Wow, this is the first video footage I've seen of an F69PH! I do love me some Amtrak phase III paint F40PH action! And NS high hoods are always nice to see.

I have fond memories of commuting on the peninsula with the "Pooches" in the 80s.

Absolutely superb!

One of the best of Amtrak 42:18

I enjoy videos such as this I am a rail fan

Excelentes capturas ya quiero las futuras et44ac de cpkc y ferromex

31:45 Rudolph and Clarice almost got hit and died

I thought that the name of the song was 'City of Grenada.'

I grew up on the road that is crossed just past M.P. 676.0. About 15:45. That's the Dolphin Line Trucking Company on the right. It's still there. They then pass under Rangeline Road. At the time there was only one two-lane bridge, but not long after they built a second bridge to make two lanes North and two lanes South. Sometimes I still miss hearing the train horns. Thanks for the great video.

Cool video and channel just subscribed

Why #59/#58 don't go through Granada anymore?

Great and realistic footage! I can’t wait to ride through these parts when It finally opens again!

My Brazil Have More Locomotives

I didn’t know Amtrak had F40PHM-2s

Great video

Fun fact: lounge 39973 was involved in the Big Bayou Canot rail crash (it stayed on the tracks though)

Guessing the 2 helpers are SD40-2s. Specially painted tank car between them is interesting. No idea what that's about unless they somehow refuel from it?

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This is a great video, thanks for sharing.

I like the combination 710g3s with 567D3s.awesome man

It astounds me that you can move all that weight because the contact area between rail and wheel is the size of a roll of quarters......

Wonderful video. Just wish that we could have gotten more images from the interior apart from that brief view inside the bar car.

Funny how 20 years after this video, the line was at triple and quadruple track capacity……and then came the slow decline from the war on coal. It’s a sad sight now with less than half the trains it once had.

pee wee bounds was dispatcher who passed away in early 90's ...great dispatcher

Cool video, sucks Amtrak didn't get 1 and 2 back to Florida after CSX gave them the OK to come back after they repaired that line after Katrina!

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Illinois Central would later sell its soul to Canadian National in 1999, despite comprehensive cost-cutting measures it made in the early 1990s.

I hear amtrak is restoring the route to mobile Alabama in 2022. I sure hope they restore the route all the way to Florida.

To bad All of these P-30CH's got scraped, and none was preserved for a museum....

well sorry to say.......we have the 3171 in our shop now, wreck repair lol was in a derailment and got dinged up pretty bad, thank you or the job security

Does the conductor manually sound the horn at all those grade crossings, or is it done automatically? If the former, how does he know when a crossing is ahead? And if the letter, what are the differing timing and lengths of the - - • - pattern based on (e.g. speed?)?

The only thing I have to say is are some of these train tracks still there? Or were they destroyed

The good P5A horn

Nothin like a nice 5mph train ride

I used to get so excited when I would see one on the city of New Orleans

Yes, this is HISTORY, here!!!

Great, Christopher! And I do mean GREAT!!! Do you or your Father happen to have any Cab Rides aboard the EMD F40PHs? SDP40Fs, or E-Units down there (or anywhere?). Or, aboard the GE P32-8BWH "PEPSI CANS," or the old P30CH "Pooch" Units? Even in Super 8? And if aboard the true Southern "Southern Crescent," either pure or in its Transition Era from the SR to Amtrak, well. I'm certain the two of you have many slides at least of those ABSOLUTELY **WILD** Locomotive Consists of that era? Probably video as well!!! Wow were those some wild engine consists during the handover period! F40s leading blends of both Southern AND Amtrak E9s, and occasional SDP40Fs! Anything went!!! And the period after the tragic 1978 Southern derailment was "Anything Goes," as well. Thank you for posting this! Very interesting & enjoyable!!!

Wow that's nice when you follow the train

When i was a kid, about 60 years ago, getting a ride in the cab of a train was nearly impossiabe, unless you had a realative working on the railroad, or your dad new some big shot . for a kid of 9 or 10, it was an adventure that lasts forever in your mind! weather it was steam or diseal, now we see it right here on you tube! Big thumbs up!

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None were preserved for display. I realize they were not very successful, but they were Amtrak's first bought-new locomotives equipped with head-end power (HEP), and proved the concept that Amtrak has kept using for providing hotel power to their trains ever since.

I remember these demo trains, a couple came to Georgia Power's Wansley with BN C30s

Sob. We used to message about train stuff and models. I didn't know this... just sometimes he went ghost on social media's due to the rr. Damn. Nice tribute.

It's a shame they didn't reinstate that service. But today it wouldn't make a difference. Great footage

That K5LA is epic! Perfect half-step of the chord down from half blast to full blast. I love how the Genesis locomotives sound. It's a shame that cab rides and crews carrying electronic devices went away before consumer audio recording technology got good enough to record modern high-quality audio.

I’ve seen CSX tier 4 locomotive before but never seen a CN or NS or UP Tier 4 Locomotive but those look very nice

31:43 Bambi almost got hit

KCS 4818 & 4834 have Nathan horns that are made to sound like RS5T horns. Same with 4817 but 4817’s horn got fouled.

Hazlehurst turn...first car is an old Louisiana Midland boxcar with NOKL reporting marks. That was sweet!

I rode the Gulf Wind from N.O. To Jacksonville, Fla as a 14 year old in 1963.....sadly, something my children nor grandchildren will experience. I loved the L & N and did much train watching aside the Waveland, ms. train station. Wonderful childhood experiences.