MORE ON AMTRAK 162 Here is road number 162 from the 2000/2001 Amtrak Genesis order from the GE Transportation Division at Erie, Pennsylvania. It is out of service and retired due to a grain truck incursion on the Capitol Limited. It is one of only two Amtrak P42's to have been named after an individual. Serial numbers for 160-169 represent a group of ten that transitioned from high skirt millenium paint to the low skirt version. The numbers do line up sequentially except for the first two. Because they were the newest delivered in high skirt, they were also among the last to be converted to the low skirt varient. The high-belt to low-belt transition took place between #168 and #169. Builder stickers also were relocated higher on the nose as delivered from #169-207 (but moved back to standard position upon subsequent overhauls). Steel noses were changed to the bolt-on variety over the intervening years. OUT OF SERVICE #162 - Serial 53018 (May 2001). Road crossing damage near Ranson, West Virginia on Capitol Limited, December 10, 2018. Hit by a grain truck. Fortunately there were no fatalities reported in that incident. Stored Ivy City Yard, then by 2021 migrated to Beech Grove where it remains stored. Verified stored with damage at Beech Grove in March 2023. Of note, #162 was only one of two P42's to be named after an individual. For a time in 2018 it carried the name "M. Kempf" under the cabside windows, in memory of Michael Kempf, 54, an engineer killed near Cayce, South Carolina on February 4, 2018. This is the only time such an honor was bestowed. Amtrak also has a memorial to its fallen employees at Union Station in Washington DC. The locomotive #162 also sat at WashingtonD.C. Ivy City yard for many months. Also killed in the South Carolina incident with #47 was Michael Cella, a conductor, age 36. We are only aware of one other conductor being killed on board an en-route Genesis-equipped Amtrak train, that happening in Nevada when a semi truck plowed into the side of the train car in which she was stationed. No other Amtrak engineer that we know of has been killed on board an en-route Genesis-equipped train while on the job. However, an earlier incident in Georgia claimed the life of an engineer due to injuries he suffered while on the job. Engine #162 was the last in the group to be low skirted in 2005. As of August 9, two of the heritage units were still running out west or southwest (#161 on the Chief, #160 on the Zephyr and then the Eagle). Engine #160 then went to Boston by August 15th. Also mostly on the Chief lately has been #163. The heritage units out west seem to be mostly being kept in the trailing position. The third one (#164) has mostly stayed on the south end of Washington DC Union Station, until going transcontinental on trains 51/5. Engines #167 and #169 are staying south of Washington DC Union Station so far in August. Sometimes leading, sometimes trailing, and quite a bit of solo operation in Virginia. The Sunset Limited/Southwest Chief rotations have been home to #168 of late, with now a Coast Starlight run. Engines #165 and #166 are still assumed to be in maintenance. August 15, 2023 Update from 4rr.com feedback at 4rr.com