Autumn Boston Area Railfanning Day 1 of 3. 10/23/24

[@scottyerkes1867]

Rush hour action in the Boston area! Thanks Tim🚊🚊🚇🚇😀👍

[@MbtaVideoClips]

welcome back to boston!

[@3985uprr]

Always loved the town!!!

[@MbtaVideoClips]

@@3985uprr Did you end up seeing 1129? It went on the readville switcher today I heard.

[@TLT_Productions]

you came back! happy to see you back in new england!

[@NortheastCorridorFilms]

yay u finally came back to boston!!

[@slim.reacts]

Nice video Tim, nice to see you back up here on the T

[@NA_Railfanning_Productions]

Awesome! I came 45 minutes after you left.

[@nathanjiang100]

I was up in Boston last weekend. I had a 2-day conference and my schedule was packed so wasn't able to do any railfanning. took 94 up to 128 on friday right after school and right after the conference on sunday I dashed right to south station for 2275, makes all stops to providence then straight to new york which only runs sunday evening. 3 hours and 31 mins including stops which would have been closer to 3:25 had we not gotten held on the hell gate line for LIRR traffic.

[@tokugawa12able]

TIM on the T!!!

[@MbtaVideoClips]

1129 was on the 3:20 to forge park, and arrived back at 6:06 on the 23rd. So you probably just missed it

[@Massachusettesrailfanner]

I don’t get it why the Hsp46 gets soo much hate, I love all the locomotives that run on the mbta

[@3985uprr]

They have had many mechanical issues and I just personally don’t like the looks of them. I have a feeling I have lots of company regarding the latter statement

[@TheBostonRailfan]

A lot more single level sets were running on the south side than typical because the north side stole a couple of the "super sets" for the Salem Halloween trains. That's also why there were at least 2 GP40s running around south

[@3985uprr]

Yes. The Salem trains. Very heavy with passengers

[@mrvwbug4423]

Interesting fact. The HSP-46 (the goofy grape) was designed by the same designer who designed the GE Genesis locomotives (P32/P42). It's basically a modernized P42 but with AC traction motors and a 4600hp GEVO engine, which is why they pull a lot better than the old F40s (MBTAs F40s are putting about 3000hp to the rail), it also helps that the HSPs can go straight to 8 as soon as they've pulled the slack out of the consist, no worry about redlining the motors.

[@3985uprr]

The P32’s look much better

[@mrvwbug4423]

@@3985uprr They do. The HSPs are odd looking, but have it where it counts.

[@christophercancel934]

hey RRHG, are you panning on taking the Duckcelas coming soon?

[@3985uprr]

At some point

[@PhonyGamer-po8ci]

Any tips on Trainspotting in Boston? I’ll be at north station soon

[@3985uprr]

You need a ticket to get inside just buy the cheapest round trip ticket you can. Once inside, you can hang out with no problem then take a little ride and when you come back, keep your ticket so you can exit the station

[@PhonyGamer-po8ci]

@@3985uprrgood to know! Thank you!

[@nathanielcoleman5694]

I’m sorry but an F40 with LED lights just looks wrong to me. It’s like a cursed image from the Internet, but real

[@3985uprr]

I looked beyond the LED lights to see the locomotive behind it. That’s what turns me on.

[@mattygtheoneandonly]

I had no idea Amtrak trains terminate at Philadelphia

[@3985uprr]

Some do.

[@mattygtheoneandonly]

@@3985uprr I never knew that

[@mattygtheoneandonly]

@@3985uprr I never knew that

[@mattygtheoneandonly]

@@3985uprr I never knew that

[@mattygtheoneandonly]

@@3985uprrI never knew that

[@Kidney7661]

Is there any real reason why Amtrak rarely uses push/pull equipment? I know on the keystone they do, but I feel like it would be much more efficient on the regional as well.

[@mrvwbug4423]

They don't have that many cab cars. They are already running dual locomotive push-pull on some Keystone and NER services due to a shortage of cab cars (I'm sure the engineers don't mind having double the power on their consist haha, given the ACS-64 is an absolute beast in terms of pulling power). Once the Airo sets come into service, all NEC services should be push-pull as the Airo sets all have cab cars. Their performance should increase substantially too as the ALC-42Es have an extra set of traction motors on the pantograph car, which will give the Airo sets around 17,200hp on the wire (basically equivalent to 2x ACS-64s) and 4200hp on diesel.

[@johnplampin7274]

​@@mrvwbug4423 will the Airos ever come?

[@LexieLovesTrains542]

Hi

[@LexieLovesTrains213]

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