HD New Eco-Friendly MBTA Locomotive Departs Boston North Station with a Train

[Balarick]

it looks very bright and clean. Montreal has a similar engine.

[NickWood07]

So Shiny! 

[blarization]

If only Amtrak bought it.

[AMTRAKAEM7FAN1991]

the MP36 is such a great locomotive, you can tell cause almost every commuter railroad are ordering them

[LiberalNoob]

@AMTRAKAEM7FAN1991 Because no one else mass produces passenger locomotives in the United States anymore. Motive Power, Inc. (a.k.a. Wabtec) have a monopoly.

[blarization]

Did u hear they have the model at true line trains.com?

[Pompadour123]

lol wifi... =)

[acelakid94]

I saw #11 fly through Readville on Friday; I thought it was kept for service on the North side

[lucy082011]

there's a story on how the MBTA got the 2 new MP36PH-3C.UTA in Utah order 12 0f

MP36PH-3C.they only needed 10 of them for the commuter rail service. when they found out that the MBTA was going to buy 20 of them. UTA sold them the last 2 of them for $7 milloon. that's $ 3.5 each they were number # 011 .and # 12.the MBTA renumber them # 010 & # 011.

[TheIncrediblePeach]

is there a video that goes with the train in the intro.?

[GintaPPE1000]

Digital number board LOL

[CJaguar265]

 i just wonder how long they will last. I prefer the old trains

[jimmydcap]

@CJaguar265 The older ones keep breaking down.. you can only do so much with them..

[parejopinto]

SO they finally got them new ones?

[gp40mc]

Nice. I don't think that T paint looks good on these engines though. The UTA paint looked great on them.

[Railhead1956]

Nice video

[Thunderheadpros]

wow, nice catch

[trainboy62]

Sweet! hopefully these guys can hold down the fort until the big order in 2013 ;)

[murjax]

I said this before in another video, but the number boards are completely designed wrong. The LED sign should display the train number instead of the loco, since you can change it. Most obvious thing though is the 0 preceding the loco number. Seriously that has no place there.

[Chessiecat97]

Now you need to get a video of the MARC units, the least eco-friendly!

[murjax]

@Chessiecat97 What's the difference between MBTA's and MARC's? They're still MP36s.

[Chessiecat97]

@murjax I was talking about the 4 MARC GP40's that MBTA just got.

[murjax]

@Chessiecat97 Ooh.

[murjax]

@romanstransitpage He's gonna kill you for that lol.

[Tcostello105]

"Giant Purple Twinkie" lol Great video Matt! By the way what camera are you using?

[GenesisSanctuary]

Great catch Matt. Those MP36s are really cool.:) I'm pretty surprised that this one has ditchlights that flash at the normal speed rather than the slower speed like every other MP36 has.