Cabbage Reprieve
Though Amtrak's NPCUs ("cabbages") have mostly been phased out on Midwest regional services, they are still employed on occasion as pinch-hitters for an ailing Charger locomotive. I'm not certain of the circumstances of this particular failure, but it must not have been too extreme as this Hiawatha Service run, southbound train 336, was only ten minutes "off the advertised". Veterans' unit 90221 is the rescuer today, flying south with its consist across the triple track of Metra's UP-Northwest Line / UP's Harvard Sub at Mayfair, Chicago.
I first sighted the 90221 in its then-new livery in the same location about a month shy of five years ago: www.flickr.com/photos/23688072@N06/28936110086
Cabbage Reprieve
Though Amtrak's NPCUs ("cabbages") have mostly been phased out on Midwest regional services, they are still employed on occasion as pinch-hitters for an ailing Charger locomotive. I'm not certain of the circumstances of this particular failure, but it must not have been too extreme as this Hiawatha Service run, southbound train 336, was only ten minutes "off the advertised". Veterans' unit 90221 is the rescuer today, flying south with its consist across the triple track of Metra's UP-Northwest Line / UP's Harvard Sub at Mayfair, Chicago.
I first sighted the 90221 in its then-new livery in the same location about a month shy of five years ago: www.flickr.com/photos/23688072@N06/28936110086