RARE MUST SEE!!!!! Amtrak AEM-7 and HHP-8 on Northeast Regional 85

I was waiting to board a NJ Transit Train to Newark Penn Station when I found Amtrak Regional 85 to Newport News Virginia with AEM-7 #904 and HHP-8 #662 in front. This was cool to see but this AEM-7 #904 is a crapbox!!!!! I saw the train again when I was on my way back to Secaucus to catch my train home.

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[ghostengineer]

Temple, amtrak does not own any 9000 hp locomotives. Aem7 are 7000 hp and an hhp8 is 8000. Let's not try to make me out to be an idiot. I am an amtrak engineer and run these locos daily.

[NJTAmtrakGuy]

@ghostengineer Aren't the new ACS-64 electrics going to have 9000hp?

[ghostengineer]

As someone who runs this stuff for a living, Im curious how you came up with the assumption that the 904 is a "crap Box"? Amtrak has been having a serious shortage of electrics lately, and the HHP was probably getting a ride to Ivy City for work. The HHp's are crap boxes if you ask me. The AEM7's AC and HHP's run great together and better then an aem7 combo or HHP combo. Go figure.I had this same combo a few weeks back on 67

[NJTAmtrakGuy]

@ghostengineer AEM-7AC #904 always tends to break down due to the battery circuit board overloading and shorting out. There are other videos of this AEM-7 being switched and towed by other locomotives due to breakdowns.

[Acela150Kid]

Both of them have pans up?

[NJTAmtrakGuy]

Yes both locomotives have pans up.

[trinityct]

from what I've seen, both locomotives (the aem-7 and the hhp-8) seem to work best when they are lashed up together double heading.

[techphy100]

@ghostengineer OK, I was just going off of Pentrex's Amtrak documentary which says that 1 AEM7 is rated for 6 cars (efficiency), over six and Amtrak uses two. Maybe they meant at 125mph sustained efficiency since the metroliners only carried 6 cars. But with your point i always wondered how they knew how to carry 1 or 2 AEM7's when sometimes you see only one with 9 cars.

[ghostengineer]

@techphy100

AEM7's are more then capable of handling more then 7 cars. The HEP is the limiting factor and thats 16 cars. The only reason why you see 2 mu'd together has nothing to do with train lentgh or strength but that either 1 unit just came out of the shop and must run with another locomotive on its shakedown run, or both units have issues and need to be together.

[stevefromPA2]

@ghostengineer i dont even know of any 9000hp locos...if there were some i would assume they would be electric

[MrZkr123]

thats a combine close to 16,000 horsepower right there

[diburning]

@NJTAmtrakGuy 6400 kilowatts = 8582 horsepower which is quite short of 9,000.

[techphy100]

Amtrak is supposed to retire the AEM7's in 2013, suppose to....

[techphy100]

If you read the history of the AEM7's, your doing the 'crap' label no justice. They were put to service in 1977 because the E60 were crap. If you add the years up to present thats 35 years in service. Minus the last 3 years because they have been breaking down. But the only reason they have been breaking down is because they added more power capability to it with existing system. You own video, an AEM7 was only capable of 7 cars, after that 2 AEM7's, nowadays they put 13 on one.

[ghostengineer]

The ACS locomotive is suppose to have 8,600 HP but its early to tell yet since they havent been built...

[metrocityrr]

lol u meant to say New york pennsylvania station