Engines of Amtrak - EMD F69PHAC

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3 жыл бұрын

The F69PHAC is yet another experimental locomotive for Amtrak. It was America's first AC traction diesel locomotive and would be a big stepping stone for future locomotive development. While not incredibly well documented compared to other locomotives in this series, there's still a bit to learn about regarding the F69, especially its experience running with the German ICE train-set!
Sorry that this episode was a bit short, there wasn't really a ton of information available and pictures/videos I could use without copyright issues were few and far between. Either way, I hope you still enjoyed!
Special thanks to those who provided pictures and video clips!
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@CoasterFan2105 3 жыл бұрын

Very interesting video! One cool and little known bit of history is that prior to the construction of the F69's, Amtrak/Siemens rebuilt F40 number 202 with AC traction following a derailment in 1984. It's currently at TTCI. Looking forward to the new Acela Express episode!

@lauraherrera2539 3 жыл бұрын

F69phac 1989-present day?

@ByzantineAuxilary 3 жыл бұрын

@edylk2498 3 жыл бұрын

@@lauraherrera2539 yea its still around

@edylk2498 3 жыл бұрын

Also present day means today.

@nooxis2643 3 жыл бұрын

it was BBC not Siemens

@hamtrak_p42dcamtrak67 3 жыл бұрын

So THIS is the first time Amtrak had talks with Simens

@AVeryRandomPerson 3 жыл бұрын

Yep.

@SomeRamdomAhole 3 жыл бұрын

Siemens*

@hamtrak_p42dcamtrak67 3 жыл бұрын

@@SomeRamdomAhole oh

@YaoboyProd2K15 3 жыл бұрын

There will be ACS-64 and SC-44 coming soon!

@parker6227 3 жыл бұрын

@@YaoboyProd2K15 wdym acs64 coming soon, the SC 44 and ACS 64 has been running for a few years now

@ThatColumbusRailfan 3 жыл бұрын

1:08 i see that person saying "nice" in the top right you sneaky F40.

@JoyceLund 3 жыл бұрын

I think that's yuri from ddlc

@mexicanussrfanboy5485 3 жыл бұрын

Can we just appreciate how "funny" the thumbnail is, it's just too perfect...

@jacksonskyline 3 жыл бұрын

I've always wanted to learn more about the F69

@HikiOmo 3 жыл бұрын

You know what they say

@GamingRailfanner 3 жыл бұрын

You said 69 nice

@JoeyLovesTrains 3 жыл бұрын

Haha. Funny number

@northeastrailfanproduction2667 3 жыл бұрын

Never heard of it

@texasgamer2148 3 жыл бұрын

The NICEst locomotive of them all.

@harrisonofcolorado8886 3 жыл бұрын

1:08 There's an anime girl saying nice at the top right hand corner.

@YaoboyProd2K15 3 жыл бұрын

It's a watermark, don't be salty.

@TrainFan119 3 жыл бұрын

Never noticed that

@JoyceLund 3 жыл бұрын

N. I C. E

@charamspaint 3 жыл бұрын

NICE

@RiftRaft_ 3 жыл бұрын

Can't wait for the Acela episode

@ScottsRailroadVideos 3 жыл бұрын

NRE still have one of the F69's in their yard. but havent run since. last one was seen in 2019

@HSMiyamoto 3 жыл бұрын

I had never heard of an F69, but once I saw the Metra unit, I knew what it resembled. Thanks for the info.

@griffinrails 3 жыл бұрын

These will always be my favourite Amtrak locomotives. IT JUST LOOKS SO COOL!

@Ostermond 3 жыл бұрын

I always thought this engine was really cool-looking!

@iowarailfanner1013 3 жыл бұрын

I really thought it would be another long one this one was short so it felt more like one of those KZfaq short videos

@AVeryRandomPerson 3 жыл бұрын

Well, they have almost no history to cover.

@warshipguy2005 3 жыл бұрын

The last time I was this early... oh wait this is the earliest I have been

@Pensyfan19 3 жыл бұрын

Great episode on this little known class! A bit short, but still great with other references to the time period (Super Mario World for 1991). Not a fan of the horns, but at least they're not as bad as the Avelia Liberty's original horn.

@joshbrony2204 3 жыл бұрын

Yay! I wanted to know more about these engines! Thanks for reviewing this engine!

@willberestartingthischanne9984 3 жыл бұрын

I Loved The Amtrak EMD F69PHAC Locomotive

@TheWinnipegRailfan 3 жыл бұрын

The F69PHAC is yet another experimental locomotive for Amtrak. It was America's first AC traction diesel locomotive and would be a big stepping stone for future locomotive development. While not incredibly well documented compared to other locomotives in this series, there's still a bit to learn about regarding the F69, especially its experience running with the German ICE train-set! Sorry that this episode was a bit short, there wasn't really a ton of information available and pictures/videos I could use without copyright issues were few and far between. Either way, I hope you still enjoyed! Special thanks to those who provided pictures and video clips! Mountain Ridge Films: kzfaq.info/love/5kK... The Winnipeg Railfan: kzfaq.info/love/lla... SantaFe669: kzfaq.info... Chad Malinovsky: kzfaq.info/love/GPV... jackmp294.5™: kzfaq.info Willy Kaemena: kzfaq.info Links: Instagram: instagram.com/amtrakguy365/ Twitter: twitter.com/AmtrakGuy365 Flickr: www.flickr.com/people/1424538... My Site: amtrakguy365.weebly.com/

@D.O.T.D. 2 жыл бұрын

@texasmodelrailroader3572 Жыл бұрын

Dude just copied the video description for no reason

@bummeroni Жыл бұрын

Bro what

@evanf1293 3 жыл бұрын

5:16 yessssssssssssssssss. Can't wait to see it!!!!!

@RichManSCTV0 3 жыл бұрын

Watching this video at 3 am, it has been a really long day, bad day. Thank you for your great content. You rock

@Upguy-tj3gv 3 жыл бұрын

I loved this as always! Keep up the great work!

@YaoboyProd2K15 2 жыл бұрын

The nicest diesel locomotive of all time.

@diazadventures5118 3 жыл бұрын

yes, finally i was waiting to see or hear if you were gonna remake the Acela express video

@TrainsDirectVictoria 3 жыл бұрын

look up NREX 451 on google you'll find a couple of photos.

@ravenhawk6910 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for doing a video on this oddball of an engine. I'm slowly working on building an F69 in O scale for my Amtrak fleet.

@ravenhawk6910 3 жыл бұрын

@NorCal Railfan Productions shoot! I've been spotted!!! Tactical retreat! HIDE HIDE HIDE!!!

@NScaleTrainBoy 3 жыл бұрын

What an interesting Locomotive! Love your videos!!

@kyleb06 3 жыл бұрын

At least one of these is still sitting at Mount Vernon. My friend found one there and sent me a photo.

@swbfuf 3 жыл бұрын

there is one word for this engine, nice

@GintaPPE1000 2 жыл бұрын

I hope these engines get more recognition as Amtrak buys more Siemens products. The AC drive technology improved a lot in the 25 years between the F69PHAC and SC-44, but it's still the same basic drive system, and more importantly, it got Siemens' foot in the door of the North American locomotive business.

@cmdrflake 3 жыл бұрын

Siemens still has proprietary software and circuitry in them. NRE scrapped them, along with SD80’s and SD70MACS from NS at Siemen’s request starting in mid-2019.

@rileyludlow961 3 жыл бұрын

I really like all amtrak trains, so I loved this and exited for the acela

@haroldalexis4200 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video. I mistakenly for years thought it was a Metra F 40 PH slanted model. But more like a prototype later on for the Metra version. Short lived unfortunately, not one scale model has ever been produced with the F 59 Amtrak or the slanted version on Metra commuter lines. Would love to see them. Your video is very informative, I didn't notice it being short at all. Very quick and educational towards these prototype models. 👏👏👏👍👍🙂 .

@piedmontrailfan81 3 жыл бұрын

1:08 *nice*

@LaneMphoto09 3 жыл бұрын

@gabeich2839 3 жыл бұрын

Yay another one

@TripleMofficial15 3 жыл бұрын

Omg this took a while but this is exciting

@itsjusttyler5315 3 жыл бұрын

OH BOY A NEW VIDEO!!!!!

@spartan117zm 3 жыл бұрын

Pleaseeeeeee do a video on the ICE visit. It’s so hard to find good footage of that and I’d love to see more and hear you discuss it.

@ironcityrailfan8467 3 жыл бұрын

Hooray!

@chafanonash3418 3 жыл бұрын

Entertaining video. Keep it up

@officialnewyork_railfan6822 3 жыл бұрын

Finally it's here

@PhillyThrill 3 жыл бұрын

Ive never seen this train! So thats cool

@SantaFe19484 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video!

@RailsOfTheMidwest Жыл бұрын

I’ve just discovered #451 is for sale on the NRE’s website.

@DFWRailVideos Жыл бұрын

Hopefully these are saved and not scrapped. I'd like to see them donated to the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis or IRM at some point, even better if smaller museums like the Frisco RR Museum here in Dallas were able to acquire them.

@g-manonthego6678 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video! Since there isn't that much info about them aside from being retired, sold to NRE in Mt Vernon, IL and stripped of numerous parts, its pretty much safe to assume that these two unique locomotives have been cut apart for scrap.

@quintinthemississippirailfan 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video! I subbed to your channel

@penguinmaster7 3 жыл бұрын

looking forward to the x2000 video. the x2k is my favorite trainset in the world.

@colonelsection5821 7 ай бұрын

Surprisingly The Only Two EMD f69phac still exist in the scrapyard in Illinois.

@MitchellSchultheis 3 жыл бұрын

One of these is still at NRE, in Mt. Vernon. If you look up NRE on google maps, you can see it on the North side of the buildings.

@jeffshadow2407 2 жыл бұрын

My original California personalized license plates for my 1976 GMC Motorhome are "GMC F69" and I was going to number the unit "455" for the Oldsmobile 455 V8 engine in the motorhome, even though that number was never used for the F69PHAC. Over time I have decided to paint the GMC as SDP40F #644. It will parked outside the new 'Hi-Level Diner' restaurant north of the Cajon Pass in a few years. The restaurant will be an Amtrak Superliner Diner from the 1981-1983 production build. Stay tuned and check out GoFundMe!

@sierrareacts1870 3 жыл бұрын

The last time i was this early GG1s were still in Amtrak's roster

@tomnook2612 3 жыл бұрын

So never

@sierrareacts1870 3 жыл бұрын

@@tomnook2612 yes i am never early

@AVeryRandomPerson 3 жыл бұрын

So 1977

@ThreeRiversfan41 2 жыл бұрын

I searched up in Google and it said that the two units still exist in a scrap yard over in Mount Vernon, Illinois like you said.

@1SaUI 3 жыл бұрын

me when I see amtrakguy365 upload an engines of amtrak video: 6 9

@griffinrails 3 жыл бұрын

im so confused as well as scared as what this implies

@1SaUI 3 жыл бұрын

@Steven Huo yo

@felixjackson534 3 жыл бұрын

@@griffinrails nice

@1SaUI 3 жыл бұрын

@Wesley Maxfield hehe surprised are you? I like the best of both worlds :D

@YaoboyProd2K15 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@Happymali10 3 жыл бұрын

There's a little bit of a running gag that tends to show up in German forums with "what would the US look like if Germany won WW2", and then you get the "Amtrak ICE" photos.

@joneau261 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@pa.trains 3 жыл бұрын

This is awesome and im early!

@lwilliams7364 3 жыл бұрын

1:08 noice

@NSB463 3 жыл бұрын

This was very nice mate!

@tot_Robbie 3 жыл бұрын

Wow i never new this existed Thats for the information :-)

@mistermadmachine6311 3 жыл бұрын

I would’ve loved a model of this engine

@trainman2226 3 жыл бұрын

i remember when the wikipidea article was changed to just say "nice" for everything

@headexploder9000 3 жыл бұрын

Yay even more from AmtrakGuy365 :D

@vDARKICEv 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Always good content coming out. I personally don’t like full with body designs on locomotives and prefer the narrow body with railing on all sides of the locomotives.

@F40Productions 3 жыл бұрын

The remade episodes are fantastic, if you do another GE Genesis episode I have good footage of VIA ones you can use

@havochiawatha3375 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone: This was the 1st time Seimmens and Amtrak chatted, this engine looks sharp, etc. Me: F *69* PHAC

@JasonTrew2018 3 жыл бұрын

Southern actually had a locomotive called the GP38AC and it might have some mixed reviews

@mrmax128 3 жыл бұрын

261 units were built in 70/71. Norfolk Southern and many other roads changed them into 38-2s later on. FURX acquired many of the units from NS. There is also the SD38AC with only 15 produced. SRY Rail Link still operates 4 of them.

@844SteamFan 3 жыл бұрын

The end for these locomotives story is sad.

@williamkesler2373 3 жыл бұрын

Great video as always. One minor thing, the first song playing in the background was a little distracting. The older ones where you used bluegrass music seemed more fitting.

@Feliex430 3 жыл бұрын

This Video was Cool Amtrakguy365

@cedarvalleyrail8419 3 жыл бұрын

nicePHAC

@SgtChip 3 жыл бұрын

More EoA? Sign me up. Anyways, maybe sometime we'll find out what condition the F69PHACs are in. Worthy of preservation, in my opinion.

@The8BitNerd 3 жыл бұрын

Man Amtrak in the 90s was like “Everything Must Be Streamlined!”

@ThePeninsulaRailfan 3 жыл бұрын

Ive seen pictures of these things in Jack London in Oakland here in the bay area

@The_SEWI_Railfanner 3 жыл бұрын

F40PH: *TRIGGERED* F69PACH: U MAD BRO?

@colbyjames7205 3 жыл бұрын

I hope the F69 is preserved oneday

@LifeOfMateusz 3 жыл бұрын

The airhorns sound good

@milwaukeemodeler1029 3 жыл бұрын

You should do a video about the history of high speed trains on the NEC

@Acela2000 3 жыл бұрын

Yes finally

@supotnoiboonsook9274 3 жыл бұрын

nice video

@HomerPenguin5516 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@emdaem-771 3 жыл бұрын

Nice.

@nooxis2643 3 жыл бұрын

"It was America's first AC traction diesel locomotive" not really in 1984 BBC/ABB had tested the three-phase traction with the M640 #CP4744 then in 1987 with the F40AC #F202. both of them were equipped with thyristor voltage source inverters which controlled all the motors in parallel. During 1987 also siemens equipped the EMD268 with 6 thyristor current source inverters each driving a single motor.

@mrmax128 3 жыл бұрын

Didn't know about these projects! Also, there were even earlier AC locomotives, the GP38AC and SD38AC built 1970/71. As far as I know almost all 261 GP38ACs were changed to 38-2s. 15 SD38ACs were built and some still run with their AC alternator. SRY Rail Link still operates all 4 of the BC Hydro SD38s, with one being a SD38AC.

@Lorsterthe34st 3 жыл бұрын

F69PHACs last word: nice

@henrybrightonmusicuploads 3 жыл бұрын

451's horn was a lot sweeter, albeit I couldn't find any footage for it.

@ENYoriginal 3 жыл бұрын

Funny that this exact combo of engine and AC traction with the static inverter was copied for use in the rebuild of EMD FL9ACs and of course, the INFAMOUS LIRR EMD DE/DM30AC.

@Proj2008 3 жыл бұрын

Amtrak didn't want 1 they wanted 2 anyway nice video Jared after the acela can you talk about the SC-44 charger?

@davidcarlo8721 3 жыл бұрын

Can you make 2 videos on the bombardier lrc train used for via rail and amtrak, just like the on engines of via rail and also the amtrak u.a.c turbo train please after the Acela express