Massachusetts Trains Compilation
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
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About this video: This is a compilations of various trains that I believe give the best summary of what train-spotting in Massachusetts is like. As I am trackside for MBTA trains more than all others, I have featured a large variety of unusual and investing trains that I have found throughout the last few years as well. Videos from pre-2020 are not featured in this compilation due to my older videos being stored on a different device than the one that I edited this compilation on - I hope to get more of my older clips from the past decade posted in the future when I have more time available for editing. The locations around Massachusetts featured in this video are listed in the order that they appear below.
1. Swampscott
2. Ballardvale (Andover)
3. Shirley
4. Ballardvale (Andover)
5. Westminster
6. Campello (Brockton)
7. Haverhill
8. Westwood
9. Needham
10. Ayer
11. Woburn
12. Ward Hill (Haverhill)
13. Boston
14. Wilmington
15. Holbrook
16. Boston
17. Woburn
18. Salem
19. North Andover
20. Mansfield
21. Canton
22. Beverly
23. Bradford (Haverhill)
24. Barnstable
25. Ward Hill (Haverhill)
26. Readville (Boston)
27. Reading
28. Shirley
29. Bradford (Haverhill)
30. Prides Crossing (Beverly)
31. Ayer
32. Beverly
33. Ayer
34. Salem
35. Mishawum (Woburn)
36. Charlton
37. Acton
38. Back Bay (Boston)
39. North Andover
40. Salem
41. Beverly
42. Ballardvale (Andover)
43. Haverhill
44. Beverly
45. Bradford (Haverhill)
46. Ayer
47. Woburn
48. Reading
49. Cambridge 
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Cool to see Norfolk Southern in Massachusetts!
Excellent video, and thank you for posting. I found myself pausing and looking up a lot of the oddities you encountered. I learned a lot, and thanks again!
Thank you very much! Finding oddities on the railroad is one of my favorite things to do. I’m very glad you enjoyed
Awesome compilation! 👍
Thank you !
How do you find all these amazing captures?! This is incredible!
Thanks very much! Seeing rare and unusual trains is one of my favorite things to do, so with time I’ve been able to learn more and gather sources for how to see them
Nice compilation!
I grew up riding the MBTA commuter rail and old B&M Budd Liners from Bradford and Andover to Boston. From where your camera is positioned in Brdford, that's where the mainline track was. I grew up above those new platforms on Front Street. My dad used to bring me over to the white fence along the ravine so I could see the trains.
Looking at the Bradford Depot at the west end facing to your camera, was a yardmaster's office with a radio. Where the commuter parking lot is, was once a freight yard. The B&M used to station a small switcher there to handle freight traffic along the Georgetown Branch up to the paper mill. The mill wasn't the only industry back then and other businesses and industries received or shipped goods via rail. That dwindled down and Guilford killed the remaining traffic then the paper company closed. All of that now is a trail. The tracks yard disappeared in the mid to late 70s and returned when the MBTA made that a storage yard, albeit, only a couple of tracks now.
Ballardvale used to have a team track where that station platform is located and at one time a few more tracks where the parking-lot is today. Those new condos went in about 25 years ago, I think and were built where mill buildings used to stand. Imagine paying close to $400K to live next to the railroad tracks! When the NIMBYs first moved in, they omplained about the trains making noise and blowing horns. This is why there are no longer horns blown through Andover.
I’m very glad you enjoyed, and thanks very much for sharing!
My goodness... i have a personal relationship with the MBTA commuter rail! Before My aunt worked for a coach company i used the commuter rail from Lowell to North station to go to boston! Brings back amazing memories going to Lowell stopping at the tiny dunkins at the station being super excited to go spend a day in my fav city while the workhorse of the commuter rail the F40PH is pulling me and my mom to Boston! you absotuly deserve my sub! (Sorry for the bad English I have dyslexia so... go easy on me)
Thanks for sharing, and for the sub! And no worries at all, I completely understand what you’re saying
Yes sir! Trains are good!
Cool footage & interesting consists. Also, I ended up seeing the Geo! I’m gonna miss 1647 but my shot of it was a W (Caught it at wilmington racing the Downeaster w/ a really cool hornshow)
That’s good to hear - I was out of town that day so I just chased it like there was no tomorrow on the south side 😂 It was a great crew running it up North for sure. The north side work extra crew consists of some great folks
@@rail_spike_productions Must’ve been weird seeing 1647 south, huh?
A bit odd for sure, but it’s not the first geometry train I’ve chased with a 1600 on the South side. However, it most likely was the last
@@rail_spike_productions Yeah I remember a geo last year had one. Can't remember which
There were 2 last year actually. 1649 in March and 1651 in September
😍been waiting all day for this one
Me and you both
Glad to hear it!!
I’m surprised you were able to find that many MBTA trains that weren’t derailed, on fire or otherwise broken down.
That’s mostly the subway. The commuter rail has it (mostly) better.
Nice video excellent my friends like 👍🏻 and Greeting
Thanks very much
awesome compilation!
Thanks a ton !
I like these videos you have.
Question though. Why do most MBTA's have a mix of single level cars and bi-levels in the consist⁉
Just curious.
I’m glad you enjoyed. Most MBTA single level coaches do not have bathrooms, so they often try to distribute double deckers between trains as almost all of them have functional bathrooms
Was that the wash train in there a few times with the single tanker in the middle? If so any idea when they are going to do the Middleboro/Lakeville line? Id love to catch it out there
Yes, that was the wash train. These days they have a crew Sunday through Friday during the day and Monday through Thursday at night. They don’t go out to middleboro that much because the Worcester and Franklin lines are prioritized as they tend to have the most problems with slippery rail
As crazy as it sounds, the wash train was here last night! I caught it on a secondary track in brockton just by being at the right place right time! I chased it to the next RR crossing going northbound (they were done for the night so they picked up to track speed) but super cool to see!
Nice catch 😊😊😊
Thanks :)
1:46 imagine catching a train with all the locomotives being PanAm Railways units
oh what a W intro good sir
I was hoping you’d think so
How
what happened with the shots around 20:10 with the HSP consist stopped on the middle track?
There was a broken down train blocking the main line there a little before that. Dispatch was letting the traffic build up get through and the faster Amtraks got priority over the commuters
Nice Video
Thank you
What was the AMTRAK train (35 seconds in) with the MOW consists on the rear end? Any info on that?
That was an Amtrak equipment move from Portland, ME to Boston, MA. The equipment on the rear was borrowed from the MBTA, which Amtrak was returning to them in Boston
Nice vid!
Thank you !
32:41 ain’t no way
Great video but would have been nice if you put Bridgewater in the video.
Thank you and if I make another compilation I am sure Bridgewater will make it in. I’ve got plenty of videos from there, I suppose none just happened to make it into this particular video
Yes
Boston Boston, Boston, Boston, Boston, Boston, Boston, Boston
Whats the story behind 11:25
That locomotive blew a turbocharger - the black substance is oil. It was being rescued by a separate locomotive at the time that video was taken
MBTA could’ve asked Amtrak to borrow a ACS64
The locomotive was broken down on a section of track with no access to overhead wires
@@rail_spike_productionswhy doesn’t Amtrak lease some of they’re P42s to MBTA for backup power incase of another breakdown
les go
2:11 snoob😇😭
I miss it too
ok bud
You weren’t the first person to ever have this idea and you won’t be the last‼️