EMD E7 : Are there any today?.

That ancient looking person sitting in the cab on the engineers seatbox. Yup.

While not directly relevant, I saw a “Rocket” go through Blue Island behind two E-7A and one E-7B (all in plain RI red) back in 1977. They were the loudest passenger units I’d ever heard, and the train came through at at least 60 MPH, despite the fact that commuters were all over the tracks from a recent arrival on another track.

Fortunately nobody was killed, but the scene has stuck in my memory.

Peter