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Interesting article about a photographer named Charles O'Rear who spent a month or so riding the young intercity train system named Amtrak in the summer of 1974 as part of a project he did for Documerica, a program initiated in 1971 by the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency to document American life at the time, from people to wildlife to landscapes.
http://www.theatlant...wn-amtrak/4148/
The article only has a handful of his Amtrak pictures, More can be found on his Documerica FlickR page which you can see by going to http://www.flickr.co...7629983840058 The Amtrak Pictures start about half way down on page 3 of the set. Some great stuff including some shots of the heritage fleet cars being refurbished after being taken over from their former railroad owners, The 'Southwest Limited' when it was still using ex-Santa Fe Hi-Level Cars (including interiors of the lounge cars which are now the Pacific Parlour Cars on the Coast Starlight), some of the Turboliner equipment, and many shots of what train travel was like for the passengers back then.
http://www.theatlant...wn-amtrak/4148/
The article only has a handful of his Amtrak pictures, More can be found on his Documerica FlickR page which you can see by going to http://www.flickr.co...7629983840058 The Amtrak Pictures start about half way down on page 3 of the set. Some great stuff including some shots of the heritage fleet cars being refurbished after being taken over from their former railroad owners, The 'Southwest Limited' when it was still using ex-Santa Fe Hi-Level Cars (including interiors of the lounge cars which are now the Pacific Parlour Cars on the Coast Starlight), some of the Turboliner equipment, and many shots of what train travel was like for the passengers back then.