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It’s Columbus Day, and while many public employees and bankers have a holiday, for most Americans it is just another working Monday. Today’s Railfan Video of the Day salutes the hardworking commuters of New England with this video of Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) commuter trains, Amtrak Northeast Regional trains, and 150 mph Acela Express trains at Mansfield, Massachusetts, located south of Boston along I-95.

Our video comes courtesy of Northern Railfan Productions, who captured and shared this footage from the passenger platform at Mansfield. Watch the camera and nearby signs shake and rattle as the speedy Acela Express trains whiz by at 150 mph! It is truly amazing stuff!

Our video begins with an Amtrak Northeast Regional train led by an ACS-64 electric locomotive (Siemens, 2014-current production). The camera shakes as the pressure wave of the speedy train passes by. Next is an MBTA train, traveling much slower as it makes a station stop. The motive power for the train is HSP-46 (MPI, 2014) diesel-electric #2037, running “backwards” on the rear of the train.

Next, don’t blink or you’ll miss the Acela Express fly by on the far track! Then another ACS-64 on another Northeast Regional train blows by…literally. Then another MBTA train stops at the station, this time with bi-level coaches in tow, followed by another Northeast Regional train.

This scene is followed by more MBTA action, again with standard single-level coaches in tow. Then, the moment we’ve been waiting for! An Acela Express whooshes by, only feet away from the camera! Hold on! You might blow away! Then, another Acela Express flies by on the far track, followed by another Northeast Regional train. Lastly, another MBTA pulls into the station.

To quote Veggie Tales, “I’ve never been to Boston in the Fall.” However, I am certainly glad that Northern Railfan Productions was in Mansfield on October 1, 2016, to capture these neat scenes. I may just have to “come to Boston for the Springtime” (sorry, another song!) to see what 150 mph looks like in person!

Enjoy!

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Now, go watch some trains!

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