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The Orange line Better known as the Congo Cruise.

Busses wouldn't have been more effective than trolleys if the American public hadn't got addicted to cars!!! 😠

Great video, but i pronounce it Treemont Street.

Very interesting. Great job!

DERLAND

This is an INCREDIBLE mini-doc. Thank you so much for producing this, moved to Eastie a couple years ago and this taught me SO much new information. Hope to see you around Eastie!

The El went to Everett

Amtrak train getting delayed for an hour immediately is such an Amtrak thing to do

Amazing how you can go into the Park Street station and observe the early construction of the tunnel, etc. it’s amazing that it’s still substantial after all that time. Thanks for an interesting video!

The CTA Yellow Line used to switch between overhead and third-rail, it became third-rail only in 2004! The line runs between Howard on the North Side of Chicago to Skokie. The Yellow Line is the only L line that does not go to The Loop and was the first L route to become fully ADA-accessible. The line also has grade crossings, and even runs below-grade for a part of a length even though it has no subway section nor runs in a median of a highway. The Yellow Line originally began as the Niles Center Branch of the old Chicago Rapid Transit Company. The rapid transit service began as part of the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, the high-speed Skokie Valley interurban line on an 8 km-section between Howard and Dempster Street, Niles Center (Niles Center is now called Skokie). It began operations in March 1925. The line once had many stations, Main, Kostner, Crawford-East Prairie, and stations in Evanston at Dodge, Asbury, and Ridge. In March 1948, the Chicago Transit Authority, who had just bought out the Chicago Rapid Transit Company in 1947, ended service over the Niles Center Branch and replaced it with a bus route. The line reopened as the Skokie Swift in 1964 from Howard to Dempster-Skokie as the original line did, though the majority of stations from the original line didn't reopen, however Oakton-Skokie reopened in 2012 because of its downtown Skokie location compared to Dempster-Skokie.

Having to take a ferry after getting off the train to complete the journey to Boston is also similar to how at one point in time, most trains that went towards NYC didn't terminate in NYC, they terminated at different terminals like Hoboken Terminal and Communipaw Terminal on the NJ waterfront, and had passengers take ferries to reach NYC. The PRR building NY Penn Station and the North River Tunnels, now used by the Northeast Corridor, changed that. The original intention of the PATH (formerly called Hudson & Manhattan Railroad) was to connect the terminals to NYC. Besides the facts you mentioned about the tunnel, the East Boston Tunnel is notable for the fact that when they built the tunnel underwater, it was actually the first subway tunnel in the whole of North America that went under a body of water! You can also see trains that change between third-rail and catenary on the Metro-North's New Haven Line. Trains between New Haven and Mount Vernon East follow the Northeast Corridor and uses overhead catenary, while between Pelham and Grand Central Terminal, it uses third-rail. All New Haven Line electric trains change over between third-rail and overhead catenary between Mount Vernon East and Pelham at normal track speed. As they transition, the third-rail shoes stay in the same position both in and out of third rail territory. Both catenary and third rail overlap for a quarter-mile between Mount Vernon East and Pelham to facilitate this changeover. With Penn Station Access further following the Northeast Corridor and its Hell Gate Line, trains will have third-rail shoes capable of using both under-running and over-running third-rail. While the Metro-North uses under-running third-rail, the LIRR uses over-running third-rail. The New Haven Line also stands out because it has three branches, the Waterbury, New Canaan, and Danbury Branches! The Danbury Branch runs from downtown Norwalk to Danbury, it opened in 1852 as the Danbury and Norwalk Railroad. Until the early 1970s, passenger service continued north from Danbury to Canaan, Connecticut, and Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The Berkshire ran on the line from Grand Central to Pittsfield between the 1940s and 1968. The route served as a path to country homes of New Yorkers, as well as to towns such as Canaan and New Milford in an area lacking Interstate highways or major airports. The Waterbury Branch originally opened in 1849 as the Naugatuck Railroad (named for the river that it parallels; the name "Naugatuck" is derived from an Algonquian term meaning "lone tree by the fishing place"), and under the Naugatuck Railroad, it once continued north to Winsted. The part north of Waterbury is now leased from CTDOT by the Railroad Museum of New England, which operates excursion trains between Thomaston, Waterville, and Thomaston Dam with occasional trips to Torrington. The New Haven Line even has game day service to Yankees-East 153rd Street, a stop typically only used by Hudson Line trains, as New Haven Line trains use a wye at Mott Haven interlocking to reach Yankee Stadium on game days. At one point in time, the New Haven Line also had game day service to the Meadowlands for Sunday 1 pm Giants and Jets games. The service was operated using NJ Transit equipment under an operating agreement among NJT, Metro-North, and Amtrak. NJT equipment was required as its electric locomotive power was capable of running under the various catenary systems over three separate railroads using different power supplies. The program was only offered for the early afternoon games so that the NJT equipment could be moved back in place for the Monday morning rush hour. The train didn't go direct to the Meadowlands of course, they still had to change to a shuttle train at Secaucus.

I literally just seen the commuter rail come by on one of its test runs in Fall River ma they go by daily lol

Go to Oyster Bay Railroad Museum

Literally the only line on the T that runs properly 😂

That Down Under came out of nowhere 😂😂😂. Made me lol literally. Got me to sub.

Loved this. Subbed and hoping for more!

Awesome video man! Did you go to school at Umass Lowell? Swear I had a class with you lol.

Red line!!

It made it into Fallout 4.

The video is well made and very informative. The presenter really needs to discipline himself, and keep his hands still. His hand movements seem to travel upwards, causing his head to swivel left and right. For me, it’s like watching an oscillating fan that has the ability to talk!

Hello, Max Transit. I know that place. I often walk through skywalk at Wellington on my way to work at Wegmans. I have seen there everyday.

The blue line has the oldest train operator in the world she is in the genius world record book they just put up a plaque at aquarium station for her

Shortest? No love for the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed?

“The Doors will open on the right side of the Train”

Fascinating! I love learning about transit. (But you have got to stop moving your hands when you speak. Very distracting.)

Hey, I hate to be a stickler for details, but your statement about the choice of "existing Grand Central platforms" vs "new cavern" is totally wrong. The deciding factor wasn't price, but rather agency dysfunction: MetroNorth didn't want to share its facilities with Long Island Railroad. The decision to build the deep cavern under Grand Central led to *billions* of extra dollars spent and additional years of construction. Plus it's so deep underground that getting up to street level takes long enough to partially negate the time savings of arriving on the East Side vs Penn Station.

amazing quality video, bro

LAND DOWN UNDER!!! (WTf......!!) 😂

When the Red Line extension to the south shore was first proposed, overhead wires were planned and the 1400 Red Line Cars were supposed to be outfitted with pantographs but that idea was scrapped in favor of 3rd rail operation however, I did see an old artist rendition for the South Shore Line with the 1400's running under wire via pantographs. When the Seashore Trolley Museum was going to acquire two 1400s, the guy in charge of their subway car collection said retrofitting them with trolley poles for museum operation would be easier since they had been originally built to hold pantographs. If history had been different, two of Boston's subway lines could have had overhead wires.

Sweet!

Thanks for this wicked awesome video! 👍💛

Masks don't work, Jarrad .

I grew up right there. Maverick. We used to walk between Maverick and Aquarium when the trains shut down at night. Still had to be careful because if there was training, that's when they did it. Once watched a guy do a handstand on the third rail.

I thought it was gonna be a cute small train for small people... but it's actually a short run.

I’m guessing they call it the Blue Line because it goes under the harbor

This did good in views.😮

Excellent history of the Blue Line! I really like how you included the photo of the old Pullmans which were replaced by the Hawker Siddelys and later on the current generation of Siemens, only to soom out at Orient Heights for a train of Suemens come in and stop there. Nice touch! 👍☺️

OH FUCK YEAH!!! I’m going to be seasick!!! Thanks for the shoutout! Another banger as usual lol

East Boston is dtill technically an island: Sales Creek separates it from Revere, it’s barely visible but you drive over it or ride over it at Suffolk Downs Noddles Island was the site of a humiliating defeat of Royal Marines who tried to scrounge for food leading to a battle, loss of a ship, and forcing the Battle of Bunker Hill to occur 1:13 angle the arrow 15-20 degrees to the right and your arrow is directly over that road(Broadway/Western Ave./Highland Ave.) Eastern’s ferry was actually several blocks east of Lewis Wharf that was not the one you talked about, it’s why the Grand Junction Railroad in Chelsea/Everett/Somerville was built and how the Eastern got into Boston itself in 1849 The Devonshire transfer came five years later than the tunnel, the tunnel predated the Washington St. tunnel Extensions beyond Wonderland was blocked by local politicians due to the need to bulldoze properties built illegally on state-owned land…the Speaker of the House of Representatives represented that neighborhood so killed any plans while East Lynn’s representative ignores residents as she’s from the neighboring Marblehead so doesn’t care about the impact on her constituents the reliable source for the claimed route to Chelsea was the original plans from when the East Boston Tunnel was being built: the route would have gone down Meridian St. to Chelsea then toward Bellingham Square where it terminated and transfers to streetcars were made. plans to extend beyond that were open for debate as it could have gone on to Everett and then Malden but how isn’t clear- just the Chelsea routing The buttons are for opening the doors as they’re set to only open with button pressing there due to the short platform length due to the sharp curve. they do have a second purpose: keeps doors open for wheelchair users and those with carriages

The blue line repair shop or maintenance shop is like getting swallowed by the habat around, i think...

It has been a whole year since you posted

4:21 Note that the Boston Elevated had shares owned by public entities and all of the dedicated RoW (including the tunnels and the Elevated trackage as well as the stations), were built and owned by the Boston Transit Commission. So Boston effectively had a municipally owned system using a mostly private operator. Which is why the network survived much of the anti-transit shenanigans of the 1950s.

2:47 That’s Los Angeles!!!

Work for the Southwest Corridor actually began much earlier (late 1960s) when the New England (Tufts) Medical Center station was built and then sat empty underneath it for over a decade.

Regarding trains to Readimg, remember that it was thought that the B&M would shut down and disappear. What wasn’t envisioned was the Commonwealth (or the MBTA) first subsidizing and then taking over the regional (commuter) rail lines.

It used to be that the change from Pantograph to Third-Rail was done at Maverick, but it was changed to Airport, perhaps because the stop there is now longer thanks to airline passengers boarding and alighting.

Fun fact, when the ferries shut down, that meant it was difficult to move horse-drawn carriages and pushcarts from East Boston, where many of these vehicles and animals resided, into downtown Boston.

Keep your hands still

Boston needs a metro like DC

New Max Transit video before GTA 6 is crazy 💀