Rare! Norfolk Southern Dash 9s lead Amtrak P029 Capitol Limited!

[shooting4fun]

Very nice!

[harrodsburgNSfan]

Notice the height differences between the Dash 9s and the P42s!

[Pokestar9]

good catch!

[SaberTanker22]

interest fine and strange did the engines break down.

[Kevico24Railfan]

@SaberTanker22 No, Amtrak was returning those engines back to Indiana. A few days before i filmed this, The Capitol Limited hit a vehicle in Indiana and Norfolk Southern sent 2 of their engines for that train to borrow resulting the train being 12-15 hours late. This was something i did not expect to see, but it sure was awesome!

[SaberTanker22]

@Kevico24Railfan did the person hit in the car make it was the engineer fired for that.

[Kevico24Railfan]

@SaberTanker22 Not sure, i believe it was a fatal accident.

[jfsa380]

@SaberTanker22 why would the Amtrak engineer be fired for hitting someone, you know darn well where the train is going to be, the vehicle just got hit by it

[jfsa380]

@Kevico24Railfan then where did it get the other genesis? it ALWAYS runs with two, and i SEE two. four engines? overpowered perhaps?

[Kevico24Railfan]

@jfsa380 They probably got the Amtrak engines from Washington, the NS units were being returned back to Michigan or Indiana.

[jfsa380]

@Kevico24Railfan ahh, i see, so instead of running light home, they just led 29 back? they only needed them on 30 to replace the destroyed genesis. but why two engines, doesnt one dash-8 have more horsepower than a genesis producing HEP?

[Kevico24Railfan]

@jfsa380 I believe the Dash 8s and 9s have more horsepower than the P42DC and they sound louder than the Genesis. I think they used 2 Dash 9s just to be safe in case the leading engine were to break down. I saw a Baretable train last summer that had a solo ES44AC hauling 134 platforms and saw Q741 run a solo ES40DC a few times.

[jfsa380]

@Kevico24Railfan i guess they don't believe in odds, two engines breaking down on the same train? thanks

[TrainiacProductions]

Awesome catch!

[GaithersburgRail]

Nice catch. I caught train videos at Silver Spring.

[EMDFAN1988]

That's GE for ya hahah. Granadevo