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Recorded on 3/31/23. This elevator and the remaining elevators at this T Station were installed by the Prudential Towers and not the MBTA. Though the Prudential Towers have been modernized by Schindler. This elevator ran fine but was very dirty. This is the last video from the Spring 2023 Boston trip. Hope you enjoyed the major series!

Recorded on 3/31/23. After an amazing meal at Filipos, me and William ventured all the way out to Wonderland to ride some very lovely elevators. This gave me the opportunity to ride the Blue line. The blue line is very neat because the blue line trains utilize two power sources like the Kawasaki M8 trains on the Metro North Railroad. This is a setup done on purpose because the blue line runs very close to the Atlantic Ocean and having third rail is not plausible for the conditions next to the ocean. So the trains change power sources at Logan International Airport Station from third rail to overhead electricity for outbound trains and vise versa for inbound trains. This is a really neat experience! Definitely worth checking out. Enjoy!

Recorded on 3/31/23. The orange line of the T system is very interesting because this line parallels with the Northeast Corridor. You can see a lot with this perspective with this line. The Forest Hills and Ruggles Stations are attached to the commuter rail stations as well. Enjoy the ride into downtown with William!

Recorded on 3/31/23. Here is a hidden elevator that William found at this T Station. Nobody but me and William has filmed this elevator before. This elevator is near the inbound platform and takes you up to the plaza to Revere Beach. This elevator was likely installed around 2012 with the rest of the station. Though it is interesting to see MBTA use Thyssenkrupp. This elevator might of been installed before the rest of the elevators here. This is a nice running elevator that is holding up pretty good.

Recorded on 3/31/23. This station does have some great elevators! Except for the platform elevators as you all already know. If you haven't seen the video of those elevators, you should check them out to see what I am talking about lol! These elevators are actually quite fun! They go 350 feet per minute which is very fast for 7 floors! These elevators are very smooth too.

Recorded on 9/30/23. Happy new year! We are kicking off a brand new year of 2024 with New Jersey Transit this year! Last fall, me, my Dad and Big Butt Bear attempted to score some tickets to ride the New Jersey Transit 40th anniversary excursion train. This was a train that operated from New York to Bay Head and back to Hoboken. The train started with two ALP-46 electric locomotives at New York Penn Station following an engine change to the two New Jersey Transit F40's at South Amboy for the remainder of the trip to reenact the old locomotive switch at South Amboy where electrification used to end. Unfortunately the tickets sold out within ten minutes of going on sale so we had no hope of making it onto that train. Instead, we ventured out to Rahway for a few hours and make the 40th anniversary excursion train our main catch of the trip. Boy did things get interesting fast! A trespasser was struck at Elizabeth Station which is located two stations north of this station. Wait until you see what happens in this video! This video also contains plenty of Amtrak trains including some Keystone Corridor trains. There is so much going on in this video that you do not want to miss out on! Enjoy! Royalty free music at Dan O songs.com: https://danosongs.com/

Recorded on 4/1/23. Nordstrom always has nice elevators! And most of them are traction as well. This is no exception. A very nice and reliable elevator. Nice to see another 400A! I hope to ride one with the non vandal resistant buttons someday.

Recorded on 3/31/23. After riding the joke of what you call elevators in the main portion of this station, we found a properly working elevator that takes you down to Revere Beach. This elevator received proper maintenance and accelerates at the full 200 feet per minute. This is how the platform elevators are supposed to run! Hopefully that issue will get fixed soon. Rumor has it that these may be Kone elevators but I do not have proof at the moment.

Recorded on 4/1/23. This is an elevator that goes up to the food court. This is an awesome elevator! This elevator has a great motor and a neat shaped cab too.

Recorded on 3/31/23. William really wanted me to show these elevators at the end of the MBTA Subway blue line because of how much of a joke these elevators are! These are MRL Traction Elevators that are supposed to accelerate at 200 feet per minute. When the elevator is supposed to come to a stop, the elevator is supposed to glide to a stop as they level. Kind of like a reflex system on an MEI elevator. In the past, these elevators did just that! Unfortunately it seems like a technician messed something up while doing maintenance on these elevators as both of the elevators in this video only go about 90 feet per minute. These elevator still attempt to perform the glide stop but fail miserably due to the lack of acceleration. Just watch how much of a joke the leveling on these elevators are! I have been on many hydraulic elevators at accelerate much faster than this! Fortunately this issue can be fixed especially since this is still a great installation. Once the proper systems on these elevators are fixed they should run like they used to at 200 feet per minute. Enjoy this extravaganza!

Recorded on 8/4/23. On a beautiful summer day, I brought William down to Grand Central Terminal to show him the amazing new Madison Concourse. BJ Blue Shadow Transit also joined us for the trip as well. We headed out of Grand Central to catch some diesel trains and catch the seasonal Cannonball special. The Cannonball is a special train that brings nonstop service from New York's Pennsylvania Station all the way out to the Hamptons and Montauk and it only runs on Fridays eastbound and Sundays westbound in the Summer time (Westbound on Memorial day Monday and Labor day Monday). I finally got to see the Cannonball for the first time. The Flying Yankee comes through here giving us a great horn salute to us too! An action packed video you do not want to miss! Enjoy! Hypnothis - Hypnothis by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Royalty free music at Danosongs.com (Gem Droids was used in this video).

Recorded on 4/1/23. I normally do not film a lot of escalators. However, when I saw these single file escalators on the way out of the mall, I had to get a video for you guys. You do not see a lot of single file escalators in mall hallways. Enjoy! The new intro and outro that you see in this video will be applied to all videos beginning on January 12th.

Recorded on 4/1/23. Featuring two broken elevators! The Boston 2023 trip has so many Schindler 330A elevators!

Recorded on 3/31/23. This was train we took from finishing up elevators to our dinner for the night at Filippo Ristorante. Very good restaurant to have a meal at if you are in Boston! These green line trains are very cool because they are essentially trolleys. This particular model sounds exactly like an R142A train from the New York City Subway. I would say the green line was my favorite out of all the train lines on the Boston T. Enjoy!

Recorded on 3/31/23. This is a newer elevator on the Boston T system. This one is hydraulic and is actually very nice! The back panel is pretty neat as well.

Recorded on 4/1/23. William helped me find this elevator before I returned home from Boston since I couldn't find it when riding elevators on this campus on my own. This elevator does not serve the second floor for some odd reason. This is still a cool elevator either way. Though the ceiling panel is so flimsy that it shakes in quite a lot of circumstances. Also, why is it that library elevators tend to be loud? Lol!

Recorded on 3/31/23. I remember watching the video on former Cannycart's channel back in the day of this elevator. This store used to be Shaws Marketplace. This elevator is a little bumpy and overshoots when leveling but despite that it runs fine. The orange cab is kind of neat though.

It is strange how there is no second floor in this building. Any comments revealing the name of this building will be deleted!

Recorded on 4/1/23. This is the second orginal Montgomery Vector elevator in this mall. This Montgomery Vector Elevator is in better shape than the Montgomery Vector Elevator at JCPenney in the Emerald Square Mall. I love the instant door close this elevator has!

Recorded on 3/31/23. The video contains the full story of how we got into this building which is apparently a college dormitory now. This was very badly communicated by both the Sheraton and Northeastern University. The video explains the full details. Keep in mind the second floor stated "South Tower Elevators" and there was no signage from Northeastern University anywhere to be seen on the second floor. The call station for the service elevator did work though was not labeled as service elevator. As a disclaimer, this experience was an accident and I do not encourage anybody to attempt to ride these elevators unless they are visiting somebody who lives here. I normally avoid these types of places.

Recorded on 4/1/23. These are the elevators inside the Target Store. These elevators serve the store entrance and parking garage. These elevators have MEI equipment as well.

Recorded on 3/31/23. All of these elevators used to be Westinghouse. Though this is a lot less efficient without the Thyssenkrupp Agile system. This is in the North Tower. Wait till you see what has happened to the "South Tower".

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Recorded on 4/1/23. This is actually an awesome elevator! This elevator reminds me so much of the former Montgomery elevator at the Sears at Stroud Mall and that was an elevator I loved to ride. The hydraulic motor sounds pretty similar to that elevator. Yet again those types of hydraulic pumps are awesome to begin with. This elevator also has the same lanterns at former Sears at the Stroud Mall. I guess this elevator gave me a nostalgia feeling of that elevator. This elevator appears to be very well maintained as well. Just so many reasons to like this elevator!

Recorded on 4/1/23. Every Westinghouse that is original that I rode during this trip has been flimsy. Quite amusing honestly! This elevator essentially has it's rude door closing at it's finest!