Empire Builder Amtrak 808 Cold winter day outside PORTAGE WI

[jeremykhn]

That was taken after the P40's got ditchlights. Neat,never seen one with them in Phase III.

[trinityct]

@jeremykhn The P40's and P42's have always had ditch lights....You must be thinking of the F40PHs. A few got ditchlights installed in 1993 and 1994, but it wasn't until 1995 when the FRA required ditchlights on all engines, when they really began to show up on F40PHs.

[nickelback303]

i miss this paint and that horn y amtrak yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[HighIronofWisconsin]

They've been running those a LOT this year due to the flooding in ND.

Is that Phase III paint? Only seen one of the Heritage units and that was PI 156 leading four Superliners at Columbus (only they still used two engines).

[trainz675]

@HighIronofWisconsin dude, this is in 1997, not 2011 dude. LOL 

[dylanbobby1]

1 loco, no baggage, shorter, mail at the end, old days.

[andow21]

Gotta love that horn!!!

[Amtrakroadmaster]

Because this is the MSP-CHI train day. Please read the caption, it explains the reason.

[CoastStarlight11]

Today's Empire Builder has multiple engines and a baggage car. I wonder why this one only had one engine and no baggage car.

[trainz675]

@CoastStarlight11 its the stub train, us midwest people see this train ALOT on the builder. 70% of the time, thats what is it this summer.

[CoastStarlight11]

@trainz675 oh. ok.

[1985MANAmericana]

Can someone help identify the Superliners? To me, it looks like: coach/bag, diner, coach, coach

Correct?

[CubsFanJohn]

I remember when the P40's were new my Dad being the railfan he was use to take me out when they were running on the Oakland train. Glad to find this one while surfing Youtube even though I am not a railfan anymore.

[martinlumber]

That K5LA is just beautiful! Exactly like what they should be.

[Amtrakroadmaster]

Yes, the 1997 version..

[mazen1127]

Stub Train?

[murjax]

That was a small train.