Amtrak 6 - with P42 #8 (last known footage?) and GrandLuxe Cars on 11/4/07

(Watch in High Quality!) In honor of Amtrak's birthday today, I thought it would be neat to upload some of my older footage from a couple years ago. This video features Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr making its station stop at Ottumwa, Iowa, on November 4th, 2007. Leading the train is Genesis #8, which, 26 days later, was pulling Amtrak's Pere Marquette train into Chicago, when it rear-ended a Norfolk Southern freight train on November 30th, 2007, totalling the unit. This may be the last known footage ever shot of this engine in operating condition. The Zephyr was also pulling seven extra GrandLuxe (ex-American Orient Express) passenger cars as part of the "GrandLuxe Limited" service, an attempt to add luxury-service trains to existing Amtrak trains. As you probably know it wasn't a success, and, in fact, GrandLuxe shut down just months later. So while I didn't know it at the time, I really captured history in the making.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Amtrak
• California
• Zephyr
• eastbound
• Ottumwa
• Iowa
• IA
• P42
• P42DC
• Pere
• Marquette
• crash
• November
• 2007
• GrandLuxe
• Limited
• American
• Orient
• Express

[flammabletube]

What was the cause of the crash Nov 2007 I also loved how all the smokers got out for a quick puff or phone call well done thank you

[EverywhereWest]

@flammabletube I believe the engineer misread a restricting signal and operated the train too fast to stop within sight of another train ahead, and rear-ended the NS freight ahead of him.

[dafrog55]

Isn't #2 the hiawatha unit?

[EverywhereWest]

@dafrog55 Yes it is. I don't think it had the Hiawatha logo on it back then, though.

[CoasterFan2105]

Amtrak is planning on returning this unit to service.

[EverywhereWest]

Really? That's awesome!

[dwkcamman611]

Wicked catch indeed!!!

[p42Amtrak83]

Nice horn

[GintaPPE1000]

@AmtrakTitan455 Would you keep a wrecked P42? It's beyond repair. The sensible thing to do is remove anything of value and sell the rest for scrap. As for the sound of #145, I rode it a year before it was repainted in PHIII.

[AmtrakTitan455]

@GintaPPE1000 where did you hear that?

[GintaPPE1000]

#8 was sold for scrap. All usable parts including the K5LA were removed. Maybe it went onto 145. The latter had a terrible horn that sounded like a P5 before it was repainted.

[DJGENEX71]

@nashgallo There's a bunch of them roaming around now, a couple in heritage paint!