Amtrak No. 927 is an EMD AEM-7 unit built in 1981 for the Northeast Corridor services.
History[]
Amtrak No. 927 was built in 1981 as part of the first batch of 47 EMD AEM-7 units built for Amtrak (Nos. 900-946). It was used on the Northeast Corridor and Keystone Service. Along with its sibling locomotives in 2016, it was retired from Amtrak. At one point MBTA was going to buy 15 EMD AEM-7 locomotives from Amtrak stored at Seaview, Rhode Island, and 927 was one of them, but was ultimately cancelled. In December 2024, Baltimore-based preservation group, Northeast Rail Heritage, Inc. had purchased the locomotive from Seaview for eventual preservation. There are plans to restore 927 not only to its original Phase III scheme, but to operating condition.
Trivia[]
- 927 is the fourth EMD AEM-7 unit to be preserved after Amtrak No. 915 at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, Amtrak No. 917 at the Danbury Railway Museum, and Amtrak No. 945 at the Illinois Railway Museum.
- 927 is the seventh to be retained, after the aforementioned units in preservation, Nos. 929 and 938 are now owned by Caltrain, and Nos. 928 and 942 are now owned by the Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colorado.