Amtrak's Brand New Genesis Locomotives

During the Fall of 1993 my dad (Arthur Davis) was able to record Amtrak's City of New Orleans with its brand new Genesis P40DC locomotives. These units were numbered between 800-843. The locomotives were first delivered to Amtrak between April-December 1993. At the time of this recording, the City of New Orleans still had heritage car equipment and still ran on Illinois Central's Grenada Sub. Some of the actual dates of recording I am unaware of, but in general, footage was recorded mostly in the Fall of 1993. All footage was of the the southbound train #59. Feel free to look up the addresses to find the actual locations the recordings were made.
Highlights:

1st Morning
00:06 IC Grenada Sub: 870 E. Holmes Rd. Memphis TN.
Engine 805. 3 vista domes. A deadhead diner car.

2nd Morning: September 4, 1993
00:42 Downtown Memphis; N. Riverside Dr. & Jefferson Ave.
Engine 818. Engineer gives us a horn salute. Sleeper "Pine Dawn"
01:55 Train arrives into Memphis Central Station
02:52 Catchup with 818 on Interstate 55, just north of Coldwater Mississippi

3rd Morning
03:00 IC Grenada Sub: 2220 State Line Rd W. Southhaven Mississippi
Engine # unknown

4th Morning: October 24, 1993
03:40 Memphis Central Station
Engine 825. Sleeper "Magnolia Grove."
*Note the guy driving the forklift is my dad's friend Andy. I think he went to the NEC to become an Amtrak engineer.
*Note the old rusty inactive service elevators at 05:03

5th Morning
06:31 IC Grenada Sub: Whitehaven Ln & Amey Rd. Memphis TN
Engine 809.

6th Morning
07:23 IC Grenada Sub: 4656 McCorkle Rd. Memphis TN (by E. Shelby Dr.)
Engine number unknown.

Extra Note: The kid you hear in the background was me =D.
Extra Note: Click the link below to view the City of New Orleans schedule back in 1993. http://www.timetables.org/full.php?group=19931031n&item=0020
All footage recorded by my father Arthur Davis and rights be long to (C) Jared Davis of Whistlepost Productions.

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[billywhite1231998]

wow, those drivers like to sound their horns!! here in the uk the drivers dont sound the horn unless their warning people on the track ( maintanance crew ) or passing a station

[WhistlepostWP]

@billywhite1231998 well the uk trains are better protected from pedestrians and road vehicles. American pedestrians and road vehicle drivers are generally more reckless. In all the crossings in this clip, the train was required to blow the horn by law.

[ArrowWolf1984]

P40's pulling trains with F40's, heritage coaches, vista domes, strobe lights, Phase III, Amtrak was a lot cooler to look at back then!

Thanks for sharing your dad's great footage to us!

[anomalousclouds]

Damn, phase III really suited these. Nice seeing all that heritage (am I right in using that term?) equipment, too. 

[wileyk209zback]

I do wish the MBTA used these Genesis locomotives; I wonder how they would've looked in that purple-and-silver MBTA paint scheme? Usually they use F40PHs, and occasionally older GP40-MCs and a couple of brand new MP36s.

Nowadays these (at least the P42 version) are the ONLY diesel locomotives I see Amtrak use.

[danwat1234]

Nice camcorder for 1993! Nice horn on that Genesis, wish the train horn on my car sounded that good

[LackawannaLtdVideos]

someone was like 'hey Amtrak it's the early 90s let's do a cooooool fade paint scheme'. And we never painted one that way again.

[billywhite1231998]

@WhistlepostWP oh right, thanks :-)

[pegleg7777]

Even around that time, three of them were already gone, among them, I remembered #819 being involved in the Big Bayou Canot wreck just outside Mobile,Al. It was a pretty disturbing sight.

[WSAMS5]

@anomalousclouds Yes you are right in using that term...

[Roboman2121]

What was the number of that first genesis locootive? If it was #825, which I think it was, then I have that EXACT Genesis locomotive in HO Scale! It still runs pretty well, even though it fell once, but it's very durable. I don't run it very often anymore because I don't have many good passenger cars for it to pull, only 2 NJ Transit cars and some others. Also, I have 2 Amtrak Acela Express Sets, both of which run like crap, but that's life and I should be happy that both of them run at all.