so I wound up just walking. The .7 mile trip would take about 15 minutes.
SEPTA Silverliner V #864 at BROAD interlocking near the 20th St portal.
SRPTA Silverliner IV #174 on the Suburban Station viaduct with the Comcast USB C building in the background.
SEPTA Silverliner IV #305 on the upper level at 30th St station.
Acela Express power car #2028 arriving at 30th St station lower level.
COVID snack box replacing the usual first class meal. Beverages of a refreshing nature were nevertheless being served in ample quantities.
The third track project to eliminate the bottleneck between YARD and RAGAN interlockings south of Wilmington was nearly complete as shown in this video from my AX train. This will allow additional SEPTA service to the upgraded Newark, DE station.
Acela Express power car #2002 at Baltimore Penn Station. Because not all AX trains stopped at BWI, I had to on occasion catch MARC to bridge the gap.
MARC bi-level cab cars #7847, #7845 and 7851 hiding out in the back.
MARC SC44 #83 pulling into Penn.
At the Halethorpe MARC station (which I can use as an alternative to BWI) an southbound consist with an interesting locomotive arrangement consisting of GP39H-2 #73 and MP36PH-3C #20 pulls in. The cab car is multi-level cab car #8047.
Northbound MARC set with MP36PH-3C #28 and a solid consist of 6 bi-levels also at Halethorpe.
Finally here is a clip of an Amtrak Acela Express trainset with power car #2007 Departing BWI at Night
That's it for this for now. Next time check back as I explore the Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike.
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