If Amtrak were smart, they would have at kept the F40's around for at least the regional trains. The P42's are cool and everything, but now those are phasing away on the regional trains, mainly because they're meant for long distance if I'm correct on this. I'd much rather see an overhauled F40PH than a hideous Siemens Charger on the regional trains. Nice video by the way. Thought the box car attached to the F40 was rather interesting.
The F40PHs would have to have been completely overhauled with some new technology incorporated into them, possibly a separate diesel engine for HEP to make them still worth running to this day. The F40PHs, just like what is happening to the P42s now, were shot from running them into the ground for 20+ years! You'll get used to the looks of the Chargers over time. Besides, who cares if the locomotive isn't all that attractive as long as its a good runner?
@@maas1208 You can keep anything running indefinitely I suppose. VIA Rail has F40PHs still operating as well. I am not sure what the reason for the total phase out of the F40PH was, economics? Maybe they were at the point where it didn't make economic sense to continue rebuilding the units. It does make sense to have a common locomotive type nation-wide that can be used on just about any train in nearly any location. The F40PH served that role for roughly 2 decades and then the GE Genesis has served that role ever since and their twilight will be upon us soon.
The Bells on those older Gallery Cabs just sound so much better than the ones on the Nippon Sharyo Cabs... Why even did Metra deactivate the controls of those older Cabs, anyway?
The new ones have much better crash protection for the crew, and there are enough of them to spread around the whole fleet so there is no longer any reason to use the Pullman cabs. Same reason all the Comet IV cabs on NJT were deactivated.
Ok, but can they please just get rid of all the stupid EMD Steel Bells and revert them back to those same old Brass or Bronze Bells that their predecessors had? (I know we have 8473 and 8509, but NJT didn't spare a Bronze Bell...) I actually heard the NJT Comet 4s were deactivated because they had an issue with their brakes, not because of crashworthiness or "minor inconvenience".
@@superbaddy4 Comet IVs had the same EPIC II brake system as the rest of the newer fleet. If there was an issue with that system on those cars it would also affect basically everything else transit owns except the geeps.
Well, still, jokes on both them and MBTA. Apparently, they both had "CaB cAr ShOrTaGeS" in recent years, yet NJT's Comet 4s (oh, and their Comet 2s) and MBTA's 1600 through 1624 they just pretended didn't exist, despite being right there for them to easily reactivate and use.
@@superbaddy4 NJT has no Comet II cab cars anymore. All the Comet IIs were converted to IIMs in the early 2000s to make them compatible with the IVs and Vs, and as part of that rebuild all the cabs were removed with the windows plated over. As far as not using the IVs, the issue was a lack of ACSES II equipped cabs which reactivating older equipment without that system would not have fixed.
2:54 Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that's the same exact consist that's in this video as well, seeing as how both take place in October of 2000 ruclips.net/video/yjtA0LEP2c8/видео.html Nice Video!
Glad i stumbled upon this video, this was an EXCELLENT video....
0:12 That first train is the Lake Country Limited that ran to Janesville.
Really? Wow!
Great collection!
thank you mr. Kemper
If Amtrak were smart, they would have at kept the F40's around for at least the regional trains. The P42's are cool and everything, but now those are phasing away on the regional trains, mainly because they're meant for long distance if I'm correct on this. I'd much rather see an overhauled F40PH than a hideous Siemens Charger on the regional trains. Nice video by the way. Thought the box car attached to the F40 was rather interesting.
The F40PHs would have to have been completely overhauled with some new technology incorporated into them, possibly a separate diesel engine for HEP to make them still worth running to this day. The F40PHs, just like what is happening to the P42s now, were shot from running them into the ground for 20+ years! You'll get used to the looks of the Chargers over time. Besides, who cares if the locomotive isn't all that attractive as long as its a good runner?
It's interesting that that's how they added the MHCs for Hiawatha trains.
And now SC-44 will rule soon
@@adamm2837 If Metra was able to keep them running at this point, couldn't Amtrak do the same?
@@maas1208 You can keep anything running indefinitely I suppose. VIA Rail has F40PHs still operating as well. I am not sure what the reason for the total phase out of the F40PH was, economics? Maybe they were at the point where it didn't make economic sense to continue rebuilding the units. It does make sense to have a common locomotive type nation-wide that can be used on just about any train in nearly any location. The F40PH served that role for roughly 2 decades and then the GE Genesis has served that role ever since and their twilight will be upon us soon.
0:39 A view no longer possible due to the construction of a new high-rise over the tracks.
So even the Hiawatha trains were part of the mail contract.
The Bells on those older Gallery Cabs just sound so much better than the ones on the Nippon Sharyo Cabs... Why even did Metra deactivate the controls of those older Cabs, anyway?
The new ones have much better crash protection for the crew, and there are enough of them to spread around the whole fleet so there is no longer any reason to use the Pullman cabs. Same reason all the Comet IV cabs on NJT were deactivated.
Ok, but can they please just get rid of all the stupid EMD Steel Bells and revert them back to those same old Brass or Bronze Bells that their predecessors had? (I know we have 8473 and 8509, but NJT didn't spare a Bronze Bell...)
I actually heard the NJT Comet 4s were deactivated because they had an issue with their brakes, not because of crashworthiness or "minor inconvenience".
@@superbaddy4 Comet IVs had the same EPIC II brake system as the rest of the newer fleet. If there was an issue with that system on those cars it would also affect basically everything else transit owns except the geeps.
Well, still, jokes on both them and MBTA. Apparently, they both had "CaB cAr ShOrTaGeS" in recent years, yet NJT's Comet 4s (oh, and their Comet 2s) and MBTA's 1600 through 1624 they just pretended didn't exist, despite being right there for them to easily reactivate and use.
@@superbaddy4 NJT has no Comet II cab cars anymore. All the Comet IIs were converted to IIMs in the early 2000s to make them compatible with the IVs and Vs, and as part of that rebuild all the cabs were removed with the windows plated over. As far as not using the IVs, the issue was a lack of ACSES II equipped cabs which reactivating older equipment without that system would not have fixed.
Back when Nippon Sharyo car wasn’t there
2:54 Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that's the same exact consist that's in this video as well, seeing as how both take place in October of 2000 ruclips.net/video/yjtA0LEP2c8/видео.html
Nice Video!
Yep its the same train