Engines of SEPTA AEM 7 

“Sooooo you choose to stick with me. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOŒD Mann “ lmao 😂

Actually, I heard two of these locomotives (Amtrak owned) would go to the Joint Powers Board Fleet (JPBX, CalTrain) for testing on the Newly Electrified Corridor in 2021. They are currently sitting at Transportation Technology Center awaiting transfer until the 25kV overhead catenary is installed.

The story of the Toaster isn’t over. Last year, Caltrain ordered some AEM7s for service after electrification is completed in 2021. The AEM7s will replace the F40s and MP36s with Metro-North M2s.

Gotta say Engines of Amtrak and Engines of Septa are the best train videos on youtube. I love these and could watch them all multiple times. Great job dude!!!

They will be missed aem-7 but acs-64 are now rolling the tracks of Philadelphia

I miss the AEM 7's 😥. Remember seeing them often on trains a decade ago. Now you can find them at the PRR museum or in the bay area.

I went to see 945 at the Illinois railroad musem. Boy, that was fun for me.

5:41 I miss these horns

The AEM-7s however, weren't the very 1st engines to be used in push-pull services. Back in the 70s, when regional rail was still operated by Conrail, and the respective private railroads, they used Ex-Reading F7s, with one on each end, and sometimes a 3rd if needed, running on the diesel routes in the areas like Bethlehem, Allentown, Quakertown, among other areas. But this was cut in 1981, when diesel service was abolished

The AEM-7s however weren't the very 1st engines to be used in push-pull services. Back in the 70s when regional rail was still operated by Conrail and the respective private railroads they used Ex-Reading F7s with 1 on each end and sometimes a 3rd if needed running on the diesel routes in the areas like Bethlehem Allentown Quakertown among other areas. But these services were cut in 1981 when diesel service was abolished.

I've waited so long for this!!!!!!!

Apparently one of the major reasons why the GG1’s were pulled from service was the oil used for lubricanting the pantograph and engine was highly toxic. When they were all retired. The motors were carefully disposed of. We would need a brand new Electric generator for the GG1’s to run again.

I see the AEM-7s and ALP-44 on my way back from school. None have moved from the Morrisville yard since my winter break.

Good video Tom.

AEM-7s #938 & #929 were sold to Caltrain. AEM-7s #928 & #942 are at TTCI in Pueblo Colorado. AEM-7s #915 & #945 were preserved in Strasburg Pennsylvania and Union Illinois.

Whats so special about this?? It's like a bus...and for some reason I LOVE IT!! Long live the flying brick. I still haven't ever seen an AEM-7 in person, but its had my heart since the mid 80s in a book I received as a kid about locomotives. The speed impressed me initially, but the design is what keeps me coming back. Its a sexy brick, plain and simple. 4:37 on the left side is the exact livery that started it all for me . ❤❤❤❤❤

Nice video!! I would recommend you do the new Paoli Station

The AEM-7s however weren't the 1st engines used in push/pull services. Back in the 70s when regional railroads were still operated by Conrail and the respective private railroads they used Ex-Reading F7s with one on each end and sometimes a 3rd if needed running on the diesel routes in the areas like Bethlehem Allentown Quakertown among other areas.

They literally just got all cut up today. RIP. End of an era. I was lucky enough to see one aem 7 in service last night when they moved them up to morrisville

Person: I’m throwing out this old toaster Me: *starts wailing*

Another cereal box hitting the ground. 0:00

NOW THATS A LOT OF DEARAILLMENT 649

I think there are a few preserved at the Illinois Railroad Museum for excursions. (The museum has electric tracks)

may the aem-7s live in our hearts forever

2 commuter railroads however, watched Amtrak closely and were very impressed by the AEM-7 and thought, "Hey, let's get some of those engines and put them into commuter operations". Marc was the first railroad to put their foot in the water, purchasing 4 in 1986, #4900-#4903. SEPTA would follow in 1988 with 7 #2301-#2307.

2 commuter railroads however, watched Amtrak closely and were very impressed with the AEM-7 and thought, "Hey, let's get some of those engines and put them into commuter operations". Marc was the first one to put their foot in the water purchasing 4 in 1986, #4900-#4903. SEPTA would follow in 1988 with 7 #2301-#2307.

I saw the AEM-7s at the Jerome Brown Playground in 2017.

I choose to stick with you because I already watched about he aem-7 long before I started watching you series

I attended the farewell trip as well! Too bad I didn’t know of you then!

Nice video

The Amtrak bodies are made by Budd, while the SEPTA and Marc ones are from the Austrian firm Simmering Graz Pauker AG. I do apologize if I pronounced that wrong.

This was uploaded on the same day as nyrailfan 202s engines of metro north

3:11 ooh determination

9:41 thats nice i wish the HHP-8 were still in service as in 2020

2:12 Bro...that number was from a single month Also, there's still a future career for the AEM-7's. There are two in storage (I don't remember if they were Amtrak's or SEPTA's), intended for trial on CalTrain's proposed electrification in the San Fransisco Bay Area. If this is true, they'll be the first full-size electric locomotives to run in California in well over half a century!

Aye Metroliner! Ay Caramba! 2:41

Some DCs were scrapped in Princeton West Virginia while others mainly the ACs are awaiting their fate at Princeton West Virginia in Wilmington Delaware.

I ordered those SEPTA ACS-64s #901-#915 in g scale at the g scale New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in Fayetteville West Virginia on the Paoli/Thorndale line, the Langhorne/Thorndale line, the Lansdale/Thorndale line, and the Lancaster/Thorndale/Paoli line.

6:24 A big mistake in my mind

Best series

It's a shame to see them go. I only got a chance to ride on one of the toasters in may 2018

*Sniffs* I miss seeing them on the Manayunk-Norristown Line😪😪😪😪😪😪.

i would like to suggest the violet town crash in Australia Victoria also good work on using thomas music

Yeah following what dead inside said can you specifically do the engines of SEPTA adtranz m4 cars next

Shame these had to go, though hopefully some will make it to museums

if I somehow have the money to I would definitely try and buy one off of Amtrak, the AEM-7 recently became my favorite electric (I only ever saw 1 in service) and I’d love to preserve another one (and hopefully get it a cosmetic restoration to phase 3)

Fact: Before the Penn Central merge, PRR owned LIRR until 1968. The LIRR steam locomotives, such as the G5s, had the PRR Keystone. I have the LIRR Keystone hat.

Haven't you do the acs-64 locomotive for SEPTA and Amtrak

Hey Thunder I’m a little confused around the 11:20 mark you said that SEPTA leased Amtrak 664 for testing in 2016, but said after testing was completed they bought ACS-64’s in 2014.

I remember seeing aem 7s on the elwen line

AEM-7 SEPTA: Perfect Fit for Non Propelled Fleets of SEPTA

As of today sadly their are no longer any surviving SEPTA EMD AEM-7's left all where cut up in 2022. Although in good news regarding Amtrak AEM-7's the good news you will get Pennsylvania Railway Museum has 915, AND Illinois Railway Museum has 945, But recently some days ago 917 from out of hiding was rescued to the Danbury Railway Museum last I heard being the 3rd AEM-7 to be saved and one of the earlier ones.

You forgot to mention that 2 AMTK Toasters are at TTCI as of July 2017 (I have railcam footage of them in transit)

The Rc4 locomotives (and most types of the Rc family of locomotives) are still running in Sweden.

What is the music at the "The rebirth of Push Pulls on Septa"?

Thunderbolt, do you got two other AEM-7s doing limited services on the Wilmington/Newark, and the Paoli/Thorndale Line?

What k Is the song during the F7 section its really cool

Seeing your avatar is a PRR K4, you should talk about them.

I am going to do what Norfolk Southern does use the AEM7s and ALP44 on work train service, switching service, and occasional regular passenger services.

I really hope that the ALP-44 gets preserved after NJT is done using it.

AEM 7 December 8th 1987 service entry for Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority this is taken from an Allentown Morning Call article.

Why didint you do the comet 1 cab car episode i want it to be open in june 10

Can you do an episode on the ACS-64

Thunderbolt 1000: Uploads non documentary videos. Everyone: only watches the documentaries Non-documentary videos: Am I a joke to you?

Even I don't live in America but I stil love the 7 eam 7 it made me cry like some off my fav trains AR out off servise =(

One thing about the AEM-7 steel cast of locomotive bell

Hopefully you dont get a copyright strike for using some of that music. Cool video

Nun like coffee and trains on a good morning

6:03 the train looked like a short intercity passenger train set

The first sample of K5LA horns sounds like the NJT ALP-46 K5LA horns

Hey thunderbolt can you do the oxnard california crossing amtrak train incident 2 years ago

IM SO glad you care. TO my Knowledge the Pope hasn't weighed in yet.

Why does Amtrak ACS-64 #664 have SEPTA logos?

Well Tom we can all remember the AEM-7s i had pics of it and Paul has one for his profile pic

I would say Thunderbolt 1000 Siren productions and Amtrakguy365 did good talking about the AEM-7

4:05 . Rip 901 we miss you

What college are you attending?

What's that song called at 12:43

I want to put my toast inside that toaster AEM-7 to make a develop as nice and crispy toast

11:37 ooh The Legend

I miss the tosters.

Oh and did you know that 2 aem-7s owned by Amtrak were scraped after a short life? They were number 900 and 903. They both were involved in the chase md collision in 1987. They collided with 3 conrail c-38 locomotives. It killed 16 people. One of the conrail locomotives involved were scrapped while the two other conrail locomotives were repaired and put back in service

Didn’t they also use the Trenton line?

I see what you did there AEM-*7* Episode *7*

AEM-7: nicknamed the toaster Purple Shep: wAiT a LaRgE ToAsTeR oH gOlLy I MuSt sTiCk mY hEaD iNtO iT

How come penn central suffer 649 derailments??

I cannot pay you on your gofundme(also i have an ho scale version of that amtrak f9)

4:50 you pronounced it nearly correctly, only the end with the “AG” are suppose to be pronounced separately, as “AG” is basically the german/austrian Incorporated.

Kinda looks like you are down the street from the Pennsylvania Live Steamers. Have you ever been there?

Can the AEM-7s do local services, too?

What's the name of the song at 12 :19

Can you do the septa acs 64

When you do the episode on the ACS-64, I have some footage you can use.

I searched up about the aem-7 and found out something. Did you know that conrail ordered 10 aem-7s? Conrail was excited to take delivery of the aem-7s but then they canceled the orders

They still use the RC series in Sweden for cargo trains

You got one fact wrong, Antrak got 69 ACS-64's. ACS-64 666 dont existing which mean their only 69.

In case you missed it, NS will send two SD70M-2s to Progress Rail for rebuilding into AC traction with all the latest software. The pair is not expected to begin testing until 2023. Several SD70M-2s have been sold off, but NS retains many. How many exactly? After repeated failures, the PR43Cs ultimately found themselves in storage in Windsor, Ontario. By 2019, the PR43Cs were sitting at Windsor with an uncertain future ahead of them, but in that same year, they were renumbered from #4000-#4011 to #130-#141 in order to make room for the AC44C6Ms that would be numbered in the #4000s on CP. Many railfans speculated that the PR43Cs would re-enter service after that, because why would CP go through the trouble of renumbering them if they would never operate again? Unfortunately, these theories proved to be wrong, when all 12 PR43Cs were returned to Canadian Pacific's Vancouver British Columbia shops in late 2020. By 2021, they were chopped up into parts. Nowadays, all PR43Cs are assumed scrapped, including the demonstrator, #4300. So why are the PR43Cs important? Well, most obviously, they did something with a few of Canadian Pacific's SD50s to make them slightly more useful. At the beginning of of video, the SD50s were overly complicated and unreliable, and by the end of the video, they were turned into undoubtedly reliable SD40Es, and well, interesting PR43Cs. Also, because they were a part of Canadian Pacific's switching engines, they showed the railroad that Genset technology is unreliable, and since the PR43Cs, Canadian Pacific hasn't experimented with Genset technology that much. I said the PR43Cs were chopped up into parts at the g scale New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in Fayetteville West Virginia not far from Ansted where my uncle Greg lives. Nah, just kidding. In 2010, Amtrak ordered 71 ACS-64 locomotives from Siemens to replace the AEM-7s not the HHP-8s which the HHP-8s weren't a failure. The ACS-64s began entering revenue service in February of 2014, and soon the fleet was retired with the last two AEM-7s #942 & #946 making their final run on June 18th, 2016, on a farewell excursion that ran from Washington to Philadelphia. Amtrak #929 & #938 are on Caltrain. Two Amtraks have been preserved so far: #915 going to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, which I plan to revisit in the future, and #945 going to the Illinois Railway Museum. Some DCs were scrapped, while others, mainly the ACs, are awaiting their fate in Wilmington, Delaware. Marc was next, replacing their AEM-7s with Siemens Chargers, around 2017. The HHP-8s however, got a second chance with rebuilds in 2018, but the AEM-7s are currently in storage. Amtraks #664 was leased to SEPTA in 2016, for testing the locomotives before buying them. Tests were completed with success, and in 2014, SEPTA ordered 15 ACS-64S from Siemens #901-#915. #901 entered service on July 11th 2018, running its 1st train on the Great Valley Flyer on the Paoli/Thorndale line. Eventually, as more and more entered service, SEPTA decided, it was time. Some were used on late-night gel trains in the fall, as like a sort-of second retirement job, but soon all were retired with the exception of #2302 being used as a switching engine on the Kanawha River Railroad by late November 2018, with a farewell excursion taking place on December 1st 2018 running from Paoli to Suburban Station with ALP-44 #2308 and AEM-7 #2301. Yours truly was on-board that day, boy was that a fun time. But the story doesn't really end there because after that excursion #2302 #2301 #2303 #2306 #2304 #2307 #2303 & #2308 are switching freight cars as of today at Belle, West Virginia a Charleston suburb on the Kanawha River Railroad.

I'll come up with a new series called: Engines of Kanawha River Railroad: the SD60 and AEM-7.

i missed the toasters

I never heard those, im in oklahoma