Amtrak has used a variety of doodles on its rolling stock since it took over the intercity rail service in the United States in 1971. A series of six schemes called Phase , first introduced in 1972, have seen the use of widest. The phase primarily uses the geometric setting of red, white, and blue (national colors of the United States) - part of Amtrak's patriotic visual identity.
Amtrak began operations in May 1971 with mixed equipment still painted in a different style from the previous train tracks. Amtrak chose not to store the same rolling stock on the same route. Unexpected to find trains from anywhere in the country on any train, that period came to be known as the Era of the Rainbow.
To build the Amtrak brand as an integrated passenger train, rolling stock was gradually repainted into the System-wide phase beginning around 1972 with Phase I. The phases were sequentially numbered using Roman numerals. The phase is painted on all rolling stock, with locomotives and passenger cars often painted in different styles of the same Phase. Most locomotives today use Phase V introduced in 2000, while passenger cars use Phase VI introduced in 2002. The modified Stage III scheme was introduced for some equipment in 2013. Non-revenue equipment using bright lime green or variations from Phase V.
Three routes under the California Amtrak branch - Capitol Corridor Pacific Surfliner and San Joaquin - use equipment painted in some special scheme, such as do Cascades and Piedmont . Amtrak has repainted the equipment with unique livery for special use, including 40 years in 2011 and to promote the Lifesaver Operation safety campaign. The equipment has also been wrapped for advertising promotion. When testing equipment from other railroads, Amtrak mostly retains the existing livery, although some long-term tests use the Phase scheme.
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When Amtrak took over the intercity rail service on May 1, 1971, he inherited a rolling stock collection of twenty railroad tracks, each with its own distinct colors and logos. It is only necessary to operate 184 of 366 trains run by private railways, Amtrak is able to take 1,200 of the best passenger cars to rent from 3,000 owned by private railways. This equipment is mixed randomly to form composed, producing trains with unmatched colors from some of its predecessor railways. This "Rainbow Era" is short-lived; Amtrak began purchasing some equipment hired in mid 1971, setting the stage for wholesale painting from 1972 to 1974.
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Phase paint scheme
Phase I
Introduced in 1972, Phase I was the first paint scheme to be implemented throughout the Amtrak train system. Except for a small number of locomotives that have been painted into an experimental and promotional paint scheme, it is the first new paint for most of the equipment under Amtrak. This scheme is part of a larger Amtrak movement to a visual identity that features the national colors of red, white, and blue.
Locomotive is painted in light gray ("Platinum Mist") with black roof, "Pointless Arrow" chevron logo on the side, and red nose (leading to the nickname "Bloody Nose"). Passenger car is silver (or stainless left blank), with a red and bright blue line (enclosed by thin white lines) at the window level and the chevron logo on one or both ends A number of variants are made for non-revenue locomotives, GG1 locomotives, Turbotrain and Turboliner trains, and the RDC railway and the self-propelled Metroliner.
Phase II
The Stage II paint scheme was introduced in late 1974 with the arrival of the new GE E60 locomotive. Red nose and chevron logo on the locomotive replaced with lines similar to passenger cars. Most passenger cars are essentially unchanged from Phase I, except for the removal of the chevron logo; The new Sightseer Lounge has a higher line with slanted transitions at each end.
Phase III
Phase III, introduced in 1976, is still used on some equipment. In both passenger and locomotive cars, the outer white lines are removed while the inner line is widened, producing red, white, and blue stripes of equal width. Turboliners and LRC test trains are painted white, with lines at the bottom of the carriage.
Several types of locomotives are then varied in Phase III. The AEM-7 locomotive has an expanded blue line to cover the entire lower body. In Dash 8-32BWH locomotive, deeper blue and red colors are used; lines have extra stripes and tilts upwards in the middle of the body. The similarity with the Pepsi logo led to a unit dubbed "Pepsi Cans". P40 and P32AC-DM locomotives have lighter roofs and narrower white lines; the lines sloping downward in the sloping nose, and fading towards the back. The variant was created by industry designer Cesar Vergara, who also designed the angular body of a locomotive.
In October 2013, Amtrak introduces a new Phase III variant with the production of the new Viewliner II car, the first to enter service by 2015. The Viewliner car has had several changes from the previous Phase III passenger car, including the red reflective lanes on the bottom and the newer (" Travelmark ") logo. In January 2016, Amtrak revealed P32AC-DM repainted to Phase III, similar to the legacy unit . 145 and 822, but featuring the modern logo and the "Empire Service" "symbol on the side.All P32AC-DMs will eventually be repainted into this scheme, at a cost divided between Amtrak and New York.
Phase IV
Beginning in 1993, Stage IV was introduced as a striking departure from the previously seen red, white, and blue styles. Taken into service with the delivery of the newer Superliner II car, Stage IV has two thin red lines and a thick dark blue line. In 1997, Amtrak expanded the scheme for locomotives, originally GE P42DC diesel locomotive at Northeast Corridor service.
Phase V
Stage V was introduced with the arrival of the high-speed train set of Acela Express in 2000 and is used on most locomotives. Locomotives are painted a light gray, with a blue line (darker than Phase I-III, but lighter than IV) at the top and a thin red reflective line at the bottom. The blue line has a bumpy base in the Genesis locomotive and a flat bottom in another locomotive and an ex-F40PH non-electric power control unit (NPCU). The Amtrak Logo "Travelmark" is painted near the front or rear of the unit. The SC-44 locomotive used on the Midwest route has a Phase V variant with a blue front and a halftone transition to the gray side. Non-passenger cars like Auto Train autoracks are all gray except for logos and red lines; Express Box Cars have blue stripes on the top and bottom.
Acela Express The trainset has a gray and stainless body with a lower red line, with a corrugated blue roof and an Acela logo only on an electric car. Acela passenger cars do not have a blue line; colored blobs called "phones" are used to indicate the type of car (Business Class, Bistro Cafe, or First Class). When Acela Express was introduced, the regional train in the Northeast Corridor was briefly designated Acela Regional . The Amfleet trainer for this train receives a "Capstone" livery, which has a windowline with a variety of blue, light blue, and green patterns to indicate the type of service. Rebuilt Turboliners has a variant similar to Capstone livery.
Phase VI
Phase VI, commonly referred to as Phase IVb, introduced in 2002, is used in most passenger cars. It maintains the same line style as Phase IV: the wide window lines on the one level car, and the narrow lines on the Superliner. The red and blue mid-tone reflective lines on Phase V are used. The one-level car has a white logo in the blue line, while the Superliner has a blue logo under the lines.
Custom route paint schemes
Five state-funded corridor routes - Cascades , Capitol Corridor , Pacific Surfliner , Piedmont and San Joaquin - operated by Amtrak using equipment that is mostly state owned and painted in a special scheme. Some other special route paint schemes have been used in the past.
California Amtrak
Three routes under the California Amtrak branch - Capitol Corridor Pacific Surfliner and San Joaquin - use equipment painted in some special scheme. Capitol Corridor and San Joaquin mostly use California cars and F59PHI locomotives painted in blue and yellow. The locomotive is gray with the bottom of the navy blue, the yellow underline, the black roof, and the blue ocean taxi area; The Caltrans and Amtrak California logos stand out. The California car is stainless steel with black top window lines, dark blue underwater window lines with yellow stripes, and orange triangles next to the doors. New Siemens SC-44 Charger locomotive has a navy blue arch shape on the front and rear with yellow accents, black cabin area, and California Amtrak logo on the front and side. Single-level Comet IB and Horizon cars used at San Joaquin have a yellow underline and a line of navy blue windows with orange, turquoise, and light blue accents. Some of the NPCU used for this service is gray with turquoise and light blue stripes and curved toward the rear of the rear of the locomotive, the red chevron stripes on the front (nodding to the Caltrain 1985 paint scheme), and the yellow bars.
The Pacific Surfliner uses F59PHI locomotives and Surfliner cars in a dark blue and gray paint scheme. The upper half of the passenger car is dark blue with white stripes, plus white lines on the underside of the car. The lines continue into the locomotive, with the blue line narrowed and curved beneath the black-painted taxi area. White letters and placed on the blue line. Amtrak wraps F59PHI No. 457 in a special scheme to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pacific Surfliner and take the train over 25 million. This new locomotive scheme was released on May 8, 2010 for National Train Day.
Amtrak Cascades
The Cascades service uses seven Talgo, F59PHI and SC-44 Charger lokomotives trains, and ex-F40PH NPCU painted with brown, light brown, and dark green schemes - the only unpainted blue palette based revenue tool -and-gray. The older five Talgo VII trains have passenger cars split evenly between the above tan, the brown in the middle, and the dark green at the bottom. The transition car luggage at the end has a green curve over other colors, where it matches the green curve on the older locomotive and NPCU. The scheme was created by industry designer Cesar Vergara, who also set up GE Genesis locomotive.
In the newer SC-44 Charger locomotive, the green line is narrower and extends along the top and above the cab. One trainset was originally painted in blue, silver, and white for the Los Angeles-Las Vegas service that was never implemented. In 2016, one NPCU, # 90250, was wrapped in Seattle Seahawks clothing for several months. The newer 8 Series Trainsets are painted the same as the older sets. One end has a cabin car, where the brown and green lines get to a certain point, with the top of the cabin also painted green.
Other routes
- From the introduction from 1974 to 1977, Adirondack used equipment owned by Delaware and Hudson Railway painted with blue and railway gold schemes.
- In the late 1990s, Adirondack and Vermonter each had a luggage car painted with a mural dedicated to the route.
- One RTL Turbulent that was rebuilt in 1995 for Empire Service has a disposable paint scheme with gray sides, a red line under the window, and a white front.
- Two Talgo Series 8 trainsets purchased for use in Wisconsin at Hiawatha Service , but never operated. They are painted white with red stripes to match the signature colors of the Wisconsin Badgers sports team.
- The state-owned equipment used at Piedmont is painted in North Carolina state colors, with wide blue stripes on passenger cars and blue front lines in locomotives.
Custom paint schemes
Day promotion livery
EMD E8 No. 4316 and 1589 coaches were painted for display in New York when Amtrak began operations in May 1971; they see it used later on Broadway Limited . Locomotive painted black; Chevron logo "pointless arrow" on each side wrapped around the front with blue and white safety lines.
Lifesaver livery operation
At the end of 2008, Amtrak wrapped up F59PHI. 455 in the Operation Lifesaver paint scheme to promote Caltrans's safety campaign. It featured a surfboard surfer who stood in the middle of the railroad tracks during sunset. The words "Stay off, stay away, stay alive" are printed on both sides. The locomotive is returned to its original livery in 2010. Other locomotives painted for Operation Lifesaver have incorporated F59PHI. 2007 in a yellow paint scheme with several slogans and no. 457 in a blue scheme with handprint pattern and the words "BE TRACK SMART".
livery 40th
For Amtrak's 40th anniversary in 2011, four P42DC locomotives received a special version of Phase I through a Phase IV paint scheme. From January to April 2011, the Beech Grove Amtrak Shop outside Indianapolis repainted the unit and sent it north at Hoosier State to Chicago, where they cycled to regular service on other routes. The Birthday Locomotive is selected from units scheduled for repainting or recently rebuilt. The first painted locomotive is No. 145 in Phase III paint, which leads Capitol Limited on January 30, 2011. The other three locomotives follow: No. 156 in Phases I, 66 in Phase II, and 184 in Phase IV. P42DC No. 130 painted with Saliva Stage II after No. 66 damaged and repaired.
The 40th Anniversary Exhibit Train consists of P40DC locomotives. 822, NPCU No. 406, Budd hammock modification 10-6/Crew Dorm No. 10020 Pacific Bend , three trunk luggage of inheritance used as an exhibition car, and Amfleet's re-reconfigured cafe car. 85999. All trains are painted in Phase III.
promotion lacuna ACS-64
The first three ACS-64 units released from Siemens in 2013 received special variations for the regular Phase V paint scheme. Locomotive No. 600 and 601 received a large American flag on the side as well as a smaller logo for Siemens & amp; Amtrak. Locomotive No. 602 has a special "Reliability-Efficiency-Mobility" infographic on its sides. All three are then repainted with conventional Phase V schemes before entering the service.
Veteran unit
In June 2013, P42DC # 42 is painted with a red, white, black, and dark blue scheme with a big logo on the side saying "Our American Railroad Salutes Veteran". The blue ribbon near the wheelbase contains 50 white stars. ACS-64 No. 642 and NPCUs No. 90208 and 90221 received the same paint scheme in 2015 and 2016.
Non-revenue equipment
Starting in 1976, Amtrak train equipment was painted in orange with a black bottom. The light gray color with the red underline, similar to the Phase V non-passenger car, was introduced for the railroad cars in 2004. Safety yellow livery was introduced for the maintenance of road equipment and highway vehicles in 2001; it was replaced by a pale chalk around 2004, and a brighter chalk around 2013. Non-income locomotives typically use a variation of the Phase paint scheme to make them visually different from the locomotive's revenue while maintaining a consistent style.
In 1997, Amtrak purchased 50 50m (15m) rebuilt boxcars to complete the 60ft (18m) Box Express Express fleet. The rebuilt cars arrived in their original Olive Green South Pacific paint scheme, rather than the Phase V scheme of new cars, although some were later repainted.
Ads
Since the late 1990s, Amtrak has occasionally rented advertising space on the outside of its passenger equipment. Ads sometimes take the form of wraps rather than the correct paint scheme. Customers include fast food restaurants, automobile manufacturers, television networks, and politicians. In some cases, advertising is in equipment leased for personal use, not on equipment in the normal revenue service. Leading temporary ads include:
- In 1999 and 2000, four-car trains including P42DC locomotive No. 100, trunk cars, 1926 post office cars, business cars, and exhibition cars used for the United States Postal Service "Celebrate the Century Express Education Train Tour". This scheme consists of a very elaborate collection of postage and postmarks from the 1900s to the 1990s.
- In October 2003, P42DC No. 203 and five Amfleet cars wrapped in a scheme featuring monopoly game pieces and money. The train was used as a "Rail Rail", a special train from Chicago to Atlantic City, New Jersey where the first round of the 2003 US National Championships was held.
- In August 2004, presidential candidate John Kerry traveled in "Kerry-Edwards Special", which uses P42DC. 138 wrapped with "BELIEVE IN AMERICAN TOUR" as the main unit.
- In November and December 2007, the full train of Acela Express was wrapped up to promote The History Channel's "1968 With Tom Brokaw" event. Wrap criticized by passengers for blocking the view from inside the train. A similar wrap was used in 2010 to promote the TLC Cake Boss event.
Test the train scheme
Amtrak has tested a number of off-the-shelf equipment in the Northeast Corridor and short corridor. Some of them have been painted completely in the livery Amtrak:
- The Bombardier LRC car receives a Phase III schema variant very similar to the Turbuliners RTL.
The * Swedish Rc4 (numbered X995) and French CC 21000 (X996), were used for testing during the AEM-7 locomotive design in the late 1970s, using a Phase II scheme similar to an E60 locomotive, AEM-7 will replace.
Other tools mostly retain their paint scheme from use elsewhere:
- The Siemens ICE 1 railway and the Kalmar Verkstad X2000 trasset were tested on the Northeast Corridor and several other routes in 1992 and 1993. The X2000 retains the silver States JÃÆ'¤rnvÃÆ'¤gar section with blue stripes, even though it receives Amtrak letters; it was pulled by Amtrak diesel on a non-electric route. The ICE 1 retains the white Deutsche Bahn livery with a two-tone red line, again with the Amtrak inscription. On a route not powered by electricity, it is drawn by two Siemens F69PHAC diesel locomotives painted in the same red-and-white scheme.
- After a non-revenue test on the Northeast Corridor in 1988, a Talgo 200 trace was tested in revenue service between Portland and Seattle in 1994 as Northwest Talgo . AVE paint scheme of white with a thick blue windowline has been modified with a thin, red, white, and blue line of Phase II beneath the window.
- In 1996, two Adtranz IC3 "Flexliner" trunks were tested on several Amtrak routes in California, as well as the Metrolink Antelope Valley Line. They keep Israel Railways livery white with red, black, and blue parts, with some added Amtrak writing.
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