MARC Camden Line Cab Ride - Washington to Baltimore (2002) 

Thanks for the info!

from Dorsey east its almost exclusively curves. the curve MP17-18 is almost 2 miles long. the curve MP26-27 is over 1 mile long.

I agree. But Mike says the guy who recorded this did so to give a full picture view on screen. I personally wouldn’t have minded having part of the image blocked by the window frame and hood for better perception.

Camera lens was definitely in telephoto mode, truncating the approaching scenery and rail.

The equalizing reservoir vents into the cab and makes a whistling noise.

I think a WH.

Jersey Mike's Rail Videos it’s a 39 you can tell because you can see the railing to climb up to the cab. WH is mainly entered through the back and the front is hard to get in.

It’s a WH because of the way the yellow bar is facing.

Unfortunately your typically simple layouts don't get to make good use of some of your more crazy signal indications.

The Camden line is a non-electrified line; I typically take the Penn Line (services the same two endpoints, but uses different routing in between). The Penn Line uses the NEC, basically; the Camden Line does not.

Read the description. This video was produced by a friend.

You'll probably want to cut out the conversations? Otherwise you can if you link me the finished result.

Okay I will.

MARC was leasing some Sounder sets in the 2000's

Atleast a leaf cant stop a train in america

This video was recorded in 2002; the NoMa-Gallaudet University station wasn't constructed until 2004 (known then as "New York Avenue," then renamed to include Florida Avenue and Gallaudet U, then renamed again to the current name).

Ryan Hatterer That is actually a Sounder commuter consist. Sounder operates out of Washington state.

Since when? I don't remember Sounder even running on the east coast.

Sorry, got it wrong, I miss read the state as station lol. I was wondering why it was over 2,000 miles away from home.

Sounder cars were leased by the Virginia Railway express back in the early 2000s, along with an f59phi for their commuter trains.

Something told me that, but I thought they ask Amtrak for a set instead of sending a set from the west and pay for the trip. But either way thank you and it throw me off so much.

A zoom lens is being used. A traditional view would give better speed and depth perception. The tradeoff is that much of the view would be blocked by the window frame.

19,000 tons going up Balfour hill is about 17 mph average when i ride a coal train. Freight is heavy sir. This is music to my ears with that prime mover wound up

entonces no lo mires...

It actually has very few permanent speed restrictions. Almost the entire line is good for 70mph.

Not sure I get what you mean. Even this diesel service is faster than driving to downtown DC in the peak period.

Do you mean COVID-19 had seriously taken out the patronage public transport needs to make reasonable sense at least in the current way funding is seen. At 25% capacity which is what a lot of couch travel is using as a social distancing measure doesn't seem reasonable for future investment. Right now Sep 8, 2020 public travel is reporting occupancies of 5% in some locations so enforcing 25% capacity isn't an issue. Amtrak sleepers are in much heavier use than the coaches.

@@douglasengle2704 My answer / post was in January 2020 (?!). I think that the Covid-19 / Coronavirus was at that time not a real issue in the world.

Most of what you are asking about are just freight delivery sidings.

lilburrellbaby why do ask so many fricken questions

@TC FenstermakerThat's funny because Im from DC but I live in Nebraska and I work for a steel company that delivers the metal for the new Metro cars at Kawasaki in Lincoln. I go down all the time and watch them test run the new cars in their yard. I see them before any decals or road numbers and then every once in a while I will see one on a stretched out semi being hauled down I-80. They are pretty sweet cars.

BTW Kawasaki is hiring like fools except im not moving back to Lincoln. I love my steel job and too many liberals down there. I lived in Lincoln for two years and couldn't stand it like I cant stand DC or MD.

OK, I was a CSX conductor and engineer out of Baltimore in that era. The train left Union Station from track 15, to the left of "K" Tower. Just before Greenbelt station on the left was the siding for the Washington Post Greenbelt, MD printing plant. After Greenbelt station is the Greenbelt MetroRail maintenance facility, and the switch is there` so Metro can receive and send out equipment by rail. Just past that is Sunnyside Rd. and the beginning of the Beltsville USDA Agricultural Research Center. The spurs in this area serve commercial and industrial customers in Beltsville. (I lived up one of the streets off of US Rt. 1, which was to the left of the railroad before Ammendale Interlocking). Muirkirk station is actually named for the road, it's in Beltsville, just south of Laurel MD S. Rt. 200, the "Intercounty Connector", ends on Rt. 1 just north of the station. When the train gets up to Savage there is another industrial track to businesses in that area. As the train left Savage station you could see the power for a "Rock Runner" and it's train being loaded at the stone quarry. They used to have a radio-controlled GE that was ex-Lehigh Valley and Conrail. The signal at CP 'PA" on track #1 controls the entrance to Jessup yard, one of the largest automobile loading/unloading facilities on the East Coast. As you rounded the curve there you could briefly see the MD state prison at Jessup to the right. Again there are more industrial spurs, the Columbia and Waterloo branches come off of the east lead at Jessup. The Dorsey Industrial Track comes off on the left up a steep grade just East of Dorsey station. Approaching Baltimore at Relay (there used to be a hotel where the Old Main Line and the Cap came together at the monument to the viaduct), the Thomas Viaduct was built in 1833, and is not the oldest existing railroad bridge in the U. S. That honor goes to the Carrollton Viaduct on the Mt. Clare Branch, which comes off of track 3 past W. Baltimore. Past CP Halethorpe (since replaced by one at St. Denis) was the lead to the Halethorpe I. T., which was the fairgrounds for the 1927 B&O Fair of the Iron Horse. At W. Baltimore, if you go to the right off of Tr. 3, you go over the mainline on Zepps Bridge and Mt. Winans yard (used to hold trains and cuts of cars, to the left of the train) towards Curtis Bay yard. The Mt. Clare branch loops around through what was a series of yards (A thru D) that led to the Mt. Clare shops (now the B&O Museum), crosses Washington Blvd. by the old Montgomery Wards, and rejoins the main at CP Carroll. The local freight that the train passed at CP Carroll was turning off down the South Baltimore Industrial Track, which goes to the Curtis Bay Branch at CP Clifford. The MARC train was getting signals that most would never see on a typical main track because of the many different moves a train could make there. There are explanations of B&O CPL signals available on the net, so I won't go into them here. Just before the train entered the platform at Camden Station you could see the South Portal of the Howard St. Tunnel off to the right. Straight ahead before the train passed Raven's Stadium began the Locust Point branch to Locust Point yard which forms the Bailey Wye. Baltimore Terminal had wye tracks there, at Curtis Bay Junction next to Mt. Winans Yard, and at Bay View Yard on the east side. I've been gone from CSX for over 10 years now so I don't know what's left of all of that.

Line speed is 70. The camera had to zoom through the front window and past the short hood. That flattens the image and makes things appear slower.

@@PositionLight , additionally, csx rules require a max of 40 when 'delayed in block'

No shit its fast but its just that they use telephoto look like its slow

It's a 60-70mph line. Performance is pretty standard for diesel commuter lines.

The videographer had the camera zoomed out for a full screen picture but at the cost of speed and depth perception.

Faster than the beltway.

It also looks a bit slower than it is at times because the cab is so high off the ground it messes with your perspective and makes it look slower, kinda like how when you’re on an airplane it doesn’t feel like you’re going as fast as you are, just this time on a smaller scale.

@@jg-7780 I watch other train videos's and they're bookin' . This ; you can tell its s.l.o

Most passenger engines sit closer to the ground, so there is no perspective weirdness

Yes it was.

Passenger.

It's a 70mph line with most traffic going to Dorsey and Laurel. Trains are only about 3-6 cars.

I think it's a stop indication, but the signal could be down for maintenance.

That's Lansdowne. It looks like at the time, the signal was only for 3 and 1, not 2 track the train is traveling on. Currently, it's an absolute for 3 and 1, and another set of heads has been added as an intermediate for track 2.

@@GP30RDMT , correct. absolute signals _almost_ always exist to coincide with a switch. Lansdowne has no switch on #1.

The old LANSDOWNE interlocking was only in service on the middle two tracks. Note the rightmost signal is mounted to left of the rightmost track the train is running on. That means it applies to the track to the left.

Yes, all except the ones at Greenbelt.

Huh?

@@PositionLight The town in PA near Philadelphia.

Baeden

Probably a GP40WH-2

70mph

Yes.

I must be. Sounds like the dang thing has thrown a rod!!

SupernalOne rail yards are not for the weak at heart, that’s for sure!! An unforgiving and dirty environment that will kick your ass in a New York minute.

Sorry i couldn't send a 4k camera back in time.

You're being dramatic... it wasn't THAT bad. I've seen WAY worse from amateurs with 4k equipment equipped with automatic stabilizers.