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Putting Amtrak in the hole for a coal train. I thought this was UP until I saw the four position signals.

Any updates?

Is 1309 going to be on this turntable one day?

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isn't it amazing how the 611 can run on her own. yet the 2156 has to have a damned diesel push and pull it around

Grüße nach Pennsylvania/ USA!

Very good video

When was last time a train went down these tracks ?

I like the ride but it would be nice to see what we were riding on!! 😋

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"passenger service has taken a back seat to freight traffic on the nation's railroad". In all my 16 years of riding AMTRAK long distance that's all I see-- Freight trains having priority

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Looks like the Mississippi in the background so they've just crossed the river going west.

Which direction was the coal train heあding to？

Love it

I take it that Amtrak don't have priority.

This is common for Canadian passenger trains. Hurry up and wait is a common saying.

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You are touting your self-interest; perhaps the utility customer waiting for the coal doesn't consider it unfortunate.

This happens on Crescent #19 from time to time between Tuscaloosa and Meridian

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That was Incredible! Cool Video!

Why did they have to reverse off the siding? Is it because it's a stub track?

So, you're _on_ the Amtrak, _onboard_ it, as it's backing up. So it's actually a short video of a coal train going past, then the view out the back of the train, but not an actual video of the train backing up. That would be someone with a camera on a tripod filming the train from trackside. Ok. So, why did it back off the siding instead of just rolling on thru it back onto the mainline? Seems kinda counterproductive to me.

Nice

Is that just East of White Rock BC?

I would think there is a freight already in siding with enough room to park Amtrak in siding also. Back out and get in front of train in siding. Am I wrong?

What kind of signals are these? They look quite odd, and I never knew BNSF used them (thought another railroad did).

This is the part that always boggled me. If amtrak is faster then frieght? Why does amtrak always pull over in to the sidings and let a slower train pass? 🤔

As a dispatcher I'll have Amtrak do backup moves occasionally like this, often times it'll save several minutes on the trip

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Surprised she called it a yellow signal. Approach is probably the most universal signal aspect.

I'm guessing they pulled in behind a train and then backed out and ran around it after the coal train went by.

Thanks for showing me another connection between me and our Pennsylvania project architects. We have branchlines around here in similar condition to the New Freedom to Shrewsbury section, but we use a larger gauge for our Manchester to Cardiff via Shrewsbury and connecting routes.

I think all freight trains have priority over passenger trains....

Freight traffic is the money maker for the railroad and not the little bit Amtrak pays to use their tracks!

The one thing I find interesting is that the signals have 4 heads and that red is on top instead of green. Also, for the siding, yellow is on the bottom, and so maybe there is no green. Can anyone elucidate?

Guys lol it doesn't matter who takes priority when the train averages 35 mph. Even if it went 173 MPH -- the average speed of the TGV in France -- it would still be too slow to replace aviation out here in North America and Australia, that's why none of us (USA, Canada, Australia) use it. If the next town is 200 miles away sure, you can get there as fast as a jet, but most people are driving that distance. Like Washington DC to New York, most people drive I-95 and take shorter trips. But anybody who needs to get from DC to NYC as quick as possible isn't going to be on the slow ass train, they're going to use a jet airplane or jet helicopter. Amtrak gets slightly more market share than aviation in the NEC but remember it's still 80% car. And they're getting slightly more because of the intermediate stops, like I said most people are doing short trips WITHIN the NEC, not traveling from one end of it to the other. That's why amtrak and aviation combined are only like 10% of the traffic and 80% is car. And for longer trips, 500-3000 miles, the airplane becomes dominant, the train can never hold a candle to its speed, not even a French TGV. Maybe a maglev in vacuum tunnel...at least until we do supersonic flight over land again (NASA and Lockheed recently figured it out. If you make the plane long and end in a small point, you can break the sound barrier with a barely audible sonic boom. Thus go supersonic over land and not break anyone's ears or windows. NYC to LA in 3 hours instead of six.).

Thought Amtrak had prior over freight trains ?

Canadian Pacific along the Mississippi?

Thats actually CP trackage

Excellent speeder run , lots of fun

"RARE VIEW", ironically, it was also the "REAR VIEW"

MY GUESS IS THERE WAS A TRAIN IN FRONT OF THEM ALSO, IN THE SIDING AND IT WAS THE ONLY WAY FOR THEM TO KEEP TRACK AND TIME ON THE MAIN, WITHOUT FOLLOWING A FREIGHT TILL THE NEXT SIDING.

Look at all that soon to be Co2 travelling at speed.

Is nobody gonna mention the executive Mac leading that freight??