Amtrak Locomotive F69PHAC

[oltmannd]

NJT’s GP40Ps, when NJT slide a HEP skid in the place of the steam gen. topped out at over 300,000 (lbs)

I don’t know where you heard this, but that’s not true whatsoever. They wouldn’t let anything with 75,000 pounds per axle out onto the railroad. The ex-CNJ Geeps, like other passenger Geeps on other roads, max out at 268,000 pounds.

Not knowingly…[;)] E’port didn’t exactly do any real engineering when the slid the HEP in place of the steam genny and opened up the whole fuel tank for fuel. But they were that heavy when Juniata got them in for rebuilding. I know, because I did the weight balance on the rebuilt units and we got scale weights on the first one as received.

I could hardly believe it, myself.

[JT22CW]

Ugh. NJDOT strikes again. Say no more.

Sad how NJDOT goes from bad to worse by opening up MMC, too. I’ve heard too many stories of them putting equipment back out on the road unrepaired.

[YoHo1975]

Amtrak’s fleet isn’t THAT old, but remember, no matter what they choose, to do they will be begging for money from the federal government

Wow, what a singular problem that other passenger rail does not experience. Certainly, VIA Rail doesn’t “beg for money” from Ottawa, nor commuter rail from their respective state governments, nor DB from Berlin, nor SNCF from Paris, nor JR from Tokyo (in spite of the “privatized” operation companies, the infrastructure is still subsidized). How is it that Amtrak differs so markedly from these other passenger operators that they must have their own spotlight in spite of their needing to be funded just the same as they do?

I’m not sure I understand your point here.

I’m sorry; I thought that I was being clear. I’ll spell it out once again, in not-so-sarcastic language:[list][]All of the railroads that are not Amtrak, that I had listed, all “beg for money” from their respective government(s).[]In the face of that, singling out Amtrak for special castigation over that same point is an unfair attack.[/list]

No, I got that, the problem is that I wasn’t criticizing Amtrak, so I didn’t understand whyyou were pointing this out in the first place.

It was suggested that to rebuild Amtrak’s fleet could require begging for money from the federal government. My point was that Amtrak exists at the behest of the Federal Government. Everything they do is based on requesting Tax Payer dollars. I was simply Clarifying in response to a previous post.

No big deal