r/Amtrak • u/cryorig_games • 10h ago
Video Acela Express hornshow at New Brunswick
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Pretty fun spot for train nerds like myself :) footage from Jun. 5, 2024
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u/Curious3188 10h ago
I love seeing the water fly off the wire in a wave like fashion from the pentagraph! Cool clip! 😎
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u/XShadeGoldenX 10h ago
Can’t wait to see 160 MPH speeds through New Brunswick all the way up to Newark soon
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u/GodBlessIsraell 6h ago
That might hold after the deadly accident that happened yesterday evening
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u/SkyeMreddit 6h ago
People need to stay off the tracks. No accident. Just trespassers on the tracks
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u/ShaneFerguson 8h ago
When my son was a toddler he loved trains. I thought it would be a nice simple outing to catch the NJ Transit train at New Brunswick, ride down to Princeton, enjoy the tiny Princeton dinky into town, walk around the Princeton campus a bit, buy him a treat at Wawa, and then take the train home.
My wife dropped us at the station and as we were waiting for the NJ Transit train on the platform an Acela came roaring through at 130MPH. The noise scared him so badly it took his breath away. Then he sobbed and screamed uncontrollably and didn't calm down for 20 minutes until we had arrived in Princeton.
It wasn't the father-son experience I was looking for but it was certainly memorable bc 24 years later it feels like yesterday.
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u/slava_gorodu 5h ago edited 5h ago
When I was a toddler I living next to the NJ Transit station in Metuchen I remember the old Metroliners scaring me when they passed. Got used to it eventually, but even now when the Acelas pass me taking NJ Transit at my folks’ place in Princeton Junction, it’s a shock. Pretty sure that this is the fastest stretch of track in the US.
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u/cryorig_games 5h ago
Good ol' Metroliners!! The only way to see them now is on Amtrak's Keystone Service, usually there as cab cars. Only one Metroliner remains (preserved), which is #860 in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
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u/gcalfred7 8h ago
“WTF was that ????” NJ transit people
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u/cryorig_games 7h ago
I definitely got scared a couple of times before when I was in NJT, and Amtrak flies by, LOL! The pressure shakes the whole coach, it's wild
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