Amtrak's Sunset Limited, Bellaire Crossing, 4/6/07 (Part 1)

Despite the day I had, I was able to time train #1 at this crossing perfectly. Unfortunately, this would turn into one more thing that would go wrong for me. As you'll see, I had a friend with me and their question came at the wrong time...and then my camera went kaput right at the second engine. So...presented are the two engines of the consist, P42s 64 and 40, and the extremely quiet grade crossing arms along with the absence of the horn (again, stupid regulation now in effect on this branch line).

On the plus side, I found the right lighting...just need to distance myself a little now so that the sound doesn't cut out.


Addendum (updated 9/25/08): As I haven't had a chance to come back and revise this, there once was a message here that said I could email you the original video. Unfortunately at the time that this was written, I did not forsee my laptop crashing and taking with it most of the raw footage. Unfortunately, this means that in some cases it comes down to using Real Player to download the video if you'd like to have it for your own personal enjoyment on your laptop, or else I can return to certain locations in order to shoot a similar shot. Either one works for me, as long as I don't see a facsimile uploaded on any other account (which is why most of us have disabled embedding). Drop me a line if you're interested.

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• Amtrak
• Sunet
• Limited
• Bellaire
• Texas
• Train
• Railroad