Acela Cab Ride Hell Gate Bridge to Penn Station by East River tunnels Best viewed at 640 x 480

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Acela Cab Ride Hell Gate Bridge to Penn Station by East River tunnels Best viewed at 640 x 480

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Жыл бұрын

Amtrak Acela in cab Hell Gate Bridge to the platform in Penn Station NYC. Entering the East RiverTunnels for a short underground run into Penn Station where the crew leaves for either a dead head back to Boston in coach as passengers or possibly running Acela consist back to Boston
Either way, the Crew is still on the clock and are subject to a call to replace a crew if needed.
Engineers who are involved in an accident or a serious break of train regulations are taken out of service with another crew replacing them.

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@dpbl9931 Жыл бұрын

Finaly, finaly a video of a Acela Cab Ride- oh yeah! Thank you very much G Kenson!!! You all should know that videos of cab rides of high speed trains from Europe (GB, France, Spain, Italy, Germany etc.) are regularly shown on youtube- in HD! ;)

@ViLLagE-BiCycle269 Жыл бұрын

That tunnel is always my favorite. We take the amtrak from vermont occasionally. The tunnel i think is lit. My last time I went I had downed 3 glasses of whiskey before the ride. I fell asleep, got some drunken sickness food. And enjoyed the buzz. The hang over the next morning wasn't at all fun

@edwardstarkman1250 Жыл бұрын

East River tunnels. North River tunnels are the Hudson River Tunnels to NJ. Thank you for posting this video.

@gkenson7497 Жыл бұрын

You are correct. This is what happens when you rush.

@andrewthacker114 Жыл бұрын

Good clip. Thanks for sharing

@Mk99987 Жыл бұрын

Very poor quality-but better than nothing. Very few vids of the Hell Gate bridge operation.

@gkenson7497 Жыл бұрын

This was in the days before Iphone quality Have another that is longer and a little bit sharp. I just play them at a smaller screen size

@nycres Жыл бұрын

That's right, there are very few vids of this part of the NEC. So why are you complaining about the quality?!

@counterfit5 Жыл бұрын

It looks like it's from an old news report on the TGV or something

@seaniebounce Жыл бұрын

If I'm not mistaken, I believe the beginning of this video was showing the potential split of where the interborough express will be... this section of track to hell gate is very interesting...

@ocsrc Жыл бұрын

Go to used to be two tracks on either side They ripped all those out Why would they do that ?

@obkb1 Жыл бұрын

Nice one!

@cats0182 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting. This is the line where the MTA wants to build additional stations and service to Penn Station?

@gkenson7497 Жыл бұрын

You are correct it is owned by Amtrak and diverges off the Metro North at Larchmont Station. Only Amtrak uses this set of tracks but Metro North is a no brainer just as the east side access to GCT. Speed was limited 100 mph back then. This video must be 10 years old or more but I thought to share it with Hell Gate fans.

@saulschlapik6818 Жыл бұрын

The Hell Gate Bridge line actually diverges at New Rochelle, the stop after Larchmont westbound.

@AngelMorales-db1zh Жыл бұрын

Is new Rochelle

@ocsrc Жыл бұрын

Is that a third rail on the left hand side of the track ? Overhead lines and a third rail ?

@RandallHWood Жыл бұрын

These tracks are shared by Amtrak, NJ Transit, and LIRR. Amtrak and NJ Transit use overhead lines and LIRR uses third rail.

@adamw1944 Жыл бұрын

Interesting cab ride. Pity that such a low resolution.

@gkenson7497 Жыл бұрын

Best could be done 15 years aback. I enjoy it on a smaller screen. Thanks

@staintedcards Жыл бұрын

sound?

@mortenjohansen8148 Жыл бұрын

And volume??

@user-tx5om8ti8s Жыл бұрын

My my figuring, the video starts about 3.1 miles before the Hell Gate bridge The train has just passed under Tiffany Street, Bronx.

@user-tx5om8ti8s Жыл бұрын

I also found it interesting that the train used tunnel 1 going westbound. I had assumed that tunnels 1 & 3 were only used for eastbound trains with tunnels 2 & 4 used for westbound trains.

@JoeyLovesTrains Жыл бұрын

Very interesting going into line 1

@gkenson7497 Жыл бұрын

You notice we went way over to eastern portal as maintenance shuffled us through a maze of switches.

@JoeyLovesTrains Жыл бұрын

@@gkenson7497 yeah. Never seen that before. I’ve been keeping a close eye on the Harold interlocking rebuild. Nearly all of the switches you went over are higher speed concrete moveable point switches now

@musicforaarre Жыл бұрын

I was shocked at how many turnouts it took to get from the north side to the very south side of the track complex. Crazy!! Once the Amtrak bypasses are done, this won't happen again. Aarre Peltomaa of Mississauga, Ontario

@gkenson7497 Жыл бұрын

@@musicforaarre That was not the usual as we couldn’t get over the maneuvering that time. Maintenance of the other tubes caused this on weekend day.

@JoeyLovesTrains Жыл бұрын

@@musicforaarre normally this doesn’t happen anyway. This was a special case, it usually crosses over twice to get into Line 2 which is where most Amtrak trains enter into Penn Station. Line 1 is normally an eastbound tunnel, not sure why it was being used as a westbound tunnel in this vid tho

@ocsrc Жыл бұрын

That's a trash train. Over a mile long

@AngelMorales-db1zh Жыл бұрын

Soon those tracks will allow metro north to run there

@hallnall1667 Жыл бұрын

This clip looks old and sped up.

@gkenson7497 Жыл бұрын

It’s authentic and not speed altered

@ocsrc Жыл бұрын

PENN is such an awful place

@chuxtuff Жыл бұрын

Compared to FAST trains in Europe or Asia well there is no comparison as those trains no matter the country are certainly better then this American version. They can't even record the event with a modern decent camera!!! Anyway and again I'm not impressed. This was like looking at something from the 1950's...

@gkenson7497 Жыл бұрын

They was my self with a cellphone in 2007. Wasn’t planned so you go with what you have.

@chuxtuff Жыл бұрын

@@gkenson7497 It's still a good catch then regardless. I thought it was railroad produced. The cell phones with cameras of today have come a long ways compared to models of that era 15+ years ago. Though I can't remember what phone I had then I'm sure I disliked it.