Mid-day commuter train stopping at Salem, MA

[@danielkielty4757]

Those MBTA f units are majestic!!! Amazing!

[@HayastAnFedayi]

Steve I was born in Salem MA in 1981, I remember old Salem Depot vividly, especially the cool staircases leading down to the platform... seeing the old F10's and budd cars and the old Salem Depot makes me weep for my youth to return... I wonder what I was doing when you were filming this, I lived right down after Canal St, I lived on 119 Loring Ave, right at the entrance to the Sylvania plant...please tell me you have more footage of the old Salem Depot Steve.....I want more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL

[@lolmock25]

Love the bell on the train

[@RAdaltonracer]

Damn that is a nice train! Love the old video.

[@blood117]

There are two Budd cars sitting near the engine terminal in Somerville rotting away, makes me wonder if they still have an F10 around sharing the same fate.

[@Trainlover4472]

blood117 well they do but it's at the Edeville railroad

[@rhurley1012]

@@Trainlover4472 it got repainted into a sante fe superchief scheme

[@rhurley1012]

those budd cars got hauled away somewhere in lowell i believe

[@markjones2410]

The mbta should bring back the older engines to rehab those instead of wasting money on their budgets I think that those ones were more better and powerful then what the commuter rail has today!

[@jundukes]

Nice one. I can find so little surviving imagery of the trench station at Salem.

[@FortHillPark]

Here's a few: goo.gl/photos/WVfwo3dKfVxb7xp36

[@mbta1051]

Looks like the last 2 Budd cars are running, smoke coming out of them.

[@FortHillPark]

The practice at the time was for the engines on all occupied cars to be running. I'm not sure about the unoccupied cars. The engines were needed to supply electricity for lights, heat, and a/c. I don't know if they still powered the air compressors. They did not provide propulsion, and were not connected to the engineer's throttle regardless of the direction of travel (they were push-pull).

[@moew1051]

Was one track a through track and the other was a terminating track? Long shot since this is 10 years old but still

[@FortHillPark]

No. It's a two track main line squeezing down to one to fit through the old portion of the tunnel.

[@moew1051]

@@FortHillPark I mean is one of the platforms there for terminating because it looks it needs more room to merge

[@FortHillPark]

@@moew1051 No. It was a two track station on a two track main.

[@AdamRud47]

I've seen a couple Budd cars sitting on the right side track heading outbound from north station on the Newburyport branch. There's two or three just sitting there, along with a bunch of other cars that seem to share the same age. That old salem depot is still there, but it's entirely locked off and rendered useless. Too bad the MBTA closed it down and made it rot to hell. I would like to see what it was like down there when it was still active. At least the same tracks are still used and you can still see what's left of the old station.

[@HayastAnFedayi]

+AdamRud47 hey buddy, I was born in 1981 in Salem and lived there until 1988, I was and still am a huge railfan and a huge fan of the MBTA commuter rail and the MBTA subways, I remember the old Salem Depot fondly when my dad would take me for rides on the T every Saturday, I remember the stairs on both sides of the platform and how steep the stairs were, I remember the sounds and smells of the F10 locomotives and the Budd cars like it was yesterday! I agree they shouldn't have shut it down, they could have renovated it. The reason they shut it down was because of no handicap access and little to no parking. There is a ton of land near the station that isn't used much anymore since the heyday of freight trains have passed, so the yards sit pretty empty. It also could have been used as an overflow station as well!!

[@AdamRud47]

I agree with the whole parking and the no handicap access, but with some renovation it could be opened again. Maybe in the future it could be opened again, we will never know.

[@HayastAnFedayi]

I agree Adam, that station had a lot of history and feel to it, steam locomotives used to come up from the tunnel near there into a castle like station, I grew up on Loring Ave right near Canal Street. Look up Salem Depot old station on google images

[@AdamRud47]

I have seen it, and i'm guessing they tore it down to build the tunnel that goes under downtown Salem to increase traffic flow.

[@LunaMizuki8806]

I use to live there, do you know what happened to the trains? Are they still active in salem?