Northern Berkshire County Railroad HOTD Transmissions
Live Audio
Feed Details
| Feed ID | 47941 |
| Genre | Rail |
| Status | Online (3h 51m) |
| Listeners | 1 |
Feed Archives
Archives Page| Start | End | Plays |
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| Oct 23, 6:09 PM | 6:38 PM | 0 |
| Oct 23, 5:39 PM | 6:09 PM | 0 |
| Oct 23, 5:09 PM | 5:39 PM | 0 |
| Oct 23, 4:39 PM | 5:09 PM | 0 |
| Oct 23, 4:09 PM | 4:39 PM | 0 |
| Oct 23, 3:39 PM | 4:09 PM | 0 |
| Oct 23, 2:21 PM | 2:39 PM | 0 |
| Oct 23, 1:51 PM | 2:21 PM | 1 |
| Oct 23, 1:22 PM | 1:52 PM | 2 |
| Oct 23, 12:22 PM | 12:52 PM | 2 |
Feed Notes
Note: There are no voice communications on this feed. Voice communications can be heard on the Operations feed:
Northern Berkshire County Railroad Operations
Northern Berkshire Rail HOTD feed monitoring Berkshire & Eastern (formerly Pan Am Southern) and Adams Industrial track / Berkshire Scenic Railway Head of Train telemetry in the North Adams, MA area.
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9 mi of Berkshire & Eastern Patriot Corridor track from Hoosac Tunnel West Portal to Williamstown, MA
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4.5 mi of Adams Industrial track from switch in North Adams to Adams
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Yard ops from Specialty Minerals & Holland Chemical
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Berkshire Scenic Railway operations
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This feed currently uses a DPD Productions Train Data Broadcast antenna with a USB software defined radio module and FM and AM bandstop filters, broadcasting from a Raspberry Pi 3B+ using RTLSDR-Airband. Antenna elevation: 1105 ft ASL / 15 ft AGL.
This feed broadcasts transmissions on three telemetry frequencies used by railroads to communicate speed and braking data, which are also used by rail fans as proximity transmissions. More information on these frequencies can be found here.
Monitored frequencies
- AAR Head of Train telemetry Device (HOTD) – 452.9375 MHz
- Distributed Power Unit broadcasts, Ch. 1 – 452.925 MHz
- Distributed Power Unit broadcasts, Ch. 2 – 452.950 MHz