CSX #4316 (EX-RDG) Helps AMTRAK! June 7, 1992

Amtrak's PERE MARQUETTE gets a helping hand after engine 370 would not start. The only unit CSX had on hand was the 4316, an ex-Reading GP39-2 still in the green and yellow. I could not believe it!!! So the next time you catch the 4316 in CSX blue, this is what she looked like!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• CSX 4316
• AMTRAK
• Pere Marquette
• Grand Rapids MI.

[tsinoms]

Do you have any more amtrak stuff?

[mygirl22ward]

If I remember right, just the same ol Amtrak around back then.....

[mygirl22ward]

Stay tuned.............

[MilwaukeeSDman]

The route almost looks abandoned

[mygirl22ward]

It was in the middle of weed season, and this part by the station is not the CSX main line.....

[TheQwaz]

@ChamplainDivision Dang, thanks for all that info. I saw that paint job and the first thing i thought of was the Katy (MKT). Guess not.

[MrW454ci]

great find.

[lionelkid456]

Awsome!

[juliussespiritu]

Now its in Yn3 paint and it doesnt even have that horn anymore. :(

[alvintrain]

Nice Ex Reading 3416!!!

[ChamplainDivision]

Just a technical and historical point, notice the green patch-out on the cab and green/yellow stripe patchout on the nose. That's to cover another patch-out because the engine is ex-D&H; nee originally Reading. IINM, it was 316 on Reading and D&H re-numbered it 7316. Later CSX numbered it 4316 to avoid confusion with others of it's units at the time. D&H got it in the Conrail deal back in 1976 and put their script "The D&H" inside the black Reading diamond logo on nose & cab sides.

[Yestrooper1]

This is cool! I'm guessing it was pulling out at Grand Rapids?

[Survivor1547]

nice a fraight train pulling a passgenger train

[peweeeful]

Cool

[howie1212]

does anybody know what kinda horn that is?