Ride on MBTA train
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Enjoy the ride on this line which was once part of NH Old Colony service.  the Boston area has always been a fascination for me and you were here much said about a variety of Boston area topics, in addition to the railroad.  Somehow we managed to get to Boston on time being shoved by one of those mechanical monstrosities. (when you’re retired, it’s easy to lose track as to what date it is. Also with all of the navigating I had to do on my GPS to get to the station, it was hard to tell which way Boston was so when I say the track goes to Hyannis it actually goes to Boston.)
I always found the MBTA paint scheme to be nice. Especially loved the "T"logo on their F units
Great ride. Thanks Tim😀💚
Glad to see you’re back in my home area!
Always enjoy going up there. May go back in a couple of months.
Seeing this makes me miss Boston. I need to visit commons park again and railfan again. I am a yanks fan too but have a healthy respect for boston as well.
And also, the Dropkick Murphys are awesome.
Eng for the MBTA, now we got Train Daddy (Andy Byford) joining Amtrak too!!
hello retired railfan horn guy its is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks friends randy
At about 8:00 in your video you passed several GP40-2. When I worked the FEC during the early 80’s we would run a lot of GP40-2 on our unit train that would haul rock from Rinker Materials in Medley Florida to City Point in Florida. I really enjoyed those engines. We also had GP40’s that were great running engines.
Robert now retired in Island City Oregon
GP40-2’s were my favorite engine on Conrail. They are great reliable engines like the SD40-2’s. I’ve seen them in FEC. I’ve never met a railroad employee who disliked those engines. Most I can honestly say love EMD’s. What I’ve heard employees say about GE’s is unprintable
At 44:58 you pass the carriage house of President John Adams summer white house. "Peace Feild" or The Adams Mansion
I live in bridgewater and I used to take the train in to the city all the time😊
You were pointing your camera towards Boston, not Hyannis.
We have 3 locals out of Middleborough. I took care of those cars with the 3 set Sunday Night.
The Tie issue on the line was defective concrete ties.
Driving to the station the GPS had me going in all different directions so I wasn’t sure which way was which. 😀😀. Somehow I believed that was the direction of Hyannis. Wow, those concrete ties must’ve been really crappy.
@@3985uprr while they were changing them out, freight was restricted to 15mph and passenger was restricted to 50. They had gauge rods all over the place to keep the track in gauge.
Back before 2011 this line had concrete ties. They were replaced with wood ties because they had cracks in them. Green bush line still has them because they used a different batch of concrete ties.
Because the concrete ties that were used before 2011 were of subpar quality (like a lot of things on the MBTA these days)
@@MattyC62185 interestingly enough, there’s a small section in middleboro that still had them
@@JoeyLovesTrains A lot of them had to be replaced because they were crumbling. As Tim says these Kawasaki and Hyundai Rotem Bi-Level cars are Heavy and it wore the ties and tracks on this line out. I know as I’ve said before what was used to reactivate this line was of poor quality. Hence the need to replace them when those heavy by levels tore them up it is crap like this is why the MBTA has the reputation that it does, and feel like it is capable of so much better Performance wise, but the biggest thing that bugs me is seeing diesels under a wire, where there should be electrics
You will also see these Hyundai Rotem cars on Miami TRI-rail and Los Angeles Metro-link
@@MattyC62185 yeah, they’re similar but have low level boarding only. It’s also very disappointing seeing diesels under wire..
I wonder how come a lot of the time on the double track portion going through the city of Brocton, they run the trains on the opposite track a lot of the time. Therefore at Monticello station, how are you support to know which track the train will arrive on before the train arrives. If your on the wrong platform when the train arrives, the train will block the pedestrian crossing, and you will miss your trains. Why don't they always run the trains on the right tracks? Outbound trains on the outbound platform, inbound trains on the Inbound platform. At Hallifax Station it is also just as confusing.
Rode this train from Bridgewater and it was nice, but they did open up Pawtucket station a few months back
You probably made a stop at my station Holbrook/Randolph
The $10 weekend special is for the entire weekend not just one day that’s a deal 10 bucks all you can ride and I know somebody who does this quite frequently in the MBTA group I went to school with him
They’re practically giving it away
The 3rd stop is my.
Sandra. Brockton mass.
Those breaks sound like the NJ Transit Comet Is
MBTA also uses Comets
What's broken?
@@MatthewMello he’s referring to the brakes (typo)
Where's that abandoned line at 6:17 go?
Not sure
Maybe a connection to the nearby abandoned Old Colony Fall River Branch?
MBTA uses K5LA horns to my knowledge
You’re also passing through the Irish Riviera
Where is the Irish Riviera?
@@3985uprr it’s what people from Boston refer to the South shore which is Norfolk,Plymouth, Barnstable County MA gets that nickname, because those three counties have a very large population of Irish ancestry.
@@MattyC62185 sounds like I’d be deliriously happy there
@@3985uprr or maybe not that HOLE that Brockton is… It is the birthplace of Rocky Marciano, but other than that that place has definitely seen better days
@@MattyC62185 Brockton seemed a bit seedy. A place I love on the commuter rail is Rockport. 😊
Nice. What was the max speed on this line?
I think 60
They do 70 on the majority of the line
How did you happen to become a Red Sox fan?
Enjoy baseball and I love Boston, so I just put two and two together
i hate those HSP46s...
I hate them as much as I love their F40’s
And I am hearing Lots of calls for electrification from the Massachusetts state legislature. I would love to see how that turns out.
Also, that CSX yard you pass by it’s where the line will eventually go to fall River Add New Bedford by way of East Taunton. Those are the last three major cities within 50 miles of Boston that do not have commuter rail service interesting point you could take a train from South Station to fall River and look at the USS Massachusetts from there. I’ve been to that shit many many times as a kid. I’ve always thought it was cool to see a World War II, battleship.
And you also passed Bridgewater State Hospital there, too That is Massachusetts, equivalent of Creedmoor