Passenger Trains > Amtrak PSR?

49 went through Elkhart as a 3-19-2-5-0 today. Apparently it picked up 29. Also noticed the URL for Elkhart railcam changed.
—Mac

Less jargon and more info please.

Anytime one of the youtube cams goes down the url is different when it comes back online. I believe Elkhart went down for a few hours earlier this week.

Duane Witte
Holt, MO

PRR1361 Wrote:
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> Less jargon and more info please.

It was a "Precision Scheduled Railroading" joke, alluding to all the double-length freight trains these days.

Amtrak #29 broke down in northeast Indiana this morning, so Amtrak #49 was doubled onto it despite having eight private cars on its rear end.

PRR1361 Wrote:
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> Less jargon and more info please.

3 engines, 19 cars, 2 engines, 5 cars.  Big Lake Shore Limited with the private cars going home.  Normal sized Capitol Limited on the rear.

Andy

#49 had the 100-105-130 with 11 cars of the Lake Shore Ltd then 8 private cars and rescued a disabled #29 with the 55 and 85 with 5 Superliner cars.  Twenty four cars in total, made stops for the 449 section,then 49s and finally 29 traffic.  Elkhart was a 12 minute station stop.   Would be interesting to hear how the train was handled at Chicago on arrival.

Can anyone list the names of the eight private cars?

POW Wrote:
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> Can anyone list the names of the eight private
> cars?

Oliver Hazard Perry-FLLX 63007 Support Car-GTLX 63011 Support Car-PPCX 800751 Support Car-St Croix Valley-PPCX 800034 Ex-SOU #1-MKT 403-PPCX 800212 Dome Obs,former Bella Vista

mvrr10 Wrote:
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> #49 had the 100-105-130 with 11 cars of the Lake
> Shore Ltd then 8 private cars and rescued a
> disabled #29 with the 55 and 85 with 5 Superliner
> cars.  Twenty four cars in total, made stops for
> the 449 section,then 49s and finally 29 traffic. 
> Elkhart was a 12 minute station stop.   Would be
> interesting to hear how the train was handled at
> Chicago on arrival.

Tracks 28-25-19 would be one solution. 
Track 25 connects south side track 28 to north side track 19
and provides a continuous platform. 

What to do if track 19 is unavailable?
In pre-amtrak days if it was a Burlington train a yard engine
would have followed it in and set the rear end over to another
starion track. 

Thank you Englewood for your comment.