Amtrak's Southwest Chief, Galesburg, IL

[EverywhereWest]

Good grief, I've NEVER seen any video of that many express boxcars/roadrailers on the end of the Chief! That's nearing the length of the Auto Train! WOW! Who knew just two years later the express business would all be over.

[TommyBNSF]

Man I wish Amtrak would run those long Chiefs with the roadrailers and express cars again. Those were the days.

[railfanstreator94]

Okay can you say overpowered that Amtrak was

[TheDylanJoyce]

MISTY LEE!?!

[araquan]

@TheDylanJoyce No.

[TheDylanJoyce]

@araquan you know who i mean by Misty Lee right?

[kmothersil]

This video is historical. It's not likely will see this again, but then again who knows? Amtrak is full of surprises as far as I'm concerned.

[howardkevinm]

Oh i know why its so long. its the middle of June. June-August is when all the Boy Scouts use the Southwest Chief to go camping trips.

[araquan]

Yup. I boarded the train after shooting that, and sat with a couple scoutmasters in the dining car.

[trainsruleandroll]

HOLY CRAP thats is the longest SW Cheif train i've ever seen!! 4 p42's and how many Xpress Boxcars?? Epic Catch!

[araquan]

Yeah, that was a nice long consist. :)

[lexmarks567]

this was in 2002 when amtrak still hauled the mail

[werksdesign]

At 1:47 you can see someone that didn't want to wait for the train to leave so he just scampered under the box car..... dangerous thing to do.

[araquan]

Very dangerous indeed.

[08trainlover]

Nice video.

[araquan]

Thanks!

[Amtrakdavis22]

That is like an Amtrak train mixed with a Union Pacific

[DAKRUPAINATER]

Wow! Looks like the auto train pulling up to the station. That thing is LONG!!

[kelp93]

i just recently rode the southwest cheif

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[araquan]

Cool. Hope you had a good ride. :)

[trainsmaniac2009]

I see that the Nebraska Zephyr is sitting there on the siding at the station. My guess would that Galesburg Railroad Days was starting or ending. Am I right?

[araquan]

Railroad Days were indeed going on. That's also why they had that orange fencing up- to keep too many people from wandering over to the active tracks.

The CB&Q unit there was a single E unit; I forget exactly which type and whether it had anything coupled to it. I grabbed some video of it closer-up, but that's still on the 8mm tape. I should dig that out sometime... if I can find it...

[LenaVideos]

I can't beleve that thing had 4 locos and all in phase 5 paint.

[araquan]

Yeah, that was a bit unusual for the day, what with those colors still being new at the time.

[kmothersil]

THAT IS A 33 CAR CHIEF!

[BRIANamtrak]

you dont have to look at my videos, I just wish

for having 114 videos, I am aiming to have 50 subs.

If you subs, you dont have to look at my videos

I JUST subscribed to you..........

[BRIANamtrak]

oh...I guess not...

[araquan]

I've been busy lately- I hate to say this but *mostly* I'm putting stuff up on YouTube as a way to host videos for my LJ entries... I don't have the time to be a very active participant in YouTube's community as well as all the others I'm involved in just now. u.u

[BRIANamtrak]

well I hope you like it! Pretty much starlight and Surfliner with a few UP;) let me know what you think;)

[BRIANamtrak]

usually is. I love their GardenBurger;) and a round of Rich Chocolate Cake, were you in coach or sleeper?

would you like to subscribe to eachothers' videos?-Brian

[araquan]

I was just going to KC, only several hours away, so coach.

I've been busy so I haven't subscribed to anything yet, but I'll see what you've got and work from there.

[BRIANamtrak]

obviously;) hope you had a good trip!

[araquan]

Yeah, I did. A nice ride, and dinner was excellent. :)

[BRIANamtrak]

and uh how come you didnt get the whole thing?

still good job

[araquan]

Well, I had to get on the train, for it was carrying me to Kansas City that day. So I couldn't wait for it to leave the station to record the rest, as that would have put me in an awkward position. ;)

[araquan]

Yeah, that's back when pretty much all the express haulage was still going on- boxcars, Road Railers, you name it. I count at least 14 boxcars and at least 8 Road Railers, looking at the video in its uncompressed state, but it's hard to say exactly given the limited resolution of the camcorder and the angle from which the video was taken.

[BRIANamtrak]

dam that was a long chief, how long in total was it?