Abandoned railroad sidings restoration - South Coast Rail - New Bedford Line - 2021
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- Опубліковано 22 лис 2021
- This video shows various locations on the New Bedford Line where passing sidings and second mainline tracks are being rebuilt after being removed decades ago. This is part of the South Coast Rail Project which is restoring regularly scheduled passenger service to Taunton, New Bedford, and Fall River, MA on freight trackage currently operated by Mass Coastal.
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Very happy that their adding a second track. That's what make a great railroad. Passenger and freight trains, going in and out. Great video South Coast Rail.
I've written it before in other railfan videos, and I'll write it here again: the bendiness of heavy rail, when in the clutches of heavy equipment, never ceases to amaze me. Even a team of people couldn't manage to bend a piece of rail by hand, but here, they look like cooked spaghetti.
That said, I love to see new track being laid, either for new lines or for double-tracking existing lines (like the MBTA Franklin line).
It's almost like Atlas Code 83 flex track
Continuos welded rail...Big ambitions here for sure...
Thank you for this update - esp. the detailed footnotes. This makes the whole video so much more relevent and informative. I am looking forward to seeing the end results of the MBTA efforts to get these lines back-in-service.
Good to see services being restored in the US. We're trying to do the same in the UK but it's a slow process.
I hope your videographers capture some of the laying of new rail and roadbed.
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Great video, glad to see railways making progress and improvements.
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It's amazing. To see that ribbon rail come off that work train. Happy Thanksgiving. To all
It is always amazing to me how flexible rails seem to be.
That bump in the track in the thumbnail buggs me
The track level will be raised and the bump will be flattened out.
I can’t wait for this to be done, and to finally have train service back in New Bedford.
It's wonderful to see this. The investors are spending SOME money.
Awesome video. Thank you very much.
I didn't realize rail was that flexible!
This project is
Long overdue. It's a shame that 2 cities the size of New Ford and fall river were cut off from passenger rail access.
Very interesting video.
Interesting to watch rail wiggle almost like it was spaghetti while being dropped off to the ground.
( Follow up to my previous comment) when PennCentral went bankrupt they ceased to be a railroad company, but they didn't sell off the massive land holdings that they had in the NYC metro area. They transitioned to a real estate holding company that still exists today.
Please keep us informed of the progress.
I'd say they may have to put in gated crossings if track its to be doubled
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Would be nice, as you are talking about improvement in infrastructure, to present an annotated map.
From wikipedia re penncentral. The Pennsylvania Railroad absorbed the New York Central Railroad on February 1, 1968, and at the same time changed its name to Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Company to reflect this. The trade name of "Penn Central" was adopted, and, on May 8, the former Pennsylvania Railroad was officially renamed the Penn Central Company.
The first Penn Central Transportation Company (PCTC) was incorporated on April 1, 1969, and its stock was assigned to the a new holding company called Penn Central Holding Company. On October 1, 1969, the Penn Central Company, the former Pennsylvania Railroad, absorbed the first PCTC and was renamed the second Penn Central Transportation Company the next day; the Penn Central Holding Company became the second Penn Central Company. Thus, the company that was formerly the Pennsylvania Railroad became the first Penn Central Company and then became the second PCTC.[2]
The old Pennsylvania Company, a holding company chartered in 1870, reincorporated in 1958 and long a subsidiary of the PRR, remained a separate corporate entity throughout the period following the merger.
The former Pennsylvania Railroad, now the second PCTC, gave up its railroad assets to Conrail in 1976 and absorbed its legal owner, the second Penn Central Company, in 1978, and at the same time changed its name to The Penn Central Corporation. In the 1970s and 1980s, the company now called The Penn Central Corporation was a small conglomerate that largely consisted of the diversified sub-firms it had before the crash.
Among the properties the company owned when Conrail was created were the Buckeye Pipeline and a 24 percent stake in Madison Square Garden (which stands above Penn Station) and its prime tenants, the New York Knicks basketball team and New York Rangers hockey team, along with Six Flags Theme Parks. Though the company retained ownership of some rights-of-way and station properties connected with the railroads, it continued to liquidate these and eventually concentrated on one of its subsidiaries in the insurance business.
The former Pennsylvania Railroad changed its name to American Premier Underwriters in March, 1994. It became part of Carl Lindner’s Cincinnati financial empire American Financial Group.
Are they using 132 pound rail here? With the base plates / tie plates already attached to the cross ties, I'm guessing that Pandrol Clips are going to be used with the newer tracks. Keep up the good work, stay safe and God bless.
Who gonna run the passenger service?
MBTA
How long is each section of welded rail. Thank you for the super video
I believe they are about 1400-1500 feet long
It looks like some serious business is about to take place.
Texas and pacific beat me to the punch re: the second line, but will there be a way to double track the sections that are remaining single track in the future, back to the way it was in the late 50’s before closure?
So will the entire 2nd main line be restored? And will all of the track be restored? Does it have any customers interested? Sorry I have a lot of questions. And thanks for making these videos or railroads coming back to life. I definitely liked the video and subscribed
Interesting upload. From Taunton, Somerset, UK. Which railroad company owned this line in the past?
New Haven Railroad
Hi all love the video! You use the word "abandoned" but that has legal ramifications. as opposed to" out of service". We have a rail trail project here in Lancaster County Pa. that was the former Reading to Columbia rail line. When the Reading RR went bankrupt, large lots of land were purchased by a company. Many of the adjacent farmers and landowners believed that the land reverted back to them. and used and or encroached on the inactive rail line. It turned out that the company that purchased the rail line had been paying the taxes on the land for over 60 years. That put a crimp in the argument of the adjacent landowners. The last piece of this project has the municipalities dealing with Norfolk Southern for the segment that is partially in- use and partially out of service.
So, what was the actual status of the right of way on this project? Hope with the passing of the Federal infrastructure bill that funding will head your way.
Does anybody know how long it took them to get to this point? I'm just curious cuz they're doing the Lackawanna cut off in New Jersey and it's been years since they've been doing it.
They’ve been working continuously for over a year now.
So what transit authority is doing the passenger service?
MBTA
Strange not using concrete sleepers?
Wood will do the job. You only need concrete for over 90MPH running but these tracks will have a top speed of 79MPH I believe.
What exactly is a concrete sleeper?
@@mshum538 It's what they call railroad ties in Europe.
@@mshum538 I think maybe you call them "ties" in USA?
@@phillips88gmail its about time the railroads are being resurrected. Rail fan
Is this new rail American rolled rail
MBTA should have the answer. If you look on the web of the rail, you should see the mill marks which should tell you the manufacturer, weight in lbs/yd and profile.
Well I take it that would putting all new cross ties and welded rail and making double main tracks ever where they can and rebuilding all the siding tracks with welded rails there must be fix and I have a lot of trains running through there and passenger train to how many miles of this are they doing this to because putting all of that money in on that track they must be expecting a lot of rail traffic