Comments on: Amtrak’s Niagara Rainbow is shown in Fort Erie, about to cross the International Bridge from Canada into the USA in September of 1978. An old pair of well-worn EMD E-units are today’s power, typical of the early Amtrak-era equipment that was mainly hand-me-down locomotives and passenger cars from railroads wanting out of the passenger train business. http://www.railpictures.ca The BEST Canadian photos on the Internet, eh? Fri, 08 May 2026 02:57:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: DoctaPinklaces http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=29401#comment-21287 DoctaPinklaces Wed, 03 May 2017 22:05:19 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/AMTK-433-on-the-Niagara-Rainbow-at-Fort-Erie-ON-Sep-1978-Bill-Thomson-IMG-110635es-despec-sat-shrp-copyr.jpg#comment-21287 These paint jobs make modern CP look gold coated These paint jobs make modern CP look gold coated

]]> By: PacificPaul http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=29401#comment-21286 PacificPaul Wed, 03 May 2017 21:11:21 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/AMTK-433-on-the-Niagara-Rainbow-at-Fort-Erie-ON-Sep-1978-Bill-Thomson-IMG-110635es-despec-sat-shrp-copyr.jpg#comment-21286 You could call them the "Rat Rods" of the train world :) You could call them the “Rat Rods” of the train world :)

]]> By: smithgl http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=29401#comment-21284 smithgl Wed, 03 May 2017 16:31:25 +0000 http://www.railpictures.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/AMTK-433-on-the-Niagara-Rainbow-at-Fort-Erie-ON-Sep-1978-Bill-Thomson-IMG-110635es-despec-sat-shrp-copyr.jpg#comment-21284 Great shot - almost incomprehensible now! Also amazing that a 7-year-old paint job could look that bad! Great shot – almost incomprehensible now!

Also amazing that a 7-year-old paint job could look that bad!

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