Extremely Rare Amtrak & MBTA Trains on the Northeast Corridor Featuring the Caltrans Test Train!

Test Trains, Double Drafts, and a P32 under the wires. Over the past few months, there have been several rare trains that have rolled through the Massachusetts section of the Northeast Corridor. Included in the video are several shots of a test train consisting of Veteran's ACS-64 #642, 3 coaches, and a brand-new Siemens Venture Coach for Caltran/Amtrak California service, as well as a second ACS-64. This coach was undergoing high speed testing across the entire NEC; however it spent the better part of 2 weeks testing between Boston and Westerly, RI. Additionally, there was an Amtrak PTC Extra consisting of a P32 leading ex metroliner conference car #9800, Phase 3 Heritage Sleeper Pacific Bend, an amfleet cafe car, and a P42. Also included in the video is a MBTA Double Draft set, a MBTA Davisville Extra, the Amtrak Inspection cars, an Amtrak Power Move, and the one shot I got of the Coca Cola ACS-64 #606 in 2020. In addition are some run of the mill Amtrak, MBTA, and CSX trains running through Attleboro, Mansfield, and Canton Junction. Hope you all enjoy!
Filmed January-May 2020

[@trainsandtrams2020]

The Veteran's ACS-64 looks really sharp and like a fitting salute to those that served. I love it, when there is variety in locomotive appearances and not all members of the fleet are identical. The vantage points you chose for this film are good trainspotting locations and ideal for capturing all these trains at speed. I wonder how much longer it will be, until the MBTA finally gets electric locomotives to run its Boston South Station trains to Rhode Island. It's nuts using slow and polluting diesels under the wires and there are plenty of good "off the shelf" electric locos now available to deploy. I guess it's just a matter of getting the funding in place for the procurement and lining up all the ducks, so to speak.

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

Don't get your hopes up. I have asked about this, and even though the MBTA's own Fiscal Control Board is now (or at least a few months ago was) recommending electrification, the T always comes up with some excuses why something can't be done -- never mind that New Jersey Transit seems to be plodding along with electrification (not amazingly fast, but at least something).

[@massrailvideos]

I caught the test train twice. At Readville, and at Canton Junction

[@Thomas1980]

H_E_L_L_O_____Super good Video! Thumbs Up!

[@pzindy7673]

You should include timestamps in the description, it would help us find what we want to see.

[@KenDrPH]

Fantastic! I loved the shot of the Coca Cola ACS 64, that was special...well done 💫

[@irmahurtado9458]

Me too

[@irmahurtado9458]

Hi

[@BlindingLight]

sometimes, I watch MBTA videos to get a bit of nostalgia

[@cp9831]

Excellent shots, keep then coming!

[@Mnrr6131]

By the 4th time te test train rolled through I was like “enough of you for a while”

[@21xd09]

Really awesome catches! Looks like things are starting to get back up and running.

[@Martin_TrainSpotter]

Great job! Cheers from Croatia!

[@tractorsmachinesro1405]

Absolute amazing

[@dennisschafer4883]

super Video. Thanks

[@amtrakfilms139]

Need to get back out to the NEC I miss it. what were those 2 ex metroliners doing on the one Amtrak train?

[@sammonkey6621]

Actually the red silver train always remind me of all new paint job train bus and track edition

[@66kprdwd]

Great as always Alex.

[@newenglandrailvidoes]

Thanks John!

[@philiprand8049]

There's still jointed rail in Attleboro?!

[@ConfusedNyan]

Those Venture coaches are going into service with IDOT, too,

[@tech83studio38]

Siemens Viaggio USA railcars.

[@patb6317]

3:34 was that a Patriot train?

[@ruscherry7985]

Man!!! Those MBTA cars are in desperate need of wheel truing!!

[@pdmaviation1974]

why is caltrans doing a train on the NEC

[@Lucius_Chiaraviglio]

Not sure, but my guess is that they wanted to test the equipment before their own electrification infrastructure was complete, and the part of the Northeast Corridor north of New Haven has the same electrification system.

[@mec3403]

They were testing it on the NEC so they could get up to a high speed, faster than you could out in California

[@eurouc]

What’s with the clanging bell? Is this the 19th century?

[@flaviolau4610]

Its normal in american trains

[@belledomnik]

@Flavio Lau Exactly...

[@NortheastCorridorFilms]

It’s meaning is to warn passengers the train’s approaching or leaving.

[@eurouc]

@@NortheastCorridorFilms Got that bit; it just sounds like something out of the 19th century. Other countries have moved on to something more up to date

[@NortheastCorridorFilms]

@@eurouc thanks for the update :/

[@apmazurka]

Does the T Ever wash any Equipment??? i Think NOT!

[@ericjamieson]

I'd settle for round wheels.

[@maymayandajjackson7349]

0:12 is that a p42 cuz it does not look like one

[@RAY_665]

3:50 ASC-64 TEST TRAIN?

[@massrailvideos]

First! Awesome video!

[@user-vd5ci3cp5m]

Это поезд

[@slavikslavin6751]

Sounds like veeeerrry poor MBTA rolling stock maintenance: almost every car has 1 or more defected wheels that obviously kills rail infrastructure.

[@philiprand8049]

{"One does not simply walk into mordor" meme template} The T does not simply maintain its assets.

[@paulspomer16]

What do you mean by defective wheels?

[@Peppagetsadinosaur]

Where is the cal train?

[@newenglandrailvidoes]

The Venture coach being tested on the trains with ACS-64 642 is from Caltran

[@Peppagetsadinosaur]

Oh ok

[@cit2braine]

It's like 19th century trains running there. Real 3rd world country public transport vibe.

[@thejoechannel6912]

cit2braine what are you on about?

[@jackpez]

Joe Embry ikr

[@user-vd5ci3cp5m]

!!!???

[@rastaman5105]

What a noisy diesel locomotives , that,s not good for the planet !!