Amtrak #57, stalled in Illinois somewhere south of Chicago. This locomotive was leading the eastbound Cardinal to New York from Chicago, when about a half hour after our departure from Chicago, it blew its head gasket. Oil leaked freely out of the engine, stalled the locomotive, and made a huge mess. The train was delayed several hours while waiting for a replacement locomotive, and further delayed by signal replacements in Kentucky and West Virginia. The train finally arrived in New York ten and a half hours late.

Photographed by James Ogden, May 2, 2006.
Added to the photo archive by James Ogden, December 15, 2008.
Railroad: Amtrak.

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