Burlington Northern Santa Fe diesels in New York.......wait.......WHAT?! I see ton of BNSF freight trains through Texas and California, but never on the East Coast!! Great catch thought..............thanks for sharing!!
What's the CSX scanner data for the Amsterdam area? I'm from North Carolina but I go up to New York to visit family, and I go to Albany to visit my grandparents, and I've always wanted to know the radio feed for the line that follows I-87 and the radio feed that's around Amsterdam. So if you could give me the radio feed for that area, it would be greatly appreciated.
Excellent video. Your filming procedure is thorough and meticulous. Now I want to visit the Amsterdam area even more. Though I can't help but wonder what you meant by a "NEC P42?" Do all those have their original steel noses? Or are they all based out of that corridor?
Several Northeast locations including Albany-Rensselaer and Washington DC have dedicated P42 pools, around the 85-120 road number series. Nowadays this is more important since only those units are ACSES equipped.
Train #1 - NOT the Adirondack! That train turns north at Schenectady. Hard to tell what train it is as it has both Amfleet Is and IIs on it. My guess is the Mohawk as that train either follows or precedes the Adirondack out of NYP. I was on it one time back in 1995 when it was both trains combined splitting at ALB. Nine cars behind one P-40 and it was still able to do 110 mph!
I think you mean the Maple Leaf. Amtrak as far as I know has never had a train called the Mohawk running out of NY. But yes you are right it is not the Adirondack
Being more than your average casual Railfan, I stand by my claim! For awhile back then the combined Adirondack/Mohawk originated northbound at Washington D.C. Union Station. It changed direction at the platform in Penn Station. It was Summer of 1995 and I rode it from D.C. to Plattsburgh, NY.
@@ChamplainDivision I haven't been able to find any information at all on an Amtrak service called the Mohawk. Regardless, this video is from 2015 and I can say for certain no such train was running at the time. If you are going to call yourself "more than your average casual Railfan" the least you could do is look at some timetables from the last 20 years.
SPS H30 It really varies a lot. I've seen no trains in an hour there before, but I've also seen as many as 4 or 5 in an hour. On average though I would say it's like 2 to 3 trains an hour.
You should, it's a great spot. And what's cool is that this video is the norm there. Foreign power and all kinds of crazy stuff comes past there every day. Not to mention the awesome fast freights.
cool thanks, I'm planning on heading to Secaucus Junction as my final trip before school starts, but If I can I will definitely check it out. If I can't by the end of the summer, I'll be sure to get there before 2015 ends, Thanks again.
