AMTRAK, Roadrailer, "Material handling Years, Part I" East and West

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  • This was the years when Amtrak, got into the freight and hauling business. They had Material handling, and Roadrailers that they tacked on the rear of their cross country trains. This is Part I. If there is an interest, I will put together a Part II and III if need be. This clip has alternating east and west operations. East will show PA, and west is in AZ and NM.
    Here is the link for Amtrak, F40 "Material and Handling Years, Part I"
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  • @TommyBNSF
    @TommyBNSF 8 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Ah yes, I loved this era of Amtrak in the early 2000s. Please do a Part II and III!

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      There is a part II up Tommy, and may be a III in the future. Thanks for watching, and glad you enjoyed it.

  • @Midwesttrains21
    @Midwesttrains21 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I wish they still did this, I was born in 2001 so I'm not old enough to see them but it seems cool

  • @MontysTrains
    @MontysTrains 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The second clip, with THREE different paint schemes across four engines, plus a private car ON TOP of all the freight at the end... WOW, what a catch!

  • @parkerjon29
    @parkerjon29 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I certainly miss these days! This was the Amtrak I grew up with. I was fortunate enough to ride the SWC during these days. On the WB trip we set out a P42 at Naperville, and I recall that at La Junta I heard over the scanner that the engineer was surprised to see only 3 units and said (referring presumably to Raton) that "We aint gonna blaze over, but I think we'll make it"

  • @MrBnsftrain
    @MrBnsftrain 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I'm quite surprised that the amount of "Mail Cars" was almost the same or more than the amount of passenger cars! I've seen some of the old Reefers in Colorado, and Amtrak still has some of the baggage cars like those at 1:21 in operation! (as extra wheels due to PTC) But I have never been able to see these operations myself as I was born in 2001, and was only familar with seeing video of four MHCs at the front of a Superliner train on videos filmed in the early to mid 90s!
    I like that colorful lash-up at 1:05
    that amount of cars at 3:55 is probably the obly one hwere the MHCs don't out-number or equal the passenger cars!
    Nice catch of a Horizon Cafe on a long-distance train in the eats at 7:40

  • @PrimeMoverRailfanProductions
    @PrimeMoverRailfanProductions 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    2:55 This is probably the best clip out of the entire view as a whole, with the mountains in the background and the train approaching in the foreground, along with that awesome K5LA!
    Nice Catches!

  • @Trainsbigandsmall
    @Trainsbigandsmall 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    When Amtrak was promising coast to coast freight service in 66 hours!

  • @BeefShack
    @BeefShack 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember seeing the extra long Amtrak trains when I was younger. Those were the days.

  • @AlexanderSkinnerVids
    @AlexanderSkinnerVids 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The glory days! Back in the early to mid 2000s I was in grade school and each summer I would take a trip on Amtrak and see MHCs on all the trains I was on. I miss those days. Thank you for uploading!

  • @alexlarams
    @alexlarams 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Neat video. This is the way it SHOULD be - now.

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I agree 100%. Thanks, and thanks for watching...

  • @KevinCNYC1991
    @KevinCNYC1991 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I loved seeing Amtrak with these mail cars. It was something unique to it. Great footage.

  • @AirlinkTrainsAndAviation_PACQ
    @AirlinkTrainsAndAviation_PACQ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yay this is my favorite era

  • @Ferrocarril_Chicago
    @Ferrocarril_Chicago 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amtrak was so cool back in those days!

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes they sure were. Thanks for watching...

  • @AdamKlimchock
    @AdamKlimchock 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Great compilation, glad you were able to document that all!

  • @1TexasAllyn
    @1TexasAllyn 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I was completely unaware! Please do more because I find this very interesting. Thank you!

  • @SuperDave30
    @SuperDave30 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love the sound of Amtrak locomotive horn💯

  • @arejay54
    @arejay54 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I occasionally see some of these old Amtrak boxcars on Union Pacific trains here in Iowa. Interesting to see them used by the original owner. Nice video!

  • @dannyholt105
    @dannyholt105 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks for uploading these. Now it's on to part II. Cheers, Dan

  • @attlevi
    @attlevi 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for sharing . That was truly historic. I never knew they hauled so much freight. I remember sending off a packages & thought it was a novelty idea.

  • @EvergreenRailVideo
    @EvergreenRailVideo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was watching a Union Pacific freight pass through where I live not too long ago, and in the middle of the consist was an old Amtrak boxcar still in (very faded) phase IV paint. Made me think of these old times.

  • @bassman34516
    @bassman34516 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    nice! I remember well all the boxcars and trailers on the three rivers and the pennsylvanian

  • @grapevine412
    @grapevine412 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video. . Thank you for sharing

  • @1134REN
    @1134REN 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great subject. Please do more on this!

  • @mar07205
    @mar07205 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Me gusta ver el tren que va muy rápido y con mucha carga de los vagones.

  • @SndrewAonkin
    @SndrewAonkin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    1:05 look at the colors

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Good variety Thanks for watching...

    • @TheDiamondFish
      @TheDiamondFish 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We have every P42 phase lol

  • @Finetales
    @Finetales 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    My family once took the Silver Star as a kid and I saw a bunch of Amtrak freight cars on the end as it left the station we got off at. Always thought I must have just remembered it wrong...now I know!

  • @unclek2111
    @unclek2111 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    love that horn

  • @UCH-zp4up
    @UCH-zp4up 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Actually, that time of Amtrak looks pretty cool!

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That it did. Probably will never be repeated. Thanks for watching...

  • @user-im9ch9oq6z
    @user-im9ch9oq6z 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Отличная работа Джек. Просто Супер. Вы молодец.

  • @livingroomset2084
    @livingroomset2084 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I loved the phase IV Superliner, why did they have to go?

    • @Ten-ku4yj
      @Ten-ku4yj 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      They were painted into phase v

  • @SuperJet_Spade
    @SuperJet_Spade 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember in 2004, when I was 7 years old, I travelled to New York with my parents and sister on an Amtrak train. I remember occasionally looking back and seeing a car that didn't look like a passenger car. So, I might believe that the Amtrak train I traveled on was the Three Rivers one

  • @amtrak1214
    @amtrak1214 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Bring back Amtrak freight and mail service!

  • @LibertyRailfan
    @LibertyRailfan 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome, Awesome, Awesome.. They should do this again, just like the early days of railroading in this country...

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I sure wish they would do that again. Thanks for watching...

  • @DeathLetterBlues44
    @DeathLetterBlues44 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Part II and III PLEASE!!!!

  • @TrainBubba
    @TrainBubba 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At 7:41, a Holiday Inn passenger car? Never saw one before. Great video Jack!

  • @alejandromotaguevara5655
    @alejandromotaguevara5655 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    ME GUSTO MUCHO EL EL VIDEO

  • @barroningram7286
    @barroningram7286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    some looked like freight trains with a few passenger cars🙂

  • @456newportlines
    @456newportlines ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Really I want a Amtrak freight train

  • @tomcline5631
    @tomcline5631 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    They must not have run these through my part of Missouri, because I've never seen any other line but Norfolk Southern run road railers! Pretty cool. I noticed that all but a couple actual Amtrak trailers,they were all triple crown Wich is the only company I've ever known to use the system.

  • @mdavid1955
    @mdavid1955 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What happened to all the freight cars that Amtrak owned? In storage?

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      +mdavid1955 They were sold off, and the roadrailers were picked up be Triple Crown. Every now and then, I see a ex-Amtrak box car. Thanks for watching...

  • @kawanbrownlee9724
    @kawanbrownlee9724 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    WoW didn't know Amtrak hauled freight or material handling

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Those were some neat days when they did that. Thanks for watching...

  • @NYCentralSpotter1070
    @NYCentralSpotter1070 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    So the single-level train, that's the Three Rivers, correct? I know the shots from the Southwest involve the Southwest Chief.

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Kendra Marybeth Davenport You are correct on both Kendra. Thanks for watching...

  • @wilfstor3078
    @wilfstor3078 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    p40s and p42s pulling freight. Just looks weird yet awesome

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was awsome for sure. Didn't last to long. Thanks for watching....

    • @odiecalodie
      @odiecalodie 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Actually GE was not too happy with Amtrak, they told Amtrak those engines were not meant to pull freight cars, only passenger cars.

    • @AVeryRandomPerson
      @AVeryRandomPerson 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@odiecalodie The host RRs didn't like Amtrak also doing freight, so they forced them out by charging ridiculous switching fees. GE had nothing to do with it, as P42s are essentially GEVOs with a HEP generator.

  • @jerrykinnin7941
    @jerrykinnin7941 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    And now the road railers have gone. Since Triple Crown desolved

  • @br5206
    @br5206 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    man that Chief was haulin!

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      That he was!

  • @jaredztrainz5220
    @jaredztrainz5220 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow miss amfreights 😁

  • @BattleshipOrion
    @BattleshipOrion 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    What years were these so I can add to my model Amtrak train (for those out there a f40ph leads Monday through Thursday p42 Wednesday Friday Saturday, and soon a dash-8-40bwh on Monday; Thats the plan anyway.)

  • @orionharmon6017
    @orionharmon6017 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes there is Amtrak boxcars that Amtrak is pulling but it looks like Amtrak is pulling mixed cars like passenger cars, boxcars and road railer cars.

  • @LelandRogers
    @LelandRogers 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    They might need to go back to this considering the 40% cut to their 2018 budget.

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I doubt that they will, because the host railroad was charging Amtrak unaffordable switching fees. That was the RR's way of forcing Amtrak out of the material handling. Thanks for watching...

  • @unclek2111
    @unclek2111 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    and all of those different paint schemes

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sure was neat back then. Never knew what you would see. Thanks for watching.

  • @andrewthepokerchamp
    @andrewthepokerchamp 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You know the Amtrak was fun when it had four engines in its consist. Something we'll probably never see again.

  • @donconklin1770
    @donconklin1770 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Jack, nice video man! Loved the paint schemes on those Amtraks. Do they still haul this type of freight today? Also, one of the train's ditch lights was out, so nice unusual catch there. I couldn't put my tablet down when I was watching this because it was so cool. I can tell I made the right choice by subscribing to your channel, because your videos are awesome. Keep them coming Jack. Enjoy the rest of your evening.

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Donald Conklin Thanks Don. Its been less the 24 hours since I posted this clip, and it seems like I'm getting a good many request for a Part II and III.

    • @donconklin1770
      @donconklin1770 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +jackmp294.5™ Thanks for the info. Sounds good on request for parts II and III.

    • @donconklin1770
      @donconklin1770 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *****​ Thanks for the info; sounds bitter sweet...

  • @SailorMoonRailfan
    @SailorMoonRailfan 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can I use this video for Trainz A New Era Please?

  • @thomasgriffin5466
    @thomasgriffin5466 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I road amtrak in april 2017 from greenville, south carolina to atlanta, georgia. I upgraded to business class on a one day roundtrip ticket but business class sucked just like regular passenger travel on this trip. The best way to travel by amtrak is in the bedroom suite or roomette small room. It is a better way to enjoy amtrak. I mean greyhound bus on rails....

  • @aure745
    @aure745 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like the second amtrak cause 4 p42 train 2 lounge

  • @SailorMoonRailfan
    @SailorMoonRailfan 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can I use this video for my train simulator games Please?

  • @TheAustinSubRailfan
    @TheAustinSubRailfan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I definitely think the K5LA’s were pretty Amazing Back then in the early 2000’s That’s for sure!

  • @cookode
    @cookode 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Didn't Amtrak do a whole mail train on the NEC from Washington DC to Springfield MA with an engine change at New Haven?

    • @AVeryRandomPerson
      @AVeryRandomPerson 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yea. Those were discontinued when they lost the Springfield USPS contract in 2004.

  • @maxm2317
    @maxm2317 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great footage of an era that sadly came to a close 13 years ago during the 2nd Term of President George W. Bush and his administration. Sure, this service made the journeys a bit slower and a bit late, but I think if, given the opportunity, Amtrak could give it a second shot and appease to the USPS for another contract. Then again, with the current leadership at Amtrak determined to finish what the Bush Administration started, that's most likely just a silly pipe dream.

    • @hans2406
      @hans2406 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In other words, the government tried it's best to guarantee Amtrak not to be profitable.
      Oh well, governments in general are not there, it seems, for the good of the people but for the good the big companies.
      That said, the period between Bush and Trump, what did they do?

    • @caelumvaldovinos5318
      @caelumvaldovinos5318 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hans2406, the Obama administration boosted its funding of Amtrak, bought the new SCS-44 City Sprinter locomotives for the NEC and financed a total rebuild of the P40's

  • @markcantemail8018
    @markcantemail8018 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you Jack I never saw that . I live in Water level Route country .

  • @coast_to_coast_photos
    @coast_to_coast_photos 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was born in 2003 just a couple of years before they ended the mail and express business

  • @christianstudivant4804
    @christianstudivant4804 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Will Amtrak ever run mail again because I was born in 2002 and I was too young to remember this.

  • @ntytp
    @ntytp ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When Phase 5 was new at the time

  • @TheDiamondFish
    @TheDiamondFish 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1:05 the auto train of the west

  • @superbaddy4
    @superbaddy4 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    By any chance, considering this here was all filmed within the time it was possible, do you have any footage of P42DCs 143 and 149 before they were wrecked in the Wendover, Utah crash 2 days after 9/11 when they were only about 7 months old?

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm not sure. I will have to look in my notes to see if I have them.

    • @superbaddy4
      @superbaddy4 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok, i've been waiting for 2 months now. Anything?

    • @anonymousperson9610
      @anonymousperson9610 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      After the crash why couldn’t Amtrak ordered 2 more P42s and numbered it to 143 and 149 to replace the original ones.

  • @BNSF_7777_Productions
    @BNSF_7777_Productions 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    it would be nice to railfan these

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It sure was BNSFGuy. Wish they still ran these. It really added interest to a passenger train. Thanks for watching...

  • @cpufreak101
    @cpufreak101 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Welp, I guess it really does show they could go back into freight if they were desperate enough, considering how little cash they earn now, it's kinda surprising. But then again I can understand the railroads who's tracks they run on wouldn't want the competition
    EDIT: and if I remember right, didn't this service die out around '05 with an express mail contract ending?

  • @bnsfwarbonnet
    @bnsfwarbonnet 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes more! You don't have Lake County Limited shots, do you? It was a Chicago to Janesville Wisconsin train with a P32-8, a baggage car, coach and a roadrailer.

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +bnsfwarbonnet No. Sorry I don't have that one nbsfwb. Thanks for watching.

    • @NYCentralSpotter1070
      @NYCentralSpotter1070 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +bnsfwarbonnet Someone else might have uploaded something.

    • @bnsfwarbonnet
      @bnsfwarbonnet 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Kendra Marybeth Davenport I can't find other ones

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Kendra Marybeth Davenport I'll be editting a Part II in a couple of weeks. I was going to edit when Part I reaches at least a 1000 views. I expected to reach that number faster than it is.

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Natalie Davenport Teeger Guess I better get to work! LOL

  • @elperroazul9992
    @elperroazul9992 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Notice at 3:15 that Amtrak train is carrying freight only. Not people

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The good old days. Thanks for watching...

  • @jessterry3137
    @jessterry3137 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    the best part 0:55😁

  • @timf2279
    @timf2279 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is that Guam MN or Guam NM?

  • @btomimatsucunard
    @btomimatsucunard 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Kinda sad that amtrak didn't continue this, seemed like a good way to recoup the cost to run the long distance trains (correct me if I am wrong)

  • @frostbyte3978
    @frostbyte3978 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:01 Hybrid k5la or k5l?

  • @pittsburghrailfan
    @pittsburghrailfan 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Man, I wish I could've seen that! Sorry for unsubscribing, Google was doing something weird with my channel.

  • @rexracernj7696
    @rexracernj7696 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Isn't this sort of like the old-time "mixed trains?"

  • @AuroraDorealus
    @AuroraDorealus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1:06 , a P40 with a K5HL?

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      That is neat! Just gotta love it. Thanks for watching...

    • @AuroraDorealus
      @AuroraDorealus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      jackmp294.5™ Yes Sir!

    • @PrimeMoverRailfanProductions
      @PrimeMoverRailfanProductions 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's actually a Hybrid K5LA (1, 2, 3, 4a, 5)

  • @s0nnyburnett
    @s0nnyburnett 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Did Amtrak suck at freight so bad they had it give it up or did the other big carriers just drive them into submission?

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +s0nnyburnett From what I heard, Amtrak was doing VERY well with the service. The Class 1's didn't like business being shifted to Amtrak, and since the Class 1's did the switching for Amtrak, they were charging Amtrak enormous fees.

    • @s0nnyburnett
      @s0nnyburnett 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      jackmp294.5™
      That's pretty funny. What a shame.

    • @GintaPPE1000
      @GintaPPE1000 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Amtrak did pretty well, but the USPS didn't renew their contract because the Bush administration was determined to kill the agency off in his first term. The least outrageous reason to do so, they reasoned, was to cut off their primary revenue generator and let the subsequent underfunding kill Amtrak on its own.
      Class 1 complaints about the package trade being taken from them were present but not a major part of it. USPS never did much business with the freight railroads (they just stopped doing stuff by rail after the Amtrak contract ended), but UPS and Fedex had separate deals with the Class 1s at that time (not sure if Amtrak had them too, their primary contractor was always USPS). Most of the time-sensitive stuff went by airplane anyways after 1966, the lowest-priority items were the only things that Amtrak was allowed to carry.

    • @g-manonthego6678
      @g-manonthego6678 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why would Amtrak rely on class 1 railroads for switching the mail cars? They don’t need them when they already have their reliable Dash 8’s to do the job.

  • @citxsd70m-2
    @citxsd70m-2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    That second clip though, he’s laying on the doppler! And is that a Hybrid K5LA I’m hearing or is it a K5L?

  • @williamkesler2373
    @williamkesler2373 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don’t understand why the shippers didn’t just give the traffic to the actual freight railroads. What advantage did Amtrak actually have?

    • @amtrak706
      @amtrak706 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Speed was a considerable advantage actually. There is a real gap in the market between air freight and ground express freight by truck or dedicated freight train that Amtrak fit perfectly into.

  • @GTKCF2023
    @GTKCF2023 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Go to 3:19 for the phase 5a lashup

  • @antidisestablishmentariani6182
    @antidisestablishmentariani6182 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    i guess PART II is the current amtrak auto train

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Part II should be a mix of different things. Thanks for watching...

  • @Wii_Cheat
    @Wii_Cheat 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    *”Guam MN” we don’t have a Guam in Minnesota, or do we*

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yah! Typo. NM, not MN. I guess my fingers got ahead them selves. LOL. Thanks for watching...

  • @2011Maynard
    @2011Maynard 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did they carry US Mail?

    • @1jackdk
      @1jackdk  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yes, they did have a US Mail contract.

  • @aure745
    @aure745 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    AMTRAK has ns triplecrown boxcar not all just some

  • @piedmontrailfan81
    @piedmontrailfan81 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:08 4,5,4,3

  • @tommythomason6187
    @tommythomason6187 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why'd they stop hauling the freight? Amtrak has bled red ink all over the place for 47 years. Seems the freight might have helped.

    • @pinerogambrell7161
      @pinerogambrell7161 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Amtrak hauling mail and express was a money loser for them (even after 9/11 happened).

    • @tommythomason6187
      @tommythomason6187 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@pinerogambrell7161 Thanks for the info. Didn't know that. They considered an Atlanta/Dallas train in the 80s, but when the mail/freight didn't happen, the proposal was dropped, I read.

    • @AVeryRandomPerson
      @AVeryRandomPerson 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tommythomason6187 It could have been profitable, but unsustainable switching fees (mainly charged by BNSF) made it unprofitable.

    • @tommythomason6187
      @tommythomason6187 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AVeryRandomPerson Also read somewhere that the railroads weren't wild about the passenger railroad becoming freight haulers, using the home road's track to do it.

  • @denizerni151
    @denizerni151 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    3:40 do you really need 4 engines for 15 wagons?...
    (Unless its carrying the extra engines)

    • @AVeryRandomPerson
      @AVeryRandomPerson 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably to maintain speeds, as Amtrak promised 66-hour NY-LA freight service.

    • @denizerni151
      @denizerni151 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AVeryRandomPerson are there steep grades on the way? because the hardest part is to accelerate but at speed you don't need that much power to maintain it.Thanks for the reply btw. I am trying to understand the logic behind it

    • @AVeryRandomPerson
      @AVeryRandomPerson 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@denizerni151 Amtrak shipped on the Three Rivers, using the PRRs innovative mainline, which concentrated all grades in a single section, and the Southwest Chief, which goes over steep Raton Pass, Cajon Pass, and an uphill stretch from Albuquerque to Gallup, where the Chief frequently has engine failures.

    • @denizerni151
      @denizerni151 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AVeryRandomPerson thanks man

  • @rickdunson7190
    @rickdunson7190 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:55

  • @Ten-ku4yj
    @Ten-ku4yj 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    8:27

  • @aure745
    @aure745 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lol why private car

  • @KungLao765
    @KungLao765 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    K5la hybrid 1:01

    • @AuroraDorealus
      @AuroraDorealus 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Kung Lao nah m8, that sounds like a K5HL

  • @anonymousperson9610
    @anonymousperson9610 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Shame on David Gunn discontinuing the mail and express if he was never elected as president of Amtrak at that time then the mail/freight contract would’ve last longer

  • @aure745
    @aure745 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lol

  • @Conductor7706
    @Conductor7706 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    an elegant way to steal host railroad's customers

    • @cpufreak101
      @cpufreak101 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Conductor7706 based on other comments it's part of the reason Amtrak stopped doing it. It was very successful, but the host railways just ended up charging them a lot for it. Which at first was fine as they were making so much, but then they got deals cut and it simply had to go.

  • @musialrocks6
    @musialrocks6 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I learned a LONG time ago not to try to do both video and photos at the same time. Between the jerky pans and zooms from trying to do them in-between snapping off shots and then the annoying sounds of the shutter firing off in the audio track that makes one want to poke their eardrums out with knitting needles, you've turned your video into crap. I imagine the photos that you tried to grab in-between positioning the video camera are equally sub-par.

    • @dannyholt105
      @dannyholt105 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Geez man. Really? Don't watch it then.