BAD News From Amtrak, Heritage Unit Caught Fire | RailRecap 215

[@GibsonPetersen]

Amtrak: Oh no our heritage unit! Norfolk Southern: First time huh

[@moontrainz3790]

CPKC 7011:

[@SignalMan9292]

This is super underrated

[@TheAustinSubRailfan]

AMTK 156...

[@nstrains4001]

Amtrak 66......

[@mikelowery5741]

😅😅😅😅

[@haaseshouseoscience6377]

🫡 Farewell AMTK 161! A great Heritage unit you were!

[@zdthelehighlinerailfan5362]

Yeah... it's so sad that AMTK 161 is gone

[@trwaintime]

Another great "best of" vid Aaron....thanks!

[@harrisonofcolorado8886]

At least nobody was killed in the fire, and I'm sure that Amtrak will just pull another unit and paint it into phase 1.

[@haaseshouseoscience6377]

Yeah, thank goodness no one was harmed during that fire!

[@JustATeenageRailfan]

@@haaseshouseoscience6377phase 1 charger? For real though it’s good that no one was hurt

[@railcamrailfanner]

​@@JustATeenageRailfanYeah Amtrak is still haunting them after they repainted 184

[@railcamrailfanner]

And Amtrak 156 is still paint in phase 1

[@dasoffendor]

@@railcamrailfanner 156 has been in the deadline at Beech Grove for several years now, word is its pretty much a husk at this point

[@rogertemple7193]

Sad to see the fire with Amtrak but glad that no one was injured but the rest of the trains were awesome as always thank you and I wish you a happy Thanksgiving Thursday take care.🦃🦃🦃🦃 🚂🚃🚃🇺🇲

[@RailStalkerAdventures]

Awesome compilation as always, Aaron. God bless, brother.

[@gp3829]

I like the Ontario camera and it was good to see IHB at Blue Island.

[@csxfreighttrains6779]

A trespasser was blowing a cigarette and he put it on a puddle of fuel when the cigarette was still lit a spark made that huge fire

[@GilmerJohn]

Oh, I appreciate the details. I knew there was a fire but not the extent or other details.

[@WH_Railfan84]

You know this isn't the 1st time that an Amtrak Heritage Unit in this paint scheme waas involved in an incident. The last Unit, 156 was involved in an accident in New Orleans back in 2020. Y'all have a Happy Thanksgiving.

[@zdthelehighlinerailfan5362]

RIP AMTK 161.... you were the greatest Locomotive of all time

[@jamesghiorzoe107]

Not even close.

[@WSOR4012Productions]

From what I have heard the cause was from a person unknowingly dropping a lit cigarette into a small puddle of oil and that is what ignited the fire

[@Rene-y9d]

As an Amtrak employee at ivy city once said “Oops”.

[@jamesclapp6940]

is this a metaphor for amtrak long turn profitability!

[@carolinarailfanning]

Man, I've seen 161 before... down in folkston, and visited my neck of the woods. I feel bad. But it is in the end just a P42, many copies of it still kicking and nobody got hurt or worse. It will likely be replaced by another unit in the near future.

[@DavidPerez-g7g]

yes they should make another one to replace the one that was damaged by the fire

[@frankym274]

God Bless Amtrak 161 🙏😢

[@proudfoamer2]

GE; we bring good things to light, lol

[@bcrnfan]

Another Amtrak repaint to that scheme would be nice. That scheme seems to be jinxed though.

[@lioness72118]

Crazy to see an x cnw unit still in cnw paint though patched to up still in service to this day wonder why they haven’t painted it to full up paint though guess it’s like the old sp patched units will be painted into up someday

[@justaP42DC]

this is the second time a Phase 1 heritage unit has been damaged in an incident

[@rail-ryder7135]

Sad. I did see that engine in person on the Metra BNSF racetrack.

[@Robertmitchell2121]

I saw that unit before probably never see it again

[@anb7408]

They don't call them "GE toasters" for nothing.

[@adventuresofamtrakcascades301]

Hell the AEM7 looked like toasters straight up

[@XShadowX682]

I hope they rebuild the the Amtrak 161

[@MarylandTransportProductions]

I don't think it will be repaired, it looks damaged beyond repair

[@TheMilwaukeeRoad]

We are not allowed to have phase I locomotives for some reason.

[@nstrains4001]

They should Paint P42DC #1 into the Phase 1 50th paint, if its still alive

[@thorclemens5286]

I figure they will

[@BrightsTrainsNTrucks2023]

i honestly want to see what 161’s paint would look like on a charger

[@trwaintime]

Maybe that's what happened...they tried to "charge" it up?!?

[@ShawnCalay]

That's what I'm hoping too that's now these GEs are going on 30 years old.

[@trackside_cj]

Never let 161 Cook again

[@Trainandrocketlover]

I think Amtrak will repaint one of the other P42’s into the same scheme and renumber it to 161.

[@railfanningjay]

Sucks that both phase 1 engines failed

[@BiggHoss]

That sucks. Saw that engine in Ohio a year ago.

[@JJthecoolguy]

Welp at least we still got 156

[@lexmarks567]

I'm suspecting fuel/Oil leak judging by the amount of flames and the fact the ground was on fire.

[@amtrakandcsxrailfanning164]

So this unit is gone, but hopefully they will maybe give this heritage unit a replacement for this paint scheme just like this unit was a replacement for another hailed unit that all that got scrapped a while ago number is 156 and then after 156 was gone they repainted Its scheme onto 161 to be 156 is replacement But sure hope they give 161 a replacement someday because of this file problem that happened recently when it was probably on the Limiteed trying to get through dc But hopefully they will give a replacement just like 164 is also a replacement as well from another engine that was Amtrak 184 Heritage unit but then that Heritage unit got sent for a repaint, but Amtrak didn’t have to IV scheme paint for it so they sadly turned that unit back into a regular Amtrak engine with the regular Amtrak scheme, but they were able to put its IV scheme on another unit that happened to be 164 now 164 is 184 as replacement for the IV scheme

[@Mauscmkwk]

3:00 what a waste of an sd 40

[@TheAustinSubRailfan]

fr

[@BP_211yt]

bro CSX just gave it 30 more years on the rails, would you rather have sd40 rebuilds or no sd40s left on the rails

[@TheMilwaukeeRoad]

bp211 has a point

[@trwaintime]

With no geometry train power...no track geometry=no trains!?!....just sayin'....

[@TheAustinSubRailfan]

How does this keep happening. And why does it feel like this always happens to Heritage units too 😭

[@trwaintime]

Toast gets burnt real often too!! Thus....toasterz!!?!

[@uprailfan73]

Foamers fault

[@gusplays3145]

Is 210 okay??

[@michaelbrown6927]

Unlucky paint scheme.

[@uprailfan73]

Foamers better stop making funereal video about a heritage units or Tina d will be knocking on your door

[@gabrielquinones3343]

I think that’s what foamers do