The Doobies, singing about Miss Lucy, some of my favorite music ever.

I don’t think so, if anything, they’d be smiling at CP 2816 high balling

​@@NashRailfanHigh balling right into the back of some lady's skull 😬

@@NoThankYouNoName that’s the lady’s fault. Not like the train can stop on a fucking dime 😭

​@@NashRailfanProbably would have helped to have some sort of crowd control at those packed grade crossings. Especially when most people have not been anywhere near a steam engine while running. CPKC isn't known for their safety though

@@NoThankYouNoName it’s hard to keep a crowd that large and long under control with how little authority KCS and CP have down there. It’s extremely difficult to. And besides the point, same shit happened to UP 844 and no one is making jokes about it like 2816.

*ALC-42's

LOL! Amtrak's new power, that didn't take long!

TWO of them!!!

Lol ya. The newer power will never beat these good ol EMDS and GEs. Especially the F40s and P42s

IC is the only way to go

It has never happened despite the IC units being around for a long time. This might be the first and last time

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I have seen it back in the 90s.

@@BarnabasCollinsXIII Sadly, Steve Goodman passed away 40 years ago at age 36.

​@@russellwall7265 Yes, thank you for posting that. I think of Mr. Goodman frequently because I live near the hospital where he was being treated when he passed away. It is said that he kept a sense of humor, such as we can see in some of his songs too. He was able to see some good things during his life. Others, he was still waiting for ... but that is something a Cubs fan learns to cope with.

I would love to hear Janis singing it! She did not do it.

Take a listen to Doug MacLeod's version of 'New Panama Limited'. worth a listen

@@pauloreilly3240 thank you. I will.

Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders, Three conductors, twenty-five sacks of mail...

@@InventorZahran All along the southbound odyssey The train pulls out of Kankakee

​​@@BarnabasCollinsXIII Rolls along past houses farms and fields.. Passing trains that have no name, Freight yards full of old black men, And the graveyards of the rusted automobile.

Good morning America, how are you say I'm your native son, I'm the train they call the city of New Orleans, I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done 🎉🎉🎉🎉

@@galewinds7696 🎶Dealing card Games with old men in the club car Penny a point and no one keeping score Pass the bag that holds the bottle Feel the wheels rumbling ‘neath the floor🎶

Me too ! Early 80’s 👍😁

And it's blocking the line, so they kinda have to get it out of the way.

Been a long times since an Illinois Central equipment has been seen.

@@SHOZ123that’s because they’ve mostly been up in Wisconsin and Michigan, and also Minnesota.

@@SHOZ123 They still use some IC units on freight trains. Canadian National has taken over the freight hauling but there are still some IC units that are still active and being used.

My uncle worked for the ICRR. He operated several of those units.

So how fast?

That’s a solid 60 easily

I haven’t stopped watching👍👍👍😁

Why can’t the crews of Amtrak just keep the “fuel additive level” with their regular maintenance?

Probably emissions certification related

Fuel additive. You could be talking about DEF. Emissions related. This was added to highway trucks many years ago and now these days I’m seeing it on diesel locomotives too

Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son!

I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,

In what world does an SD40A look like an SDP45?

They sure don't make them like they used to...

If one is running, all that HEP load will severely limit acceleration and limit hill-climbing ability. While Metra have put as many as 11 gallery cars behind a single F40PH, the acceleration is sluggish and they are run like this on limited-stop trains only as a result. Local trains that are 11-12 cars during rush hour alway have two units.

@@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis Interesting. Thanks.

Only 7 cars?? Not much Head End Power required. One of those Siemens could do that. So again, how did Amtrak lose 2 locomotives on the same train?

I think it's a "heritage unit". If companies don't use old logos or designs they become public domain after a number of years.

@@TheMrPeteChannelthese aren’t heritage units, they just haven’t been repainted

CN acquired IC in 1999, the same year this locomotive was built. It was pretty common to see Seaboard System and Chessie locomotives on CSX trains well into the late ‘90s, a full decade after their merger. The predecessor railroads would paint their new locomotives in their own paint all the way up until the date of the merger. Even though the merger had been in the works for years, each railroad kept turning out locomotives in their own colors. And since it doesn’t make too much sense to repaint a new locomotive, they roll with it for a few years. 25 years is a long time, though; also, the fact that 1999 was 25 years ago makes me feel pretty old… The opposite of this would be the “Kodachrome SPSF” locomotives from the ‘80s, when Southern Pacific and Santa Fe were trying to merge. That ended up not happening, but if it had, they already had locomotives wearing the paint. I guess I was most shocked that they made a standard cab locomotive in 1999. Great video.

@@michaeljohnson7493 I think ICs would be the only standard-cab SD70s left, as didn't NS replace the cabs on theirs and rebuild them?

Amtrak engineers _are_ CN engineers, at least here.

That's the standard cab version, they don't make SD70s like that anymore

Possibly

They might’ve. Of course it Doesn’t now. Long gone. As the train is coming, you can see a signal that protects the 11000 ft siding there. As the train is leaving town, there is an old industrial spur on the left. I had to set a car out on it once. Bad order car.

Look at the logo on the front of the train, it looks just like the Deathstar! The dot for the “i” being the laser canon.

Yeah, but those passenger trains in Germany are not being pulled by a freight locomotive...

Heh. Little faster than THAT. The size makes it look deceptive.

nothing man made is perfect - things break. They're still just working out the kinks.....give it time and everyone will be praising the Chargers like they do the P42s.