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Re: Trainnews volume 2 - issue 82
Author: Tom McCann
Date: 04-10-2009 - 10:03
A very nice photograph with an interesting backstory...
UP must have been repositioning power, given the seven locomotives on the train. Notice also that the third unit is a standard cab GE, not a widecab, and that the only other GE is the Canadian Pacific unit (fifth in line).
The train would have been waiting for Amtrak #28 to clear, not #8. The Seattle section of the Empire Builder is #7-#8; the Portland section is #27-#28, and is due out of Portland at about 4:40 p.m., with its Vancouver stop at about 5:00 p.m. Having met the NB Coast Starlight at Vancouver, that also tells us that #14 is only slightly late (due out of Portland at about 4:00 p.m.), a vast improvement over the previous dreadful timekeeping inflicted on this train by UP.
UP must have been repositioning power, given the seven locomotives on the train. Notice also that the third unit is a standard cab GE, not a widecab, and that the only other GE is the Canadian Pacific unit (fifth in line).
The train would have been waiting for Amtrak #28 to clear, not #8. The Seattle section of the Empire Builder is #7-#8; the Portland section is #27-#28, and is due out of Portland at about 4:40 p.m., with its Vancouver stop at about 5:00 p.m. Having met the NB Coast Starlight at Vancouver, that also tells us that #14 is only slightly late (due out of Portland at about 4:00 p.m.), a vast improvement over the previous dreadful timekeeping inflicted on this train by UP.
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 Trainnews volume 2 - issue 82
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Espee99 | 04-09-2009 - 20:16 |
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Re: Trainnews volume 2 - issue 82 |
Tom McCann | 04-10-2009 - 10:03 |
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Re: Trainnews volume 2 - issue 82
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Charles Stookey | 04-10-2009 - 13:36 |