Rare MBTA Commuter Trains and Extras on the North and South Sides - Late 2023
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
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About this video: This is a compilation of rare and unusual MBTA commuter trains that I managed to capture between September and December of 2023. Details about the clips in this video are listed below.
0:03 - An MBTA Bradford extra “triple-draft” equipment move in Andover, MA on 9/10/2023
1:42 - An MBTA rescue extra in Hamilton, MA on 9/10/2023
2:33 - An MBTA Middleboro extra equipment move in Fairmount, Boston, MA on 9/17/2023
3:24 - MBTA’s North side work extra in Andover, MA on 10/24/2023
4:15 - MBTA’s Readville switcher in Boston, MA on 10/24/2023
5:57- Two shots of MBTA’s North side power wash train in Beverly, MA on 10/30/2023 and 11/8/2023
7:37 - MBTA’s North side work extra in Wilmington, MA on 11/9/2023
8:24 - MBTA’s North side Holiday Train in Ipswich, MA on 12/2/2023
9:27 - MBTA’s North side work extra pulling a broken down train through Manchester, MA on 12/22/2023
10:14 - Two shots of an MBTA Football Extra in Walpole and Boston, MA on 12/9/2023
13:14 - Two shots of MBTA’s Readville switcher in Cambridge, MA on 12/17/2023
15:28 - Two shots of MBTA’s South side Holiday Train in Boston, MA on 12/2/2023
16:53 - MBTA’s North side Holiday Train in Wilmington, MA on 12/9/2023
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The design of the F40PH was based on the EMD GP40-2 freight road switcher locomotive and shared that locomotive’s turbocharged EMD 645E3 V16 cylinder, two-stroke, water-cooled diesel engine (prime mover). It can produce 3,000-3,200 hp. Both locomotives have four axles. The F40 also has a streamlined carbody and a head-end power (HEP) generator. The “F” in F40PH stands for full width cowl body, the “40” is for the model series, the “P” is for passenger gearing and the “H” is for head-end power. It means the locomotives were the 40th series of locomotives produced by EMD. General Motors’ Electro-Motive Division built the F40PH from 1975 to 1992 for several passenger rail carriers in North America, including Amtrak, GO Transit, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and Metra. Amtrak used the F40PH as their primary locomotive for over 20 years in the 1990s, but they were slowly replaced by the General Electric Genesis series and retired in the early 2000s. Many of the retired F40PHs were sold to other operators, converted into cab control cars or Non-Powered Control Units, or donated to museums. Some of the converted F40s are on Downeaster trains which run between Boston North Station and Brunswick, Maine and others are found on Midwest California routes in Northern California and sometimes are found in the Chicago area. Mechanical: The F40PH is mechanically identical to the GP40-2.
The 3,000-3,200 hp (2.2-2.4 MW) B-B diesel-electric passenger locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in several variants from 1975 to 1992, is beloved by many rail fanners, residents and passengers who go out there to film trains in their area. The locomotives axles and wheel arrangements are as such: Bo’Bo’ and B-B. The F40 has also made it into freight service with the freight carrier Spelko ordering four. They have a top speed of 145-153 km/h (90-95 mph), with some going 80-110 mph as well. AMTK 406 was placed in storage until eventually becoming one of 22 Amtrak F40PH locomotives selected to be converted into non-powered control units (NPCU). As of toddy, it is still in service with Amtrak as an NPCU. The 22 F40s were converted to NPCUs between 1996 and 2007. Amtrak No. 406 is an F40PHR type diesel locomotive built by Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) in July 1988 for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, also known as Amtrak.
Amtrak No. 406 On Display At the Strasburg Rail Road, July 2011. It was used for Amtrak’s 40th Anniversary excursion train on May 1, 2011, to mark 40 years of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, or simply Amtrak. Amtrak No. 406 Undergoing Conversion to An MPCU Unit, October 2007. It was the last of the 22 original units to undergo conversion, being completed in December 2007. No. 406 was retired from regular Amtrak passenger service in 2001. Amtrak No. 406 Sitting Alongside Strasburg (N&W) No. 475 and Thomas (BEDT No. 15), July 2011. MBTX 1139 (originally CN 9620) was extensively rebuilt for passenger service along with 24 other GP40-2LWs to become GP40MCs by AMF in 1997-98. This also included repainting the units to MBTA colors which are purple, yellow and light gray and upgrading it to passenger standards. Once bought over to MBTA, they made several changes to both the interior and exterior of the locomotives. Noticeably, the 4-piece Canadian windshield was reframed and replaced for a more modern 2-piece windshield, inspired by the modern safety-cabs seen on the 6 axle road freight power. Another noticeable change was the cab access door being taken off on the front and the original EMD control stand was removed and replaced with a modern desk-style control stands. This is all to improve operation reliability and efficiency on 40+ year old locomotives.
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The EMD F40PH will always be my favorite diesel-electric passenger locomotive because they saved Amtrak from a big disaster since their GE E60s and EMD SDP40Fs were proving to be very unreliable and I love the classic EMD power better than the junky modern MPI power. This awesome reliability made various other U.S. commuter railroads and VIA Rail in Canada order units of their own in several different variants throughout the 1980s and until the late 1990s. NJ Transit called theirs F40PH-2CAT because those units had a caterpillar head end power generator, VIA Rail’s are called F40PH-2Ds, Metra’s are called F40PH-3s, F40Cs and F40PHM-3s previously PHM-2s and PH-2s. I believe the last-ever F40 was built in 1998 remanufactured from older freight locomotives by Morison-Knudsen. MPI also built a handful of locomotives in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Amtrak was the biggest operator of the F40 having a total of 216 after a purchase of six from GO Transit in 1990. The F40s were proving to be fine and powerful workhorses for long-distance Amtrak trains but by the late 1980s, some of the units were around 15 years old and due for replacement. Amtrak tuned to General Electric to design and build these new locomotives and they were soon to be known as AMTK 103, GE Genesis or simply GENESIS. In late 1991, a supplementary order of 20 Dash 8 units were delivered Nos. 500-519 to begin the F40 replacement process. In 1993, the first variant of the Genesis series, the P40DC, was unveiled and took its maiden passenger run in March of that year. In 1996, GE unveiled the P42DC which was very similar to the P40 but with updated features and more horsepower. These new locomotives were 25% more fuel efficient than the F40s, 15% lighter and spewed 10% less emissions. Two P42s could do the same work as three F40PHs. In December 2001, the last P42s were delivered to Amtrak and the last of the F40s were retired from service in 2003. 19 P40s were upgraded to P42 specifications by the railroad’s Beech Grove shops in the late 2000s. In January 2018, Amtrak was awarded a contract from Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTRail) to overhaul 12 P40s for use on the Springfield and Hartford Lines; the first unit, CDOT 6711, was completed in late January 2021 and delivered to ConnDOT in mid-April. Amtrak now had a total of 207 P42s. The work was to be performed at Amtrak’s Beech Grove shops in Beech Grove, Indiana. The Genesis series of locomotives have been in continuous operation since 1996 and are nearly 30 years old; on February 8, 2022, the first ALC-42 long distance chargers from Siemens started entering service and were to replace most of the P42s by 2025 with some still seeing revenue service on non-long-distance trains. Since the late 2000s, most of the P40s have either been retired, stored, scrapped or sold to other railroads; with only 15 of the original units still in service with Amtrak as of 2024. P32AC-DM for “dual-mode” was built for Metro-North Railroad Nos. 201-231, with Nos. 228-231 being in a New Haven “NH” scheme and 18 for Amtrak Nos. 700-717 and run on Empire Service routes to Albany, NY and to Poughkeepsie, NY on the Metro-North Poughkeepsie Line from New York’s Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan. A total of 48 P32s were built for the two commuter railroads. The Metro-North units are being replaced by a dual-mode variant of the Siemens Charger: the SC-42DM. The Charger is designed and assembled by Siemens Mobility in Florin, California. The locomotives are based off the electric EuroSprinter and Vectron locomotives built by Siemens Mobility and are a diesel variant of these two European electrics. They also share their overall design with the Amtrak Cities Sprinter (ACS-64) electrics which pull Northeast Regional trains on the electrified Northeast Corridor from Boston South Station to Washington Union Station in DC, Palmetto and Silver Meteor/Silver Star trains from NY to DC. P42s also pull Northeast Regional trains to Ranoake, Virginia, Hartford, CT, Bridgeport, CT and Berlin, CT sometimes to Springfield, MA, Palmetto trains from NY to Savannah, Georgia and Silver Service trains from NY to Miami, FL. This is because electrics can’t go past DC, so they have to change over to diesels for the remainder of the journey to Georgia and Florida.
Why were 855, 1837 and 1840 on the middleboro extra equipment move? Was this for their testing?
They had already been in revenue service prior to that move. They were returning to Rochester for reasons that I’m unaware of
Somebody spray painted “Keolis sucks” on the back top of Locomotive 1135, did anybody else see that at 1:16?
I actually didn’t notice that, good catch 😂
7:25, What happened? I see 3C 1075 has a small dent on its nose just below the headlight.
I’m pretty sure that was a result of hitting a tree
The 1135 sounded like it wasn’t even on or was the 2017 rescuing it at 8:53? Sorry if I’m asking, I’m confused. Because it was a doubleheader.
1135 was there for extra power for the polar express set. Turns out they didn’t really need it haha
Mbta was like “O let’s just add 1135 to the set because the 2017 might need assistance and they didn’t need it”, lol. 😅 MBTA’s just lazy, in my opinion and they’re always full of rare and silly surprises also. The 2017 sounded just fine. Hope you can understand me.
Mbta should really consider getting chargers? A dual-mode variant like metro-north’s sc-42dms. I’m still wondering if the hsp46s were a mistake given all of their reliability problems in recent years, Lol. I wonder if my term of unreliability is correct?
Yeah, they sure can be problematic. I’ve got lots of videos on here of them being rescued
I saw a video of #2006 being rescued in rockport by gatx gp38-2 #2635 and coupled to ctc-1b #1637 as the cab car to tow the set back to bet with dead hsp #2006 in the rear. It was dead on the platform. This happened back in 2019. It was uploaded by Boston By Rails.
Yeah I remember that day. I was out there too, just not at the right time for that train
Wow, I wish I could’ve seen it. What was your thought of that day? Also, what was your thought of the hsp being rescued?
It certainly still happens every now and then. One of the most problematic HSPs in recent times has been the 2002
The cursed gp40s, lol. 1131 and 1135 should both be rebuilt. The 1136 is rebuilt but still having problems, “Way to go Rochester”.
1131 and 1135 both happen to be at Rochester now
Will they be massdot blues or in the lightning bolt scheme like 1117 and 1138?
I don’t think massDOT paid for any more rebuilds, so chances are they’ll be in the same scheme as the 1117 and 1138 unless another agreement can me made in regards to a heritage paint like the 1129.
I had no idea the 1129 was now a heritage unit. Why did they do that? Heritage units are mostly black.
Most heritage units that I’ve seen are not black. Heritage locomotives are engines that wear past paint schemes and have nothing to do with particular colors
1119 putting in the work 🫡
They made it work so hard it earned a rebuild lol
lol
oh buddy you miss the 8am Extras
Not quite sure what you mean
@@rail_spike_productions Every 2 to 3 weeks any of the massdot gp40mc tow some train
Yes, they rescue broken down trains often. It happens most weeks, if not multiple times each week. I’ve seen plenty of these moves before so it’s not a priority for me to keep seeing them