Amtrak Empire Builder DETOUR
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- Amtrak's Empire Builder typically splits into two different trains in Spokane, Washington, with one section of the train traveling along the Columbia River to Portland, Oregon, and the other, usually longer, section of the train proceeding mostly west across the Cascade Mountains and into Seattle. However, on rare occasion, the train is not split in two and the entire consist continues on to either Portland or, more often, Seattle. In this video, we'll get a rare glimpse of the full length Empire Builder running as one full train across the Cascades over Stevens Pass on a few different trips into and out of Seattle.
Chapters:
00:00 Channel Intro
00:09 Introduction
02:28 Train 8 Eastbound
07:00 Train 7 Westbound
12:22 Conclusion
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8:01 I have to agree with you here Mike, I think the Phase VI and VII is possibly the best and most eye catching lash up any railroad can ever create anywhere in the world
It's a nice combo!
Yes! It looks nearly completely spotless
I also dig the phase 6/7 lash-up hard
As someone who always missed Phase III, I have to admit Amtrak really outdid themselves this time. They really put some thought and care into how this could work with their current rolling stock.
Mike, I seen the Siemens Charger Four times and known as SC44/ALC-42.
Great Amtrak Empire Builder Detour video for 53 years!!!! ALL ABOARD!!!!!!
Many thanks! More on the Empire Builder soon!
@@CoasterFan2105 You're welcome!
Wow, if you were planning on leaving Seattle anyway thats really fortunate! You get a sightseer car through Steven’s Pass!
Indeed! Some lucky passengers on that train!
Hi Mike Armstrong this is Isaiah wiley from myrtle Beach south Carolina saying Keep up the great amtrak video making your the best ❤😊 my dad and I took the empire builder from Seattle to Chicago when we went across Canada 🇨🇦 on the Canadian train from Toronto to Vancouver and then we took amtrak cascades train from Vancouver Canada to Seattle Washington where we stayed in a Hilton hotel for the night and got on the empire builder the next day this trip was in 2015. See you on the American rails soon sincerely Isaiah wiley from myrtle Beach south Carolina.
Awesome Alc-42s and Amtrak trains
Great video, I had no idea that this was happening! And it made for a great video idea
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
When you get the chance, you should visit the Yakima Valley Subdivision. It hasn't been documented very much and I would love to see some trains on that line.
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Hopping the next gen Amtrak cars will have some sort of Battery back up system. I have had to be towed twice due to a similar loss of car power situation. It's Extremely debilitating specially in the middle of summer or winter and it usually causes a multi-hour delay as the host railroad has to spin up a crew and find a locomotive to tow the train the rest of the way.
Your shots are incredible! You combine the technical details with highly aesthetic scenery. Super fun to watch!
Nice compilation of the Amtrak Empire Builder trains 👍
Love it! I am fired up to take the Empire Builder from PDX to CHI with my kiddo next month. Thanks for the video.
Awesome shots and coverage of the Empire Builder and breathtaking scenery as well ! You never disappoint Mike : )
Regards;
- Larry
hi mike, great video from Amtrak Empire Builder. Thanks for showing it and best regards from Germany
Thanks for posting this.
I have fond memories of driving inland along the Columbia, before heading south to Bend.,
the scenery on the Empire builder is beautiful! hope to ride it some day
Fantastic video
Thank you, Evan!
@@CoasterFan2105 You are welcome!
Awesome video and enjoyed watching once again. Have a wonderful upcoming weekend.(Steve)
Many thanks, Steve! You too.
Your welcome and thank you.@@CoasterFan2105
That was excellent, thankyou.
Now *that's* a proper length for a long-distance train! They should all be this long, if not longer.
Great video Keep up the good work
Amazing video!! Cool to see these new ALC-42’s take action, but I will certainly miss the P40’s and P42’s.
Hi, beautiful video!
Thank you!
Amazing video!
Thanks Mike.
Very interesting Mike
Thank you!
Great video
The video was interesting!) I send greetings from Russia to the city of St. Petersburg❤
Thanks for watching!
Your final scene is the best scene of all. Seeing one rail company using another rail company. BNSF makes a lot of money from NCTD Coaster & Amtrak for using their locomotives.
Thanks mike
Great catch
Hi!
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Thanks!
@@FlightAndTrack it's crazy we seem to watch the same channels
@@orlandorailfanproductions2010 yeah
Nice video. Amtrak was best. 👍🏻❤️
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
I never knew the Empire Builder splits over the course of its journey. That explains a lot.
Oh man, if I'd known this was happening, I'd have hopped on and gone to Seattle and back for the day. I'm bummed I missed it!
Hey Mike do you plan on visiting the grapevine vintage railroad?
Nice.
Thanks!
I’m never seeing Amtrak detouring in my life I do know that 48 and 49 they had to re-round because the floods
I wonder if Amtrak has studied more train splits, specifically the CA Zephyr in Salt Lake. With a portion heading to LA via Las Vegas. Therefore restoring service to there and Southwest Utah as well. Then again I can see Uncle Pete and thier Amtrak hating dispatchers muking this up as well.
I think the former Pioneer route from Ogden through Idaho and Oregon is currently being studied.
Theres been talk of a possible Pioneer hybrid,to run the original route Denver to Portland via Cheyenne and Boise,again all but a dream at this point!
Why do the Phase 7 & Phase 6 livery pair up so well together?
🚉🚉 Nice work Mr. Armstrong, The Amtrak Empire Builder detour was a great success, 👍🏻👍🏻 So, What routes is on these locations? ❓❓
Thank you! This is the normal route, but the entire train detoured over one section of it, which is pretty unusual. I explain in greater depth in the intro of the video.
@@CoasterFan2105 oh I get it, and no problem 😉 😉❤️❤️
I like the ALC-42
If one is going to or from Portland on a regular day, what happens to one's baggage if it's in the baggage car is on the part that doesn't go to or from Portland?
Has the Empire Builder always split in two at Spokane? Also, could you please report on the track issue in San Clemente?
What type of camera do you use
When I saw the word "DETOUR" in the title I thought the train was using an alternate routing through a different mountain pass (like, through Ellensburg and Yakima instead of the usual routing through Leavenworth and Everett) due to track work, not unlike the Zephyr running through Cheyenne and the Overland Route when the Rio Grande route is closed for work
can those freight locomotives run at passenger train speeds ?
I wonder why ATK didn't just run to Portland on the UP via Kalan Bridge in Kennewick-Hinkle-PDX
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Nice Video!
Thank you!
What happened to the Portland-bound passengers during the closure?
Not to mention those passengers for missed stops in the Columbia Valley.
Hi Mike, why your watermark is still 2023? :)
Yes, this was a video I was originally planning on releasing in December, but it got pushed back because of other projects I completed. There may be one other one out there with a 2023 watermark that will randomly appear this year!
I'm assuming Amtrak didn't want to continue it down south to Portland??
It would have made sense on the second day of the detour, as I assume the equipment would be needed in Portland that afternoon.
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What happened to the P-42s?
they are still in service, but slowly being replaced by these new locomotives
They're pretty much done with those.
Not true. The California Zephyr still uses them exclusively and will for a while as Denver Station refuses to supply DEF tanks for the charger locomotives (why I’m not sure) so until something changes, only P42’s run the Zephyr route…
Mike would you know to say why sometimes there are 3 locomotives in the same composition!? another way two locomotives and the thirt in reverse! I don get it!
See ya!
These trains are nice it would be better is to add Amtrak dash 8 locomotives
Might be time to update the copyright to 2024. 😉
The lake shore limited does the same thing
Indeed! As does the Sunset Limited.
@@CoasterFan2105 I've been on the Portland section of the empire builder
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