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A gentleman from Amtrak .... Brian Gallagher gave a presentation at the ESPA Annual Meeting/NARP NY Region Meeting in Schenectady yesterday. Here is some info related to the 40th anniversary celebrations:
* 156 is in bloody nose livery. He showed a picture of it. It should be on the rails within a day or two.
* 145 now has new snow plow and engineer's side stairs, which were damaged in the grade crossing incident on the Sunset limited a week or two back.
* Museum Train will have 822 and 406 at the point. I wonder what they will do to drag it through NYP. I guess and HHP-8 or AEM-7 will get to do the honors for a short distance with the diesels off.
* NARP gets half a car on the train.
* It will have one of the converted 10-6 sleepers (I think Pacific Command but not quite sure) in it.
* The full schedule of the train will be on amtrak.com within the next two weeks.
* The train will be inaugurated on May 1 in Washington Union Station and will stay there through National Train Day. So those of us going to WAS for NTD will get to see it. We should have a mini-AU gathering in the Museum Train perhaps. At least a photo of the group would be i order, but would be heck of a job to coordinate given the long long lines that one has to trudge through to get to anything at these events.
* It will start its tour the following day heading north/east on the NEC.
I am posting a more complete report on Amtrak presented there, in a separate thread.
* 156 is in bloody nose livery. He showed a picture of it. It should be on the rails within a day or two.
* 145 now has new snow plow and engineer's side stairs, which were damaged in the grade crossing incident on the Sunset limited a week or two back.
* Museum Train will have 822 and 406 at the point. I wonder what they will do to drag it through NYP. I guess and HHP-8 or AEM-7 will get to do the honors for a short distance with the diesels off.
* NARP gets half a car on the train.
* It will have one of the converted 10-6 sleepers (I think Pacific Command but not quite sure) in it.
* The full schedule of the train will be on amtrak.com within the next two weeks.
* The train will be inaugurated on May 1 in Washington Union Station and will stay there through National Train Day. So those of us going to WAS for NTD will get to see it. We should have a mini-AU gathering in the Museum Train perhaps. At least a photo of the group would be i order, but would be heck of a job to coordinate given the long long lines that one has to trudge through to get to anything at these events.
* It will start its tour the following day heading north/east on the NEC.
I am posting a more complete report on Amtrak presented there, in a separate thread.
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