Well I was work today I saw the amtrak hiawatha going south it had just left the airport.Station so it was going pretty slow still but anywho it did not have the usaual two engines it had three the one FP40 pulling and then it had a genis number 54 and and another engine number 519 not sure the kinda of engine it was but. To me that was the coolest and rarest thing I have every seen. Now the really reason this may have been is that they were running a dead loco back south or maybe one was having trouble and they put a diffrent loco on. Who knows but it was really cool to see that.
Was this the one you saw?
Yea that’s the one what’s the name of that engine there hey
If you saw it in that paint scheme it is ultra rare. It is the GE P32BWH or the Dash 8-32B WH
http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?locomotive=GE%20P32BWH%20(Dash%208-32BWH)
The 519 is not usually used in mainline service because they are a rough riding engine. It is used mostly in the yard in Chicago. Engine 54 was put on the train this morning when train 332 arrived in Chicago, because engine 519 had mechanical problems and that is why train 333 had 2 locomotives and a cab car today.
Bob