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Supermicha
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January 2002
From: Germany
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Amtrak E-44
Posted by
Supermicha
on Friday, October 31, 2003 6:49 AM
I just saw some slides of an GE E-44 with Amtrak Painting. I know that there where 8 E-44 Amtrak got by New Jersey Transit. What happened to them? Were they ever in regular service?
best regards, micha
Michael Kreiser www.modelrailroadworks.de
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dharmon
Member since
August 2003
From: Bottom Left Corner, USA
3,420 posts
Posted by
dharmon
on Friday, October 31, 2003 11:51 AM
Micha,
Try this link: http://www.trincoll.edu/~ncurtis/greenline/e44.html
It tells a little about it.
Dan
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Anonymous
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April 2003
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Posted by
Anonymous
on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:25 AM
As I recall, Amtrak bought them to be used for maintenance of way. I saw a couple of them stored in Amtrak's electric locomotive facility in Wilmington DE. The problem was that the locomotives had to have the PCB's in their cooling system drained and replaced in order to compy with EPA regulations. This proved to be too expensive and the locomotives were never used.
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