NS 9834 Leads Amtrak's Coast Starlight #11 South, Glendale, CA

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Uploaded by on Feb 9, 2011

It's pretty common to see Freight Power lead the Coast Starlight nowadays, but when it just so happens that it's an NS C40-9W...well you get the picture. I was lucky enough to catch this bad boy leading the train in Glendale, only minutes from its terminus in Los Angeles. Enjoy in HD!

***2/8/11***

Glendale, CA

Amtrak #11 "The Coast Starlight"
NS 9834 - D9-40CW
AMTK 165 - P42DC
10:44 PM

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  • I was running this train. The weird thing is that the electric air brakes make no noise. On Amtrak, they've added artificial noise to the electric air brake. Too many Engineers complained. Also, this NS unit has the controls to the side instead of a desktop which made it a little more work.

    Chris

  • @picklcat That's interesting to hear. I knew the Electric brakes didn't make noise, but to hear that they added a noise for it is pretty cool. I bet you enjoyed having a Freight motor to run that was actually maintained instead of some of the junk that you have to deal with normally.

    Evan

  • thats bad ass ! well done.

  • @27526 Thanks man!

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  • Nice catch Evan.

  • What a shocking suprise. It's suprising to see a UP unit leading the Starlight, but seeing a NS unit of any kind lead this train is totally rare. In fact take a good look at this because we will probably never see this happen again.

  • That certainly was quite the train! glad you got a shot of it Evan! Great shot!

  • I knew you would get this thing. It kills me to have missed out on getting a shot of this event.

  • i dont know whats up with all the extra baggage cars on the starlights, this is the second time ive seen one at the end over the last few days, anyways man i wih i could have seen that train, damn school

  • Nice man!

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