Amtrak 105 (P42DC)

Amtrak P42DC No. 105 is a locomotive in the GE Genesis series of monocoque designed diesel engines built for Amtrak, the national passenger railroad transportation company. It was built in General Electric in its shops at Erie, Pennsylvania, in the summer of 1997, and subsequently delivered to Amtrak for revenue passenger service in Phase IV Northeast Corridor paint. It was originally allocated for maintenance in Wilmington, Delaware and worked primarily on trains in Northeast Corridor Keystone Pool such the Keystone corridor trains running between Harrisburg and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the Keystone Corridor's electrification was out of service during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and required diesel power, a locomotive change from electric to diesel, and vice versa, west of Philadelphia. The 105 was also occasionally assigned to trains operating within the Northeast Corridor Virginia Pool allocations such as on Acela Regional trains operating between Richmond, Virginia and Washington, D.C./Philadelphia as during the late 1990s and early 2000s, certain trains operating along the Northeast Corridor running south of Washington would undergo an engine change at Philadelphia instead. In 2003, the NEC Keystone Pool and NEC Virginia Pool were dissolved into operation by General Pool P42s and the 105 was reassigned to the Northeast Corridor North Pool with a maintenance base in Albany-Rensselaer, New York to replace retired P40DC variants of locomotives that had operated in that pool. The 105 began operating on train services operating north and west of Albany such as the Maple Leaf, as well as services in New England operating north from New Haven, Connecticut and Boston, Massachusetts such as Regionals operating on the line between New Haven and Springfield, Massachusetts, and the Downeaster operating between Boston and Portland, Maine. In early 2004, 105 was repainted into the newer standard Phase Vb paint scheme that most Amtrak equipment now wore.
Category:NEC Units
Category:Diesel locomotives
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Category:Amtrak locomotives