I saw online that Amtrak’s eastbound Lake Shore Limited had P42DC No. 108, the Phase VI livery leading on Tuesday morning.
This scheme has been described by Amtrak as “transitional” as well as a celebration of the passenger carrier’s 50th anniversary.
I got up early and went down to the Painesville station. No. 48 was reported to have left Cleveland on time at 5:50 a.m.
My camera showed a time stamp of 6:12 a.m. on my images.
Photographs by Edward Ribinskas
I bagged the Amtrak Phase VI unit on Thursday morning – one of them anyway). I woke up hoping to get another shot at the Midnight Blue Amtrak 50th Anniversary engine – P42DC No. 100 – but realized he was on time and I would have to drive pretty far east to catch him.
However another 50th Anniversary unit – P42DC No. 108 – was leading No. 49, the westbound Lake Shore Limited, and it was running almost three hours late.
This one I decided to try for and I ended up catching him on the Sandusky Bay bridge and causeway at Danbury.
Article and Photographs by Todd Dillon
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