Passenger Trains > Amtrak #4 Southwest Chief with Double Phase III leading

With Phase III being my favorite Amtrak paint scheme and being home from work after hurting my back on Wednesday I seen that the 993 locomotives and cars were coming back east on this morning’s #4. Five locomotives and 14 cars, when was the last time a Southwest Chief was that long? Probably when they had MHCs and Roadrailers still.

It was only running roughly 2 hours late when it came around the corner.

I caught it just west of Holliday on 47th St.

1) Approaching the crossing.

2) Going away shot with a big wave from someone? (Boardman perhaps?)

Chris

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why five engines?

The #4 already had 3 engines with 10 cars, but the Amtrak Boardman special that ran across Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico had 145 and 822 on it. They added the engines and consist in Albuquerque, yesterday afternoon, hence what you see here.

Chris

That is a lot of Units for this train. If it had the Mail & Express Cars.
I could see at least 4 Units being used.

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Railroad Festival

Will this train arrive into Chicago tomorrow?

Fantastic lighting, gotta love that golden hour! Thanks for sharing.

Mark

When the SW Chief comes around that corner at that location, there is very little time for road traffic to clear the private crossing to the nursery. I am very cautious there as even the eastbound freights seem to allow very little time once they round the corner.

In what city?

alongthejointline Wrote:
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> In what city?

Holliday, KS

Shawnee, KS inbound to KCY

Posted from iPhone

Great video.. Thing that burns my cheeks is they wasted a viewliner sleeper to make that observation car....Management, after 40 working years in a corporate environment,
I still do not understand it.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/15/14 11:17 by bluesboyst.

bluesboyst Wrote:
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> Great video.. Thing that burns my cheeks is they
> wasted a viewliner sleeper to make that
> observation car....Management, after 40 working
> years in a corporate environment,
> I still do not understand it.


That car was built from an original Viewliner that, from my understanding, has been out of service and stored for a long period of time. Boardman salvaged it and had it rebuilt for executive use.

Hank

If I were president of Amtrak, you'd be seeing a lot of Turboliner corporate car action!