ty so much glad to see the rails coming alive there is strong opposition by rail trail enthusiasts to fight extending the boston and new hampshire railroad to north conway
Nice to see. I took a picture of the work in June from the Rte 9 overpass near North Berwick. I remember talking to a volunteer at the Seashore Trolley Museum fifty years ago who said the B&M's mainline was so bad then you could pull the spikes out of the rotten ties by hand. And that was years after they had cut maintenance by abandoning double tracking. Before reinstating the Portland-Boston train in the early 2000s new heavy welded rail was laid down in a complete upgrade from the bad old days of the mid 60s and 70s. Still single track though.
Great video u got of the CSX Double Track Project in Maine. Going fantastic looks like. CSX is doing a remarkable job. So glad they’re now in the area. God Bless CSX. 👍👍👍👍
You know, I have a lot of experience with work that UP and BNSF do for upgrades etc and I must say CSX does not mess around. This here is pretty impressive how quickly they got going on this. The amount of work they are doing in Nashua north and west is insane. Nevermind they are basically redoing everything from Worcester North all at the same time. There commitment to the Northern New England is unprecedented. We got lucky with them buying a shit hole of a system that will be on par with the rest of the country in short order
@@hytorcdavedfunny how if you go anywhere else on CSX, people are complaining about how bad the customer service is and such. Give it a few years and the customers up here will be begging Mellon to save the place. As far as the mow work, so far csx is milking the feds for cash on most of their infrastructure projects (Mattawamkeag line rebuild, Waterville-Rigby rebuild, and the clearance projects).
@@georgesimmons3644 exactly! It costed CSX millions alone out of there own pocket just to rehab the entire Worcester Main with welded rail and new ties on top of everything else they have done throughout the system.
Corman is finishing up a CWR project on the entire original MEC main . Watching it from the Winthrop to Belgrade area ( Maine) They are replacing 1953 era 113 and some 1912 90 lb sidings. Any one interested, they are starting at the Main Street crossing in Readfield Maine on Wednesday heading to Waterville.
Awesome video, cool to see CSX putting infrastructure back up, rather then ripping everything out, looks like they have big plans for their purchase of Pan-Am. The R.J. Corman equipment is a little out of place (mostly Midwestern territory). What I can not explain is why the eastbound route gets a limited approach signal as that second Amtrak goes flying by the signal in the opposite direction westbound. Easy way to get train crews killed on that speedtrack, I hope they have special track orders to follow, yesh.
This project isn't being done because of CSX. NERPA got grants back in 2019 with Pan Am's cooperation. They did the brush cutting and drainage work just for everything to get delayed due to covid. However over the next two years Pan Am laid all the signal cable, while Shaw Bros. did the ground work. I think by the time CSX got involved all the work had been paid for by the grants and Pan Am. I am sure if it were CSX paying for it, they would have used 136 LBS CWR, not the 115 LBS which was dropped.
ha, they tore out all that track so years later they could put it all back. go figure. here in ct there was a train bridge crossing rte 6 in farmington on a line that was abandoned well before I was alive" I'm 50" . so the town payed lots of money to tear down the bridge even though the majority of the abandon track had already been converted to a bike path. then about 4 years ago the town spent millions building a new bridge . the irratating thing about it and the huge waste of money is that the same line had a trestle over the farmington River less than 2 miles away which was saved for the bike path. both the trestle and bridge were in the same condition. so why they double payed for the road crossing to be demoed but not the trestle is a mystery. I guess when your spending other people's money"taxes" price is of no concern.
All the climate crisis and US still building diesel powered passenger trains. I doubt you could find a diesel powered passenger train in all of Europe and only very occasionally on a freight train. Where is all this BBB money going? Nice video but I didn’t notice 1 person there actually working. That Case backhoe had a rather rusty bucket, looks like it hasn’t moved in weeks. Funny when I was a kid, pre-teen rode on electrified trains from NYC to Ct. That was 65 years ago, some progress eh?
Climate crisis? I guess we know who you're voting for. (not that it matters, cause elections have been fixed for yrs) Maybe we should have solar powered trains, planes and automobiles. Or better yet, wind powered. Maybe we should decommision all the tractor trailers on the road, to "totally eliminate" the "climate crisis". (Do you live in Manhatten?) Then how will you recieve all your Amazon pkgs? So what powers the European trains, that's so "climate friendly"? Nuclear? Yeah, let's go there.
And you can still ride electric trains from NYC to CT and now on to Boston. However freight trains on the Northeast Corridor were dieselized close to 40 years - allegedly because of the high amount Amtrak was charging the freight-hauling railroads. I agree this needs to be addressed. However, throughout most of the U.S. the density of passenger and freight train traffic cannot support the expense of electrifying rail lines. The alternative is massive expenditure - tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars of government funds to do the job. The U.S. is massively in debt and the taxpayers will not stand for significant increases in taxes, so public funding of electrification projects, except in a few high-density corridors, is not an option. For short trips by lightweight passenger trains, battery power may be an option, but current batteries have their own environmental problems and the technology is not quite "there" yet. The bottom line is that it is useless to compare European railroads to American railroads because they have very different operating parameters and their governments are faced with very different political situations.
You realize there are still a ton of diesel powered passenger trains in Europe, right? Chemin de fer Charlevoix in Quebec bought several DMU cars recently from a manufacturer in Europe which made them to the same specs, as what is being sold over there. The rust on the backhoe bucket is very light surface rust caused by rain, which can happen in as little as 24 hours. And they aren't doing work 24/7 on this project, so you aren't always going to find people working on it at all hours of the day.
Plus, look how small European countries are. Their size is that of a New England state. Who's paying for track improvement and new locos? A new CSX loco is $2 million just to compare engine cost.
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ty so much glad to see the rails coming alive there is strong opposition by rail trail enthusiasts to fight extending the boston and new hampshire railroad to north conway
Nice to see. I took a picture of the work in June from the Rte 9 overpass near North Berwick. I remember talking to a volunteer at the Seashore Trolley Museum fifty years ago who said the B&M's mainline was so bad then you could pull the spikes out of the rotten ties by hand. And that was years after they had cut maintenance by abandoning double tracking. Before reinstating the Portland-Boston train in the early 2000s new heavy welded rail was laid down in a complete upgrade from the bad old days of the mid 60s and 70s. Still single track though.
Great video u got of the CSX Double Track Project in Maine. Going fantastic looks like. CSX is doing a remarkable job. So glad they’re now in the area. God Bless CSX. 👍👍👍👍
You know, I have a lot of experience with work that UP and BNSF do for upgrades etc and I must say CSX does not mess around. This here is pretty impressive how quickly they got going on this. The amount of work they are doing in Nashua north and west is insane. Nevermind they are basically redoing everything from Worcester North all at the same time. There commitment to the Northern New England is unprecedented. We got lucky with them buying a shit hole of a system that will be on par with the rest of the country in short order
It’s a federally funded grant project. CSX has little to no skin in the game, Pan Am I think contributed the portion of the funding for it not csx.
@@hytorcdavedfunny how if you go anywhere else on CSX, people are complaining about how bad the customer service is and such. Give it a few years and the customers up here will be begging Mellon to save the place. As far as the mow work, so far csx is milking the feds for cash on most of their infrastructure projects (Mattawamkeag line rebuild, Waterville-Rigby rebuild, and the clearance projects).
@@benhartin5499 CSX has already put almost $100 million into the former pan am out of there own pocket
@@georgesimmons3644 exactly! It costed CSX millions alone out of there own pocket just to rehab the entire Worcester Main with welded rail and new ties on top of everything else they have done throughout the system.
Been on that Downeaster many times. Pleasant ride from North Station to Portland and Brunswick. What is the second track for?
Corman is finishing up a CWR project on the entire original MEC main . Watching it from the Winthrop to Belgrade area ( Maine)
They are replacing 1953 era 113 and some 1912 90 lb sidings.
Any one interested, they are starting at the Main Street crossing in Readfield Maine on Wednesday heading to Waterville.
o: This is awesome!!!!
What will the second rail be used for / help with?
More Tracks any where is always good for the area. RJCorman in Maine?
A good video with good news.
Thanks for sharing! I've also been watching this.
Great update! Thanks!
Excellent video my friends 😊
Awesome video, cool to see CSX putting infrastructure back up, rather then ripping everything out, looks like they have big plans for their purchase of Pan-Am. The R.J. Corman equipment is a little out of place (mostly Midwestern territory). What I can not explain is why the eastbound route gets a limited approach signal as that second Amtrak goes flying by the signal in the opposite direction westbound. Easy way to get train crews killed on that speedtrack, I hope they have special track orders to follow, yesh.
This project isn't being done because of CSX. NERPA got grants back in 2019 with Pan Am's cooperation. They did the brush cutting and drainage work just for everything to get delayed due to covid. However over the next two years Pan Am laid all the signal cable, while Shaw Bros. did the ground work. I think by the time CSX got involved all the work had been paid for by the grants and Pan Am. I am sure if it were CSX paying for it, they would have used 136 LBS CWR, not the 115 LBS which was dropped.
Love it!
Should help the Downeaster schedule as well as the planned new station in Portland
Is this the right-of-way that hosts the Downeaster? I wonder if they're planning to double-track all the way from Portland to Boston.
Yes its what the DE runs on, they are only double tracking this segment.
Great job
This area was double track many decades ago under Maine Central.
Boston & Maine*
@@trans-galactic-express Yes,your right, B&M
ha, they tore out all that track so years later they could put it all back. go figure. here in ct there was a train bridge crossing rte 6 in farmington on a line that was abandoned well before I was alive" I'm 50" . so the town payed lots of money to tear down the bridge even though the majority of the abandon track had already been converted to a bike path. then about 4 years ago the town spent millions building a new bridge . the irratating thing about it and the huge waste of money is that the same line had a trestle over the farmington River less than 2 miles away which was saved for the bike path. both the trestle and bridge were in the same condition. so why they double payed for the road crossing to be demoed but not the trestle is a mystery. I guess when your spending other people's money"taxes" price is of no concern.
@@chrisbystrak7967 " I guess when your spending other people's money"taxes" price is of no concern."
Pretty much sums it up.
Eww the Bragdon Road crossing has been CSX-ified
All the climate crisis and US still building diesel powered passenger trains. I doubt you could find a diesel powered passenger train in all of Europe and only very occasionally on a freight train. Where is all this BBB money going? Nice video but I didn’t notice 1 person there actually working. That Case backhoe had a rather rusty bucket, looks like it hasn’t moved in weeks. Funny when I was a kid, pre-teen rode on electrified trains from NYC to Ct. That was 65 years ago, some progress eh?
Climate crisis? I guess we know who you're voting for. (not that it matters, cause elections have been fixed for yrs)
Maybe we should have solar powered trains, planes and automobiles. Or better yet, wind powered. Maybe we should decommision all the tractor trailers on the road, to "totally eliminate" the "climate crisis". (Do you live in Manhatten?) Then how will you recieve all your Amazon pkgs?
So what powers the European trains, that's so "climate friendly"? Nuclear? Yeah, let's go there.
And you can still ride electric trains from NYC to CT and now on to Boston. However freight trains on the Northeast Corridor were dieselized close to 40 years - allegedly because of the high amount Amtrak was charging the freight-hauling railroads. I agree this needs to be addressed. However, throughout most of the U.S. the density of passenger and freight train traffic cannot support the expense of electrifying rail lines. The alternative is massive expenditure - tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars of government funds to do the job. The U.S. is massively in debt and the taxpayers will not stand for significant increases in taxes, so public funding of electrification projects, except in a few high-density corridors, is not an option. For short trips by lightweight passenger trains, battery power may be an option, but current batteries have their own environmental problems and the technology is not quite "there" yet. The bottom line is that it is useless to compare European railroads to American railroads because they have very different operating parameters and their governments are faced with very different political situations.
You realize there are still a ton of diesel powered passenger trains in Europe, right? Chemin de fer Charlevoix in Quebec bought several DMU cars recently from a manufacturer in Europe which made them to the same specs, as what is being sold over there.
The rust on the backhoe bucket is very light surface rust caused by rain, which can happen in as little as 24 hours. And they aren't doing work 24/7 on this project, so you aren't always going to find people working on it at all hours of the day.
Plus, look how small European countries are. Their size is that of a New England state. Who's paying for track improvement and new locos? A new CSX loco is $2 million just to compare engine cost.