Boston area NEC railfanning. F40’s, roaring HSP46’s, hornshows, and Avelia test train. 1/24/24

Рет қаралды 11,079

Күн бұрын

Пікірлер: 90

@Westlander857 10 ай бұрын

I studied at Northeastern University for a couple years, a mile or two south of Back Bay. I would study on the fourth floor of the library, which overlooked the NEC. MBTA FP40s, ACS-64s and Acelas for days! Made me appreciate trains so much more. Boston is a railfanners paradise!

@richmartin1427 10 ай бұрын

You finally railfanned Readville, which IMO is one of the best places on the MBTA to railfan. Great job as always. I grew up near here, so this area is near and dear to my heart.

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

Very cool!

@GeneralLiuofBoston1911 Ай бұрын

I personally uphold what others say: if you can make the journey, railfan in Mansfield. You'll see Acela and Northeast Regional trains going their fullest!

@richmartin1427 Ай бұрын

@@GeneralLiuofBoston1911 Mansfield is good with the high speed trains. Readville gets a lot more action with the Franklin and Fairmount lines also serving the station. Just depends on quantity vs quality.

@MSRTA_Productions 10 ай бұрын

14:09 the pure sound of e-bells 😌

@scottyerkes1867 10 ай бұрын

Great railfanning! The action and variety of trains makes the dull, gray weather fade away. Thanks Tim💚👌

@WH_Railfan84 10 ай бұрын

I enjoy your train videos. Awesome commentary. You caught quite a few EMD F40PH's. Have a good day sir!

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

Not enough of them but more than I expected. Those are about the prettiest locomotives I’ve ever seen.

@WH_Railfan84 10 ай бұрын

@@3985uprr 👍🏾👍🏾

@elizetes7313 4 ай бұрын

I used to live in Franklin. I took the train for 10 years. I know I love the ride. Thank you for sharing.

@paulmatulavich7321 10 ай бұрын

Excellent compilation with some dynamite action, sweet meets, and The Avelia!!

@theestallion818 10 ай бұрын

😮😮😮😮 RUSH HOUR FRENZY!!!!!

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

Too many Garfield’s

@WillTheTrainFan 10 ай бұрын

Readville is absolutely one of my favorite spots on the MBTA to railfan; 4 commuter rail lines and Amtrak, and a crazy track layout, it’s awesome!

@anthonywarrener1881 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this great video ! Delighted to see the Avelia Liberty test train, and your sequence has the best footage I have yet to see and hear these new trains !

@JMlodzinski 2 ай бұрын

@@anthonywarrener1881 where did you see the azalea cuz I saw a lot of them at 3:00 Street station have about nine sets do you know why they're not running acela expresses azaleas?

@anthonywarrener1881 2 ай бұрын

@@JMlodzinski no-one seems to know when the new Avelia units will enter passenger service.

@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyan 10 ай бұрын

It’s nice to see the older one side windshield budd built M3 multi-unit sets still in service for a Long Island I assume it won’t be long until they’re all retired

@thefanridrshow1967 10 ай бұрын

Love your videos. Beautiful sets of trains.

@tonymento7460 10 ай бұрын

Back in 1978 when the MBTA F-40’s and the Pullman commuter rail cars were new South Station was the place to see F-40’s the GP-9s ( X -New Haven ) E-8’s ( X - Penn Central / Pennsylvania Railroad) RDC cars with X- New Haven / Penn Central R R commuter rail cars Amtrak F -40 ‘s with the Budd Amfleet cars Amtrak E-8 engines with passenger cars built by the Budd and Pullman Company it was cool to see the RS - 3 ‘s moving the Amtrak equipment around and seeing some of the B & M SW-9 engines moving some of the MBTA commuter rail cars around too

@MiddleboroLakevilleRailfan 10 ай бұрын

Oh boy, Garfield central! Sorry ya had to go through that lol. Readville is quite the busy spot as I’ve learned through watching videos/experience. If possible I recommend Norwood depot as it’s a great station with horn action!

@theestallion818 10 ай бұрын

M3 cars 1968!!!

@TheBeagle58 10 ай бұрын

Excellent video! bravo!

@jenniferjansen2484 10 ай бұрын

Another great video, I enjoyed seeing a busy MBTA Commuter Rail rush hour in this post-Covid rush hour. Do you know when the next Avelia run north is coming?

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

Not sure of the schedule

@roberttaylor3157 10 ай бұрын

Great Video Thank You

@PeteParas 10 ай бұрын

MBTA Commuter rail calls it the Fairmount Line, Last I knew (Unless they changed it) the employee timetable calls it the Dorchester Route Main Line. Same thing! haha. Good videos

@bluesboyst 10 ай бұрын

My neck of the woods. I am usually down there a few times a week.

@VisableTV 10 ай бұрын

Nice to finally meet ya at Readville!!! Keep up the great content!

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Mr. Engineer. I heard there were some problems with that equipment later on.

@VisableTV 10 ай бұрын

@@3985uprr lol I’m just a conductor, but yea we experienced some mechanical defects a little further down the line. The main issue was the fire alarm malfunctioning. There was no fire but for some reason the alarm was going off.

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

I saw the equipment arriving to New York and there are a lot of people around it with emergency warnings being displayed to evacuate

@wwedivas2011 10 ай бұрын

Oh gosh I'm from New Jersey but I use to travel up to Boston a lot by Amtrak great momories....

@tokugawa12able 10 ай бұрын

Garfields or not, this was a fantastic video ….full of action and very educational MBTA is all diesel on these lines? I guess I should know why. Thanks, Tim.

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

Those Garfield’s are there, so I might as well get them. I can’t have videos if I don’t have trains in them. There is some things about them that I like, but too much of them kind of gets to me.

@PeteParas 10 ай бұрын

Welcome to Bawstin!

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

That’s how a Long Islander would pronounce it

@ryans1010 10 ай бұрын

Wow! At 22:34 that’s me!! Too bad I didn’t say hi to you Tim! I had no idea it was you filming.

@winstonpx 10 ай бұрын

Is the cab usually open for a RFW (I know when I last went to Boston the entire cab car was closed ): ) or was the engineer nice and gave you permission after asking?

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

Where were you?

@MbtaVideoClips 10 ай бұрын

@@winstonpx North side they only open cab car during the rush hour. South side it can vary, but the old colony generally has it open no matter what (especially if its a flat/double mixed set)

@thomaspagan4914 10 ай бұрын

Wow! I can't believe the volume of traffic... And it is an awful lot to think this new Acela is for real... it reminds me so much of the 1930s UP M10000 concept... are those cars going to stand up or is articulation going to result in a lot of trains tied up for maintenance? My days if riding the east coast rails a re way long gone, but in my time I very much enjoyed the AMTRAK Metro cars and very much the one time I took the business car on a ;Fast Mail' from New London to New York. You're putting out terrific stuff and making all of this look great! Thanks!

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

Appreciate that!!!

@railfansammy4974 10 ай бұрын

Nice catches

@garingdahl 10 ай бұрын

@2:40 Wonder if the idiot crossing the tracks tripped over the rail when the train appeared to be about 50 yards away could gotten up and out of the way in the 5 seconds it took the train to reach the spot he crossed!

@Normal...Hinged... 10 ай бұрын

awesome 🙂

@steve-o5600 10 ай бұрын

The Avelia sure seems to have limited forward visibility with its small windshield.

@winstonpx 10 ай бұрын

2:35 what a dumb move. The realistic chance that you trip on a rail or slip on the snow and get sawed in half is not worth the two minutes you save.

@Jeff-uj8xi 10 ай бұрын

Wow !! That guy was really a fool. Seeing is believing. Engineers see nonsense like that all the time, including by crackpot motorists taking awful chances at grade crossings. The stuff engineer's nightmares are made from.

@LSR449 10 ай бұрын

55 minutes of Northeast Corridor Action! Did you have any places to warm up? Must've been real cold out there!

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

My feet were cold, but I had a warm coat on and thermal underwear so it wasn’t that bad. Adrenaline and enthusiasm kept me warm.

@LSR449 10 ай бұрын

@@3985uprr I always have a car next to me so I can warm up fast!

@BrianJColby15YT 10 ай бұрын

Nice video - Readville is about a mile or two from my old neighborhood of Hyde Park. (I now live in West Roxbury, and the Needham line is right down the street from me.) One thing you notice is that hardly any trains (except the Avelia train) stop at the "main" line where the Amtrak/Providence/Stoughton trains operate. The main trains that stop at Readville are the Fairmount Line on Track 4 and the Forge Park trains on Track 5. You are 100% correct that the Amtrak trains operated on the Fairmount line (which was also called the Midland line) from 1979 to 1987 to allow the rebuild of the SW Corridor line. There was a shuttle from South Station to (old) Back Bay until the SW Corridor reopened in 1987. If I remember correctly, they had a two car Budd RDC train (or maybe a GP9 hauling two Budd cars). Ruggles is where the Amtrak trains accelerate from Back Bay to Route 128, not quite reaching the 125mph max until they're about a half mile outside of Ruggles. From Route 128 to Providence is where the Acela picks up its max speed of 150mph.

@MbtaVideoClips 10 ай бұрын

No scheduled stops on any Providence/Stoughton trains at Readville. Also, the Fairmount is Track #4 & Franklin track is Track #5.

@BrianJColby15YT 10 ай бұрын

@@MbtaVideoClips You can tell how long I've been out of Hyde Park/Readville...:P I've corrected my post.

@pancakefish 10 ай бұрын

sounds like it's got somethin good on the back too 😆-RRHG 2024

@JMlodzinski 2 ай бұрын

What I meant was anybody tell me why the new Acela Liberty is sitting at 30th Street yard ?

@3985uprr 2 ай бұрын

That is where they are based based out of their test runs

@JMlodzinski 2 ай бұрын

@@3985uprr when are they going to run the new Acela train sets do you know please tell me ?

@MbtaVideoClips 10 ай бұрын

Not only did you see your F40's, but also some of the last remaining Kawasaki cab cars assigned to the south side! Most of them have been moved north, and soon all (and probably a couple rotems) will be moved north to replace the remaining bombardier comet cabs.

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

I notice the doubledeckers all have power vestibule doors. Some used to have manual doors. The comets look tired and still have manual doors. I know of no commuter railroad to North America that has a mixture of power and non-powered doors on their trains. My next trip will be to get north side stuff.

@MbtaVideoClips 10 ай бұрын

@@3985uprr Yeah, only half the 900 series double decker cars have the handles, which mostly are north as well. Also, if you come up north, I’d suggest Anderson RTC or Wedgemere, for its Amtrak Downeaster trains (stops at anderson, skips wedgemere) & the frequent Lowell Line service during rush hour. There’s also 3 haverhill trips a day that run nonstop down the lowell line & wildcat

@MbtaVideoClips 10 ай бұрын

@@3985uprr The comets and MBB cars also have door controls, but they are left unused/unwired/etc. 200 and 1500 cars had them activated when the old colony lines opened, but were disabled later on. You can still see the door panels on 200 cars, all others are left covered up.

@reallifechronicles1707 8 ай бұрын

@@3985uprr When the Kawasakis were rebuilt, all power door equipment was activated.

@MbtaVideoClips 8 ай бұрын

@@3985uprrIf you want to come north, I’d come asap lol. Only 9 bombardier comet CTC-1B cabs left in service. All other cab cars on the north side are the Kawasaki CTC-4 Bilevels.

@paulbowler2760 9 ай бұрын

How can you describe an FP40PH-3C as a ""thing of beauty""? It has the aerodynamic qualities (in both directions!) of a lead brick!

@3985uprr 9 ай бұрын

You are entitled to your opinion

@broyofroyo1207 10 ай бұрын

Avelia Liberties cleared key hurdle, hopefully they’ll be in service this year. Why do you hate the HSP46 locomotives?

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

They just look ugly and I’m an EMD guy

@georgejenista9487 10 ай бұрын

So does MBTA no longer have single-level cab cars?

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

I think they still use them on the north side. Next time I go up there maybe in a couple of months I’ll check out the northside. I know much of the older power is on the north side.

@MbtaVideoClips 10 ай бұрын

They have a couple left on the lines out of North Station. Rapidly being replaced by the 1700 Kawasaki Bi-Levels though, so see them while you can.

@georgejenista9487 10 ай бұрын

@@MbtaVideoClips I'll assume then, that as more bi-levels arrive, both single-level cab cars & coaches alike will be replaced.

@MbtaVideoClips 10 ай бұрын

@@georgejenista9487 Correct

@jesset061084 9 ай бұрын

Where r u from am from Massachusetts I know exactly where u r

@3985uprr 9 ай бұрын

Long Island

@liningpan7601 10 ай бұрын

Avelia stopped for you to film it

@3985uprr 10 ай бұрын

Had a stop signal at Transfer switch

@t1dal26 10 ай бұрын

32:22 four trains one clip!

@reallifechronicles1707 8 ай бұрын

As much as we railfans say it, I have to admit, the HSPs are better than the REBUILT F40s from an operation stand point. The F40PH-3C acceleration is unacceptably slow.