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Date: 01/28/25 11:30
Two Daylight Amtrak Trains - Lake Erie Land Ohio
Author: train1275

Tuesday January 28, 2025
Vermilion, OH
33 degrees

Today we had two daylight Amtrak trains, a real rarity here in North Central Ohio. Amtrak Train 49, the Lake Shore Limited was 3 hours late showing up about sunrise. Later, and shortly after noon, the Floridian Train 40 westbound showed up 8 hours and 20 minutes late. In the meantime a little freight action and some waiting time.

1. Seeing that Train 49 would appear in "daylight" this morning I skipped breakfast and went down to the Vermilion Rail Park off Main Street. The sun was just rising silhouetting the water tower with an orangey-pink sky. It is actually a little darker than I thought.

2. The town is just coming out of it's nightly slumber.

3. A headlight appears out of the darkness from the west rounding the bend into town. It's the 60L, frac sand with NS 9877 leading a CSX unit.








Date: 01/28/25 11:34
Re: Two Daylight Amtrak Trains - Lake Erie Land Ohio
Author: train1275

4. 60L breaks out of the darkness and comes east into the rising sun. CSX 406 was the 2nd unit.

5. & 6. Then comes the Lake Shore Limited, Chicago bound, 300 miles ahead with Amtrak 124 and 107 leading.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/28/25 12:04 by train1275.








Date: 01/28/25 11:36
Re: Two Daylight Amtrak Trains - Lake Erie Land Ohio
Author: train1275

7. - 9. Watching 49 go by and the markers disappear into the darkness.








Date: 01/28/25 11:43
Re: Two Daylight Amtrak Trains - Lake Erie Land Ohio
Author: train1275

10. - 11.  A little later in the morning and 15E, an extra, is working near Beaver Park Marina west of Lorain with NS 4831. He's slowly cruising back and forth along this cut of stored auto racks. Sooner or later he'll take some of these out to Sheffield at some point, but since the late Amtrak 40 is getting close, it's back to the Rail Park in Vermilion. 

12. Our regular intermodal, Train 29P out of Buffalo for Chicago rocks through with NS 4391 and 1061.








Date: 01/28/25 11:48
Re: Two Daylight Amtrak Trains - Lake Erie Land Ohio
Author: train1275

13. - 15. And .... finally ..... !!  The 8 hour and 20 minute late Floridian finally shows up. He's got Amtrak 365 and 81 for power today. So far it has travelled 1774 miles from Miami, FL and has 300 left to go to the Windy City of Chicago.








Date: 01/28/25 11:50
Re: Two Daylight Amtrak Trains - Lake Erie Land Ohio
Author: train1275

16. - 17. There is a coach stuffed behind the baggage car. I think someone said it was causing issues somewhere down south.

Consist Today

Locomotives: Amtrak 365 - 81
Coaches: 25024, 25071, 25068, 25031
Cafe: 28014
Diner: 68024 - "Tallahassie"
Sleepers: 62035, 62004 - Viewliner I's
Baggage: 61021
Coach: 25105



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/28/25 12:02 by train1275.






Date: 01/28/25 12:03
Re: Two Daylight Amtrak Trains - Lake Erie Land Ohio
Author: refarkas

Super catches.
Bob



Date: 01/29/25 04:52
Re: Two Daylight Amtrak Trains - Lake Erie Land Ohio
Author: Notch76

Very Nice catches



Date: 01/29/25 07:26
Re: Two Daylight Amtrak Trains - Lake Erie Land Ohio
Author: scraphauler

train1275 Wrote:
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> 16. - 17. There is a coach stuffed behind the
> baggage car. I think someone said it was causing
> issues somewhere down south.
>
> Consist Today
>
> Locomotives: Amtrak 365 - 81
> Coaches: 25024, 25071, 25068, 25031
> Cafe: 28014
> Diner: 68024 - "Tallahassie"
> Sleepers: 62035, 62004 - Viewliner I's
> Baggage: 61021
> Coach: 25105

For those that haven't seen it on the Passenger Train Boards, here's video of that train 6:45 late in Aberdeen NC Monday afternoon.  Notice that the power was subsequently swapped somewhere (presumably DC).   Train apparently left Miami with 5 coaches, one of which was apparently dead-head.  Train arrived Columbia SC just about an hour late and proceeded to loose another nearly 5 hours as mechanical worked to correct a problem with a passenger car.  Reports are that a HEP cable on a car shorted out and was sparking.  No idea which car or if they swapped cables around and stole one off the dead head coach, or if dead head was the problem child, but end result was coach was switched out and picked up on rear of train to continue it's journey.  



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/29/25 07:27 by scraphauler.

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