Amtrak & MARC: Train action on the NEC
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- nearly 40 minutes of trains! catches from up and down the DC/MD section of the Northeast Corridor.
Shot at Kenilworth Gardens Trail, New Carrollton MARC & Amtrak, Seabrook MARC, and Halethorpe MARC.
Trains is life!!!!
you've got crazy panning skills. good shots
Great Video,loved the train shots, at the Anacostia River Bridge in DC
Nice Catch!
Awesome catches of HHP-8s 4912 & 4913 at 8:22, 17:34, & 28:32
Nice catches indeed, also liked your panning and zooming shots. I also liked the sound of the train approaching at 21:20: particularly I think I hear faint traction motor sounds, which I don't think is the humming of the rails because I hear pitch variations.
Awesome video!
One does not turn away from a Hippo pushing Kawasakis to film an MPI with multilevels 🙄😤
Great video though, loved it 😉
Kawasaki bi-levels are common on the Penn Line - despite the caternaries - for two reasons; it is MARC's largest line by passenger count - even outside of rush hour - while all of MTA Train Service took it in the neck due to Covid-19, the Penn Line did not lose the lead it had over the rest of MARC's rail lines despite it losing everything from Perryville to Elkton; it would be like the Paoli/Thorndale line losing everything west of Radnor or east of Villanova.
this is the exact station i was at
"I heard" is something I never rely on unless I can get independent verification.If it is something I saw with my own eyes, I say so - along with where I saw it.
Tbh it would have been nice for Marc to keep the multi level sets totally intact. They don’t look good with a Kawasaki on it. Is it because the mp36s can’t pull another multi level? I know that at njt the diesels can pull or push a max of 6 multi levels not including the dp units
Don"t get me wrong i love marc trains but i truly disagree with the fact that they gone totally diesel,when the aem-7"s were retired"which never should have happened in the first place",i don"t believe they use the hhp"s anymore,so no catenary needed for the this service anymore,that was a bad move in my opinion.
they should have stayed with electric, more efficiency and better for the environment.
@@dbtheking7663 MARC is a mixed-service operator; the Penn Line is the only electrified line. Thus they run both HHP-8s and ACS-64s under the wires here. (The HHP-8s are in both MARC and MDOT (one that I know of) livery; I've seen the one in MDOT paint @ Ivy City; the ACS-64s can be in both MARC and AMTRAK livery. The reason for the AMTRAK livery is because AMTRAK operates them under contract for MARC; AMTRAK can - and has - operated as Lend/Lease agent for MARC; it leased KHI bi-levels to SEPTA for use on the Elwyn line while the Silverliners were benched.) The Camden and Brunswick lines have no caternaries at all - and Ivy City is a combined-service yard (MARC, AMTRAK, and VRE all have trainsets there) - thus if the diesel sets for the Canden and Brunswick lines need work, they have to come to Ivy City (or even to Bear DE - MUCH further up the NEC) to get it. NJ Transit has a similar pickle; it has two electrified lines - both - like MARC's Penn Line and SEPTA's Wilmngton Line - are NEC overlays. SEPTA is the only passenger rail operator to have no diesel locomotives in the eastern United States form Washington DC to Maine - even MBTA, like MARC and NJT - has no electric rail lines outside of where they overlay the NEC - the Providence/Stoughton Line.)
@@dbtheking7663 And what is going to generate the electricity, folks? While technically, MARC - or even AMTRAK - can put up wind turbines on land that they own, they are as subject to the permitting process that ANY wind turbine permittee is subject to - which has been, in fact, the biggest obstacle to wind power anywhere.
@@PGHammer21A I herd that Amtrak was charging MARC to much money to use their over head wires so Marc went mostly diesel and kept two electric locomotives.
@@dbtheking7663 Untrue - flatly Untrue. The Brunswick and Camden lines are lacking caternaries.