page_title: Amtrak paint schemes
section_title: Veterans units
hierarchical_section_title: Amtrak paint schemes / Special paint schemes / Veterans units
caption_attribution_description: English: Amtrak ACS-64 #642 on the 2016 Autumn Express, with ex-Metroliner conference car #9800 (used as a crew lounge) behind. The train is at the former Lehigh Valley Railroad station at Easton, Pennsylvania.
context_page_description: Amtrak has used a variety of liveries on its rolling stock since taking over intercity passenger rail service in the United States in 1971. A series of six schemes termed Phases, first introduced in 1972, have seen the widest use. Phases primarily use geometric arrangements of red, white, and blue—the national colors of the United States—part of Amtrak's patriotic visual identity.
  Amtrak began operations in May 1971 with a mixture of equipment still painted in the distinct liveries of the freight railroads that relinquished their passenger service to Amtrak. Amtrak picked and chose equipment that it determined to be in the best condition, and elected not to keep the same rolling stock on the same routes. Since one almost never found rolling stock from anywhere in the country on any train, let alone rolling stock from competing railroads mixed together on the same train, that period was later known as the Rainbow Era.
  To build the brand of Amtrak as a unified passenger railroad, the rolling stock was gradually repainted into system-wide Phases starting around 1972 with Phase I. The Phases are sequentially numbered using Roman numerals.
context_section_description: In June 2013, P42DC #42 was painted in a red, white, black, and dark blue scheme with a large logo on the side saying "America's Railroad Salutes our Veterans". A blue band near the wheelbase contains 50 white stars. ACS-64 Nos. 642 and NPCUs Nos. 90208 and 90221 received similar paint schemes in 2015 and 2016.
caption: ACS-64 No. 642 in the Veterans scheme in 2016
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