The BEST Amtrak Engineer Ever! AMTK P079. (ORIGINAL) 

tf51d oh my god, LOL I would be lmao hard.

Yea but if they got startled and fell and hit their head then Amtrak conductor would be responsible plus then it goes back to why are you even crossing the tracks.

tf51d, This is what I shared: So the people of this area, Wilson NC, are so stupid that they don't think to walk BEHIND the train across the tracks on the road? Stupid idiots!

CT! People here in Fayetteville, NC are worse lol. See it all the time unfortunately 😐

Jack Frost You are correct, they aren't idiots...they're foolish!

Bessemer & Lake Erie 902 good luck trying to get that stuff in England the drivers only give you tones never anything decent like that

my rail enthusiasm is always with me and I am proud to use It whenever!

System6 RailFanner Absolutely agreed.

Clive Garlow glad you liked!

Clive Garlow hi me too but sadly in stupid nj rr workers NO longer permitted to wave back nor as in yesteryear toot horn to your wave sad really sad

BrookhavenRain this just made my day. And I try my best to ignore those haters.

Please do have have a hater in my Channel and I just roast them back.

gordon vincent well sounds like you had some good and bad experiences, now the gg1s are a nice classic, I like the SD70MAC from emd and the EMD F9. And maybe we can get together some day. If you want.

I spend most of my time doing family genealogy.I do a lot of driving back and forth to Illinois looking into my late dad's life.You couldn't make it up in the movies!!I take Amtrak when I can.A couple of trips to Florida,and some trips to Chicago on the Capital punishment, lol.It's hard to get sleeping car accommodations.I'm native Californian,grew up in Lancaster,North of LA along SP's LA Bkf main line. Started railfaning in '63,when the KM's were running.I've got a ton of operators manuals to all kinds of engines including the KM's.Where do you usually hang out?I might just make a little trip somewhere and bring along a bunch of stuff for you.

gordon vincent I'm in north carolina, not far from Atlantic beach.

How often do you get out?I'm just North of you in Ashland VA

gordon vincent I get out when I can, maybe I can take I ride up there to Ashland this weekend or that week, I got to check my calendar.

Tommy Hunter not the Amtrak auto train. P053. Here is a video of the auto train I did: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bJ3uaaRomP4.html

@@System6VideoProductions No doubt, but it's mostly auto racks, not passenger cars.

​@@tommyhunter1817I've counted as many as 16 cars before & when I rode the Texas Eagle before covid she had 10 & AMTRAK i late at times because of weather but mostly freight trains.👋😉🐔

greenbeagle13 there are a few channels that have inside cab views I’m just not sure who does it, but I’m pretty sure the search bar can help you out as well as videos.

I have so many times!

I think it’s funny

ricksclick some are like that, some are not beat up. But you would think Amtrak could have better upkeep, but now that the SC44 are on the way, I don’t know what will happen, and thanks for viewing.

Lmao, your not kidding.

It's called deferred maintenance, a time tested railroad program.

Yep,they are showing their age when you get close up to them and also when I take stills of these Locomotives some of them look beat up but they keep on working 💪.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VjLvXgn3kDI.html this video has the Amtrak auto train P053 and check and see the video and you will see plenty of superliners in the beginning of the video! And thank you for watching.

valley girl glad you enjoyed your ride!

I love trains but I'd rather fly for distances that long. Flying is actually a ton safer as well.

Edward Pazdzior well no. In my preference I’d rather take a train ANY TIME than an airplane. Think of 9/11 think of the challenger explosion. All the airplane incidents. Sure Amtrak has had there accident and problems. But they were quote “accidental” Amtrak had Mechanical problems, but fixed it immediately. But now that some locomotives that wreck now are scrapped or barely fixed. Now when I rode the train just recently I saw an old Amtrak turboliner in new Acela paint. Which was a surprise to me. But I still prefer trains. Airbus airplanes scare me.

I always go by the numbers. Airline safety is technically a ton safer if you look at fatalities per number of people that fly. Amtrak is always late too. It it pretty sad if airlines have a better on time performance than Amtrak. Loading an airplane with luggage and people and flying it to it's destination is much more complex but yet they still get you there "on time" a lot more of the time. Amtrak equipment is ancient. They don't own a majority of the rails they ride on and lose priority and end up sitting and waiting for freight traffic sometimes. I'm sorry but Amtrak is broken and has been for awhile.

Edward Pazdzior i understand that. But Amtrak isn’t always perfect. But to me Amtrak will always be my fondest memory of railfanning. I’m not against what you said, but you did prove a good point there. But in this video this train was surprisingly on time. Like I said we both have our differences in opinions.

Thanks

as much as Amtrak has to contend with from the freight railroads, it is really not fair to diss them for being late

dblissmn I forgot to mention the location, sorry, but besides, the damage my with my hand the doctor said it might be lifelong, and the baggage in some stations have the same hand crank but some have the automatic crank or elevated platforms, and sorry for the shaking that’s because of my problem with my hand. And I do have new content you could check out, but thanks for viewing this video, people like you make me feel good about this video and others. Hope your doing well yourself.

Where I volunteer at a Missouri station between KC and St.Louis we were told that the extra baggage cars on our trains were added for more weight on the trains to help with signaling and PTC.

Thanks. 👍🏻

Aunt Jemima's Flapjacky Butt Crack um I’m confused. Lmao 😂

Ya don't have to be with me shuga!

Aunt Jemima's Flapjacky Butt Crack now I’m more confused. And creeped out a lil.

You’re funny

Jimmy's Tractor she’d be so ripped though.

You think with the tech that we have today, even robots could self propel the crank or mechanically do it.

Chris Martone you were the engineer?

You are awesome! I’d like to have your job

Goggles Tigerkhan this does not happen all the time so be happy and lucky when it does happen.

@@System6VideoProductions oh boy, you should see the carolinian. at this point, 2 hours late is "on time".

maybe I will!

Thanks, appreciate it!

NaYawkr obviously some people are stupid and don’t take operation lifesaver in to consideration.

Hmm, cool, maybe I'll go there someday.

System6 RailFanner but they sometimes run out of certain items or your very unlucky they wont have anything just letting you know and alsi where are you from

NascarFan 2018 well I can always try, me? From NC about 30 miles away from Wilson.

System6 RailFanner so your coming from NC to Los Angeles CA to just get free souvenirs i live about 50 miles from LA and take Metrolink to LA

NascarFan 2018 not doing it right away, but maybe later on, lol.

talesin- god of the internet I always take operation livesaver and safety in to consideration.

talesin- god of the internet my new content is better. I’m not close to the track as I was anymore.

Sounds like ya had a Cool experience, im waiting for them to bring the siemens sc44 chargers down at the station here!

I hope you see them

BNSFGUY7777 id love to have some free stuff like that im disabled

System6 RailFanner what state was this?

O.k., I'll bite, what do you use the cup for?

RocDoc welcome.

Ruffian this engineer was quite nice

It’s seems like they only care about their important units, like heritage, special, etc. but otherwise I agree

Kal El you are right! I totally agree!

soyou noat zoom in microphone built into the camera I used at the time.

Forrest Johnson it's definitely fun!

Run, Forrest, run.

Appreciate that but I don’t have enough watch hours 😭

@@System6VideoProductions oof 🙃

Washington DC Railfan productions (WLN) Wilson, NC.

Jesper Fuglsang Nielsen baggage car.

@@System6VideoProductions Oh, I see. Thanks!😊

luggage car

tina johnson it was on a tripod. I mean you obviously didn’t watch the full video, you didn’t see me leave my camera? I mean I’m not that dumb to put it on the ground or carry it over.

Al Lundgren Wilson, NC. (WLN)

Thank you! I appreciate your response and thoughts, it’s helps me out!

Pat Formicola my birthday is on July 2

Pawandeep Singh Thanks ma dude

5442steve this is Wilson, North Carolina. Train No. 79.

@@System6VideoProductions I thought that track looked familiar!

LJ Jr (WLN) wilson, NC

Corona Railfan it's a Panasonic fz70 and its 60x zoom and it is slowly dying. But sometimes I used a Sony disc camera, just because it has more zoom.

I like it too, they are new, but I do miss the older ones too. Thanks for watching.

Richard Gerlach Wilson, north Carolina

AmtrakSouthwestLimited3 it has the genesis engine made my GE P42DC and its Amtrak 819 in phase 3 which the locomotive no longer exists. It was in the 1993 bridge wreck and it was the first genesis locomotive to be scrapped.

themikeshow excuse me, but I have had surgery on my hand ok? It hurts to move the camera sometimes. My new content you should expect it, so in this case if you didn’t like what you saw I’m sorry. I can’t help it. I can’t find a good video editing software.

I was trying to offer constructive criticism in a humorous way. This video was almost excellent, only marred by incessant and unnecessary zooming and panning. I watch RU-vid on a big screen, and wild camera movement is actually almost nauseating. Several other commenters have mentioned this, some more politely than others. When you took your hands off the camera and left it on the tripod, the video became a 10/10. If we find that one small portion of your video with the zooming annoying, and it hurts your hand to move the camera and zoom it, then why do it. Put it on the tripod and stand back. I like your video, you shouldn't be so thin-skinned and you should be more open to criticism. If you were showing a video to your friend in your house and they said the same thing that I did, I'm sure you wouldn't act so insulted. I honestly am trying to be helpful. Not criticizing is not being helpful.

themikeshow sorry man. I take thing too seriously. But if you look at my new content then you might like what you see.

79 Carolinian

Amtrak Train P079. Location: Wilson, NC Planet: Earth.

Loretta Bigbie a Amtrak inspection trip sticker and two water bottles.

murdy1975 agreed

It depends on the grade. If it’s too steep the train will eventually stall or have major wheel slip and also it’s not a major hill, it’s the illusion my camera gave it in perspective.

Panasonic camera but I dropped it soon afterwards

@@System6VideoProductions nice do you happen to know what model Panasonic camera it is ?

hawkeye0248 Amtrak thinks it’s ok. But they should reconsider a phase V or Vb re-paint.

Andrew Nite no, not quite, this is 79 the Carolinian.

System6 RailFanner i was close

I’m not too sure I got his name.

@@System6VideoProductions OK.

Alex Widdowson sorry

@@System6VideoProductions That's alright.

Yes, indeed more train misc files LOL

Siobhan O'Shea Amtrak!

@@System6VideoProductions thank you Very Much

@@Siobhan_OShea your welcome

MR611 yeah my ugly self, lol.

I have a new one now. This is a video from 2017 and also I had hand surgery prior to this video.

I suggest you check out my new content

Mark Warren My camera was on a tripod sir, I had left the camera at a certain point, maybe I’m not just steady enough, well I’ve had hand surgery so yeah it’s kinda hard to keep it still. Sorry.

Liam Frankenstein oh, is that so? Had no idea.

System6 RailFanner go search up Norfolk and western 611 rides on google

Really ? Thats a beautiful train too. The lines on her !!!!

#611 lives! Will be on the Strasburg RR Sept-Oct 2019!

Priyam Ganguly ditch lights on the bottom to warn crossings and it was a requirement in 1990 by the FRA, safety reasons, my friend.

O, I see.

Priyam Ganguly ....Well it is c as led SAFETY and Amtrak rule. It includes all freight railroads.

Jim Harlow like I said, the FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION (FRA) required trains to have ditch lights. That's why before the 90s CONRAIL and other amtraks did not have ditch lights until the FRA said so.

Liam Brady I can tell. But sometimes they will leave them flashing. Only 30 seconds. Then they stop flashing. When they depart the lights will most likely flash again.