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| As soon as you walk into this car, you'll see a sign depicting the original name picked for Amtrak, "Railpax"! Also included are maps, calendars, some Cafe Car menus and a scale model of an Amtrak "California Car" whose prototype is used on Amtrak California's "Capital Corridor" Service. |
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| Some Cafe Car menus and Amtrak banners. The original "Chevron" logo, also known in the railfan community as the "pointless arrow" is still very much in use today even though it was "replaced" with the updated "Tracks" logo over 15 years ago! |
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| The filing cabinets feature lots of Amtrak books and historical artifacts. Remember when Amtrak passengers were referred to as "guests"? Also included here is a sample of a Amfleet II Cafe Car table and seat setting from when those cars were converted to Smoking Lounges on one end and all tables on the other end of the car. It was created by the Chicago shop forces and the prototype car was named "Chicago Club". |
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| LEFT: A Metrolink license plate frame (Los Angeles' commuter railroad), along with a clock and coffee mugs from Amtrak West (one of Amtrak's Strategic Business Units that was started under Amtrak President Tom Downs and dissolved under David Gunn) celebrating The San Diegan which today is Pacific Surfliner service that runs between San Luis Obispo and San Diego via Los Angeles. RIGHT: Memorabilia from Amtrak's Cascades service in the Pacific Northwest including a bottle of wine and pins and such, along with Pacific Surfliner branded merchandise, some of which celebrating its inaugural run in 2000. |
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| LEFT: A couple bottles of wine from Amtrak's Coast Starlight which provides daily service between Los Angeles, CA and Seattle, WA via the San Francisco Bay area. Also featured are decks of cards and postcards along with an umbrella and license plate frame. RIGHT: More Coast Starlight merchandise including a toiletry kit, mugs, pens and more. |
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| LEFT: More Coast Starlight memorabilia including a baseball cap, mug, jigsaw puzzle, golf shirt and more. RIGHT: "Arte The Engineer" plush toy with a Coast Starlight umbrella as well as a toiletry bag and blanket from Amtrak's former overnight train on the Northeast Corridor known as the Twilight Shoreliner. This train would later be named "The Federal" before just becoming a regular Northeast Regional overnight train. |
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| LEFT: Some early Amtrak advertising info including a timetable, along with a painting by J. Craig Thorpe depicting what service from Los Angeles to Las Vegas might look like if said service ever got started again (Amtrak service to Vegas ended in 1997 with the discontinuation of the Desert Wind long-distance train). Also some information on an experimental train Amtrak operated called the LRC train. RIGHT: An Operation Redblock game and other branded merchandise. Also information about two other experimental trains that were brought to the U.S. from Europe. The ICE (Inter-City Express) from Germany and the X-2000 from Sweden, both of which did national tours in the U.S. This was in the days long before Acela Express trains would finally be built and enter service on the Northeast Corridor. Next to additional Operation RedBlock merchandise is information about a special train that operated in 2011 with Country singer Martina McBride called the "Eleven Across America" Train that was used to promote awareness about Breast Cancer. The train made 11 stops and ran from Los Angeles to Washington, DC. |
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| A wide-angle view of more display cases covering all-things-Amtrak, let's take a look at some more! | |||
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| LEFT: An Amtrak conductor hat and mugs and such issued for employees. More souvenirs including a die-cast toy train, a shirt repair kit, decks of cards and key rings, even Amtrak race cars and a frisbee! RIGHT: An Amtrak-branded carry-on bag and hard hat, along with blankets, and a passenger comfort kit which consists of a blanket, neck pillow, sleep mask and more (it's inside the package in the lower right-hand corner). That "Partners In Performance" hat with the Amtrak and Santa Fe logo is really cool! |
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| LEFT: Amtrak coffee cups, employee paperwork, and more t-shirts. RIGHT: Memorabilia dedicated to Amtrak's high-speed rail service on the Northeast Corridor, known as Acela Express including glassware, a calculator, mouse pad, t-shirt and more. |
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| LEFT: Memorabilia from Amtrak's Pennsylvanian, Three Rivers, a Cafe Car menu for the Lake Shore Limited & Pennsylvanian, also a bottle of water from the Downeaster. Also included is an employee timetable, and a couple shirts, one of which is branded for the Broadway Limited. RIGHT: Lots of memorabilia from a train that is very near and dear to yours truly as it's the train that runs through my part of the country and that is none other than the NY/Boston to Chicago Lake Shore Limited! Included here are some coffee mugs and a souvenir teddy bear. Who remembers "smoking hours"? Also included here are toiletry bags, a shirt and more! The Lake Shore Limited was the first train I rode on this trip! |
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| LEFT: Some children's conductor hats, a plush toy shaped like an Amtrak P42DC diesel, some children's activity books and a toy train set. RIGHT: Amtrak's DC-Chicago Capitol Limited is represented here some coffee mugs and a golf shirt along with decks of cards and more. There are also two HO Scale models of Material Handling Cars like the one this display is located in! |
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| LEFT: Some first aid kits along with memorabilia from Amtrak's New York-New Orleans Crescent route along with some employee manuals and some memorabilia from another Amtrak service near and dear to yours truly, our Empire Service! Today, Empire Service is funded in part by the state of New York. RIGHT: Amtrak's Lorton, VA-Sanford, FL Auto Train where you bring your car along for the ride! Shown here are hats, a mug, mouse pad, hat, shirts and more. |
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| LEFT: Amtrak's New York-Florida Silver Service Trains are represented with glassware, a travel mug, shirts, travel bag & more. RIGHT: Amtrak's Chicago-San Antonio (with thru-cars to Los Angeles) Texas Eagle is represented with travel mugs, dining car menus through the years, and some souvenirs from a train that shares the name of a song about its route, and that's the Chicago-New Orleans City Of New Orleans. |
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| LEFT: An Amfleet I Coach in HO Scale and information about Amtrak's service in the state of Missouri. Also Amtrak's Chicago-Indianapolis Hoosier State is represented with a mug, hat and more, and Amtrak's Chicago-New York Cardinal is represented by coffee mugs, lapel pins, a hat, route guide, shirt and more. RIGHT: Amtrak's Chicago-Los Angeles Southwest Chief is represented here with a hat, coffee mugs, and a Dining Car menu labeled "The Southwest Limited" which was the name for this train at one time. Also included is merchandise branded as Amtrak's "Great Trains Of The West" and a Grand Canyon Railway poster in the background. |
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| LEFT: Amtrak's Sunset Limited which runs from New Orleans to Los Angeles gets representation from a menu, coffee mugs, hat, deck of cards, a shirt, and more. RIGHT: Amtrak's Chicago-Emeryville, CA California Zephyr is shown through coffee mugs, a poster, decks of cards, a hat, shirt and more. |
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| LEFT: Amtrak lanterns, a bow tie, hat, neckties, and lots and lots of pins and buttons!!! RIGHT: Amtrak coffee mugs, napkins, glassware, a model of a P40DC as well as name tags and other Amtrak-branded memorabilia (I guess I've used that word a lot today!). |
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| Two cases dedicated to one of Amtrak's most scenic routes, the Chicago-Seattle/Portland Empire Builder! Here we have lots of glassware, bottles of wine, Dining Car menus, pins, and place settings with Amtrak-branded china. Now let's check out some more Amtrak history and an excellent toy train layout! |
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