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Moderator: Ken V

 #1208085  by AMTFan1
 
I've decided to create a topic in which I will present some of the videos I've taken of the AMT Montreal commuter trains. Feel free to post any videos or pictures of the AMT commuter trains.

Here are my videos, enjoy! ;)

AMT ALP-45DP & F59PHI at Parc train station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhV62ryMz4s" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

AMT train #189 at Parc train station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O165hQAaqUM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

AMT MR 90 departing from Sunnybrooke train station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpXlIUZw44E" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

AMT commuter trains rush hour at Montreal-West station (part 1): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZv5CDzV0e8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

AMT commuter trains rush hour at Montreal-West station (part 2): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2U8MdZ1yjE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A ride aboard the AMT multilevel cars between Montreal-West and Lucien-L'Allier station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB8804EX4xg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

AMT MR-90 train #1006 leaving Sunnybrooke train station: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k6KKp7-HCs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

AMT Deux Montagnes train line - video compilation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcx3ndDjo6M" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

AMT Montreal commuter trains - August 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Fmu-RVmJz4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1217137  by AMTFan1
 
After having been out of service for over 3 years, and freshly refurbished and repainted, the AMT 700 series cars are starting to enter service on the Candiac train line. They were spotted on train #89 going toward Candiac during the evening rush hour.

AMT 700 series cars back in service: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCvfrhqc4pQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1238211  by AMTFan1
 
Here's a few of my videos I've taken and produced on the occasion of this holiday season:

CP holiday train at Valois train station - November 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_yL3qdR6Pg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Montreal passenger trains during Christmas Eve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpt2KAlFzPc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1239192  by NS VIA FAN
 
These are excellent! Thanks for posting. Especially liked the CP Holiday train.

Winter in Montreal......a favorite time of the year to visit and ride AMT!
 #1257601  by AMTFan1
 
Since I haven't posted any other videos since Christmas (because I've been very busy and it has been a very cold winter!), I've decided to publish some old videos I've taken last fall. I haven't published these since that time because I hoped that I could also add some videos of the ALP-45DP locomotives being tested in electric mode in this assembly. Unfortunately, even if the construction work has been completed at the eastern junction on the Deux-Montagnes line last fall, the electric engines of those locomotives haven't still been tested and the multilevel cars are still not in regular service on the overcrowded Deux-Montagnes line...

http://youtu.be/n-xlyX4ox7I" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1260769  by AMTFan1
 
Here's a video I filmed aboard the first cab of an AMT commuter train leaving Montreal Central Station. I wished I could filmed more but I had a problem with my camera during the ride:

AMT Deux-Montagnes train ride - March 2014 : http://youtu.be/eb3mulNbSsg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1263499  by AMTFan1
 
After having been delayed for 2 years, the AMT ALP-45DP dual-power locomotives have finally been tested in electric mode on the Deux-Montagnes line in April 13th 2014!

EXCLUSIVE! - AMT ALP-45DP finally being tested in electric mode: http://youtu.be/YGLKkbfiV6I" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1269861  by AMTFan1
 
Here's several videos of the AMT Deux-Montagnes commuter train line, taken at different places at Montreal west island. They were filmed during the beginning of this spring:

Railfanning AMT Deux-Montagnes train line - April & May 2014: http://youtu.be/FcakvviSXqQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1275401  by AMTFan1
 
Here's two other videos that I've made recently. In the first one I've made an assembly of old and new videos presenting some rides aboard some AMT commuter trains. The song belongs to Bon Jovi, "You want to make a memory!":

AMT commuter train rides: http://youtu.be/BWjKD8oPYNw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

AMT Deux-Montagnes train ride - June 2014: http://youtu.be/lVZizU7fcqs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1275587  by Ken V
 
Thanks for the videos. I gather the ALP-45DPs are still not in use on the Deux-Montagnes line. Any word on when this might happen? I am also curious if there's ever been any talk of AMT electrifying and using the freight-only parallel track between Val-Royale and Autoroute 13?
 #1286718  by AMTFan1
 
Ken V wrote:Thanks for the videos. I gather the ALP-45DPs are still not in use on the Deux-Montagnes line. Any word on when this might happen? I am also curious if there's ever been any talk of AMT electrifying and using the freight-only parallel track between Val-Royale and Autoroute 13?
The ALP-45DP's are still not used on the Deux-Montagnes line. Apparently, the AMT doesn't have enough multi-level cars in order to add more trains on the Deux-Montagnes line. Some tests have, however, occurred a few months ago. About the electrification of the freight-only parallel track, there's a project to double the track of the Deux-Montagnes line between Val-Royal and Roxboro. But it seems that they won't be using this track since it still belongs to CN, despite the fact that the AMT has purchased the Deux-Montagnes subdivision at the beginning of this year.

Here's another of my video:

AMT Montreal commuter trains - July & August 2014 : http://youtu.be/Vmj3Q_8CBAM" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1287634  by AMTFan1
 
Here's another video of the AMT commuter trains. I've taken those videos while I was testing my new camera. Enjoy!

AMT commuter electric trains - August 2014: http://youtu.be/x8_J1eobSEQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
 #1289224  by AMTFan1
 
A train ride aboard the AMT train #811 on the Mont-Saint-Hilaire train line, between Saint-Lambert and Central Station at Montreal. We can have here a beautiful sight on the St. Lawrence River when the train is crossing the Victoria Bridge.

AMT Mont-Saint-Hilaire train ride - Between Saint-Lambert and Downtown Montreal - August 2014 : http://youtu.be/2EpPuHsNWYI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;