Passenger Trains > What happened to todays #14

Left sacramento close to being on time and was over 5 hours late out of Chico.

Debris Strike somewhere north of Sacramento disabled the lead engine, so it was set out and a freight unit was sourced.

No freight unit thru Dunsmuir...

Only one Amtrak unit for power, usually two. It would appear they had two units elephant style and removed the point unit, good operating practice if so.
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> No freight unit thru Dunsmuir...

Noticed a twenty minute station stop but did not see a freight unit moving around on the D-Cam. Did they add a freight unit at Dunsmuir? Would have been a struggle to get up the grade without a second unit.

Still no freight unit thru Black Butte either

Can that one unit climb the south side of the Cascades? That's a long grade!

Jaanfo Wrote:
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> Debris Strike somewhere north of Sacramento
> disabled the lead engine, so it was set out and a
> freight unit was sourced.
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Main air reservoir was torn off the AMTK 175 by a 14 foot length of pipe placed across the main track.
AMTK 136 took the train to Klamath Falls (thanks for the correction, jdb) by itself.

As reported already, no freight unit was available when the 175 was set out.

 



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/31/15 22:06 by GenePoon.

GenePoon Wrote:
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> Jaanfo Wrote:
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> > Debris Strike somewhere north of Sacramento
> > disabled the lead engine, so it was set out and
> a
> > freight unit was sourced.
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>
> Main air reservoir was torn off the AMTK 175 by a
> 14 foot length of pipe placed across the main
> track.
> AMTK 136 took the train the rest of the way by
> itself.
>
> As reported already, no freight unit was
> available.
>
It went through Salem, OR at about 20:25 with a freight engine on the point and an AMTK engine trailing.

Portland crew that gets on at K Falls went to Dunsmuir to pick it up.  At least part of that crew was going to die just north of Salem.  Don't know how they work that out.

jb

Past ORHC in SE Portland about 9:30pm with UP unit leading.   Arlen

The freight engine was added at K Falls.  One  AMTK engine  took the train from Dunsmuir to K Falls.

jb

Main Res tank was not torn off. Just some damage to the air drier.