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Jimmy Carter "Peanut Special" Richland, GA 1/1977
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Jimmy Carter "Peanut Special" Richland, GA 1/1977
AMTK 643 Jimmy Carter "Peanut Special" Cordele, GA 1/1977
AMTK 643 Jimmy Carter "Peanut Special" Plains, GA 1/1977
Amtrak scraped together its best locomotives and cars out of Chicago and sent them to Plains, GA to carry newly-elected Jimmy Carter and his friends and family to his inauguration in D.C. Plains, GA 1/1977
For the inauguration of Jimmy Carter as president on 20 January 1977, the Carter Campaign Committee chartered an 18-car train to bring supporters from Plains, Georgia to Washington and back. Even though the official trip originated and terminated at Plains, the train was assembled at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal and dead-headed to Plains and back via the Louisville & Nashville and Seaboard Coast Line. Here is the train about 20 minutes after leaving NOUPT, stopped at the L&N's Gentilly Yard in eastern New Orleans. The water was being drained out of the locomotives' internal water tanks because of concern about the units' weight and the water sloshing around.The PEANUT SPECIAL consisted of SDP40Fs 582, 595 and 588 with coaches 5404, 5475 and 5442; 11-bedroom sleepers 2252 STAR LEAF, 2263 PLACID LAKE and 2203 SILVER SWAN; 10-6 sleeper 2638 PACIFIC TRAIL, lounge 3409, dining room car 8800, kitchen-dormitory 8801, sleeper-lounge 3205 GULF STREAM, 11-bedroom cars 2201 SILVER QUAIL, 2250 STAR BAY, 2215 INDIAN MAID, 2211 INDIAN DRUM and 2214 INDIAN LAKE; and 10-6 sleepers 2626 PACIFIC PLATEAU and 2618 PACIFIC LODGE. 1/18/1977
At 1:00 PM on Tuesday 18 January 1977 a trio of Amtrak SDP40F units - 582, 595 and 588 - was about to pull out of New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal with the 18-car PEANUT SPECIAL. All of the train's trucks and underbody had just received a coat of fresh black paint at NOUPT. The train was made up of three coaches, four sleepers, a piano-lounge car, a full diner, a kitchen-dormitory car, a sleeper-lounge and seven more sleepers. It deadheaded to Plains, Georgia via the L&N and SCL so it could bring supporters of Jimmy Carter to his presidential inauguration in Washington on 20 January. After the inauguration it returned to Plains and then deadheaded back to New Orleans behind the 643, 588 and 595.
AMTK 643 Jimmy Carter "Peanut Special" Richland, GA 1/1977
1977 Peanut Special Plains to Washington D.C. AMTK The consist includes three SDP40Fs, an ex-ACL 54-seat coach, an ex-FEC 54-seat coach, an ex-RF&P 54-seat coach, an ex-UP rb 11 DBR sleeper, an ex-UP 11 DBR sleeper, an ex-CB&Q 6 DBR - 5 Comp sleeper, an ex-UP 10 Rmt - 6 DBR sleeper, an ex-USA le pub lounge, an ex-PRR table car, an ex-PRR kitchen dorm, an ex-NYC 6 DBR buffet lounge, an ex-CB&Q 6 DBR - 5 Comp sleeper, an ex-UP rb 11 DBR sleeper, three ex-ATSF rb 11 DBR sleepers, and two ex-UP 10 Rmt - 6 DBR sleepers. The gifs used were made by the artists linked below and myself. My gifs can be found at the first link. They have my name in the description. http://kenstransitgifs.com/gifindex.html http://www.trainweb.org/asamtrak911/traingifs.html