by l008com
So I caught that same freight train in the same spot last night! Leaving the wildcat after a commuter rail train with an interesting mix up of cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmZrmN9eRvs
A funny thing happened that didn't make it on that video. A tanker truck was driving on Rt 38. It hits the flashes and slows to a "california stop" at the crossing because I assume "this truck stops at all train crossings". Just as he's pulling up to the crossing, the gates start flashing. Does he stop? No of course not, he stops on it and keeps going. The train came through a few seconds later. KINDA defeats the purpose of stopping at all crossings!
Another interesting thing that happened. I was just north of Anderson and the signals lit up. I started to hear the train so I grabbed my phone out of my bag. But before I could even wake up this phone, a downeaster bombed through the station without stopping, must have been doing every bit of full track speed. It was there and gone in no time. I wish I could have filmed it. Normally Downeasters stop at anderson, and of course commuter rail trains stop there. Freight trains don't but they don't travel as fast. So theres usually never any high speed trains going through this one spot.
When I'm out pedaling and train-hunting, I've been using this site a lot to see what's around: https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~wuensch/ ... l-map.html
It's been VERY helpful at increasing my sightings because I know when to wait or when to not bother.
But it only has MBTA CR trains. I'm wondering if theres any other way to track amtrak trains and pan am / csx / nhn trains? That would be amazing to have one app/site like that that could show you everything on the line!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmZrmN9eRvs
A funny thing happened that didn't make it on that video. A tanker truck was driving on Rt 38. It hits the flashes and slows to a "california stop" at the crossing because I assume "this truck stops at all train crossings". Just as he's pulling up to the crossing, the gates start flashing. Does he stop? No of course not, he stops on it and keeps going. The train came through a few seconds later. KINDA defeats the purpose of stopping at all crossings!
Another interesting thing that happened. I was just north of Anderson and the signals lit up. I started to hear the train so I grabbed my phone out of my bag. But before I could even wake up this phone, a downeaster bombed through the station without stopping, must have been doing every bit of full track speed. It was there and gone in no time. I wish I could have filmed it. Normally Downeasters stop at anderson, and of course commuter rail trains stop there. Freight trains don't but they don't travel as fast. So theres usually never any high speed trains going through this one spot.
When I'm out pedaling and train-hunting, I've been using this site a lot to see what's around: https://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~wuensch/ ... l-map.html
It's been VERY helpful at increasing my sightings because I know when to wait or when to not bother.
But it only has MBTA CR trains. I'm wondering if theres any other way to track amtrak trains and pan am / csx / nhn trains? That would be amazing to have one app/site like that that could show you everything on the line!
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