23-08-20 VIDEOS: Baltimore Metro Subway

Here we have the videos that go with my main Baltimore Metro Subway post. Due to the impending replacement of the Budd built Universal Transit Vehicle's, I made time to take a round trip from Owings Mills to Johns Hopkins Hospital and back.  Taking video through the forward facing windows, each trip was divided into two parts with the break taking place at West Cold Springs.

The line features manual operation with cab signal based automatic train control using speeds of 0, 12, 20, 40, 50, 60 and 70mph. The above ground section sees main line speeds of 50, 60 and 70mph with the 70mph taking place in the interstate 795 median between Owings Mills and Old Court. The Metro Subway yard complex is located between Reisterstown and Rodgers Ave.

 The tunnel section sees speeds of mostly 40 and 50mph.

While at Johns Hopkins I got a pair of videos of UTV trains departing and arriving. The UTV stock makes use of DC chopper type propulsion systems.






The return trip was largely uneventful, but provided a different perspective.






That's all for my Baltimore Metro Subway experience. I'll be back shortly with photos from ZOO interlocking's 36th St Jct.

23-08-20 PHOTOS: Dorsey and Baltimore Metro

As the Baltimore Metro Subway lurches forward towards replacing its Budd Universal Transit Vehicles, I figured I should take the time to both ride the system again and try to get front facing video that captures the current look and feel of the line. The videos will be in their own part, but here I'll have stills from the two terminal stations as well as other Baltimore area rail activities. The whole set of still photos can be found here ( mirror ).

I'll kick things off at the Dorsey MARC station killing some time between visiting a local mall and trivia night. I got there in time to catch an eastbound MARC Camden line train hauled by MARC MP36PH-3C #33 with Bomber cab car #8045 on the rear.

For whatever reason the CSX dispatcher decided to run a train full mostly of empty NYC waste cubes and powered by C40-10W #5449 and SD70MAC #4560 ahead of the following eastbound MARC train. However the next train into the station was a westbound with single level cab car #7759 and SC44 #81.

Before the Metro stuff I also did another trip up the NEC encountering MARC Bomber cab car #8053 and Acela Express power car #2010 at BWI.

Here is SEPTA #719 posing in front of the tiles at Market East and PATCO #1089 at Haddonfield.

Moving back down to Baltimore to get some photos at WINANS interlocking at the Halethorpe Station. There I caught an inbound MARC weekend train with Kab Kar #7843 plus SC44 #82, in addition to a southbound Amtrak Regional with ACS-86 #654.