The MBTA’s Newest Drawbridge in America’s Oldest Fishing Port

The MBTA’s Newest Drawbridge in America’s Oldest Fishing Port | Infrastructure on the MBTA Ep 2

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Ай бұрын

The MBTA Gloucester branch spans from Beverly MA to Rockport MA, and offers some of the T’s finest and most unique railroading: such as the operations around drawbridges. Come along and learn how the Gloucester Branch works alongside its marine friends in its namesake city.
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@CoolLightRails 17 күн бұрын

I went to Rockport Station last year on MBTA F40PH

@plymouthrock7282 Ай бұрын

Awesome video. Never thought of the T having Drawbridges. One: check your timestamps. Most say “AM”. Clearly it was afternoon. Thanks again

@BostonByRails Ай бұрын

Oh good catch. When I film with my photography camera it always messes them up and inverses them, like so. I typically dont include timestamps on videos when I use this camera, guess I just forgot! Thanks for catching it 😊

@nathantzhang Ай бұрын

socks and shoes in water is crazy

@PatriotAndAlbanyProductions Ай бұрын

nuffy spotted

@MbtaVideoClips Ай бұрын

Wow. Some great vantage points there. Nice video!

@BostonByRails Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@XLProductionsAJR2024 Ай бұрын

First comment! Awesome Vid! I needed this video so bad! Thanks Nate! By the way ‘Maybe I’ll make another video when I’ll cover that.” Video releases in 6 or 8 months. 😅

@MichaelClarke1646 Ай бұрын

gotta get another hobby or something, man

@nickmorgan1690 Ай бұрын

Man, now I miss living in Beverly! We were lucky enough to have some of the best train frequency in the system

@CommuterRailProductions Ай бұрын

I gotta railfan at a drawbridge someday. Seems like quite the experience!

@BostonByRails Ай бұрын

Its fun! Im excited to see what the others are like

@SongsOfPeteDonovan 29 күн бұрын

My only issue with the new bridge is that I think there was a major missed opportunity to widen the navigable channel at that location and build a longer draw/lift span to increase the ability for watercraft shorter in height to pass underneath in both directions. But the separate single track spans and increased track speeds are more than enough of an improvement. 💯

@contactdeklutskwijt1060 Ай бұрын

Nice video! I enjoyed it !

@BostonByRails Ай бұрын

Thanks, im glad!

@mattgain Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@BostonByRails Ай бұрын

Always!

@LourdesReynoso-x7p 13 күн бұрын

Give us more videos 😉 please 🙏

@jonathanrice1070 Ай бұрын

I had no idea MBTA had a drawbridge. Great video btw!

@BostonByRails Ай бұрын

Cool, right? Thanks!

@josephd514 20 күн бұрын

So I live along the Boston/newburyport rail line. The same line also splits in Beverly whwre one goes to Newburyport and the other towards rockport. My question is are all trains on radio? And what would the 160.??? Frequency be so I’m able to listen to that particular rail line? Any reply would be greatly appropriated

@BostonByRails 19 күн бұрын

Hi there! Indeed, both lines are dispatched by the Boston East Dispatcher. The frequency you can use is 160.320

@josephd514 18 күн бұрын

@@BostonByRails another frequency I’m looking for is there’s a rail like that comes in from New Hampshire I believe it’s Newton junction and I believe it’s a commuter line as well as freight. I’m not sure what 160.??? Frequencies are for which things or where to look them up so I’m not always asking ya thanks man enjoy the weekend

@VictoryHighway 26 күн бұрын

I thought that north side mostly used GP40-MCs for power?

@thomasstambaugh5181 Ай бұрын

Very enjoyable video. Pay no attention to the trolls/naysayers. One unfortunate consequence of that unfunded "maintenance burden" is audible in pretty much every train in this video -- flat wheels. That "clickety-clack" is happening with the wheel rotation -- there aren't that many joints there (I think most of the rail is welded anyway). Each turn of a flat wheel is a hammer blow to the rail underneath it. In a more perfect world, the MBTA equipment will be maintained well enough to avoid all those flat wheels. Those flat spots cause much more wear and tear on the new bridge than is desirable (as well as the rest of the already suffering public rail infrastructure). Count me as one of those "massholes" who would like to see a significant shift of state transportation funding away from roads and highways and into public rail transporation.

@timregan1005 Ай бұрын

lmao. infrastructure and MBTA can't be used in the same sentence

@MbtaVideoClips Ай бұрын

@@timregan1005 i hate how much people think the mbta sucks.

@VasuJaganath Ай бұрын

@@MbtaVideoClips Because it does.

@noggin6870 Ай бұрын

@@MbtaVideoClipsit's simultaneously one of the best networks in the country and still an embarrassment. It's really only good by comparison to the mostly nonexistent transit in other US cities. Boston deserves better than what the MBTA delivers in most respects.