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Calif St RR museum already has an Amtrak F40PH.
This happened yesterday (7/1/09) on the San Joaquins from Fresno to Hanford. I'm surprised I didn't hear about it earlier. ---------------------------- Sheriff: Heavily armed man on Amtrak Published online on Thursday, Jul. 02, 2009 By Jim Guy / The Fresno Bee A Fresno man carrying drugs and several stolen handguns was taken off an Amtrak train Wednesday afternoon by Fresno County sheriff's deputies. Jeffery Mikel Carrillo, 28, was booked into the Fresno County Jail, sheriff's spokesman
Chukchansi Park (home of the Grzzlies) in Fresno, Ca is across the street from the Union Pacific main.
They are stored due the economy.
I read that it's will be repainted into GN's Big Sky Blue and be renumbered to back to 325, when funds are available.
Around here in Central California its business as usual. I haven't heard anything about agents telling people to leave. Here's a quick rundown: Bakersfield I think is still open. I haven't been there in a while. Wasco, Madera, and Turlock/Denair are just platforms only, no building. Corcorcan is a unmanned building (with Santa Fe and Wabash (!) info inside). Hanford is where I railfan (and live) at and I have been out there with a group of railfans and the agent came by with the baggage
Is she in the Bakersfield area or Fresno?
I know that Ozark Valley has a former Santa Fe GP7u. That could be the unit you saw. Here's a picture of one. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures/37870/Jeff%20058.jpg
Here are some stations around here. In Hanford, Ca, our main station built by the San Fransisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad in the late 1890's is still a depot for Amtrak. Well the northern half is. The southern half is used for an insurance place. http://bnsfc44.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures/9679/amtrak.JPG Also in town we have the former SP station. It used to have a freight station with it but it was moved across the tracks from the current station. The depot itself is currently vacant
For those who are interested, there are two videos on Youtube showing the first two ES44AC-4, #6600 and 6601 testing along the NS line. And 6601 looks like its already had some problems. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iJD1LkBi3w http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCc9eCpj--A