East Coast Photo Alert

[Blazeman]

Last run of the "toasters" coming soon. Get recording and snapping pictures while they're still around.

http://www.progressiverailroading.com/amtrak/news/Amtrak-to-retire-older-generation-Northeast-Corridor-locomotives--48156?

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I'm actually going to ride the farewell excursion. These things were the face of Amtrak to me, and I'm going to miss them like many miss the GG1s.

[davefoxx]

These things were the face of Amtrak to me, and I'm going to miss them like many miss the GG1s.

Me, too, Ed.  Me, too. 

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Knowing this day was coming is one of the reasons I've made a concerted effort to try and get out and shoot them over the past few years:
http://railfanning.kapuscinski.net/tag/aem-7/

I even went out one afternoon a few weeks ago specifically because I thought it might be the last revenue run of them.

Then an ACS showed up in its place.

[Philip H]

its on my calendar to go to Halethorpe that day and muscle my way to the platform.

[Bob Bufkin]

Ed wave when you go by Seabrook. I'll be on the left side taking photos.  Less crowded there.