REAR VIEW FOOTAGE - Oaks Tower to East River Tunnels

[00crashtest]

@malikthr1 Actually the train was going fast. If you noticed, it was going faster than the freeway next to it. It was going 90mph.

[the1thatgotirwin]

oh wow there was 4 trains waiting to use that tunnel

[traindude80]

@dOldManDownDaLane Thanks!

[PinePowerLI]

My LIRR train into NYC it seems never uses that tunnel but the one that ducks under first.

[traindude80]

@PinePowerLI The Port Washington Branch line mainly uses the first tunnel.

[malikrthr1]

That was fast. It looked like the train was going somewhere around 50-60mph. If there was a subway train doing this, it would have probably taken 3 or 4 times as long.

[bdtower]

Great Video run it in reverse for a cab ride don't you know....:o)

[Myra1959]

What a joyful ride. I felt like I was riding that train. I know that the train was heading towards Penn Station in Manhattan because I recognize IDCNY building in Long Island City. But where is Oak Towers located at. What town?

[InvasorEspacial007]

Awesome. Electric engine? How do they shape the catenary in the curves? Incredible. Thanks for sharing.

[traindude80]

@InvasorEspacial007 Yea, It was a AEM7AC pulling our train. Ever since I was a kid I was amazed at how they curved the catenary. Every time I took the train (LIRR) to Penn I would always stare at those curved wire for as long as I could! I think they put them up to reduce the tension of fast trains.(?)

[Railfan108]

thats going eat correct?

[soshmed1]

look at all the ugly grafitti. Why doesn't AMTRAK paint over it?

[soshmed1]

It's pretty sad to see all the ugly grafitti...

[NARTCC]

Sunny day...

[foudurail]

Very nice vidéo!

[ACLTony]

This vid stirs up powerful memories for me. As a kid during the 1960s, I lived in a 4 story apt. building next to the Bruckner Exressway (seen at the beginning of this clip) and had a good view of this rail line. GG1s, FL9s, and NH EF-4s cruised by regularly through here then. Fun times. Phantom54, you are correct about the rail route.

[ACLTony]

This vid stirs up powerful memories for me. As a kid during the 1960s, I lived in a 4 story apt. building next to the Bruckner Exressway (seen at the beginning of this clip) and had a good view of this rail line. GG1s, FL9s, and NH EF-4s cruised by regularly through here then. Fun times. Phantom54, you are correct about the rail route.

[phantomlord54]

So a NB Amtrak outta Penn Station would go due east through this tunnel, emerge in Queens, veer north across the Hell Gate, then travel northeasterly through the Bronx and WC? Do I have all that correct?

[traindude80]

@phantomlord54 Yes yo do.

[arithebomb]

Go to 8:55 if you want to see the tunnel entrance.

[arithebomb]

If you can't wait a long time for the tunnel entrance, skip to 8:55 .

[amtrakatsfnyc]

You captured the real essence of the Northeast Corridor. Memories of the New Haven RR still do abound. Thank you for the posting. Good job!!!

[traindude80]

@amtrakatsfnyc Thanks!

[HallowHand]

Wow this is beautiful I thought I was the only one into video recording The view of a Moving train. I am a little apprehensive because of this state we live in, dont need anyone thinking Im a t-e-ar-r-o-r-i-s...but Thankfully, there are people like you to inspire!

This stuff is beautiful.....

gotta love the real big time RR lines. Us, we're a 6-line MTA type deal...

[traindude80]

@HallowHand Yeah I've been recording out the back window of trains for 3 years now. I usually am to record with out a problem but then again there are the conductors who say "It's not safe". But I am able to reason with some of them though.

[HallowHand]

@traindude80

hey cool.and thank you for the effort, the hallowhand Inc appreciates the effort. I find film out of windows , inside of a train in movement, to be pretty appealing, and I cannot help but bring a camera and start recording, despite peoples weird stares...

I have a slew of them, going to mic them into a small video in a few days...

thank you again.

[troy19540]

A beautiful film solved the 52 year mystery of the Hell Gate Bridge. I grew up in Northern Queens looking at the "connecting railroad" from afar. Now, I am a Californian. One day I'll take that trip.

[ThaExpress2609]

I can use this for my New Haven Railroad line on Trainz

[steveb40]

Very nice video! I live just beyond those tunnels near the East River in LIC. I like how you can see a plane on approach to runway 4 at LaGuardia...around 6:35 when the train passes the Home Depot on Northern Blvd.

[trains74]

Beautiful Video !!! I like the way you capture the Amtrak & N.J. Transit trains leavin the yard waitin 2 enter the track leadin 2 the tunnel !!! "OSCAR MATERIAL" !!!

[traindude80]

@trains74 Thanks!

[AWSmith1955]

Nice views of railroad infrastructure. Also noticed the flat wheel that your coach had got louder over the concrete ties and smoothed out over the wooden ties. A little trivia. The lattice catenary towers at the beginning of the video near hunts point. Alfred Carlton Gilbert, who invented the "erector set" construction toy modeled his lattice stamped girders after the catenary lattice towers that he saw on his ride home and to work every day on the train. Google "Alfred Carlton Gilbert"

[ACLTony]

Wonderful seeing this! I grew up in the Bronx and during the late 60s, lived in an apartment next to the Bruckner Expwy, across the street from this mainline. As a kid looking through my parents bedroom window, I always stared at the tracks looking for trains.

[cc92103]

I took Amtrak from Boston to NYC years ago. I had NO idea I was passing thru Queens. I figured it was using a bridge from the Bronx right to Manhattan. The things you learn (and I'm originally from NYC)!

[travelsonic]

0: 11 - 0:43: You can see, on the left, catenary towers, overgrown ROW from the old New Haven railroad that was used by the New York, Westchester, and Boston railway.

Surprised that, even though it wasn't owned by the NYW&B but leased from the New Havin, no book / website on the NYW&B mention this site at all in areas that remain today.

[nhlives]

um you should check out the two books by Bob Bang released in the last 5 years.

[travelsonic]

If you mean Bob Bang's on the NYW&B then I have and read that, and I meant that it seems like the section from 180th street to Harlem River terminus has been neglected in terms of documenting the remains... if you are talking about books later than that then I would need to get my hands on said work(s).

[nhlives]

@travelsonic

Bob's first book was the 'soft cover picture book':

"Westchester County's million dollar a mile railroad"

In the last few years Bob has authored:

"The New York, Westchester & Boston Railway, 1906-1946"

AND

"Forgotten Railroads Through Westchester County"

BOTH of these recent volumes contain significant NYW&B content., and you should pick them up.

[larsnord]

This has to be what I always think of when Brian Williams says, "And now another story on America's aging infastructure."

[Great0ne1]

great video! If you played it backwards it could be a "cabride" video

[BDOUG23]

Loved the video.....Check mine out from CT on the Northeast corridor. Not as good as this but....

[nhlives]

This video is great, but it does not start at Hunts Point, it starts at OAK TOWER which is about 2 miles WEST of Hunts Point, OAK is the WEST end of Oak Point Yard, the east end of which was MARKET tower.

[traindude80]

Yes you may be correct but isn't that area Hunts Point? Aren't you talking about the railroad towers? Correct me if I'm wrong but thanks!

[nhlives]

both railroad and area, you video starts about shortly after the area called Hunts Point. I mean yes, its all close together - as urban neighborhoods usually are, but Hunt's Point isn't actually in this video at all.

And yes I was naming towers as well.

This video begins more or less at the site of the former "Port Morris" station. Hunt's Point was TWO stations east of here.

[kj762aa]

How many Tunnels are there

[traindude80]

There are 4 tunnels that run underneath the East River for Commuter and Intercity Railroads. The tunnels are single track tubes. 2 Westbound Tubes, and 2 Eastbound tunnels.

[kj762aa]

Amazing Video, but correct me if I am wrong but isn't the Hellgate bridge on the NJT side???

I probably am wrong being a chicagoin and all, anyway, nice video, I gave it the five stars it deserved.

[kj762aa]

I get it now. lol

[traindude80]

There is no railroad bridge that crosses the Hudson River in New York City. The Hellgate Bridge is owned by Amtrak, and is used by Amtrak, CSX, NY&A, Norfolk Southern, and CP Railroads. The Bridge connects Northwest Queens to Randals Island, and then to the Bronx. Amtrak uses the bridge for its Northeast Corridor Line from the East River Tunnels to Boston via the MRCR New Haven Line. Freight railroad uses it from points north to the Bay Ridge Branch to the NYCHRR. The lines diconect at Astoria.

[rangers1030]

GREAT VID DUDE...I ENJOYED IT

[traindude80]

Thanks!