Amtrak Engines

As usual, we bring lots of stuff with us when we travel and our trip from Seattle to Winona was no different. You just never know if the weather will be hot, cold or rainy, so you have to be ready to dress appropriately. Perhaps that's why two engines were needed. Or it could just be that they have one on the train from Seattle and one for the train coming from Portland that joins the other one in Spokane.

For as large and powerful as they are, when they arrive or depart from a station, they look quite sleek and just glide off down the tracks. In Spokane, when they joined the Seattle and Portland trains, I never felt a bump or heard any noise when they added the Portland train to the Seattle train for our trip back home. I slept right through it all.