Genesis P40 824

Location: North Station, Boston, MA
Operator of Vehicle: Amtrak
Date of Photo: August 29, 2002

If you follow this website on Facebook, you may have noticed I took a trip on Amtrak from Los Angeles to Austin last month.  During our service stop in Tucson, AZ, I discovered that one of the two engines pulling our train was Genesis P40 824.  That number seemed familiar to me, as I thought this engine might have been on the lead end of the California Zephyr when I took that train in 2014.  It turns out my trip on the Zephyr was pulled by 823, but I had crossed paths with 824 on at least one other occasion.  In August 2002, I did a daytrip on the Downeaster, which had only started service about 9 months prior.  While I’m not sure if 824 was the engine on my train in either direction (it could have been 810 based on my photos), I did get photos of it back on this rainy August day in 2002.  At this time, 824 was painted in the “Phase IV” scheme and was a few years away from being put in long term storage.  824 is one of about fifteen P40 locomotives that was refurbished using stimulus funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, at which time it was repainted in the “Phase V” livery that it currently wears.

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