Rare Amtrak Acela final assembly point Barre and Montpelier, Vt. Sept. 2000
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- Опубликовано: 21 янв 2018
- This video is about 9-03-2000 Barre and Montpelier Vt. Amtrak Acela final assembly points. Cars and locomotives are married together at Montpellier.
Odd coincidence that this video shows up in my recommendeds in the twilight of these trains' careers.
Haven't rode the real thing in service (I walked through one during a Nat'l Train Day Display in Grand Central). I was the second RUclipsr to post a video of the O-Scale Lionel version when it shipped.
Seeing a pair of power cars coupled together for shipment reminded me of the time my model versions were sitting in my under-construction test track coupled in the same way while testing the track configuration. Hard to believe it's been 12 years since I last ran it.
This place looked far more like a scrap yard than an assembly line for new trains..... )-:
It's not an assembly line in the way you may be thinking. It is an assembly point, meaning a staging area.
EYYY! This video was uploaded on my birthday!!
RRIA AMERICA happy birthday
you got to see 2014/2019 and the first class car that goes with it which is number 3218. Some are now being stored in Bear Delaware.
4:54 that looks like a year 2019 from the engine number from 22 years ago 😂
This was all the way in 2000
Amazing!
Wow, this is cool! I looked this up on Google Maps and it shows these trains sitting there . Do they still assemble them there?
Probably the new acela
Nah bombardier has been gone for close to 20 years. What you're seeing on Google maps are BUDD Cars a business man purchased. He rented part of the building for getting them back to service condition.
What you are seeing is Allearth Rail Budd RDC cars. They are/were bought for a attempt at commuter/regional rail here in Vermont. Almost all Budd cars owned are there at Barre with two more ex VIA cars being at the NECR round house in St Albans
Crazy Vermont was supposed to have it’s own commuter rail maybe another startup could pop up soon in the future but what do you guys think? And are those RDC’s just abandoned?
Nice Vid!
Interesting, didin't know they were assembled there. Sounds like you can hear Thunder Road in the background.
I think the plants closed shortly after they ended production and assembly.
Thunder Road is in the background. Barre was the final assembly point.
Crazy how fairly close Thunder road is and how you can hear the races in the video
It looks odd seeing the Acela cars in plain silver being towed by an ALCO!
2:05 so that's what the couplers look like! one just broke at speed a few months ago! it also seems odd that they have european-style buffers!
No european style buffers. European style buffers are spring loaded, double the size of the things on ACELA, carry one convex plate on one side and one flat plate on the other side. And - european trains dont have buffers under the roof - dont know what these things should be good for....
@@pearlyhumbucker9065 Possibly collission posts.
Wow
Was this the place to put the cars together and make the train into one piece?
Is the assembly point still open?
Are these being retired?
Check with Trains magazine for details.
Wow
Was this the place to put the cars together and make the train into one piece?