Variety At BWI
Here is the last photo in this little series from a rainy morning long ago captured while waiting for a bit on the platform at Amtrak's BWI Thurgood Marshall Station for Amtrak train 2158 to pick me up for a speedy trip through the fog and mist up to Providence. I'd been east from Alaska to attend an ASLRRA seminar and after wrapping up in Baltimore I piggybacked a little vacation time on and headed north to see my family in New England.
First opened in 1980 and remodeled in 2019 this was the first intercity rail station in the United States built to service an airport. Today it ranks as the 12th busiest of the more than 500 stations Amtrak serves. To learn more check out Amtrak's history of the ground breaking modern depot:
www.greatamericanstations.com/stations/bwi-airport-thurgo...
Anyway, as for the train it's just an unidentified MARC Penn Line train head south to Washington Union Station with HHP8 4914 (blt. 2001) shoving on the rear. This is a stark motive power contrast to what was leading the northbound MARC train I also photographed: flic.kr/p/2od6NBY
Only 21 of the 8000 hp electric locomotives were built by Bombardier-Alstom and ordered in 1996 at the same time as the Acelas to support the need for more electric locomotives when the New Haven to Boston segment of the NEC was electrified and came on line in 2000. Amtrak purchased 15 and MARC the other six and while Amtrak's racked up over one million miles each they had relatively short service lives and the last Amtrak one was out of service by 2014 as the new Siemens ACS64s took over. But as of this writing MARCs units have been rebuilt and continue in service.
Near Unincorporated Hanover
Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Friday November 14, 2008
Variety At BWI
Here is the last photo in this little series from a rainy morning long ago captured while waiting for a bit on the platform at Amtrak's BWI Thurgood Marshall Station for Amtrak train 2158 to pick me up for a speedy trip through the fog and mist up to Providence. I'd been east from Alaska to attend an ASLRRA seminar and after wrapping up in Baltimore I piggybacked a little vacation time on and headed north to see my family in New England.
First opened in 1980 and remodeled in 2019 this was the first intercity rail station in the United States built to service an airport. Today it ranks as the 12th busiest of the more than 500 stations Amtrak serves. To learn more check out Amtrak's history of the ground breaking modern depot:
www.greatamericanstations.com/stations/bwi-airport-thurgo...
Anyway, as for the train it's just an unidentified MARC Penn Line train head south to Washington Union Station with HHP8 4914 (blt. 2001) shoving on the rear. This is a stark motive power contrast to what was leading the northbound MARC train I also photographed: flic.kr/p/2od6NBY
Only 21 of the 8000 hp electric locomotives were built by Bombardier-Alstom and ordered in 1996 at the same time as the Acelas to support the need for more electric locomotives when the New Haven to Boston segment of the NEC was electrified and came on line in 2000. Amtrak purchased 15 and MARC the other six and while Amtrak's racked up over one million miles each they had relatively short service lives and the last Amtrak one was out of service by 2014 as the new Siemens ACS64s took over. But as of this writing MARCs units have been rebuilt and continue in service.
Near Unincorporated Hanover
Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Friday November 14, 2008