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Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2022 3:04 pm
by ConrailDetroit
Amtrak Phase 4 Painted #184 was leading 30, the Capitol Limited today. By Harpers Ferry, West Virginia at 1.30pm, 2 Hours late.
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2022 7:18 pm
by Manistique
Haven't seen 350 or 355 lately. They were suppose to restart up this past Saturday.
Just read that they are now cancelled until October 23. Wonder if we will ever see them again?
Sorry if I missed reading this elsewhere on the board but checked and didn't see anything.
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2022 10:25 pm
by GP30M4216
Pere Marquette 370/371 has been running with a pair of new Venture coaches and an Amcafe/business class car for the past few days. Interesting to watch the power step deployment in the Bangor camera.
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:55 am
by LansingRailFan
NS train B25 had a car derail yesterday evening in Grass Lake. One wheel set was off the tracks. Hulcher was en route but Amtrak had to bus everyone around to final destinations, terminating at least 354 in Jackson and possibly more.
I believe they are bussing people this morning as well.
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 9:45 am
by Ypsi
LansingRailFan wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:55 am
I believe they are bussing people this morning as well.
353 shows on the tracker map this morning and on time ~ 2-5 mins late as of 9:45
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2022 9:16 am
by Manistique
353 had a new Venture coach at the headend this morning. First one I have seen in a while on Wolverine trains.
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2022 2:00 pm
by ConrailDetroit
Word is 353 hit a suicidal individual in Birmingham this morning.
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2022 7:29 am
by Manistique
ConrailDetroit wrote: ↑Sat Sep 24, 2022 2:00 pm
Word is 353 hit a suicidal individual in Birmingham this morning.
According to a news report, 353 pulled up to Troy station afterward the investigation and terminated there.
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 8:50 am
by AARR
4610 and its consist parked at the Pontiac station track looks like it may depart soon
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 4:18 pm
by Buster Manning
It departed right when you posted this....which makes me wonder....were you texting and driving??
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 3:36 pm
by Chip
There’s been an Amtrak ballast train parked with the engine off in Wayne between the Ford plant since yesterday morning with a freshly painted NS 4512 long hood forward on the head end.
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 9:23 am
by Manistique
Amtrak 353 just went past MP 22.5 a half hour late out of Pontiac with a what looked like a complete train of the new Venture cars.
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:00 am
by AARR
I must have just missed it crossing Woodward, when I was parked at Avon Donuts. Or maybe the awesomeness of the donuts deafened out the train noises
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Buster Manning wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 4:18 pm
It departed right when you posted this....which makes me wonder....were you texting and driving??
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2022 7:56 pm
by PerRock
352 just passed Chelsea, single Venture coach on the rear.
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2022 4:25 pm
by twropr
351 was 7 hrs 49 min LT leaving Jackson and 353 is following over 3 hrs LT.
What happened?
Thanks
Andy
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2022 4:38 pm
by NickLittle
351 was 7 hrs 49 min LT leaving Jackson and 353 is following over 3 hrs LT.
What happened?
According to Amtrak Alerts on Twitter feed, "mechanical issues" for 351 that caused "congestion".
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2022 6:54 pm
by LansingRailFan
NickLittle wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 4:38 pm
351 was 7 hrs 49 min LT leaving Jackson and 353 is following over 3 hrs LT.
What happened?
According to Amtrak Alerts on Twitter feed, "mechanical issues" for 351 that caused "congestion".
It’s pretty standard operational protocol for Amtrak to strand their passengers for hours on end. Can’t wait to hear about the first A2TC train stranded in Kalkaska
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2022 6:59 pm
by Saturnalia
LansingRailFan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 6:54 pm
NickLittle wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 4:38 pm
351 was 7 hrs 49 min LT leaving Jackson and 353 is following over 3 hrs LT.
What happened?
According to Amtrak Alerts on Twitter feed, "mechanical issues" for 351 that caused "congestion".
It’s pretty standard operational protocol for Amtrak to strand their passengers for hours on end. Can’t wait to hear about the first A2TC train stranded in Kalkaska
Wouldn’t happen as often if they put two locomotives on the trains like they used to. P42s had their problems but they had a backup with them. One is none, two is one.
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2022 7:12 pm
by Manistique
I noticed that even without 350/351 running for two months now, Amtrak is still assigning a spare locomotive to Pontiac, which I thought was just to avoid wying 350 when it arrived or having two locomotives on this train to return to Chicago as 355. So maybe it is a backup locomotive, which also seems a bit odd if Amtrak is power short (which maybe the reason for embargoing 350/355). I wonder if it was sent to Jackson to help out?
I had once heard Amtrak used two locomotives on the Michigan line to hit the high speeds on part of it but maybe that was just with the lower-horsepowered F40's and not the more powerful P42's or Chargers.
In the "old days," sometimes a GTW locomotive assigned to Pontiac was put on an Amtrak train out of Pontiac that needed assistance.
Re: Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2022 10:18 pm
by twropr
Manistique wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 7:12 pm
I noticed that even without 350/351 running for two months now, Amtrak is still assigning a spare locomotive to Pontiac, which I thought was just to avoid wying 350 when it arrived or having two locomotives on this train to return to Chicago as 355. So maybe it is a backup locomotive, which also seems a bit odd if Amtrak is power short (which maybe the reason for embargoing 350/355). I wonder if it was sent to Jackson to help out?
I had once heard Amtrak used two locomotives on the Michigan line to hit the high speeds on part of it but maybe that was just with the lower-horsepowered F40's and not the more powerful P42's or Chargers.
In the "old days," sometimes a GTW locomotive assigned to Pontiac was put on an Amtrak train out of Pontiac that needed assistance.
For about the first year after the 110 MPH started the trains were double-headed, using the second unit only on the high speed section.
It was all P42s by this time. 351 used to consistently make better time Kalamazoo-Porter than it does today.
Andy