Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022

Daily whereabouts of train locations along with sightings for heads ups to other railfans.
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Amtrak Phase 4 Painted #184 was leading 30, the Capitol Limited today. By Harpers Ferry, West Virginia at 1.30pm, 2 Hours late.

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Haven't seen 350 or 355 lately. They were suppose to restart up this past Saturday.

Just read that they are now cancelled until October 23. Wonder if we will ever see them again?

Sorry if I missed reading this elsewhere on the board but checked and didn't see anything.

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Pere Marquette 370/371 has been running with a pair of new Venture coaches and an Amcafe/business class car for the past few days. Interesting to watch the power step deployment in the Bangor camera.

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NS train B25 had a car derail yesterday evening in Grass Lake. One wheel set was off the tracks. Hulcher was en route but Amtrak had to bus everyone around to final destinations, terminating at least 354 in Jackson and possibly more.

I believe they are bussing people this morning as well.

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LansingRailFan wrote:
Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:55 am
I believe they are bussing people this morning as well.
353 shows on the tracker map this morning and on time ~ 2-5 mins late as of 9:45
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353 had a new Venture coach at the headend this morning. First one I have seen in a while on Wolverine trains.

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Word is 353 hit a suicidal individual in Birmingham this morning.

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ConrailDetr​oit wrote:
Sat Sep 24, 2022 2:00 pm
Word is 353 hit a suicidal individual in Birmingham this morning.
According to a news report, 353 pulled up to Troy station afterward the investigation and terminated there.

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4610 and its consist parked at the Pontiac station track looks like it may depart soon
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It departed right when you posted this....which makes me wonder....were you texting and driving?? :shock: :shock:

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There’s been an Amtrak ballast train parked with the engine off in Wayne between the Ford plant since yesterday morning with a freshly painted NS 4512 long hood forward on the head end.

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Amtrak 353 just went past MP 22.5 a half hour late out of Pontiac with a what looked like a complete train of the new Venture cars.

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I must have just missed it crossing Woodward, when I was parked at Avon Donuts. Or maybe the awesomeness of the donuts deafened out the train noises 8) .
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It departed right when you posted this....which makes me wonder....were you texting and driving?? :shock: :shock:
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352 just passed Chelsea, single Venture coach on the rear.
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351 was 7 hrs 49 min LT leaving Jackson and 353 is following over 3 hrs LT.
What happened?
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351 was 7 hrs 49 min LT leaving Jackson and 353 is following over 3 hrs LT.
What happened?
According to Amtrak Alerts on Twitter feed, "mechanical issues" for 351 that caused "congestion".

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NickLittle wrote:
Fri Oct 07, 2022 4:38 pm
351 was 7 hrs 49 min LT leaving Jackson and 353 is following over 3 hrs LT.
What happened?
According to Amtrak Alerts on Twitter feed, "mechanical issues" for 351 that caused "congestion".
It’s pretty standard operational protocol for Amtrak to strand their passengers for hours on end. Can’t wait to hear about the first A2TC train stranded in Kalkaska

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LansingRailFan wrote:
Fri Oct 07, 2022 6:54 pm
NickLittle wrote:
Fri Oct 07, 2022 4:38 pm
351 was 7 hrs 49 min LT leaving Jackson and 353 is following over 3 hrs LT.
What happened?
According to Amtrak Alerts on Twitter feed, "mechanical issues" for 351 that caused "congestion".
It’s pretty standard operational protocol for Amtrak to strand their passengers for hours on end. Can’t wait to hear about the first A2TC train stranded in Kalkaska
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Wouldn’t happen as often if they put two locomotives on the trains like they used to. P42s had their problems but they had a backup with them. One is none, two is one.
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I noticed that even without 350/351 running for two months now, Amtrak is still assigning a spare locomotive to Pontiac, which I thought was just to avoid wying 350 when it arrived or having two locomotives on this train to return to Chicago as 355. So maybe it is a backup locomotive, which also seems a bit odd if Amtrak is power short (which maybe the reason for embargoing 350/355). I wonder if it was sent to Jackson to help out?

I had once heard Amtrak used two locomotives on the Michigan line to hit the high speeds on part of it but maybe that was just with the lower-horsepowered F40's and not the more powerful P42's or Chargers.

In the "old days," sometimes a GTW locomotive assigned to Pontiac was put on an Amtrak train out of Pontiac that needed assistance.

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Manistique wrote:
Fri Oct 07, 2022 7:12 pm
I noticed that even without 350/351 running for two months now, Amtrak is still assigning a spare locomotive to Pontiac, which I thought was just to avoid wying 350 when it arrived or having two locomotives on this train to return to Chicago as 355. So maybe it is a backup locomotive, which also seems a bit odd if Amtrak is power short (which maybe the reason for embargoing 350/355). I wonder if it was sent to Jackson to help out?

I had once heard Amtrak used two locomotives on the Michigan line to hit the high speeds on part of it but maybe that was just with the lower-horsepowered F40's and not the more powerful P42's or Chargers.

In the "old days," sometimes a GTW locomotive assigned to Pontiac was put on an Amtrak train out of Pontiac that needed assistance.
For about the first year after the 110 MPH started the trains were double-headed, using the second unit only on the high speed section.
It was all P42s by this time. 351 used to consistently make better time Kalamazoo-Porter than it does today.
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