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Video by MP36er from Friday taken in Lemont, Illinois shows what the Texas Eagle looked like with the business car Beech Grove on the end.

The westbound California Zephyr that left Chicago on Sunday has a pair of private cars on the end. They are the dome car Charter Club and the observation car St. James Place. Also unusual, there was no baggage car on the train.

So it looks like yesterday, Wednesday, a #5 and a #6 were disrupted by mudslides in the Rocky Mountains. Today, as stated, a #5 and #6 were disrupted by flooding which resulted in them taking a detour route in Nebraska that skipped the stops at Hastings, Holdrege, and McCook.

Looks like 164 is sticking with the Zephyr for a while. I caught it Monday evening leading Amtrak #5(15) east of Ottumwa, Iowa.

I caught 330 and 331 traveling on Amtrak #6(12) east of Ottumwa, Iowa today. The California Zephyr was running about two and a half hours late and catching up to a coal load that passed fifteen minutes earlier.

Here's AMTK 164 leading Amtrak #6(12) with the two newest Chargers running about two and a half hours late out of Ottumwa, Iowa.

330 and 331 departed on the eastbound California Zephyr which happened to have new heritage unit AMTK 164 leading. Marcel Hall caught this Amtrak #6(12) at Emeryville. It was later caught by Sky Rider.

Here is a thread for following Phase IV-painted anniversary engine AMTK 164. No, that's not a typo. After the Phase IV unit AMTK 184 was repainted into Phase V back in March, Beech Grove repainted 164 in Phase IV. 164's first trip was leading Amtrak #5(09), the westbound California Zephyr. I...

A light power move brought new Chargers AMTK 330 and 331 from the factory to Oakland today. Sky Rider posted a video of the move.

The Phase IV unit is dead. Long live the Phase IV unit. AMTK 164 has been released from Beech Grove repainted into the Phase IV livery. So who makes the "Following Anniversary Engine #164" thread?

There has been another collision between a test train and a vehicle. This was at Mobile on Wednesday. Worse, this time there was a fatality in the car. Looks like the car burst into flame upon impact...

AMTK 328 and 329 are now traveling eastward on Amtrak #6(22). Brenden Railfan caught this California Zephyr at Roseville, California yesterday.

AMTK 328 and 329 have been released from the factory. Worldwide Trains & Airplanes caught the light power move at Rodeo, California (and it looks like 329 has a non-working marker light).

A test train had a run-in with a pickup truck on Tuesday. Thankfully, only minor injuries for those in the pickup. https://www.fox10tv.com/2023/03/29/amtrak-train-smashes-into-pickup-truck-cross-track-irvington/

Might be the same cars seen on their way to delivery through Pacific Junction, Iowa back on Friday.

Another season of the Winter Park Express has come to an end. The final ski train was filmed on Sunday by Michael DeMarco as it left Winter Park and entered the Moffat Tunnel. The equipment for the ski train returned to Chicago Monday deadheading on Amtrak #6(25).

I caught #6(23) Sunday morning running nineteen hours and forty-six minutes late out of Ottumwa, Iowa. In addition to the UP freight engine and the new Chargers, I also noticed the train was using a flashing rear-end device instead on the usual marker lights on the end. Andy S later filmed...

At some point, one of #6(23)'s Genesis engines was replaced with a Union Pacific locomotive. High Plains Model Railroad Club filmed it passing though Bartley, Nebraska on Saturday. As of this writing, the train was nineteen and a half hours late out of Lincoln, Nebraska.

AMTK 326 and 327 are on the move eastward on Amtrak #6(23). Adam Ghimenti caught this California Zephyr yesterday in West Sacramento, California. Presently, this train is running over twelve hours late due to a "mechanical issue" that happened while the train was crossing Nevada.

In this case, UP brought out a "big hook;" a large crane on rails.