Northbound on the Housatonic: A Chase Through the Berkshire Hills
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- Опубліковано 7 бер 2024
- It's December 17th, 2023, and I'm up before dawn to spend the day with Housatonic Railroad train NX12, running northbound from North Canaan, CT to Pittsfield, MA. After watching the crew spin one of their locomotives, the chase is on all the way to Lenox, MA.
Locations:
North Canaan, CT
Ashley Falls, MA
Sheffield, MA
Great Barrington, MA
Glendale,
Stockbridge, MA
Lee, MA
Lenox, MA
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Nice to see where I grew up again if only for a few minutes.
I use to go to that area during the summer when I stayed with my grandparents in Ashley Falls. Back in early 70s
Nice video. Excellent locations. I love the Berkshires. I still can’t get over how the Housy is down to two leased units for NX11/12. I would have thought their GP35s would be back in service by now.
Nice catch/train chase Harrison! Man, that track between the Housey's service facilities and the wye is terrible... Amazing nothing derails there. The wye itself looks like some of the best track they have south of the Mass state line.
The Housey’s track is either pretty good or pretty bad, doesn’t seem to be any in between 😂
It should be good now well atleast from Canaan to Pittsfield I work for Railworks and we put in about 40 thousand ties in back in 2019 then we started putting in new cwr starting in 2020 I know all these locations you filmed and have rode it with my machine and it's quite smooth alot of the locals in Great Barrington thanked us for making it quieter lol
Nice video man I’m glad to see my last run on the Housy was filmed
Thanks for making the chase awesome! Good luck and best wishes for the future!
That weird RDC is what was the roger williams trainset of the NHRR
Now that is a pair of beauties.
Nice chase! I just wish they would get some painted power again.
It’s a slow process but it is in the works
So cool ❤❤🎉🎉
This railroad is always a cool chase.🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂
Third car from end looks very interesting!!!
Nice chase and good shots
Nice chase!🚂🚂
Great vid!
This was a VERY interesting one Harrison! A fun chase as usual but you also did a great job in not just capturing the train but capturing the train in the context of its surroundings. And those surroundings were pretty fascinating in their own right. Man, if the walls could talk in those old buidlings!
Oh, did you pick up an accordion? You could add "Polka King" to your resume'!
Thanks for posting!
I didn’t have time to visit the accordion museum but it would be very neat!
I wonder why they built that particular switch at that specific location
Lots of good locations to catch NX 12 in Berkshire county
People want to see passenger and commuter service back on those rails
I want to see the housatonic in action but don’t know when or where to go and when they usually run
Nice video! I've been wanting to catch NX-12 on Sunday do you know what time I should expect them to be going through Great Barrington?
Mid morning usually!
Great video!
Is NX12 a daily run at this point? I'm interested in chasing the Housatonic in July when I'm out that way. But just trying to get a good understanding of operations before I go.
The Housatonic symbols are based on crews. NX12 is the morning Canaan road crew and runs south Monday-Friday and north on Sunday. I think they’re on at 0500 or 0400 weekdays and 0600 Sundays. NX13 handles the northbound turn Monday-Thursday and they’re on in the late afternoon. Then there’s NX11 which runs Monday-Friday around Canaan, and NX10 down in new Milford.
What time of day was this? I’ve only ever been able to catch them northbound in the evenings
NX12 goes on duty in the morning on Sunday, usually 6 or 7. Goes north and NX13 takes them south in the evening. During the week NX13 runs north in the evenjng.