Amtrak 134 Leads California Zephyr #5 At Truckee, CA, 6/10/09

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Taken: 06/10/2009

Amtrak 134 limbs into Truckee with an over 2 & 1/2 hour late westbound California Zephyr. The 134 continually poped its safety, and that is what you hear as the air leaking out. The crew was finally able to devise some way to fix it (with the air problem still there), and the train highballed with the stop at Truckee adding 26 minutes on.

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• California
• Zephyr
• Trains

[WPRR1]

Also, didn't the original California Zephyr go through the Feather River Canyon?

[SF3751]

@WPRR1 You are correct

[argenvia]

Very good video

passenger cars, are living rooms and bedrooms??

which is what is hooked on the white engine, some animal??

greetings from Argentina

gustavo

[SF3751]

@argenvia The first passenger cars on the train (those being behind the baggage car, or car behind the 2 engines) do house bedrooms of three sizes on both the top and lower levels. There is also an observation car (4th to being last) that passwngers can look out large windows to enjoy to views, as well as a dinning car for brekfast, lunch, and dinner, with the observation car offering snacks all day. The white thing was most likely a bird, I can't say for sure though. Thanks for commenting.

[trainboy32]

awesome video

[SF3751]

Thanks.

[hotcore5312]

@WPRR1 Yep. Its code. Two horn blows are blown before any engineer moves his train. As for approach to crossings, well not everytime does an engineer blow three. I remember watching a Norfolk Southern freight blowing only two honks through a crossing in my town. One short and then one long.

[WPRR1]

You know, I learn a lot from watching these videos. I learned that 2 honks means departing, and 2 longs a short and a long means approaching a crossing.

[sjrailfan35]

P42DC 134 is on the coast starlight right now and the K5LA is really terrible. I really hate that engine.

[dutchuplover]

thnx for the insparation now i know whot type of cars and the number of cars i have to put behind my kato p42 #134 ^^ greets from the netherlands

[Fietser1225]

I was amazed to find this video some time back. I was on this train - it was my first ever long distance trip. I also remember this station stop and the entire radio conversation captured here. 134 had been having problems for the entire trip that had set us back. I was later told that it was a problematic unit and was always breaking when running California services. I just saw it the other day on a local train and it's been fixed finally. Thanks for the video! Good times!

[trume12]

134 was also in vermont