Amtrak 382 with P42 63 and great K5LA action - Quincy, IL 5/2/09

[anderberger]

am i the only railfan that jizzed in his oants when he heard that nice horn action

[MSNWindows7]

Nice camera view

[amtrakvideos]

Great video at first I thought it was a picture untill the cars drove by.

[tyleramtrak]

Awesome Horn!!!!!!

[cjone33]

I don't believe the quad cities have one because they don't have good enough track structure or a y to turn it around after all that would bout have to be a turn around point (at least on BN track) Fort Madison has one and if you think little bitty quincy you should see little bitty laplata, mo a town of less than a thousand has an amtrak depot

[AmtrakBNSF]

This is a very good catch of the Carl Sandburg. I haven't been to Quincy in a long time, which makes me wonder...

When you took this video, was the train at the Quincy station or was it elsewhere? I know the station is at Wisman & 30th, but this doesn't look very familiar.

Also, when the Carl Sandburg & Illinois Zephyr go to Quincy, where do they get parked until it is time to start using them again?

5 stars and a fave for the vid

[EverywhereWest]

The train was stopped at the Quincy station. I took this video from across the street on the east side of the station, so I could get a better view of the train departing. The IZ & CS are both parked in the BNSF West Quincy, MO yard, on the other side of the Mississippi River, before they head back to Chicago.

[AmtrakBNSF]

Ah, thanks.

[granskare]

I wonder which politician managed to get a run to little Quincy when others could not get a run to the 300,000 population Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa :)

[murjax]

How did you get a Cybershot that could zoom during a video? I've gone through 2 different versions and neither one of them had the ability to zoom while recording.

[EverywhereWest]

My camrea is a Cybershot DSC-H7. My guess is you have a simpler camera that doesn't have the capability to zoom while recording. I think all of the more expensive models have this feature.

[surfliner463]

Awsome catch!!!