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Owner: Amtrak
Model:GE P40DCBuilt As:AMTK 819 (P40DC)
Serial Number:47287Order No:
Frame Number:Built:0/0
Notes:Wrecked in the Big Bayou Canot, AL 9/22/93, scrapped
Other locos with this serial:  AMTK 819(P40DC)
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AMTK 819 Leads No. 58
Title:  AMTK 819 Leads No. 58
Description:  Brand new Amtrak P40DC 819 is seen in the middle of its brief 20-day career leading train No. 58, the northbound City of New Orleans, out of the Crescent City. Having made its first revenue out of Chicago on train No. 59 on September 3, 1993, this locomotive would be destroyed leading train No. 2 over the Big Bayou Canot bridge near Mobile, Alabama on September 22, 1993. Three Amtrak engineers would be fatally injured in this locomotive that night: Michael Vinet, Ernie Russ, and Billy Rex Hall. But on this day Amtrak 819 was the newest locomotive on the system leading a typical heritage consist of eight cars: 1174, 4724, 4002, 4718, 9408, 4016, 28021, and 2464 "Silver Isle". North Wye Junction - New Orleans, LA - 9-11-1993 - C.M.Palmieri Photo.
Photo Date:  9/11/1993  Upload Date: 10/18/2019 11:14:25 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Christopher Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 819(P40DC)
Views:  2073   Comments: 3
AMTK 819 Leads No. 58
Title:  AMTK 819 Leads No. 58
Description:  Brand new Amtrak P40DC 819 is seen in the middle of its brief 20-day career leading train No. 58, the northbound City of New Orleans, out of the Crescent City. Having made its first revenue out of Chicago on train No. 59 on September 3, 1993, this locomotive would be destroyed leading train No. 2 over the Big Bayou Canot bridge near Mobile, Alabama on September 22, 1993. Three Amtrak engineers would be fatally injured in this locomotive that night: Michael Vinet, Ernie Russ, and Billy Rex Hall. But on this day Amtrak 819 was the newest locomotive on the system leading a typical heritage consist of eight cars: 1174, 4724, 4002, 4718, 9408, 4016, 28021, and 2464 "Silver Isle". North Wye Junction - New Orleans, LA - 9-11-1993 - C.M.Palmieri Photo.
Photo Date:  9/11/1993  Upload Date: 10/19/2019 9:54:36 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Christopher Palmieri
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 819(P40DC)
Views:  2145   Comments: 2
AMTK 39
Title:  AMTK 39
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/21/2022  Upload Date: 1/15/2023 9:02:53 PM
Location:  Hattiesburg, MS
Author:  Kyle best
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Locomotives:  AMTK 39(P42DC) AMTK 819(P40DC)
Views:  482   Comments: 1
AMTK 39
Title:  AMTK 39
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/21/2022  Upload Date: 1/15/2023 9:03:24 PM
Location:  Hattiesburg, MS
Author:  Kyle best
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Locomotives:  AMTK 39(P42DC) AMTK 819(P40DC)
Views:  301   Comments: 1


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