Amtrak Train Locations/Heads Up - 2022

Daily whereabouts of train locations along with sightings for heads ups to other railfans.
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aaaaaand 350 by Opdyke in Bloomfield Hills at 2:21 in the snow, Charger #4613, metroliner cafe and 4 ventures, wave and a horn salute from today’s crew
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Amtrak MOW train through Dexter at 11:05 or so WB. 519 leading 518, gondola 13354 and NS caboose 555513 (or maybe 555518, numbers are faded).

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Amtrak 350 went past MP 22.5 very slowly (10 mph) at 2:30 pm today, maybe because of the new absolute signal at Opdyke Road being activated today per David's post on another tab. It had three new venture cars, a Metroliner-type snack/business car and a baggage car on the rear.

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Amtrak 353 by Opdyke at 9:03, weird consist today, Charger #4617, Amfleet Cafe, two horizons, one Amfleet II and two ventures. Dashing through the white fluffy hell with a peace sign and horn salute from the engineer this morning :D

P.s.: Kinda messed up on the signal, I made a judgement call because they were all red when they first cutover M2’s new head, they’re still ABS.
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Have any additional coaches been showing up over Thanksgiving?
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twropr wrote:
Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:46 pm
Have any additional coaches been showing up over Thanksgiving?
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Good question. I don't think so though a few more Venture coaches are spliced into another train this past week but not necessarily as additional ones. I will start counting today.

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I don't think it was mentioned here, but the Pere Marquette is back to Superliners as of almost a week ago. 3 of them, the usual consist. More capacity with 3 Supers than the 2 Venture coaches + and Amfleet cafe/business car. In prior years sometimes a 4th Superliner would be added, but I would not expect that this year given how short of equipment the fleet is, especially Superliners.

In unrelated news, Phase II paint P42 #130 was in 2nd position on the Elkhart camera this morning on 49. Unless they do a power swap, it ought to be on 48 eastbound tonight.

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twropr wrote:
Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:46 pm
Have any additional coaches been showing up over Thanksgiving?
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Today's Train 350 had the usual five cars including some Ventures. No baggage car, though, so you can say one more car than usual, I guess.

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twropr wrote:
Tue Nov 22, 2022 9:46 pm
Have any additional coaches been showing up over Thanksgiving?
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Train 353 this morning had a Metroliner-type snack car, three new Ventures, another metroliner-type coach and then another Venture on the rear, so one extra car than usual.

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Manistique wrote:
Thu Nov 24, 2022 9:23 am
Train 353 this morning had a Metroliner-type snack car, three new Ventures, another metroliner-type coach and then another Venture on the rear, so one extra car than usual.
355's consist yesterday was amfleet cafe/venture/venture/venture/amfleet II/horizon. Happy thanksgiving everyone! 🦃
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Train 351 this morning had two Ventures cars on the rear, swelling the usual five-car train to six cars this morning for the Holiday Weekend traffic.

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And Train 353 this morning is down to its usual five cars, no Ventures. So much for holiday overload.

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350 with 4605 leader departed Royal Oak 14:00

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I heard what sounded like Amtrak 354 passing my house headed toward Pontiac at 5:15 am, running about five hours late. And this morning's 351 hasn't departed Pontiac yet. So something seems to have delayed 354 and now 351 today.

8:10 update: Train 351 just went past MP 22.5 on CN's Holly Sub, an hour and a half late this morning. Four Ventures plus a snack car from the Metroliner design.

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354 hit a trespasser last night between Jackson & Ann Arbor. They terminated it in Ann Arbor according the Amtrak twitter.

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Manistique wrote:
Mon Dec 05, 2022 6:36 am
8:10 update: Train 351 just went past MP 22.5 on CN's Holly Sub, an hour and a half late this morning. Four Ventures plus a snack car from the Metroliner design.
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/loc ... r-reasons/


Amtrak Alerts can't seem to make up their mind about what happened. Buster Manning, can you clarify this one for us?
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Amtrak 350 just passed MP 22.5 at 2:04 pm, pretty much on time today. It had two Chargers back to back on the headend, some venture cars, a non-Venture snack car and a baggage car on the rear end. Good and interesting looking train. I presume it is dropping off the lead Charger as a replacement backup for Pontiac.

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Amtrak 350 had two Challengers as power today, both on the headend running elephant style. Only one Venture coach today and a baggage car on the rear end. It passed MP 22.5 on the Holly Subdivision at 2:26 pm.

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Never heard 350 pass by MP 22.5 this morning so it mustn't have left Pontiac yet.

Update: Just passed my house at 6:57 am, running an hour late out of Pontiac.

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Amtrak 351 left Pontiac on time this morning. Not sure what is running and what isn't today with the Wolverines. Hardly any snow here in Pontiac so far, just a lot of wind. They went from predicting a foot of snow here a few days ago to maybe 3 inches now. Cold though, it was 12 degrees here when I woke up, it is 10 degrees now at 7 am.

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