Love the Pennsylvania countryside. I was born in Pa. Other side of Valley Forge, and watched the former READING R/R run alongside of Pennsylvania R/R through Norristown back in the late sixties. Great catches.
I love the sleek trains with the rural backdrop. Very reminiscent of the heyday of passenger rail. I'd almost expect to see a Pennsy GG1 with a long consist of streamline cars.
I just found and posted a link in the description that says everything one needs to know about the project. The main goal of removing the crossings to allow the possibility of 125 MPH track. Due to construction time, Eby Chiques and Newcomer Road will be around until fall 2014.
Awesome Video! It's sad to see them get rid of the crossings. These crossing have some classic signals! RIP crossings! Also nice catch of that hertage unit!
Yes, Norfolk Southern serves a couple of industries on that siding. They even have their own switcher which can be seen at 18:40, though I have never been fortunate to see it operate.
That seems to be normal for most railroads in the east. By me on the NYS&W Railway, the bells shut off once the gate is lowered, and usually stay off, but some crossings begin ringing again when the gate rises.
I rode a Keystone train On August 6th, I guess they are also replacing Catenary poles too. Don't worry, The AEM-7's will be on the Keystone Corridor for a year or two more, I had a chat one time with a Engineer.
0:18 that is just beautiful! B32-8WH's were taken off the Pennsylvanian service due to newer speed restrictions that BWH's can't handle. 512 is my favorite Dash-8 on Amtrak. Also whats up with the ditch lights?
They're doing a major track upgrade between Harrisburg and Lancaster, bringing the rails to the same specifications of the Keystone Corridor east of Lancaster (CWR and concrete sleepers). This is going on between now and before Thanksgiving, 2024.
I guess it's only a matter of time before they take these last few out of a service, but on the upside the 125 MPH will be quite the sight if they do go as far as upgrading to as fast as the toasters can operate. This was a nice example of how much creativity can be expressed in three locations for a solid 24 minutes, lot of nicely composed shots here. I especially liked the one of 953 at Irishtown and the 646 at Newcomer. The final parting shot of the vehicular traffic closed out the era well.
Thanks for this video! This brings back a lot of childhood memories. I’ve known Irishtown Rd crossing since kindergarten, as a small boy I always used to go there with my grandma to spot some trains. Now that I’ll be turning 18 years old in January... I’m starting to feel old already just by watching this video! 😆 Really a shame they closed all three remaining RR-crossings about 6 years ago, although I can understand why...
They only took out the crossings because on highspeed lines, trains are restricted to certain speeds depending on the crossing concrete filler/track pad's functioning, or the types of level crossings it has.
Indeed over this side of the pond Network Rail have got rid of all of the level crossings on the west coast main line so that the Virgin Pendolino trains can do 125 mph runs from London Euston to the West Midlands and then up to Glasgow Central
nice video and catches! sad to see there getting rid of the crossings up there :( also i can see the freight spur switcher at 18:40 is a 44 tonner and also 19:30 nice to see you caught a amtrak heritage unit!
Ive been hearing people talk about ditch lights, there are three modes for ditch Ditch lights: flash Ditch lights: freeze Ditch lights: flash ( both ) Those are the three modes for ditch lights [your welcome] > _ >
The Amtrak maker's should make a rare keystone with an aem-7 leading surfurliners and & a dash 8 coupled in the back with a baggage and observation cars
Every time iwatch any Amtrak zipping up and down the rails I wish I was behind the wheel call me for a test drive....I watch train videos almost daily......
0:22: How strange it seems to me. Normally, the indicator position lamps flash intermittently. Why are they both blinking at the same time? 3:50: No horn zone? Because the train hasn't done the honk sequence. 15:36: Is it me or is it a two-tone horn? 19:06: The Dash 8 seems to have a Norfolk Southern horn, since the tone is not the typical one used by the P42, for example. 21:59: I love the classical railroad crossing bell.
@@Thatonerandomguy1331the road pavement is still at all 3, but the path has been removed and now there’s alternate ways to the crossings. And the Crossing Gates are gone as well.
Why is the Pennsylvanian pulled by a diesel locomotive when it can be pulled by an electric locomotive between Harrisburg and Philly? Just curious as to why.
They are Keystone trains that are "push-pull" consists using the old Metroliner m.u. cars from the PRR/P.C. era as cab-coaches. AMTRAK has used them since taking over the NEC and Keystone Corridor in 1976, using them primarily on the NEC in New England and for the Keystone Service since 2008-09 when the entire Keystone Corridor was overhauled by AMTRAK and PennDOT. It was also used by AMTRAK for its short-lived Atlantic City-Philadelphia "Gambler's Express" Service (since taken over by NJ Transit).
Those old grade crossings go back to the days of the former Pennsylvania Railroad. What Amtrak calls the Keystone Corridor, was the Pennsylvania Railroad Main Line that ran from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia and whose name (Main Line), became synonymous with the high-end suburban Philadelphia residential area (stretching from Paoli to the Philadelphia City/Montgomery County line) that was originally called the "Welsh Tract" by William Penn (thus if you look at a SEPTA Paoli/Thorndale Line timetable - which SEPTA trains share with Amtrak - you will see a lot of stations with Welsh-sounding names).
