Fast CSX Trains and Foreign Power in Amsterdam, NY
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- This video has it all: thrilling fast freights, track speed meets, great horns at speed, chugging and howling GEs, nice scenic shots with the nearby Mohawk River, and power from every single Class I railroad except Kansas City Southern! Sit back and enjoy 20 minutes of CSX action at Amsterdam, NY.
On Labor Day (September 1st) 2014, I took a trip with my friend Brian up to CSX's Mohawk Subdivision in Amsterdam, NY to do some railfanning before the school year started. We got to the Amsterdam Amtrak station at around 10:30 AM, and we didn't have to wait long before the trains started as a fresh looking P42 #89, with an amazing 1st generation K5LA, came in with the northbound Adirondack.
Train 1: Amtrak Adirondack #69 - 9/1/14 10:47 AM
Amtrak P42DC #89
Train 2: CSX Gondola Train - 9/1/14 11:23 AM
BNSF ES44DC #7554 (Heritage III)
BNSF ES44DC #7882 (Heritage III)
CSX SD70MAC #4806 (YN3)
CSX C40-8 #7558 (YN2)
Train 3: CSX Mixed Freight - 9/1/14 11:52 AM
CSX C40-8W #7740 (YN2)
CSX C40-8 #7493 (YN3)
Train 4: Amtrak Empire Service - 9/1/14 12:16 PM
Amtrak P32ACDM #714
A few minutes after 714 pulled in, I noticed headlights coming from the other direction. I turned the camera to find a northbound autorack train bearing down on the other track. It soon screamed by the Amtrak with howling power. As the Amtrak left, it revealed the fastest freight train I have ever seen, thundering by on the other main. Those racks must have been doing 75 easily! It was quite a sight to see.
Train 5: CSX Autorack Train - 9/1/14 12:19 PM
CSX SD60I #8725 (YN3)
CSX C40-8
Train 6: Amtrak Empire Service - 9/1/14 1:43 PM
Amtrak P32ACDM #712
After 712 departed, providing some more nice GE chugging sounds, I didn't have to wait long for more awesome freight action. A little while later, after I had mastered the local scanner feed, my scanner app proved useful as it predicted a fast CP tanker train with trackage rights that came southbound with two howling GEs on the point. However, another train had been tripping defect detectors in the other direction. This made sense a few moments later as I panned the camera on the foreign power to find an even faster CSX intermodal train about to fly past on the other track! The tanker train was so loud that I could barely hear the K5HL horn on the lead CSX GEVO. The awesome track speed meet caused a thrilling scene, with the Amsterdam station momentarily engulfed in a man-made tornado. The intermodal provided a great scenic shot as it rounded the curve up the Mohawk River.
Train 7: Canadian Pacific Tanker Train - 9/1/14 2:02 PM
Canadian Pacific AC4400CW #9653
Canadian Pacific AC4400CW #8651
Train 8: CSX Intermodal - 9/1/14 2:03 PM
CSX ES44AC #3102 (YN4)
CSX AC4400CW #592 (YN3)
Train 9: CSX Mixed Freight - 9/1/14 2:22 PM
CSX AC4400CW #331 (YN3)
CSX ES44DC #5476 (YN3)
CSX ES44DC #5323 (YN3)
CSX C40-8 #7581 (YN2)
Then came a favorite of mine: the Amtrak Lake Shore Limited, with Heritage and 1700 series baggage cars bracketing the train back in the days before Viewliner IIs. It flew past southbound at a what had to be a full 79 MPH! Strangely enough, it had an NEC P42 in the lead, which both had its original, relatively unscathed steel nose, and a great K5LA.
Train 10: Amtrak Lake Shore Limited #48 - 9/1/14 2:40 PM
Amtrak P42DC #102
Amtrak P42DC #95
Next was the best consist of the day on a southbound tanker train. The lead UP GEVO looked brand new and gave us a great hornshow with its awesome 2nd generation K5HL! And the 2nd unit, a BN-painted SD70MAC, had open engine doors.
Train 11: CSX Tanker Train - 9/1/14 3:16 PM
Union Pacific ES44AC #8012
BNSF SD70MAC #9553 (BN Executive Scheme)
Norfolk Southern C40-9W #9728 (Thoroughbred)
Train 12: CSX Tanker Train - 9/1/14 3:36 PM
CSX AC4400CW #440 (YN2)
BNSF ES44C4 #8070 (Heritage III)
BNSF AC4400CW #5668 (Heritage II)
Train 13: CSX Gondola Train - 9/1/14 3:52 PM
CSX ES44AC #3103 (YN4)
Canadian National ES44DC #2342
Train 14: CSX Mixed Freight - 9/1/14 4:15 PM
Canadian National SD70M-2 #8936
Canadian National SD70M-2 #8893
As it was well past 4 PM, we decided to call it a day. However, we realized another northbound Amtrak train was due to stop here soon, so after a short break we went over to a clearing in between the Fonda crossing and the station to catch it. But, a northbound CSX mixed freight came through first,
Train 15: CSX Mixed Freight - 9/1/14 4:45 PM
CSX ES44DC #5436 (YN3)
CSX C40-8 #7569 (YN2)
Train 16: Amtrak Empire Service - 9/1/14 4:51 PM
Amtrak P32ACDM #709
After 709 came through with a nice hornshow and its smashed up steel nose (replaced in early 2015), we called it a day for real. We had an awesome time and hope to go back again for more fast CSX trains!
12:17 great catch i liked the train horn of the UP it’s a really cool 2nd gen K5HL
Now that’s how you railfan! You gotta’ follow the engines as they disappear into the distance
nice video and great catch of all the train's in your video.
+Mike Troina Thanks
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Nice consist on the K train with UP, BNSF, and NS
Burlington Northern Santa Fe diesels in New York.......wait.......WHAT?!
I see ton of BNSF freight trains through Texas and California, but never
on the East Coast!!
Great catch thought..............thanks for sharing!!
Ian Garrett Haha, yeah those things get around. Sometimes I wonder how (or if) all the railroads keep track of their stuff.
Ian Garrett I've seen the union Pacific in Manassas VA and the Canadian national in Manassas VA yard. Plus the BNSF.
Amtrak706 nice catch, your video is the greatest
Amtrak706 same
Awesome video & catches ! I also subscribed.
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Awesome video! At 16:49, the CSX ditch lights were totally messed up.
14:01 probably my favorite one"
Train #1 - NOT the Adirondack! That train turns north at Schenectady. Hard to tell what train it is as it has both Amfleet Is and IIs on it. My guess is the Mohawk as that train either follows or precedes the Adirondack out of NYP. I was on it one time back in 1995 when it was both trains combined splitting at ALB. Nine cars behind one P-40 and it was still able to do 110 mph!
I think you mean the Maple Leaf. Amtrak as far as I know has never had a train called the Mohawk running out of NY. But yes you are right it is not the Adirondack
Being more than your average casual Railfan, I stand by my claim! For awhile back then the combined Adirondack/Mohawk originated northbound at Washington D.C. Union Station. It changed direction at the platform in Penn Station. It was Summer of 1995 and I rode it from D.C. to Plattsburgh, NY.
@@ChamplainDivision I haven't been able to find any information at all on an Amtrak service called the Mohawk. Regardless, this video is from 2015 and I can say for certain no such train was running at the time. If you are going to call yourself "more than your average casual Railfan" the least you could do is look at some timetables from the last 20 years.
Excellent video. Your filming procedure is thorough and meticulous. Now I want to visit the Amsterdam area even more. Though I can't help but wonder what you meant by a "NEC P42?" Do all those have their original steel noses? Or are they all based out of that corridor?
Several Northeast locations including Albany-Rensselaer and Washington DC have dedicated P42 pools, around the 85-120 road number series. Nowadays this is more important since only those units are ACSES equipped.
@@amtrak706Ah that's interesting, I never knew. Thanks for the info.
cool catches
What's the CSX scanner data for the Amsterdam area? I'm from North Carolina but I go up to New York to visit family, and I go to Albany to visit my grandparents, and I've always wanted to know the radio feed for the line that follows I-87 and the radio feed that's around Amsterdam. So if you could give me the radio feed for that area, it would be greatly appreciated.
The CN SD70M-2 looked like a SD70ACe
That's a busy area. I'd like to live there
Yeah that CSX train after the Amtrak train stop that CSX whent fast
CSX trains
did they come from the selkirk rail yard?
Is that Lake Champlain?
Mohawk River
@@amtrak706 thank you!
Nice video but to give u a heads up, Amsterdam is east and west not north and south
Very nice video, just might want to correct your river. its the mohawk river not the hudson
buffaloSabrespommy Oops. I uploaded this late at night, haha. And thank you!
how much action (both freight and Amtrak), would you see in an hour?
SPS H30 It really varies a lot. I've seen no trains in an hour there before, but I've also seen as many as 4 or 5 in an hour. On average though I would say it's like 2 to 3 trains an hour.
ok cool thinking of visiting there sometime, thanks
You should, it's a great spot. And what's cool is that this video is the norm there. Foreign power and all kinds of crazy stuff comes past there every day. Not to mention the awesome fast freights.
cool thanks, I'm planning on heading to Secaucus Junction as my final trip before school starts, but If I can I will definitely check it out. If I can't by the end of the summer, I'll be sure to get there before 2015 ends, Thanks again.
Amtrak706 ^^
Every god damn train has so much luck you are so lucky I have no luck wtffffffffff bnsf cp cn ns up csx wth I never catch thaaaaaaat
Easy nois
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great example of why passenger rail in the USA sucks
Why cause of the brakes screeching?
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