Amtrak is beginning to give its General Electric locomotive fleet a look in keeping with its newer units. Fresh from an overhaul at the Beech Grove Heavy Maintenance Facility, Amtrak P42 No. 174, manufactured in 2001, sports a variation of the paint scheme the company uses on its new Siemens Charger locomotives as it leads the westbound Cardinal on Monday, Jan. 29, at Munster, Ind. It leads an overhauled Pacific Surfliner coach-baggage and Superliner sleeping car in front of the train’s regular consist as the train transitions from CSX’s former Monon to ex-Grand Trunk Western trackage. Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari says the locomotive was the first to be painted in the “Phase VII livery because it was the next due through the Beech Grove paint booth after the older materials had been depleted, all the materials for Phase VII were on hand, and it wouldn’t delay the release of a locomotive into service. … This is the most efficient way to get our legacy equipment matching the new ALC-42s.”
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