Engines of Amtrak - EMD AEM-7 [REMAKE]
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- By the late 1970s, Amtrak had a bit of a motive power struggle on the Northeast Corridor. Their choices were: the old 1930s-era GG1, serviceable but mostly mechanically unreliable Metroliner EMU, or the rough riding and heavyweight E60. In short, there really weren't any great options. With that said, Amtrak turned to the more railroad-innovative Europe for answers. Help arrived in the form of Sweden's Rc4 and France's CC21000 locomotives. Both were given trials throughout 1976 and 77, but only one came out on top. I'm sure you probably already know the answer, but watch the video anyway to find out more about the AEM-7's history!
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Team Fortress 2 - Archimedes
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Deltarune - WELCOME TO THE CITY
Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards - Training Theme
Dedede's Drum Dash Deluxe - Title
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I still remember when the Wikipedia page on Amtrak's rolling stock still had the AEM-7 as "active fleet".
Wouldn't surprise me if they're backup units, but I'm doubtful that they are. They still have a bunch in storage.
It’s Wikipedia man, they always spread false information, what do ya expect
Jesus christ, no need to capitalise on a simple misunderstanding, lmfao
@@MattS_Filmography I'm sorry, I got irrational and didn't think clearly.
@@MattS_Filmography but anyway some AEM-7s still exist, but are not in Amtrak’s modern locomotive roster with the chargers, ACS-64s, Bombardier Acelas and the other engines
2:38 Sure most don’t care but as a fan of old geopolitics, I liked that you used an accurate map for the time period. :)
Same.
I also like that too
The AEM7s will always be remembered.
That’s Right.
Yea
Could you please do vids on Amtrak's E and F-units? I know they weren't made specifically for Amtrak itself, but they played a huge role in its history and development since they were some of the first locomotives they had.
This and gg1s
Amtrak's AEM-7s did so well on Amtrak's intercity services on trains such as....
1. Keystone Service.
2. Carolinan.
3. Cardinal.
4. Crescent.
5. Three Rivers.
6. Fast Mail Services
7. Montrealer.
8. Twilight Shorliner.
9. Rainbow Service.
10. Acela Regional.
11. Palmetto.
12. Pennsylvanian.
13. Northeast Direct.
14. Northeast Regional.
15. Metroliner Service.
16. Vermonter.
17. Limited-stop Silver Service.
That is a very great poem about the AEM-7, isn’t it AmtrakGuy365?
Uh He's not listening
@@niagarafallstechnician9029 ?
I am a retired Amtrak engineer, hired in 1974. Got to run my favorite, GG-1 at 110 mph. Then, got to run the hunk of crap E-60! The AEM7 was a BIG upgrade. Small but powerful.
Was the AEM-7 an upgrade to the GG1 as well as the E60, or was it just an upgrade to the E60?
Also, how the heck did you see out of the GG1's tiny cab windows?
It would be nice so see a video on the highspeed trails too. Amtrak borrowed an X2 tilting train, built by the same swedish companies that made the Rc locomotives.
Peter Dibble has a good video on the X2.
NoDag?
I saw Amtrak EMD AEM-7 915 at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania back in September 5th 2021. Along with Amtrak E60 603. Quite amazing video of the Amtrak electric locomotive used for it’s system.
Me too
@@amtrakproductions-mx9ib I live in San Jose, California. I only went to the Strasburg Railroad and the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania twice. I first went there when I was young child. Then I returned in September 5th 2021. But I do hope to come back.
@@nathancorcoran5347 Hi Corcoran. Do you Make videos?
@@atlantis0v-104 no. But sometime in the future I will.
I have a picture of it.
I didn't realize Caltrain repainted one of the old AEM-7's before sending her out to try out the Peninsula Corridor. Especially since the current plan involves just using it for testing (Caltain has gotten away with not painting secondhand equipment; see all the old Metrolink Bombardier bilevel cars). Last time I saw them, they were still parked in San Francisco in the Amtrak livery (though with logos removed), ready to test out the first electrified heavy rail corridor on the west coast. And I think it's now sitting next to the first of the new EMU's.
Kinda fitting since Caltrain looked into the viability of the AEM-7 when they first looked at electrification back in the early 90's.
Today is my birthday
Happy birthday
ii'm going to the Strasbourg this summer! excited to see 915!
Id ride with my dad down to NY from Boston all the time by train. Nothing can replace the sight of seeing the AEM7 staring you down as it pulled into the station. I miss those engines.
I'm excited for the Dash-8 episode. I actually have a video clip back in 2019 when it trailed behind P42 #137 on Amtrak Coast Starlight 14 when it pulled into Albany Oregon very late. And I have another one of another Dash 8 on Amtrak Coast Starlight 11 in Vancouver WA in February of same year
Man, 2019 was such a hopeful and positive year for me…then COVID-19 ruined it for me the next year, ironically the DAY BEFORE my birthday…so just thinking back to pre-COVID always makes me nostalgic, this here is just another testimony pointing there.
i searched up "amtrak toaster" and this showed up lol
AEM-7’s had the best K5LA’s ever!
The F40PHs horns were so good as well. Think about it. Both do/did actually
Also CalTrain is in the city that I live in. San Jose, California.
@@nathancorcoran5347 Caltrain has cool horns as well, but no lt as good as Amtraks
@@adventuresofamtrakcascades301 it’s the same like Amtrak.
@@nathancorcoran5347 yes
9:59 Riko Sakurauchi
10:20 You Watanabe
I love they get the Nickname of the AEM-7’s, called the “Toaster”
I eat Toast. *nom*
When Amtrak bought more toasters, they effectively got more toasters to toast toast which means more toast for everyone!
i love how america knows the food of the countrys the meatball from sweden ikea and french fry
The ACS-64 units are such respectable successors to the AEM-7s. They're actually one of my favorites Amtrak has ever run.
Sadly septa’s AEM-7s have been unfortunately scrapped in may 2022 they will really be missed 😪
I love the 8-bit music you're using in these videos.
You forgot the fact that Amtrak went to Sweden, brought a meatball, went to France, and brought a french fry, and they liked the meatball better and made toasters based of those meatballs.
Check the original
He knows it
Lmao
AEM 7s were the best locomotives in the 1980s and 2000s wish the amtrak aem 7s where still in service
They are pretty cool.
11:00 oh my god that was the stupid Joke you ever ASK!!!! TH-cam will demonitised you for Sure!!
cry about it
Great video. The AEM-7 is remembered fondly by railfans and by Amtrak. Definitely the locomotive "that could"!
Being from the UK I love these trains - I think because they kind of remind me of our class 86 & 87s
An 87 with a Rake of Mk3 coaches and a mk 3 DVT . . . That is the iconic west coast mainline stock in my mind (90s + Mk3 & DVT aswell)
Better to have an AEM7 at each end as is standard American practice these days.
As a MARC rider, this made me feel real good. Great vid!
1:43 Well, of course the Rc4 handled cold weather well! It was from f***ing *Sweden*!
Noting like some Kirby jazz and marajua-- err Amtrak locos.
While I miss the AEM-7s, I don't think we could have asked for a more worthy successor than the ACS-64.
UPDATE: NJTR ALP-44M No. 4424 is preserved at the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey in Boonton, NJ and AMTK AEM-7 #917 was acquired and moved to the Danbury Railway Museum in Danbury, CT.
One thing to mention is that MARC keeps their AEM-7s in operational condition in the case of a mass power shortage.
@Commodore Cardinal not that I know of, but the hippos are unreliable as always and the mp36s are scheduled for a mid life overhaul, so they may need them
Thanks for the video and your work.
As a frenchman, even for me I found them beautiful and i like the AEM 7 locomotives.
For the story of CC 21003 in america, i think it was not the good locmotive to send for SNCF. This class of locomotive were almost half prototype and had some problem. I think a BB 15000 would have been a better choice. First they had an outstanding reliability. Second with their lighter conception and an better suspension than CC 21000 class, I think the running on american track would have been smoother. But history is history. BB 15000 were younger, and SNCF had less experience with it than CC 21000 (certanly the reason to not send a BB 15000), and finally the swedish choice gave amtrack another amazing locomotive.
I will just add a little correction. CC 21000 class and their sister, CC 6500 class, are not passenger locomotive only. These locomotive had an double gear system which can be switch at stop. On passenger gear, you can run at 200 km/h, and on freight gear you can run at 100 km/h only but with an better tractive effort.
It was actually 3 Conrail engines. One Conrail engine 5045 was in the back when the Amtrak train slammed into it making that engine explode. Anyways nice remake.
They were also GE B36-7s
That is true guys.
Could he make a remake of the P32-8BWH?
I never stop learning about learning about the railroad, but you make learning both easy and interesting. It’s fun to learn new things about locomotives, and your method of presentation works so well, especially when information is not attained for long.
It was a few weeks back when I watched the ACS-64 vid that I found out that the AEM-7s were long retired, but it also lead me to find out that I can still see one at the Illinois Railway Museum nearby :D
I can’t wait to see what else is in the making!
5:44 the case of chase Maryland accident (gate the driver of the Conrail dash 8 arrested charged with man slaughter by locomotive of the conrail dash 8)
Love it! And I haven’t even watched it yet!That’s how good this channel is, you know the video’s gonna be good before you even watch it.
Amazing Job
This is the most greatly changed remake yet -- definitely adds to the original.
2nd horn sample -- sounds almost like an honorary steam locomotive whistle . . . .
I have climbed on 945, probably my favorite engine at the IRM besides the UP 1848 that I blew the horn on
My favorite electric engine of Amtrak
Amazing job AmtrakGuy365! the EMD AEM-7 will be missed.
seeing a "nez cassés" loco in amtrak livery is is pretty odd to say the least
Still gets to me that I wish GG1 are still in service.
Kinda tough to say about the GG1. Despite it's iconic Art Deco design worthy of a role in any old-time movie from the 1930s and 1940s, by the time NJ Transit retired the last GG1 in 1983, most of the units had cracked chassis that were hastily repaired at the PRR/PC/Amtrak Wilmington, DE shop. Those locomotives were pretty much a catastrophic accident waiting to happen. There are societies out there that would love to see a GG1 be restored to operational condition, but in the end, it would be easier (and cheaper) to build a new GG1 from scratch using modern technologies that are available, including transformers that would allow the GG1 to operate anywhere in the US, provided the overhead traction matches the three overhead traction facilities (12 kV/25 Hz AC; 12 kV/60 Hz AC, and 25 kV/60 Hz AC) operated by Amtrak and Metro-North.
Great video 365! I sure wish i was able to get some photos of the AEM-7s while they were in operation.
I will forever thank myself from 2015 for snagging a video of AMTK 919 on an inbound keystone, mere months before it’s retirement. In September 2020 my brother and I would locate the storage line in Davisville RI and pay our respects to the veteran engines. Wish I had submitted one of my photos in time for the video but excellent content as always!
For those of us who rode the Northeast corridor, the AEM-7 will always be remembered as the Greyhound of the Rails.
There were rumors last year that some might end up here in Massachusetts when there were plans to test out electrification of the MBTA commuter rail lines. I think some were even towed out this way - but as of 2022 the MBTA seems less interested now in electrification and nothing came of it.
Very nice video, I was at the Illinois Railway Museum on the 11th of September, 2021 and saw AEM-7 #945, great engine
The oldest trains in Sweden still in revenue service were created the same year Elizabeth II was born.
imagine if an AEM-7 got scrapped and got turned into a bunch of toasters
Just to add a little information: the bodies of NJ Transit's ALP44 locomotives were made in Finland at Taivalkoski 😎
remade toaster
Fun fact, 903 and 900 were involved in a collision on the north east corridor
That was mentioned in the middle of the video
thats not a fun fact D:
not very fun fact ☹️
9:24 wait IS THAT A *STADLER EMU?*
Yes. Stadler Kiss 😘
Just realized this video was uploaded on my birthday. AEM-7 is one of my favorite power cars, even if I never got to ride a train pulled by one.
Like the F40s and Metroliners, I think the AEM7s could also be refurbished into cabcars by removing all the electrical power and one cab or maybe they could be converted to single car railcars or (possibly) emu sets.
Toasters is a quite sweet nikname, as the budd stainL. steel and the bodyshell does look like a toaster
Nice video AG365! wish I had got video of these guys in service..
Amazingly done! Thank you so much for using my video! I will always remember the AEM-7 as the locomotive that pulled my first Amtrak train ride!
Hey!
Now that I think about it, you never covered the inherited Amtrak engines like the GG1, LRC, FL9, E and F units, etc.
Well done, this was abolutely Fantastic! Also, for the MARC AEM-7's, despite them being retired, All 4 of those Toasters are still in Storage at Balitmore Camden yards in Baltimore, MD. I've seen them a lot whenever I'm railfanning in that area.
No way! They’re still in Camden??
@@russellgxy2905 2 of them are sitting in Riverside yard. Not sure about the others though.
@@PotomacRails huh, I wonder if they were moved once again.
I have been waiting for this video and it has finally come out. Now I can use some updated information for Amtrak timeline locomotive/ history timeline or something like this.
5:45 makes me wanna cry🥺
I know
It’s so sad to see a Aem 7 crashing
So True😢
I think the AEM locomotives should have continued to be left in service as long as they held up and didn't need any major repairs. Once a major repair was required, then and only then should it be replaced by a new locomotive.
To European eyes these were the most "normal" of Amtrak locomotives. Rc series already looking quite average in design (if you mixed all European electric locomotives together and stirred ...)
Meanwhile in Sweden, Rc4 are still the most numerous locomotive of Green Cargo, though some Traxx and even six-axle Transmontana from Romania have been bought in addition. Likewise most Rc6 are still in operation for SJ (which is now purely a passenger train operator). Though passenger trains are more and more being replaced by multiple units, night trains in particular are still all locomotive hauled.
All CC6500 and CC21000 have been retired in France.
I agree with you, but the most 'normal' looking Amtral locomotive to a European right now is its replacement. The ACS-64 looks just like the locos we have on our continent
@@krthecarguy5150 Yes, it's basically a Vectron adjusted for US standards.
I actually got number #901 in my model layout. Got a piece of history
Great video! X995 is indeed still in service! Saw it today!
Strikes me as interesting that we’ve retired our (derived) Rc4s from primary service, while the granddaddy of them all, 1166, continues to ply Swedish rails, though as a freight locomotive.
@@nasanierulastname2997 is 1166 the oldest? If not how's it the granddaddy of all RC4s???
I see the Rc4 predecessors of these every day here in Sweden
11:03. I would’ve said, “ All toasters are brave.”
Kudos to anyone who gets that reference.
Nice
5:23 is a bit incorrect. The keystone corridor Metroliner sets only had catenary poles up for electricity and ac/ heating inside the car. The only reason they used them from 1981-1984 was for the ability to run push-pull operations, and they where never broken down because they where never applying any traction.
Conrail number 5052 goes like a goofy ah train like this aw crap ahhhhhhhhh (dies)
Looks very nice Amtrakguy365
Very good video! Definetly much better than the original. I've always been interested in railways and the story of Amtrak electrics fascinates me, good job!
Also that Deltarune music tho, just makes the video x10000000 times better.
Dude. I was just rewatching your EOA remakes and now you released a new one.
I can’t believe how amazing these electric locomotives are. Amtrak knew how to make locomotives back then compared to today
Are you a Nintendo fan ? A lot of the background music reminds me of my childhood.
If the USA got Italian Locomotives, the mario music would be even more apt.
I live in SE Pennsylvania. So I get to see AEM-7 915 a lot.
#915 #AEM7
I rode behind an aem-7 in July of 2015 from BWI Airport Station to Wilmington and it's number was 925
Awesome dude! Can’t wait for the next vid of engines of New York central! Also can’t wait for the dash 8 remake
Me too.
Amazing.
AEM-7 # 915 that is on outside display at the Railroad Museum in Strasburg, PA, is in pretty rough shape. They really need to drag it inside and clean it up.
Hey Amtrak Guy, are you planning to do a video on the SC-44 Charger and the GG1 electric locomotives?
9:43 actually, Septa recently announced they are selling all of their AEM-7s and single ALP-44. They will most likely be sold to scrap
6:20: the cause of the crash was due to the Conrail crew smoking weed while operating the Conrail locomotives
I will always love the AEM-7s
Running a french locomotive on american track is like running a BMW on russian roads , no shit the suspension is gonna break apart
Another great video, Jared!
There Are Actually 3 Conrail Engines In The Chase Maryland Crash Not 2
X996 should have been called "Escargot".
rip to the people that died to the crash 🙏🕊️
I have been watching a lot of your videos and they are all very interesting. As a European one thing has me wondering though. Why do so many American trains have two locomotives? I get that the trains are fairly long, but we have a lot long trains as well and they mostly have a single locomotive.
In cases like the AEM7, which have plenty of horsepower per unit to haul long rakes of coaches, it is often for redundancy. In the event of one locomotive failing en-route, the other can continue on. This matters on the high speed NEC because it keeps trains from interfering with each other.
In other cases, with diesel powered Superliner sets, a single diesel can only just pull a long rake of heavy bilevel Superliners. For traversing mountains, the extra power is needed. Plus much of the track in the southwest is in the middle of nowhere so redundancy factors in as well.
@@tavi9598 So when it comes to locomotives its quantity over quality
The CC 21000 looks like a '70s Winnebago RV
Like Amtrak number 900 and 903 goes like oh sh oh noooooooooo:
I love the sound of a train horn
i like the proper map of the time for X995 and X996. im a history buff so i like that.
Correction: there were actually 3 Conrail locomotives that got hit by the Amtrak engines. the 3rd locomotive 5045 was completely destroyed while the others 5044 and 5052 survived the wreck and are now working in Brazil
I think @AmtrakGuy365 must've missed it bcz it was destroyed he must've not seen it.
The chase Maryland collision
9:44 about a month later they were sent out for scrap..