News Photos: Amtrak heritage electric debuts (updated)

News Photos: Amtrak heritage electric debuts (updated)

By Trains Staff | December 9, 2021

| Last updated on April 1, 2024


Game company sponsors retro look worn by AEM7s

Passenger train with electric locomotive passes under signal bridge.
Newly wrapped Amtrak ACS64 No. 662 leads Northeast Regional train No. 176 through Newark, Del., on Thursday. Gary Pancavage

Shades of the AEM7: Amtrak’s newest heritage locomotive, ACS64 No. 662, made its debut on Thursday, handling Northeast Regional train No. 176 from Washington to Boston. The first trip came shortly after Amtrak released photos on Twitter of the Siemens locomotive wrapped in a recreation of the paint scheme worn by the earlier electric locomotives built by EMD and ASEA. The wrap was sponsored by Dovetail Games, which will feature the engine in its Train Sim World 2 game.

Amtrak electric locomotive with retro paint scheme
An Amtrak ACS64 has been wrapped with an AEM7-style paint scheme. Amtrak, via Twitter
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