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Troubled Empire Builder
Title:  Troubled Empire Builder
Description:  A beleaguered Empire Builder pulls around the west leg of the wye at West Grand Forks and into the depot to pick up and drop off approximately 25 passengers. At this point, the train is about 11 hours late, partly as a result of hitting a pickup truck about 30 miles west of here near the former town of Shawnee, ND. Although the station stop at Grand Forks only lasted 5 minutes, the train ended up spending about 4 hours in town after the lead locomotive lost its main reservoir pressure not more than 30 seconds after officially departing the station. Once the train finally did leave Grand Forks with a rearranged consist, its crew died on hours, causing a further delay until a relief crew from over 200 miles away in St. Cloud, MN could continue to pull the train east. All in all, it took the train an unbelievable 9 hours and 43 minutes to travel between Devils Lake, ND and Fargo ND; it should take about 2 hours and 42 minutes.
Photo Date:  2/2/2008  Upload Date: 7/18/2008 3:40:15 AM
Location:  Grand Forks, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  AMTK 23(P42DC)
Views:  333   Comments: 0
Troubled Empire Builder
Title:  Troubled Empire Builder
Description:  The Amtrak station may be to the right, but the incapacitated AMTK 23 isn't headed in that direction. In reality, it (and two other Amtrak locomotives) are uncoupled from the rest of the Empire Builder and heading toward the Grand Forks yard so that the 23 can be dropped off and the other two locomotives wyed so that a suitable locomotive is in the lead.
Photo Date:  2/2/2008  Upload Date: 7/18/2008 3:40:15 AM
Location:  Grand Forks, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  AMTK 23(P42DC)
Views:  269   Comments: 0
Troubled Empire Builder
Title:  Troubled Empire Builder
Description:  Two locomotives belonging to a doomed Empire Builder are on the east leg of the wye in Grand Forks, North Dakota about to connect back to the rest of the train. The locomotives were on the wye in the first place because the locomotive that the train came into Grand Forks with broke down and the only other locomotive suitable to lead, the AMTK 65, was facing the wrong way. Though facing the correct way from the get go, the AMTK 507, in case you were wondering, was deemed an unsuitable leader because the heater in it didn't work. The crew would have had a pretty uncomfortable ride with the outdoor temperature hovering around 0F.
Photo Date:  2/2/2008  Upload Date: 7/18/2008 3:40:13 AM
Location:  Grand Forks, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  AMTK 507(B32-8WH) AMTK 65(P42DC)
Views:  427   Comments: 1
AMTK 86
Title:  AMTK 86
Description:  Due to an avalanche risk and having to bus passengers between Whitefish, MT and Havre, MT the long way through Missoula, MT, the eastbound Empire Builder is running about 11 hours late as it comes through Harwood, about 9 miles away from the train's next stop in Fargo, ND.
Photo Date:  2/3/2008  Upload Date: 7/18/2008 3:55:30 AM
Location:  Harwood, ND
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  AMTK 86(P42DC)
Views:  360   Comments: 1
AMTK 88
Title:  AMTK 88
Description:  The eastbound Empire Builder departs Shelby about 90 minutes late.
Photo Date:  7/13/2007  Upload Date: 7/28/2007 6:18:43 AM
Location:  Shelby, MT
Author:  Mitch Wahlsten
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Locomotives:  AMTK 88(P42DC) AMTK 94(P42DC)
Views:  313   Comments: 0


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