Amtrak, VRE, and MARC: Late Afternoon Railway Action at Washington D.C. Union Station, Volume 2
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2025
- Taken: May 16, 2023
At 0:17, the cab car is numbered #V725, not #V721. I just realized my mistake as I was typing this.
Rolling Stock: MPI MPXpress = MP36PH-3C Locomotive #V55 and #V69. Sumitomo/Nippon-Sharyo = Gallery IV Coaches and Cab Cars #V725 and #V713. Siemens = ACS-64 Locomotives #670 and #608. General Electric = P42DC Locomotives #142, #5, #75, and #146. Budd = Amfleet I/II/Viewliner I/II trailer cars, Baggage Cars #69006 and #61040
While this video doesn't feature as much action as the first volume; however, the main purpose of this clip was to show the locomotive swap, the coupling of the P42DCs to the trailers on Train #A91, the Silver Star Amtrak train to Miami, Florida, and a brief tour of the station concourse. Definitely a nice change in the atmosphere, especially since the employees were perfectly fine with me recording video. On the contrary, earlier in the day on other platforms, other station employees gave me a hard time about it, despite recording video being legal.
From what I have seen, the Genesis locomotives (P40DCs and P42DCs) were originally equipped with steel bells; however, a good portion of them are being replaced with Graham White e-bells. As a result, it was nice to see P42DC #125 with a mechanical bell.
I was also planning on capturing a MARC Penn Line train to Baltimore Penn Station; however, the conductors on the platform of that train were insisting that I show them a ticket to even be on the platform, let alone boarding the train, so I decided not to record that video. Maybe next time.
Overall, though, Washington, D.C. is a very nice-looking station and there was a nice salad of trains that I managed to catch throughout the day, which was pretty sweet. Hopefully, I am able to capture more equipment the next time I decide to return, but it will not be anytime soon.
With that being said, the video pretty much speaks for itself, so I will leave it at that. If you guys have any questions about the video, please feel free to drop a like, comment, subscribe, share the video with everyone you know, and I will see you all on the next one! :D
I hate how the catenary ends at WAS
Crescent #20
Surprised you were able to get away from Railfanning in DC Union Station as they’re tight with security and it’s not a railfan friendly place as railfan have been known to be asked to leave or kicked out.
Eh, some of the staff were chill with me filming. Only one Penn Line MARC conductor said I couldn't be on the platform unless I had a ticket to that particular train and another was an Acela conductor who used the 9/11 excuse. The ones who saw me film the Amtrak coupling were definitely chill as hell.
Still amazed that you were able to buff in Union Station