Dec 2, 2022
Florida Bound
This is a southbound Amtrak Floridian rolling down the former Monon at a spot called Ketchams, between Bloomington and Bedford, in southern Indiana. The line was owned by the Louisville & Nashville at the time.
The train is powered by two SDP40Fs, running elephant style as the train would be split in two once in Florida—the two terminals being Miami and St. Petersburg. I’m pretty sure this train always had at least one dome car in the consist.
Someone on FB tells me the Southern Pacific box baggage cars (at the rear of the train here), were leased by Amtrak for a Chicago to Jacksonville mail contract.
Two images by Richard Koenig; taken January 5th 1977.
