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[quote user="MidlandMike"] [quote user="Bruce LA"] On most freight trains the last locomotive in the consist usually faces in the opposite direction of travel so the locomotives don't have to be turned if they need to go on a train in the opposite direction. On most of the AMTRAK trains I have seen with two or more engines, the locomotives always seem to be facing forward. Am I just imagining this or is there a reason AMTRAK would do this? Bruce LA [/quote] My understanding is that most Amtrak LD trains are wye'd or looped at the turn-around, so there is no need for back-to-back locos like in freights. [/quote] You probably are correct.  However, the Texas Eagle is not wye'd or looped in San Antonio.  The train from Chicago pulls into the station nose first.  In the morning it backs out of the station for about a mile or so before heading north on the former MoPac line.
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