Railjunkie wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:01 am
STrRedWolf wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 5:25 pm
Railjunkie wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 9:25 am
The Rennselaer shop is "the place" for maintenance on P42s according to Amtrak. They love the work they do to the point most if not all problem children show up there. It will be the last hold out for GE products on the Amtrak system this was straight from upper upper level Amtrak. I personally have yet to receive any classes on the new Yugos I mean ALC42s nor have any of my brother racoons in the E part of T&E or the folks at the shop. They will not just show up there will be a test train or 5 so Amtrak can be sure the cab signal, ACSES, and I-ETMS work as intended until it goes into revenue service, because it always happens, never fails. Plus they will need to train about fifty of us to start. On how to make it stop and go, troubleshooting issues and so forth.
Did P42 #130 make it to the shop last week? I was surprised they ran it on the following run on 48 after we hit a car in Toledo (see above). It had a bad equipment order when it hit Chicago.
Maybe I read it on here maybe I didn't but after your trip with with the intercourse with the car the 130 lost its plow on a crossing derailing the lead truck on the café car. It made to Rennselaer eventually that night if I remember correctly.
130 was the lead on 49(29) when it hit the car outside Toledo, and the plow was askew. From some rail fans (and some Amtrak folk in the same circles) it got hit with a bad equipment order in Chicago and was supposed to be repaired there, but instead it got sent out on 48(30) or 48(1) without any work on it and dropped the plow on route.
That is when I was glad I was taking Cap Limited 30(4) home.
I don't know what the mechanical forces in Chicago did, but I gotta assume it was "nothing."