Link to ye olde place.
Here’s some Boston transit action. Retrieving a phone at Park Street on the Red Line. Right beneath the 3rd rail too!
Chirp! It’s a good thing the E line runs so infrequently because I was sitting here for a while waiting for the bird to be in the right place! Science Park on the Green Line.
Very cool Ty. I’ve been trying to figure out what you’re eating on Day 39… [:D]
Nothing special here, but I guess it’s worthy of posting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsyulmpKbvI
Excuse Sean’s rear end in a few of the shots, Ty maybe you can use that as the photo for your interview! [:P]
BLT?
Alex, I haven’t watch that particular video. But I did watch the pair of CSX SD40-2s! I feel my love affair with SD40-2s is growing…I better not start foaming at the mouth now…
lol I didn’t think that camera work in that video was worthy of being shared. I’ll share all SD40 videos in the future, and there sure will be some soon. Back in May I shot a grain extra on the QGRY between Montreal and Quebec City. Was a very good chase, and the power was, you guessed it, 4 CP SD40-2’s! [:P]
Hey they may be in CP pink, but they still sound just as good as one painted in ICE/DME blue, don’t they?
Haha, I was wondering if that would happen. It’s actually a homemade cheeseburger with tons of toppings including a tomato, onions, avacado, and bacon. Very yummy!
Maybe I will! [swg]
Nice! Sure the CP SD40-2s may not look the best, but they do still sound the same.
OK, how about some SD’s on Expressway? I’d say that 90% of the time this train is assigned 2 SD40-2’s, as was the case on this day. It is the first shot. Pretty lousy shot, but the sound was excellent.
God, this place has changed in the past 5 years…all the faces have changed!
I actually like that composition Alex! Defiantly agree with the sound though, I can never get tired of it…
Well Matt, long time no see. Even in the short three years I have been participating the faces have changed.
I haven’t before seen a thread quite so…transient.
Here’s a new photo from me. Two P42s (107 and 41) and an MP15 (532) idling on Track 9 at South Station, Boston. Still trying to figure out why they were sitting there with no cars in tow, only to depart back to Southampton St Yard ten minutes later.
I’ve seen both Via Rail and AMT in Montreal do what looks like is happening in the photo. After a unit has gone through a major overhaul, they test it out by dragging a few locomotives in dynamic braking mode behind it, to simulate a load. That way they have complete control over the conditions and stresses the train is under. That’s what it looks like to me. Of course I could be completely wrong, just looks awfully similar to what AMT and Via do.
So, speaking of P42’s, how about another video of one doing just about all it can do? This is Via Rail at it’s best. Not exciting for a photograph, but it sure looks good at speed on video:
Welcome (back, I guess?) Matt! I’m Joe, and I’m new (er, at least since you’ve last been here), I guess that’s it?
About the P42s, maybe they thought they had to go out and put them on a consist, only to find that there’s not one there?
Transit will often just shove stuff on Track 18 in Hoboken, since it can only hold 2 cars and is never used. There’s no rhyme or reason, they just seem to throw stuff there, maybe just so it’s out of the way?
Speaking of Transit, ALP-46As 4629 and 4630 have been cleared to enter revenue service (on their own, not doubleheaded [on the Hoboken side, or MU’ed on the Newark side, although for now they’re stuck on the HOB Div. since Amtrak only has them cleared for 90 currently]).
Another 46A should be doubleheaded on a consist on the M&E this week.
4642, 4643, and 4644 have also been sighted at the MMC.
Since I have nothing new to share (I have a few photos that I can’t post because I STILL don’t have my computer…), so I’ll just share a shot from last June:
4218 shoves a shuttle set around the loop
Its Been a while since i posted here must of got busy. but i have a shot to share
I was in town without my camera & it was a Thursday & the train usually never comes Thursday ( Usually a Tuesday & Saturday train) so i went 7 miles back home to catch them before they left ya it was a old ratty CN GP40-2LW but this allowed me to try a shot i wanted to try for a long time. Many CNW trains ran over this bridge back in the day, i mean way back in the day. also kinda funny but right as the train came by someone was setting up for their Senior picture.
Well, it’s been a long, long time, but since moving back onto the Brainerd Sub, I just have a hard time finding stuff to chase, given the similar power on most trains. However, every now and again, I find something, usually on the Local, but sometimes, I find some stuff of interest. Here we have a Manifest heading over the Sub. These trains started off rather rare, but have become a bit more common over the past few months.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVuUCN9O5dM
Finally caught a Bluebonnet leading the Local
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Li8OSgd8Hw
Don’t think I’ve caught a GP39V in the past, so here’s one leading the Local
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAw92l78exs
This isn’t overly spectacular, but for the past two years, I’ve tried to catch an all-ACE train, and I finally got one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yhM_ALTxA8
Any kind of time on a line that’s not the Brainerd Sub is always fun, as we see here on the Staples Sub. First off, an Intermodal flying through the Northstar Station in Big Lake.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYpm7diCYL4
Waiting for the previous train to pass was a Manifest, which was the train I’d seen(the Intermodal caught me off guard, and almost didn’t get documented). Five units, five different models, including a couple of Geeps, a Warbonnet 75, a DC, and a SW1500
Neat shots, guys!
Yay for still not being able to show anything! [/sarcasm]
Alex, sorry, but we took the Comet Is back! AFAIK, the Comarrows, FHs, and -2CATs are still up there, but will probably be coming back soon.
Yes I know Comet 1’s and Comet 1B’s are back at home. They sat in a little town called Huntingdon, just north of the NY border. Within a week CSX ran some extra power from Massena up to pick the cars up.
Hey I’m happy, didn’t care for them very much, you can keep your Jersey Junk! [8D] The locomotives on the other hand are pretty cool, they just need some nicer paint. They look pretty ratty right now.
Hey, they’re not junk! They’re old, but they work better than our Comet Vs and Multilevels! [(-D]
They’re in great shape for 40 year old cars! Just look at the UTA Frontrunner cars- they were rebuilt and look fantastic:
NOTE: Photos not mine, taken from UTA website
But the locos looking bad is your guys’ fault! You painted over the disco stripes and then burned them up! If you left them as-is (as-was), they would look MUCH better!
Yeah…I’ve been neglecting to post my photos recently. I’m still working on a video from this place (actually the files are just sitting on my hard drive) but here are some photos from the Skywalk Observatory on the 50th floor of the Prudential Building in Boston. My article on it was published in the October 2009 Trains Magazine.
Overview:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/trainmanty/4736700787/
Here’s some train shots. Green Line B Branch.
Red Line meet on the Longfellow Bridge.
Now for some Mass Pike Trench shots.
Greenbush Line Opening commemorative locomotive, not on the Greenbush line.
Southwest Corridor. No, I’m not getting this confused with the Northeast Corridor. Same line, but the local name.
These signs crack me up.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/trainmanty/4752780994/
And another random photo from ground level.
