Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022

Daily whereabouts of train locations along with sightings for heads ups to other railfans.
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Robertrains wrote:
Mon Apr 18, 2022 7:22 pm
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13:28 - AMTK 972 clear CP18 dumping ballast westbound. AMTK 518/AMTK 519/NS 1067
I got a video of AMTK 518/AMTK 519 heading east through Kalamazoo on Saturday 4/9. AMKT 519 was in the lead and they were all by their lonesome. I caught them at the 4th st crossing close to West Main/Red Arrow Hwy.
Are these Amtrak® units kept in Jackson? :?: Where can I find? Will they operate a "Ballast Train" this week? I'd be looking for them if I come out to this line Friday (4-22)!!!!
518/519 ran a MOW train today. Already back in Willow Yard

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518/519 WB thru Chelsea at 09:10 w MOW train. Approx 20 gons. Not ballast gons.

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LansingRailFan wrote:
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Robertrains wrote:
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I got a video of AMTK 518/AMTK 519 heading east through Kalamazoo on Saturday 4/9. AMKT 519 was in the lead and they were all by their lonesome. I caught them at the 4th st crossing close to West Main/Red Arrow Hwy.
Are these Amtrak® units kept in Jackson? :?: Where can I find? Will they operate a "Ballast Train" this week? I'd be looking for them if I come out to this line Friday (4-22)!!!!
518/519 ran a MOW train today. Already back in Willow Yard
Yup, I saw these units parked on a "Ballast Train" in Willow Yard on Friday 4-22! It wasn't working though! :roll:
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Fri Apr 22, 2022 9:44 am
518/519 WB thru Chelsea at 09:10 w MOW train. Approx 20 gons. Not ballast gons.
Though the cars on the Amtrak® "Ballast Train" were "Yellow!!!!" LansingRailFan, did you see those or different ones? What kind? :?:
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did you see those or different ones? What kind? :?:
If you wouldn't mind attaching a picture so if I had to be corrected it would be nice, but they should be Neon Green
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David Collins wrote:
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Robertrains wrote:
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did you see those or different ones? What kind? :?:
If you wouldn't mind attaching a picture so if I had to be corrected it would be nice, but they should be Neon Green
I don't have a picture and the ones I took are film! The Amtrak® cars I saw at Willow Yard appeared "Yellow" but I suppose they could have been "Neon Green!!!" 8)
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Note picture where it gives the paint color used :!:
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It's technically green, but "Safety Green" and "Safety Yellow" are pretty interchangeable terms these days. Pantone calls it "yellow" (13-0630 TN), but Pantone doesn't always follow convention, there is an element of doing different just to be different. Although OSHA, ISO & ANSI share a "Safety Yellow" that is decidedly yellow; which is the color you'll get if you ask for "safety yellow" at the Lowes paint counter. To make it even more complicated, OSHA & ANSI have their own "Safety Green" which is very green.

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Look at the pictures in the link I provided and you will see that it's Hempel Lime Yellow 40701

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They have a couple of those ballast cars sitting on the Ameriwood siding in Dowagiac.

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DaveO wrote:
Mon Apr 25, 2022 7:03 am
Note picture where it gives the paint color used :!:
http://www.subchat.com/read.asp?Id=1571891
Yup, those are the kind of cars I saw! Now, does this mean Amtrak® has retired (or in process) all the old "Orange" ones? Well, I never saw them (or these) in operation!!!!
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Amtrak #350 by Ogden Dunes, IN at 07:36 CT, Charger on both ends
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Amtrak 350 past MP 22.5 on the Holly crawling at around 10 mph and an hour and a half late.

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Amtrak 351 left Pontiac a half hour late this morning.

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Amtrak 350/355 has its baggage car back and one coach removed today.

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AMTK 352 just left Ann Arbor. About to pass 355 at Ypsilanti.

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4605 parked at the end of the Pontiac station spur
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Amtrak 984 leaving Chicago 5/5 @ 0845 for Kalamazoo, MI, unk consist

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This is cool. I’m watching Amtrak turn an engine on the wye at the north end of Pontiac Yard. I’m not close enough to read its number but I’m still enjoying the show. Maybe Buster is engineering the move .
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Amtrak 984 leaving Chicago 5/5 @ 0845 for Kalamazoo, MI, unk consist
IDTX 4724/AMTK 18/AMTK 138/AMTK 53 and nine Superliner cars.

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AARR wrote:
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This is cool. I’m watching Amtrak turn an engine on the wye at the north end of Pontiac Yard. I’m not close enough to read its number but I’m still enjoying the show. Maybe Buster is engineering the move .
Nope.....took my relief day after working the work train the past three days....where was everybody?? Didn't see anybody out following us as we went about doing work train stuff....

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