| Working as the relief engine/switcher in San Diego on August 17th, 2013, is a pristine F59PHI 452. Built in June 1988 (an EMD product that was assembled at Super Steel in Schenectady, NY), these locomotives are currently cycling out to Amtrak's Beech Grove shop in Indiana for rebuilding and new paint. Amtrak 452 arrived back in Los Angeles from Beech Grove on August 5th - just twelve days earlier. (It was on #3, the westbound "Southwest Chief," behind P42DCs 203 and 6, and at the end of the train was recently rebuilt "Pacific Surfliner" coach 6307 as the train's last car.) |