Arrival of Amtrak's Texas Eagle, Bloomington-Normal, IL, Train Station, 5/11/09

Train #21 (Southbound)
Unit: P42 #100
Consist: An unusual 8 cars (2 Sleepers, Diner-Lounge, Lounge, 4 Coaches)
Time: 4:15 pm (11 min late)

Pardon the initial shaking at the beginning - the clip to my scanner busted, so I had to figure out how to do a one-handed shot in the wind while keeping the scanner close by to figure out the correct frequency. As noted, my surprise was at the use of what I recall being a NEC Genesis, although please forgive my earlier mistake of calling it a P32 - I finally remembered that would be the Genesis engines numbered in the 700s. The other sentence that I don't finish in here is the thought on me actually riding in a sleeper only to discover that they stuck us in the older Phase IV car, which was just wrong given the rest of the consist was all Phase V (or IVb - I've heard both).

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• Amtrak
• Texas
• Eagle
• Bloomington
• Normal
• Illinois
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• Railroad

[TommyBNSF]

What's wrong with the IV vs the V?

[kanjo007]

@TommyBNSF If you mean the paint scheme, nothing wrong. If you mean the interior of the cars, it was a matter of whether or not they had been revamped inside (better toilet space & showers, new interior stuff). As I recall, they had not touched that car in particular, so it was musty and old in the room (the Eagle was getting better about this stuff, but it was [and is] hit-and-miss).

[TommyBNSF]

@kanjo007 I see. They have since repainted that car at least. I think almost every car now is in V or IVb. In fact, so far this year, I've only counted one Superliner in IV, and that's Transition Sleeper 39043.

[railfanstreator94]

Dude I think I have met that Attendant who opened up the door behind the conductor he was on the Southwest Chief last summer when I went out to Fort Madison.

[BoeingNerd]

good video but invest in a tripod

[onealhart54]

Cool