MBTA East Route Main Line 1997 Part 1 

Holy shit, this video is great material. I feel like I'm hearing the FMCB and Keolis executives make the same rediscovery of the same shit 20 years later.

My great aunt knew an engineer on the Purple Line and when i was 5-6y/o back in 1987, I got to ride up in the cab and the engineer actually let me use the throttle(guided of course) to take us out of North Station, we were on the Rockport/Ipswich line and heading back to my home at the time in Salem, MA...ah great memories!!!!

I'm sure our family took many rides to/from Gloucester, with this man at the controls. Thanks for your service. I am only sorry MBCR didn't hire me as a conductor in 2006, but that organization is not the MBTA. Instead, I went to college.

I would gladly pay to ride in the cab with this guy and hear every one of this stories!!! Is he still driving with the MBTA?

Wow so cool to see what it was like in the F40's back then. Also that horn sounds awesome!

Ive been in cabs, but not In motion. Awesome

I always wondered what it look like from the inside when they had those bars on on the cab windows.

"We're going 10[mph], 27 years after a man walked on the moon." That about sums up US railroads...

wow, 1061 used to have a great steel bell

The engineer is pretty funny when it comes to comparing the mbta to the French tgv haha.

Neil Chayet, when he's not looking at the law, he's looking at the trains.

i remember taking the t to boston when i vacationed in rockport and thats what got me into railfanning

Funny to see these officials discover what commuters have had to put up with for years...the annoyingly slow speeds near North Station. Looks like he didn't have much luck expediting that upgrade to 30 MPH.

Nice video Very Cool !

I've only been let inside one of these at North Station before, but no cab ride and I wasn't allowed to film and the F40 was 1013.

I've taken a cab ride in an MBTA Commuter Rail train, loco 1121 and control car 1701

#Opendoorpolicy is pretty common in the MBTA, but not on the locomotive usually. (Ever seen an MBB on the G&U) I wonder if they got HVAC in the -2 upgrades done to these units.

@ipwnu981 Yeah true. Id love to ride in the cab of anything haha. Even just the green line.

Still true about Washington Street in Gloucester. They should invite more officials to ride with engineers

Forget about cab rides witch and what type engine are they in?

@21ricky666 he was probbaly there at the right time

“The newest engines they are building have AC” does anyone know what the name of those engines were? Sorry I’m new to locomotives, thanks!

What day in 1997 was this filmed?

watching in 2018?

I wonder how you could get to ride in the cab...

Is he still engineering?

Sounds like Boston's rail regime is build on half-measures and old rules.