LA Metro Cars, New CTRail cars, 6 Heritage Units, NS CEFX AC44s | This Month on the Railroad
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2024
- Hi. I'm Sam, a railfan based out of Eastern Massachusetts. I film trains from all around the world and make narrated videos explaining how the railroad works. Thanks for watching and I'll see you out on the mainline!
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0:00 - Intro
0:13 - LA Metro receives first new Subway Cars
1:05 - BNSF donates first hydrogen locomotive
1:53 - NS repainted Virginian heritage unit
2:20 - Amtrak expresses interest in Texas Central
2:44 - CTRail orders new cars
3:04 - CSX C&O heritage unit
3:21 - Unofficial CSX Chessie heritage unit
4:03 - G&W interested in Parallel Systems
4:37 - Metro-North Conrail heritage unit
4:52 - Wabtec strike news
5:16 - CalTrain orders battery-electric train
5:33 - NS receives first SD70ICCs
6:11 - NS receives CEFX AC44s
7:00 - Amtrak expands Airo train order
7:15 - Siemens breaks ground on North Carolina plant
7:32 - California HSR to order new trains
8:15 - CSX L&N heritage unit
8:30 - NJ Transit retro heritage unit
8:47 - ALC-42s debut on Amtrak Palmetto
9:03 - Outro
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It very nice that Amtrak has ordered Airotrain from 83 to 93 but plus I’d ant wait for Railroad Quarterly to be release by December or before Christmas time com, good luck on your college WorldWideRailfan
Great episode for this eventful month. I feel bad for forgetting to include the CAHSR article since I remember initially screenshoting the article, but an upload error likely made me forget it, but then again we likely won't have a final answer until a year from now.
I found this video to be quite informative! As a Californian, I found it interesting that our CAHSR will finally be ordering some trains in the near future, for delivery in 2028. Also, I like the Conrail livery on Metro-North 201 and that retro livery (which I just learned about) on NJ Transit 4640.
Lastly, as someone who also began college only a few weeks ago, I wish you luck in your studies. Thanks for making this series!
The CTRail order will also replace cars on the Danbury and Waterbury Branch lines.
The CSX L&N HU is one I've been waiting for a while.
Man we are finally starting to catch up with the rest of the civalized world in getting more passenger rail in this country.
We are far from catching up but definitely putting a foot in the right direction.
The Breda a650s are long overdue for replacement. Even though the hr4000s are built by CRRC, they are much needed. If Metro decides not to expand the order, maybe they could look to another manufacturer to replace the rest of the a650s and expand service.
Your channel is always so fun. I very recently moved from Northern California to Northern New Jersey, so I'll be trading Amtrak's Capitol Corridor for the NJ Central Railroad. Future videos on Jersey Central would be very much appreciated. Best wishes for your university life starting now! ✌
3:45 I honestly like the look of that unit.
I’m hearing that the NJT 4640 will debut on the URHS run at the end of September. It will be on the first leg of the journey trailing behind the 4636 Pigtail unit.
You mean the 40th Anniversary Express?
the HR4000 may replace some but the A650 will likely stay in service given the overall car shortage. All options were canceled a few years back. LA will need to put out a new bid soon and I expect Stadler or Hitachi will win it who both have products that work and a design thats close for Stadler and already made for Hitachi.
I hope your studies go well. Thank you for another great video. As a L&N fanboy and a fan of all of the heritage series, this was my favorite video yet
Thank you very much for this great video. You certainly caught all the important railroad news, and I trust your college studies go well. Looking forward to your quarterly video !
I’m excited for the Norfolk Southern AC4400CWs from CIT/CEFX as well as the NS/PRLX SD70M-2s undergoing the SD70ICC DC to AC traction motor rebuild program.
Great work and I have enjoyed watching what's news in The States and will look forward to your next video news when you have time to post it.
Good luck with your University studies
Wishing you all the best on your college studies. Looking forward to the first episode of railroad quarterly, and always happy to see anything else you have time to put out!
The Louisville and Nashville Heritage unit came out on my birthday August 25th
Nice! Also njt is also getting a gp40ph-2b heritage in a Erie black and yellow scheme. Should be coming soon since it’s being primed right now.
Those are amazing updates. The Oklahoma Railway Museum has plans to use BNSF #1205 as a power car for their trains.
Nice video! I started to wonder if its possible that california high speed rail with connect its railway to brightline west in the future since both agencies want their trains to run from the greater LA area. That would allow trains to travel from San Francisco to Las Vegas
Underrated channel!
Oh yeah and also the ALP44/E60 Heritage unit that you just said it entered Service about one week and 5 days Later, after, this video was uploaded
Im excited for the CTDOT coaches
Wisconsin & Southern (a WATCO rr) recently repainted two of their ex-UP SD60M’s into a unique new livery. It created quite a buzz in southeast Wisconsin.
Now NS know how CP rail felt when they experienced a motive power shortage in the 70s
4:24 ROADRAILERS
Awsome video I love the updates
Great news that Siemens opened a new plant. I'm just annoyed that they didn't repurpose a plant that they already had. They had a perfectly functional plant, with rail links, in Olean, NY. They sold it, and moved all business out.
It just makes me wonder why they didn't revitalize our plant. Especially since there's a Wabtec plant in Erie, and an Alstom plant in Hornell.
Union labor. You can bet that this is why they did it. That’s why all auto and heavy industry is moving to the South. They always have weak or no unions. The South is now full of full factories that were packed and just moved there.
By closing the plant and the opening a new one they avoid both any public blowback for deunionizing and don’t have to offer holdover pay while they retool to start building the new trains.
TBH I think 2024-2030s gonna be a good year for American transit because there gonna to be NEW La metro cars, Caltrain electrification, CAHSR( if nothing goes wrong ), Amtrak AIRO, Amtrak Avellia Liberty ( if nothing goes wrong again), SC44 Chargers on Most Commuter rail line in North America, Stadler Train entering service on some American Commuter like The MBTA,Caltrain, & DART. BRightline West, New Septa Trolly cars & New commuter rail Bilevels . A possible Extension to Tampa or Jacksonville From bright line, Amtrak connect US (IF the freight Companys & the Government don't do no BS stuff. New Subway cars in Atlanta, Brightline West & ETC
Shore Line East only uses M8 EMUs now. Also I thought the MBTA MBB cars were returned to Massachusetts.
You forgot to mention an article from three months ago METRA’S new SD7MACS entered service 3 months ago
2:19 or 1801 the DC to AC Conversion Yellow Heritage unit
You would think NS would lease Progressive Rail SD70 Ace T-4's. Railroads like NS will eventually have to make purchases orders.
Im most curious how the ALC-42 will handle the Auto Train, I belive it would make it the first Bo-Bo AC traction locomotive to pull the Auto Train too.
The Vectrons do fine with these kinds of loads in Europe. I don’t see why the American version of the Vectron would do any worse.
*B-B we don't use UIC in America
not only that dallas area rapid transit just got their new trains for the silver line connecting from dfw to plano texas
4:30 Every time I hear the word "autonomous," my eyes roll so far backwards, they get wedged into my brain.
Corporations use this word because the average person thinks it sounds "futuristic," but to me, it sounds like, "let's take an efficient system, namely trains, and make it _less_ efficient by making it so only _one_ vehicle can be operated at a time and it'll needlessly crowd the system.
Lately, I've noticed that futuristic vehicles in sci-fi movies are also like this. A less efficient version of what we already have.
I know that a lot of people hate battery powered locomotives and think that they will never work. Do you think in the future the technology may become good enough for it to be used everywhere?
Not really. Even the Caltrain unit is only a four-car consist with one full car being taken up by batteries.
Furthermore, Caltrain will be able to charge them under catenary from San Jose to SF. None of the other proposed battery lines have this luxury. They’ll have to make long charging stops at the termini. This makes the battery trains useless except in a few very specific low-frequency use cases. Not a technology to bet your future on until someone comes up with a revolutionary megabattery.
Hydrogen and conventional Electrification are more practical
@@IndustrialParrot2816 Hydrogen unfortunately is also deeply flawed. As a fuel cell hydrogen has good energy density but the conversion losses are insane. It's not a very good but very high capacity battery. An even bigger problem is the fact that almost 100% of the hydrogen used in fuel cells is extracted from fossil fuels. This too is inefficient. In fact, you get fewee greenhouse gas emissions by just burning the fossil fuels in an engine than by first converting to hydrogen.
So hydrogen loses the economic argument to diesel, and the environmental argument to both diesel and batteries.
The viable technologies are diesel, which is pretty incredibly efficient on its own on the modern trains, catenary, and hybrid catenary and diesel. Between these three you have 100% of the use case covered.
It took many years for the internal combustion engine to get into locomotives and replace steam engines so battery power will take a while but it may never be very good. According to railwayage electrification would require rebuilding bridges and maybe even tunnels and requires track being shut down for the work. Also they said that railroads might not be able to afford it.
@@BMTRAINMASTERand this is what many European and Asian critics of North American railroads doesn't factor in: can the privately owned North American railroads afford electrification without adversely affecting the bottom line?
WorldwideRailfan, what is this train at 9:09?
DART FLIRT's were delivered in August!!
Hope you do well, hope you don’t mind me saying this, but I would like it if you could do one last TMOTRR for September, if you did I would be happy to
The Alstom cars are to replace the Mafersa and Shoreliner Coaches.
3:08 I Saw it
Does anyone know if amtrak plans on buying new train cars for the long distance routes? Such as the silver star or silver metor?
they JUST finished the viewliner 2 order.
@@sgt.eclair thank you
It's true that the Silver Star and Silver Meteor are not planned to get new cars anytime soon. However, the Auto Train, California Zephyr, Coast Starlight, Crescent, Empire Builder, and Southwest Chief services will be getting new long distance railcars in the not-too-distant future. In January, Amtrak kicked off the process of replacing Superliners on these routes by issuing a RFI from manufacturers and a formal procurement request is expected to be published later this year.
@brandonk9706 thank you so much for this info and I just wish they were getting updated equipment as well
so its SD70 Isolated control cab (ICC)
Hi WorldwideRailfan, your video (“STAND BACK!” Insane MBTA Train Wheel Slip (SMOKE)) really impressed me! Can I feature a snippet on my channel? I'll link to your video in the description.
Go for it!
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I have a theory as to why csx decided to keep the noses the same on all their heritage units. I think it’s because someone thought that people wouldn’t recognize that the locomotives were from csx if they were painted in the full liveries. Of course that’s incredibly stupid since nobody other then railfans cares about what a locomotives paint scheme looks like and they probably also don’t care about what railroad the train their driving next to is from. Even then railfans would easily be able to recognize what railroad a heritage unit is from even if it’s painted in the full paint scheme.
They officially said that the nose is kept the same as a way of showing how they're carrying their past behind them (or something like that).
@@LandonMac32to the heritage unit fans, this reasoning is stupid.
NS is rear
Wait whats ACSES testing?
That's what I was wondering too! I've looked it up, and I found that it stands for "Advanced Civil Speed Enforcement System", and it is a positive train control (PTC) system used, among other things, to prevent railroad incidents on the Northeast Corridor. Thanks for asking!
For more information, see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Civil_Speed_Enforcement_System
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Good luck in College, buddy
Good luck on your college studies.
Good luck in college man.
Did alstrom design that railcar in minecraft
😂😂😂😂
Good luck in college
Hydrogen makes no sense as a technology right now. It’s waaaaaay more expensive to buy and run than diesel. So it loses the economic argument. It’s not ecologically friendly because it uses fossil fuel derived hydrogen 90+% of the time. And that is literally worse than diesel in emissions terms! And not by a little too!
You can manufacture the hydrogen via electrolysis to make it better emissions-wise, but that is even more expensive and almost no one ever does it.
Hydrogen is a dead end. No matter how much Toyota and Chevron like it, it’s not going to work. We have diesel-electric which is insanely efficient, and we have catenary which is the gold standard. No one has as of yet come up with anything better except a combination of the two. So now we also have hybrid diesel-electric with catenary pickups. That’s what Amtrak is getting for the NEC. And this is by far the best choice right now.
I hate Parallel Rail with a passion.
What? Why Chinese manufacturer. Are there no manufacture possible in USA? Surely not possible.
California has strict lowest bidder laws for procurement. They are literally forced to accept the lowest bidder by law. Ironically, this also forces California rail agencies to jack up the bid specs to best-in-class so we get extremely good/bougie but expensive rolling stock most of the time. Otherwise they just get garbage bids. They’ve already cancelled a few tenders and blackballed some manufacturers (like SF Muni blackballing Breda) because of this.
But in this case the Chinese company managed to match the best-in-class specs so they snagged the bid. China has gotten pretty good at building subways/metros. But I still don’t trust their long term quality. We’ll see how these hold up. Probably a mistake though.
@@TohaBgood2I am also leery about Chinese-made rail vehicles' reliability. I'd rather trust a railcar made in Indonesia rather than a Chinese one.