MBTA East Route Main Line 1997 Part 1
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2010
- MBTA Commuter Rail East Route Main Line, 1997.
Cab ride by Director and Deputy Director of Commuter Rail, joined by Neil Chayet.
Engineer is Alan MacMillan.
Purpose of trip was to meet the ADtranz Flexliner DMU, which was being tested for two months on the MBTA Commuter Rail System.
Journey begins in Boston at North Station. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Holy shit, this video is great material. I feel like I'm hearing the FMCB and Keolis executives make the same rediscovery of the same shit 20 years later.
I'm sure our family took many rides to/from Gloucester, with this man at the controls. Thanks for your service.
I am only sorry MBCR didn't hire me as a conductor in 2006, but that organization is not the MBTA.
Instead, I went to college.
My great aunt knew an engineer on the Purple Line and when i was 5-6y/o back in 1987, I got to ride up in the cab and the engineer actually let me use the throttle(guided of course) to take us out of North Station, we were on the Rockport/Ipswich line and heading back to my home at the time in Salem, MA...ah great memories!!!!
Lucky
I would gladly pay to ride in the cab with this guy and hear every one of this stories!!! Is he still driving with the MBTA?
John's Train Videos I hope so haha I would also do the same
Unfortunately he isn't. My dad knows him and when I was 4, I got a cab ride in 1003.
@@duckfletcher7866 that’s so cool. Literally my dream tbh
Wow so cool to see what it was like in the F40's back then. Also that horn sounds awesome!
Ive been in cabs, but not In motion. Awesome
"We're going 10[mph], 27 years after a man walked on the moon."
That about sums up US railroads...
Ikr XD
I always wondered what it look like from the inside when they had those bars on on the cab windows.
wow, 1061 used to have a great steel bell
The engineer is pretty funny when it comes to comparing the mbta to the French tgv haha.
Neil Chayet, when he's not looking at the law, he's looking at the trains.
i remember taking the t to boston when i vacationed in rockport and thats what got me into railfanning
Nice video Very Cool !
Funny to see these officials discover what commuters have had to put up with for years...the annoyingly slow speeds near North Station. Looks like he didn't have much luck expediting that upgrade to 30 MPH.
I've taken a cab ride in an MBTA Commuter Rail train, loco 1121 and control car 1701
I've only been let inside one of these at North Station before, but no cab ride and I wasn't allowed to film and the F40 was 1013.
E Rain i filmed a bad video inside 1012
#Opendoorpolicy is pretty common in the MBTA, but not on the locomotive usually. (Ever seen an MBB on the G&U) I wonder if they got HVAC in the -2 upgrades done to these units.
Also, 1061 before rebuild!
@ipwnu981 Yeah true. Id love to ride in the cab of anything haha. Even just the green line.
Still true about Washington Street in Gloucester. They should invite more officials to ride with engineers
@21ricky666 he was probbaly there at the right time
Forget about cab rides witch and what type engine are they in?
ChannelWithVideos it's an F40PH-2c #1061
“The newest engines they are building have AC” does anyone know what the name of those engines were? Sorry I’m new to locomotives, thanks!
What ate those wired metal bars
@@StudioSA15 the used them back in the 80s/90s to prevent people from throwing trash and rocks at the end engines. Was pretty common back then
@@Zmrt457 well why don't they still have then that could have prevented the frankford junction derailment
@@StudioSA15glass on the trains now are built stronger
watching in 2018?
How about 2022?
How about 5055
I wonder how you could get to ride in the cab...
What day in 1997 was this filmed?
Appears to be late spring or summer.
Is he still engineering?
no
Sounds like Boston's rail regime is build on half-measures and old rules.