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Passenger Trains > BNSF unit leading #11 Coast StarlightDate: 03/14/25 16:42 BNSF unit leading #11 Coast Starlight Author: SPB A pretty clean BNSF freight unit is leading the southbound Starlight today. The train was delayed out of Seattle, maybe due to swapping the BNSF unit for one of Amtrak's? It will be interesting to see if the BNSF unit goes all the way to LA.
Date: 03/14/25 16:45 Re: BNSF unit leading #11 Coast Starlight Author: PHall So how many Amtrak units are on the train? One, two???
Date: 03/14/25 16:54 Re: BNSF unit leading #11 Coast Starlight Author: joemvcnj The Calss I's ought to paint a few of their locos in the Amtrak Phase 7 scheme since they so often find themselves in the lead.
Date: 03/14/25 17:02 Re: BNSF unit leading #11 Coast Starlight Author: TCnR The other approach would be for Amtrak to have HEP power cars available for the possibility of all their locomotives failing.
Date: 03/14/25 18:30 Re: BNSF unit leading #11 Coast Starlight Author: BrynMawr Absolutely the right path. Next step, copy Metra's purchse/rehab of older emd units. We need to get comparative MDBF ##s for Metra's units nd the Siemens products.
Date: 03/15/25 07:05 Re: BNSF unit leading #11 Coast Starlight Author: bnsf6606 Perhaps AMTRAK needs to start purchasing used/rebuilt GEs from Class One RR and put them on every long-distance train in the lead. Use the AMTRAK units for head-ernd power
Date: 03/15/25 09:29 Re: BNSF unit leading #11 Coast Starlight Author: SP3201 Bnsf 7161 & atk 347 at emeryville
Posted from Android Date: 03/15/25 16:39 Re: BNSF unit leading #11 Coast Starlight Author: SanJoaquinEngr PHall Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > So how many Amtrak units are on the train? One, > two??? Minimum of 2. Posted from Android |