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Owner: Amtrak
Model:EMD SW8Built As:LV 275 (SW8)
Serial Number:16972Order No:6409
Frame Number:6409-1Built:12/1952
Notes:Ex-LV 275 > CR 8689
Other locos with this serial:  AMTK 750(SW8) ILSX 750(SW8) CR 8689(SW8) LV 275(SW8)
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Amtrak 750
Title:  Amtrak 750
Description:  Amtrak SW8 750 rests between assignments at 14th Street Yard.
Photo Date:  7/25/1987  Upload Date: 12/16/2020 12:31:44 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  James Sponholz
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 750(SW8)
Views:  235   Comments: 0
AMTK SW8 750
Title:  AMTK SW8 750
Description:  Amtrak SW8 750 at about Polk Street in Chicago, Illinois on October 12, 1987, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. Number 750 was built by EMD at Cleveland in December 1952 (c/n 16972) as LV 275, to CR 8689, sold to Amtrak in May 1983, retired by Amtrak in January 1994, sold to Independent Locomotive Service (ILSX).
Photo Date:  10/12/1987  Upload Date: 9/6/2015 7:09:18 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AMTK 750(SW8)
Views:  438   Comments: 0
AMTK SW8 750
Title:  AMTK SW8 750
Description:  Amtrak SW8 750 at about 18th Street in Chicago, Illinois on December 21, 1987, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. All the resources I found so far indicate that this locomotive was built at EMD's, Cleveland, Ohio plant as LV 275 in December 1952, traded by Conrail (as # 8689) to Amtrak in May 1983. However I have not (yet) found an explanation for the NW2 style radiator front end or the unusual (for an SW8) roof-mounted cooling fan. Also, it appears that the hood lost the taper at the cab end. Photographic evidence shows CR 8689 in standard SW8 body configuration when traded to Amtrak, suggesting that the modifications were done by Amtrak.
Photo Date:  12/21/1987  Upload Date: 6/20/2014 11:53:00 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Chuck Zeiler
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  AMTK 750(SW8)
Views:  862   Comments: 0
AMTK 750 with Tr. 48's Cars from the Roosevelt Road Bridge
Title:  AMTK 750 with Tr. 48's Cars from the Roosevelt Road Bridge
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/20/1991  Upload Date: 5/16/2010 8:48:29 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 750(SW8)
Views:  390   Comments: 0
AMTK 750 from the Roosevelt Road Bridge
Title:  AMTK 750 from the Roosevelt Road Bridge
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/20/1991  Upload Date: 5/16/2010 8:48:33 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Marty Bernard
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 750(SW8)
Views:  537   Comments: 1
AMTK 750
Title:  AMTK 750
Description:  SW8
Photo Date:  6/28/1992  Upload Date: 11/29/2013 12:34:24 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Doug Tilley
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  AMTK 750(SW8)
Views:  446   Comments: 1
AMTK 750
Title:  AMTK 750
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/1/1994  Upload Date: 7/2/2015 11:12:59 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Seth Lakin
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 750(SW8)
Views:  297   Comments: 0
AMTK 750, EMD SW8, ex CR 8689, delivering empty ballast cars to be reloaded off line on the WC, interchanging cars
Title:  AMTK 750, EMD SW8, ex CR 8689, delivering empty ballast cars to be reloaded off line on the WC, interchanging cars
Description:  AMTK 750, EMD SW8, ex CR 8689, delivering empty ballast cars to be reloaded off line on the WC, interchanging cars at Schiller Park Illinois
Photo Date:  6/9/1999  Upload Date: 3/21/2016 1:30:12 AM
Location:  Schiller Park, IL
Author:  Paul Rome
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  AMTK 750(SW8)
Views:  609   Comments: 0
AMTK 750, EMD SW8, ex LV 275 at Soo Line Yard
Title:  AMTK 750, EMD SW8, ex LV 275 at Soo Line Yard
Description:  AMTK 750, EMD SW8, ex LV 275 at Soo Line Yard at Schiller Park Illinois
Photo Date:  9/6/1999  Upload Date: 8/27/2017 8:46:04 PM
Location:  Schiller Park, IL
Author:  Paul Rome
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  AMTK 750(SW8)
Views:  435   Comments: 1
AMTK 750
Title:  AMTK 750
Description:  On the dead line outside of Independent Locomotive Services.
Photo Date:  1/17/2006  Upload Date: 2/12/2006 11:21:35 AM
Location:  Saint Paul, MN
Author:  Ted Blank
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  AMTK 750(SW8) SOO 2118(Yard Slug) BRC 516(TR4B)
Views:  1106   Comments: 0
BRC 516
Title:  BRC 516
Description:  Lots of strange stuff on the dead line outside of Independent Locomotive Services.
Photo Date:  1/17/2006  Upload Date: 2/12/2006 11:22:20 AM
Location:  Bethel, MN
Author:  Ted Blank
Categories: 
Locomotives:  BRC 516(TR4B) AMTK 750(SW8)
Views:  922   Comments: 0
AMTK 750
Title:  AMTK 750
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/4/2006  Upload Date: 12/4/2006 12:15:55 PM
Location:  Bethel, MN
Author:  Matt Petersen
Categories: 
Locomotives:  AMTK 750(SW8)
Views:  645   Comments: 0
AMTK 750
Title:  AMTK 750
Description:  former Amtrak SW8 sitting outside the ILSX shops in Bethel.
Photo Date:  7/7/2008  Upload Date: 7/8/2008 11:09:13 PM
Location:  Bethel, MN
Author:  Matt Hagfors
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  ILSX 750(SW8) AMTK 750(SW8)
Views:  911   Comments: 0


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