rare footage of a union pacific locomotive pulling amtrak

[INeedToLiveLonger]

last song?

[daved0867]

Keep the music!

[asteinman1]

this happens from time to time. another rail road will help out amtrack if there loco is dead and they are available. The Grand Elk did it here in Michigan not to long ago.

[danwat1234]

Voted down.

[danwat1234]

Disable the music!

[M1911A1]

This may sound stupid, but whats the music at the end?

[carpetime]

Horrible music!

[Conrail1994]

@carpetime its better than shity as rap/pop music

[greghuckleberry]

Railroads EVERYWHERE borrow power from each other. It is a very common practice since engines go into the shop quite alot for service/repair...your not gonna tell the customer "Well one engine went down so we have to wait till it gets fixed before we ship your materials, which are depreciating sitting in the yard"..LOLOLOLOL

[mt90945557]

MORE PROOF THAT EMD IS SUPERIOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ktowntex]

where was this video taken at

[frankthetank961]

Only cuz shitty little p42DC locomotives suck balls and have no horsepower whatsoever. They dont even look american! They look stupid nd fake. I say amtrak brings bak the sdp40f's! Whose with me??!!

[GordonFreemanD40]

@frankthetank961 I AM (even though I'm canadian)

I think Amtrak just needs some new Motive Power produced by EMD. Now that they got the 20V710 they can make a F50PHAC, or you can ask MPI to build you some MP40PH-3Cs.

[fyadcorp]

@frankthetank961 they have almost as much horsepower as the union pacific engine (~4200 vs. 4300).

[jeepers2655]

I see SantaFe locos occasionally on CSX lines coming through town......Kinda neat the see the old paint scheme around here.

[SouthShoreTrain]

Just more proof that GE sucks and EMD has to save the day!

[meccaturbo]

@SouthShoreTrain Not true, you retard. GE and EMD both make good locomotives. Foamer railfans like you are opinionated and you don't know jack shit about locomotives.

[SouthShoreTrain]

@meccaturbo Really? Your gonna resort to childish name calling? GE makes theire locos with cheap parts and sells them for cheap so when they break, GE makes alot of money off of parts.

[meccaturbo]

@SouthShoreTrain Not true at all. Why do you think EMD lost the locomotive race back in the 1990's? Railroads are not stupid for buying GE's. You are the one who is stupid, you moronic retard.

[SouthShoreTrain]

@meccaturbo Again, why resort to childish name calling? And why did you put " You are the one who is stupid, you moronic retard", when I never called you or anyone a name on here? EMD started loosing the race because they cannot sell their locos for as cheap as GE. EMD uses quality parts, which are consequently more expensive, and they have to pay taxes. GE saved a load of money last year because they didn't have to pay any taxes.

[meccaturbo]

@SouthShoreTrain Simply not true. Show me a web link to actual data that proves GE's cost less than EMD's. Until you show me this exact information, your argument means NOTHING. And, that is not true about GE not paying taxes. How do I know? I'm a GE shareholder. And, retard, I also own stock in Caterpillar, who owns EMD. So, I'm not biased...I'm basing my points on facts. Unlike you, I'm not some dumb foamer railfan who knows nothing about railroads. Show me the info, you moron.

[SouthShoreTrain]

@meccaturbo Ok. I'm not arguing with someone who keeps calling me names when I never called anyone a name. I'm done with this. Do your own research because I'm not doing it again. I spent hours researching both pro EMD and pro GE sites and the pro EMD arguments are much stronger than the pro GE arguments.

[SouthShoreTrain]

@SouthShoreTrain Here are some links for GE's tax thing. h ttp://w ww.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/04­/18/ge-got-break-taxes/ h ttp://w ww.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/busi­ness/economy/25tax.html

Now I'm not responding to anymore of your rude, vulgar, ignorant comments because I don't appreciate being called all of thoes names for something silly like this. I'm entitled to my own opinion just like you are.

[meccaturbo]

@SouthShoreTrain More proof that you are using bogus info. Instead of citing pro GE and pro EMD sites, find some sites with actual locomotive data, instead of foamer railfan "data". Railfans who are passionate about one brand of locomotive are not an accurate source of information because they are biased. Find some websites that show actual locomotive cost comparisons and data such as breakdowns per number of miles traveled. Without this data, you don't have an argument.

[SouthShoreTrain]

@meccaturbo "If it's DC traction, your looking at a little under 2 million for a new locomotive. If it's AC traction, it's around 2.5 million or so. That's for 4000-4400 HP. GE is slightly cheaper than EMD. You could get a older used 3000 HP engine probably for around 400-500k." h ttp://in.answers.yahoo.com/que­stion/index?qid=20080820055035­AA9daLS

Its the third answer down on yahoo answers. I know it may not be 100% accurate but its finals week and i dont have time for lots of research

[SouthShoreTrain]

I will do more this summer and askin various RR personel if they know anything.

[fyadcorp]

@meccaturbo Yeah... and railfans also think railroads were stupid for dieselizing decades ago. They're hilariously biased (like the Ford/Chevy morons) and they think that carriers don't have entire departments whose job it is to study and decide which units fit their operations the best.

[meccaturbo]

@fyadcorp Exactly. And stupid foamer railfans don't understand that when there are two locomotive manufacturers, you buy from BOTH of them so one doesn't go out of business and leave you with only one source. Competition is a good thing. This SouthShoreTrain moron is a loser who is more interested in his toy train "preferences" than understanding how railroads operate.

[billyboi57]

More like EMD pulling GE piece of crap!! Ha ha!

[willibill1]

Nice vid, but you mucked it up with your frigging music.

[southparkline1]

The best is when Union Pacific used the D&RGW heritage unit 1989 to pull the california zeypher over the Moffat route between Denver and Salt Lake City.

[SantaFeSam2010]

Could do without the music but other than that great job:)

[megs905]

ITS GE They have shittyLocos

[scott4152]

thanks for comming to the rescue EMD, your friend GE.

[re49991]

Music sucks but cool trains

[christopher9030]

amtrak should buy SD70M for there passenger trains.

[Kjr0se]

I think it was the Amtrak crew that was driving this train on this video, the main controls in the UP locomotive are somewhat similar to the Genesis units that Amtrak uses.

[LAKINGSKOPITAR]

EMD SD-70ACE

[UnionPacificBNSF]

Amtrak should get some EMDs and put the GE's out to pasture. The SD70M, SD40-2, or F40PH would still be going strong.

[UnionPacificBNSF]

Amtrak should get some EMDs and put the GE's out to pasture.

[marykateolsen1000]

amtrak should perches SD70M for there trains.

[phillyslasher]

So who drives the train? Is it the Amtrak crew or the UP crew?

[thesportbikeman]

now did the train set have passengers or was UP just moving cars around do u know

[Cand0002]

I was taking the Southwest Chief down to New Mexico a couple years ago when are the Engines broke down in the Middle of Kansas about 50 miles outside of Dodge city. so they had two BNSF SD40-2's haul us in to dodge city.

[kjrehberg]

Great, rare catch! Dramatic grade crossing footage, too.

[teletubbykiller23]

genesis's are worthless pieces of trash! always breaking down and having to be towed by a reliable freight train amtrak should by better loco's not garbage like this! whenever amtrak's garbage takes a shit a freighter has to haul the trash out of the way so others can get by

[UP5140SD70M]

Its been confirmed that the aliens have landed LOL

[jimbofug]

amtrak fail or union pacific win?

[CaliforniaRailfan101]

I like how you got an SD70ACe leading!

[sandytremps]

Do not like the music.

[pbyolo56]

that music was NOT A GOOD IDEA!!!!!

ive actually seen that alot lately

normally what happens is on that kind of train there are two amtrak P42's, but in these cases one of the amtrak engines fail so a UP engine comes from the nearest yard and helps the amtrak out

...and if the amtrak was late, that is probably why

[jamcgar]

And the dopey music adds what to the video??????

[pianomanmaestro]

@jamcgar 100% agree with you!

[Kjr0se]

What were they doing here, stopping for a crew change? That's what it looked like on this video.

[BNSFandSP]

Very rare, indeed! How many times will a UP ACE lead an Amtrak train? What train number was this?

[maniacmarklewin52]

cool vid great catch

[MacGyver0076]

come to think of it, an amtrak with only one loco is kinda strange, i normally see those trains with one passenger loco at each end.

[intercityrailpal]

Looks like Amtrak's lack of money for maintaince caught up with them. And cost them even more money! First of all why did the train only have one passenger loco? It might have been the only loco left, and they sent it out and it failed. UP will send Amtrak a big bill, extra crew with wages plus a surcharge on top of that perhaps 10% then a mangement surcharge, then there's equipment rental. The train will run late due to that freight engine. Pax will miss connections. Goes on and on!

[intercityrailpal]

A traveling engineer was the boss of the engineers. Now he has been renamed to some kind manager. He is also in charge of the tapes on the engine. Today the UP is not 6 hours faster. Infact on some past trips via the UP the train was 10 hours late! How times have changed.

[SteveSpahr2345]

is that a UP Sd90Mac?

[UP8317]

@SteveSpahr2345, it'san EMD SD70ACe

[anderberger]

it could do without the music

[fyadcorp]

@anderberger yeah the music sucks

[Addicted2Guitars]

i was on the southwest cheif at ABQ and the front engine died so it took 2 to 3 hours to get a BNSF dash 8 cw to pull the train. it was a very rare and cool experiance

[MacGyver0076]

would be extremely great to see an amtrak pulled by a challenger locomotive! infact, that would be my favorite video if that one ever happens.

[intercityrailpal]

@MacGyver0076 When Amtrak first started. UP used to ferry the 844 between Cheyenne and Denver on #5 and #6 the "California Zephyr. Which ran via the UP not the DRG&W. It was 6 hours faster, because it had a UP ATC system. I clocked the train many times at over 104 MPH across Wyoming. The passengers were completely unaware of the speed. This is before tapes in the engines. And things got ugly, cause Amtrak just could not be put out of business in the west!

[intercityrailpal]

@MacGyver0076 Years ago when the old freight railroads ran the trains. If you were late the dispatch would ask where you were? Then tell you to get back on time, sometimes a traveling engineer would show up at the next junction or yard or station. And if you didn't make up the time by then. He'd tell you to get out of that engineers seat. And he'd run 'em! The first order he had said he had permission to exceed all timetable, bulletin and posted speed limits!

[hoosac]

Dump the music - this is a train video

[CQDX018]

What's with the music? Eh..anyways, nice video! Up north the UP actually runs a lot of diesel locomotives on Amtrak due to grades, and etc. Coolest lash up UP did with Amtrak was UP Heritage 1989 leading two P42DC's. Awesome-ness!

[werksdesign]

Could do without the annoying noise described as "music".

[tyleramtrak]

i will see what i can do about reuploading the video without the music i have some more rare footage of union pacific pulling amtrak coming your way

[C60AC]

I like it the way it is, the music goes great with it! Make sure you keep this version.

[WhopBobbaLuBop]

@tyleramtrak Thank you, the music detracts from the important stuff.

[OhioRails]

good video, would have been 100% better if there wasn't any music tho.

[KCSLines]

hey bro, can you upload this same video, but without the music?

[bnsf4]

go to 3:17 i love this part because of the horn!

[willowtree9222]

i love the horn!

[ohiosouthern]

what Olympic unit, UP has 2 of them if i am correct and they r both blue, just a little ff

[bnsf4]

ya the numbers are 2001 and 2002 and both are blue sd70macs!

[silicon212]

2001 and 2002, both SD70Ms. The 2001 says "Olympic Torch Relay" and the 2002 says "Salt Lake 2002". I got the fortune of watching both of these units pulling the Olympic Torch Train through Mesa, AZ in '02.

[icecardinal]

Better video w/o music IMO.

[amtraklover]

don't see this often. I guess it's true what the say about GE's

[silicon212]

heh, better keep an EMD nearby, just in case .. :)

[freckldnred]

nice vid!

[AuburnRails]

WOW!!!!

[Amafilmy]

The F40s were getting pretty flaky themselves, being close to 40 years old. That said, the computers on the 59s are a hoot. I was riding the Empire Builder through the mountains west of Spokane one time when we came to a ragged halt. Scanner said that the engineer was on with the power desk, and he'd rebooted but the computer still said there was a brake problem on the second unit. "Did you check that?" they asked. "I would have," the engineer said, "but the second unit's back in Seattle."

[Ejaymd11]

LMAO yeah you right that is a hoot.

[Disturbnthapeace]

o shit lol

[Bellwestern80]

If only Amtrak had stuck with the F40's and the FP45's...

[JGASU08]

lol it reminds me of aug 07 our amtrak was almost 2 hours late to birmingham al going to NOLA. was very mad and our amtrak was being pulled by a gp-38 NS. was looking very weird and da horn was awful. and the train was very poor inside lol the ride back was VERY GOOD!!

[Midnitemaster]

Not rare at all. The amtrak junk breaks down all the time and the RR don't want them blocking their lines, so they pull the junk out the way.

[trainwatcher116]

good one lol

[trainiac3]

i agree

[UP5140SD70M]

@Midnitemaster P42's suck to hell

[mt90945557]

@Midnitemaster Couldn't have said that better myself!!!!!!!!

[SexyTurttle]

OMG TYLER I HEART YOU YOU ARE AWESOME btw this is cassie lol

[TexasPacific]

What's the song called?

[sd40jk]

Skillet-Alien Youth. Great choice for this rare event.

[backmask2007]

when my parents went up to seatle WA... there amtrak broke down and had to be pulled by UP from wasinville or w/e.

[tyleramtrak]

thx

[SexyTurttle]

ur an awesome person lol

[fafnir242]

An ACe, no less. Even rarer!!

[tyleramtrak]

right

[SexyTurttle]

ur name should be trainlover though lol tyler

[1998ChevroletS10]

@tyleramtrak the only thing that makes it more rare then that is that its being pulled by a UP sd70ace

[alx2925]

Thats good

[kmothersil]

Maricopa right?