Chasing ex-BNSF Pumpkins Down the NEC on P&W CHFP in Southwestern Connecticut

[jeffdavis13]

Great job. Love the P & W. Such a cool railroad

[AliceInChains243]

@jeffdavis13 Thanks a lot! They're a cool little road, it's just a challenge to lens them sometime as the majority of their core through-train operations take place under the cover of darkness across their system. Luckily for the stone service, there's plenty of station lighting across the NEC to light the way.

[MainlineProductions1]

Nice chase. What are track speeds for freights on the NEC like aroind here?

[AliceInChains243]

@MainlineProductions1 Thanks dude, and I'm actually still trying to figure that out myself. I know that there is a 5 MPH restriction through Southport (Fairfield), but other than that I'm not entirely sure. Considering that Metro-North doesn't let Amtrak go past 80 I doubt the P&W and phantom CSX moves break any land speed records. As per my CSX timetable ("Eastern NY and New England Routes #2", issued in 2004), the range is anywhere between 10 and 40, though I'm sure it's changed some since.

[NS6677]

Great video man, And haha you mentioning Deer Park, You have been there!

[AliceInChains243]

@NS6677 How could I forget? I got sexually assaulted by a beagle multiple times in the same time in that Long Island town!

[NS6677]

@AliceInChains243 Haha! He liked you ecause you were his size!

[pahogger]

Pumpkins for Halloween, that works! Great vid as always. Looks like ya had fun.

[AliceInChains243]

@pahogger You're right, it definitely worked out nicely! I'm not sure where those pumpkins are now, I think they left stone service not too long after I shot this one, I'd been trying to get these for over a year now, I'll have to find you a photo of the Warbonnet that they painted up and send it to ya, it looks pretty sharp in their colors. And this definitely a fun night, I had forgotten how fun chasing really is!

[ebtmikado]

This was just a couple days before I was in Huntingdon, PA, and you were talking on the phone with Marc Lingenfelter

[AliceInChains243]

@ebtmikado So YOU'RE the guy from Connecticut that he was with that day! I remember where I was that day, you guys walked all over me with the comparison of how many trains you got during that day versus how many I got haha. Marc's having quite the trip this weekend.

[NS6677]

@AliceInChains243 That guy Marc is a douche! Errr

[nprsux]

dude killer lashup on chfp just like you told me

[AliceInChains243]

@nprsux Yeah, I told you I wasn't kidding! I was thinking about sending you the video of it that I took on my phone when it was going by Fairfield, but then I figured the audio and picture was way too crappy to do it justice, I never intended on waiting this long to put the video up, YouTube was really screwing with me with this upload, this is the third version of this edit. You should have seen how awful looking the first two looked on here, and it still doesn't look as sharp as it should. :(

[KyleVideoDesigns]

Very neat video! Any type of freight is cool to see on the Corrider. In Jersey, CSAO locals run on the Corrider, although I have yet to see one. Nice job, as usual!

[AliceInChains243]

@KyleVideoDesigns Thanks! And you've probably got a lot more running on it down there than I do up here, though I'm sure they do everything that they can to shove all of the freight moves well into the night as they do up here.