IC 1039 Leads 7 Hour late City of New Orleans!
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Well Amtrak P42DC #73 overheated south of Jackson Mississippi the night before and CN gave them a GTW GP38-2... which also overheated. At Jackson they added the 1039 onto the train so they could continue up to Carbondale. Amtrak 59 had brought a P40 down from Chicago earlier this morning at 1:16 AM and set it out on the wye north of town for 58 to pick up.
8:10 - After filming M396 with 12,000' we drove to south Wetaug to catch a 7 Hour late Amtrak #58, the P5 on 1039 sounds great here! I really like this scene with the barn and corn in the back ground.
8:37 - We raced to a location outside of Anna Illinois see the train again before Carbondale, at this point 58 is running on the Approaches of M396.
8:54 - Its a good thing he had to stop at Boskydell Rd. for M396 to clear S. Carbondale. We got stuck behind traffic on Route 51 south of Carbondale and just barely made it in time.
9:06 - With the outbound crew Chicago on the train they cut off the IC 1039 from the train and head up to the Yard Office to leave the unit for the L589 Du Quoin Yard job to come down and pick it up. The engineer really laid on the hard to handle P5...
9:36 - 30 Minutes later after the 1039 was set out and the trainmaster drove the crew over to the #831 which was waiting at the crotch switch at the wye. They back the engine down to the station where un happy passengers wait to get on their way.
9:58 - Finally the train departs nearly 7 Hours late bound for Chicago... I have to admit the engineer really knows how to work the horn! I love the way it sounds here, its also neat to see a P40 lead the train which was recently taken out of storage. This is a scene not normally seen during the day due to the fact that Amtrak is a nocturnal train till they reach Champaign at about 6:10 in the morning.
This was quite epic! props, Andrew! Excellent job!
This has aged like the finest of wines
Ridin' on the City of New Orleans
...And I thought an F59PHI on a freight train was awesome, but this... It blew me away!! Amazing compilation, Definately a Fav!!
Love that first shot bro! Sweet video, love watching it over and over. Can't get enough of that P5...
Wow, what a great train watching day you had - loved all of the horn action, and great units, too! That K5LA on 831 was awesome!!
Thank you for the excellent description of the events. I saw that they would be very late in Champaign but didn't know why.
Thanks! It definitely was a day to remember... 831 was a nice touch I didnt know about till the last second. My first P40 so that was pretty neat..
Very well shot video... Good job man.
WOW man. I swear i was wondering what the heck was going On when it past the defect detecter at MP 8 going into johnson yard around 2:45 AM yesterday morning. Its normal arrival time in Memphis is 10 PM. But man this is a great video. 5/5 and AMtrak 59 blew us away this morning lol. That was a moment i wish i really had my new camera, but i'm getting it soon.
Very nice...Thanx for sharing.....At the end he really put on a good show :-)
Thanks Max! It was a really cool experience, tooo bad you weren't around.. But the SD70 was awesome and then when the P40 got added it topped it off .
It was the first repaint a few years ago, but now 1008 and 1012 are also repainted.
Great catch Andrew! Wish we could get some detour work on this line again.
WOW!!! Absolutely love it!!! Well done!!!
Thanks Mike!
@heelblocks damn wish i was there to see that!
this would have been a first in a lifetime for me!!!
Anyway Frickin awesome footage and amazing hornage!!!
Awesome!!! Thumbs up!
That lag is incredible. Great video, Andrew!
Flo was the coach attendant, Dot the sleeping car attendant and Grady the chef. Also looked like Batman and Maytag on the operating crews involved, though not everyone showed. Just glad it wasn't MY train this particular day!
Did have a five hour late 59 I was conductor of quite recently, though.
Thanks Lew! Yeah it was a rarity... 74 MPH :)
Spectacular video, this comment was hard to write because my jaw just dropped and I am trying to fix it!
Did Amtrak do away with those boxcars that I think hauled baggage or whatever a few years ago if so I am glad they did those things were kind of weird to see bringing up the rear of an Amtrak train.
Fantastic video!
@heelblocks sweet!
well i hope 2 c u sumtime up there this year man!!!
Hahaha! Thats great to hear! This was definitely "once in a life time"!
Yeah it was sure different.... 58 should have been meeting 59 at 2:45.. Majorly messed up! Thanks! Im pretty sure Im the only railfan that caught the 1039 leading it.
what a show!!! Real nice!!!
Sweet video!!!
Is this the only repainted CN SD70?
Riding on the City of New Orleans...
Great footage!
Yup... the outbound engineer is Batman.
I heard about this debacle after the fact. I was at home in bed after bringing 59 into Carbondale from Chicago this particular morning.
How do i go about training for Amtrak engineer trainee?
@heelblocks nice!!
you know i'm going to Brehm Prep in Carbondale for 10th grade.
Maybe we could meet up sumtime @ the amtrak station?
Oh and BTW when do you usually go to the station in carbondale?
Hell of a catch, Mr. Shafer. Might be the only time an IC SD70 is on Amtrak... were they going about 70 in that first clip? Or 60?
Right you are!
that actuallly sounds more like a K5H to me
@railfanstreator94 Those have been gone for a while now.
Wow you really don't see this everyday.
Good stuff, Andrew...don't listen to da haters!
CN leads not IC
P40... Long hood forward
It was a first for me!
Incorrect Sir
I thought so just wanted to be sure and I am glad they did a good part of them were ugly
What the fuck are you talking about?
Too bad, I don't care what you think... LOL
Hybrid..
You are a friggin idiot...
Fantastic video!