Amtrak Silver Meteor Races Auto Train
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- Amtrak Autotrain crossed from track 2 to 1 by the Amtrak Station... 1 Min Later the Silver Meteor Departs The Amtrak Station, and passes P052 not long before reaching Dinsmore. Two trains were so close the crossing didn't even bother going up
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16 superliners + 32 AutoRacks. Now that is a long train.
48 cars I don't think it's a world record if it is that's gonna be the longest train
@@dislikemyvids9222 Not the longest train.
So it's not a world record at all
@@dislikemyvids9222 world record for longest train, no... but, but might be for longest passenger train? Definitely longest passenger train in USA.
@@keeganseva3975 ok
I'm impressed that two P42s are able to haul that many train cars by themselves. As I recall it, back in the days when Amtrak attached ExpressTrak boxcars and roadrailers to their long-haul trains, the Southwest Chief usually had to run with three or four locomotives on it, and about the same for the California Zephyr.
+Kendra Marybeth Davenport That is because the P42DC and P40DC is the most powerful diesel locomotives Amtrak has, and they are equipped with 4,250hp. Originally the P40DC had 4,000hp but Amtrak decided to uprate the horsepower to what the P42DC's had. I love them, but they have millions of miles on them, and Amtrak will retire them by groups by this year or 2017 to let the "Chargers" come in. All the P42's are nearly as old as I am as I was born late 2000 and their first year of service was 2001. I will miss them :'( I haven't heard what they will do with the P40's and they have been in service since 1992, but Amtrak is retiring P42's first? I find it interesting :/
Those westbound trains have to go over the mountains too. Auto train just goes along the flat east coastline
@@CaptainJustice166 you are right. I'm going to miss their loud engine sound and the smoke.
@@Jobother true
The Southwest Chief also has to get over the cajon pass so that makes a gigantic difference... Florida is for the most part relatively flat.
Still unbelievable to me how the auto train is only a hauled by two locomotives. Those P40's can really carry a load.
Given the Auto Train doesn't go over steep grades...
The autoracks don't need HEP either. That's partly why freight trains can be so much longer than passenger trains.
I forgot how much HEP eats up a locomotive's power...
@@InventorZahran Back in the days of Amtrak providing mail service, it wasn't uncommon to have three or four P42s on the California Zephyr, Southwest Chief and Empire Builder.
I thought they were p42s. What's the difference besides the numbers?
That was a ONE OF A KIND RACE between Amtrak!!! I love watching this video over and over because it's so good! SPECTAULAR CATCH TORICE! Also, congrats on 300 subs! I'm already at 340!
Oh I watch it over and over myself. LOL and thanks
LOL no prob!
Lol. I watch this over and over too.
JaxRailfanner I think we all watch it over and over lol!
Forever my favorite race and among my favorite Amtrak videos.
It looks like 98 had a sizeable lead on Auto Train, say a 26 second head start. Sweet catch, dude
If I was one of the engineers, I would say over the radio “last one to Folkston buys the other dinner in Washington D.C.”
1:40 i heard this in one of arcfoxes videos.
Pewdiepie vs t-series in a nutshell
0:56 PewDiePie
1:31 T-Series
i dont get it.
@@SimbaC2007 The Silver Meteor is PewDiePie & Auto Train is T-Series; duh!
😄 I can hear the bell on the crossing arm.😄
I am more impressed by that Autotrain consist! My Lord that was a lot of coaches and autoracks!
very nice my friend...gr8 capture....awesome!!!...greetings from India
This is one amazing video. It was posted one day prior to my 20th birthday.
Nice video, and make sure you upload that of the FEC from that evening! That was wild!
An extremely amazing race with 2 trains! Keep it up!
Wow awesome video nice catch. That Amtrak auto train is the longest Amtrak I ever seen.
Valentin Thome longest passenger train in the world
Wow really I would love to see it in person one day. Thanks for the info
Valentin Thome runs from Sanford, FL to Lorton, VA and vise versa daily
Most awesome vid!!!!!! Sweet catch!!!!!!!!!!! Damn The Auto train is long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RAILTASTIC CATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Never do you really see 2 Amtrak trains meet. Also, I'm surprised that all those Super Liners and Auto Racks aren't too much for those P40DCs. I'm even surprised that they're not too much for the regular P42DCs.
16 superliners and 20-30 autoracks make the autotrain. Yes that 4000ft long train is alot of the P40's it does have a cost. those engines take a beating from what I hear from Amtrak Employees
But yes this was truly amazing
Wow! That's very impressive knowing that the P40DCs remain strong and in service considering all the hard work and beatings they've gone through.
I totally agree! :D
The Auto Train has 6 engines, 814, 818, 830, 831, 832 and 835. there are 16 other P40DC's in service around the country mixed in with the P42's
i think there is usually a lot of congestion in Jacksonville, Fl. which will sometimes bog down 98. when i was in Richmond, Va. one day dropping someone off to get train 91, the auto train pulled up behind him. also, if everybody is aboard the auto train, he can leave early. i have departed Lorton,va. as early as 3:40 p.m, hence catching up to 91.
I live here. It's that bad where they can't get a 1000ft passenger train through
Loved the Amtrak trains. Especially the Auto train.
Woww! That Auto Train had 2 P42s, 16 passenger cars, and 32 auto cars... That's a whole lot of autos!
Crazcompart that’s the norm really
They are not P42DC’s. They are Re-Built Amtrak P40DC’s
Except for the horns splitting my ears I enjoyed this video.
Thats the longest Amtrak I've seen thus far, that auto train. I didnt know trains ran that close, it seems dangerous.
Rayford Hickman it's double tracked
Hard to tell
that intro was amazing
awesome video and what is your favorite train amtrak or other type of freight trains :)
What is this street when you record it?
What a great catch!
Those locomotives are powerful damn lol
The first clip on the intro is my fav horn
Awesome thanks..love Amtrak
Great video! What video editor are you using for those captions?
what i meant to say was that po 98 usually passes the auto train terminal in Sanford a few minutes before the auto train leaves. as far as southbound action, po91 leaves D.C. at 3:05 p.m, passes Lorton about 3:35.we usually follow him to Selma,N.C. where he goes over to Ns to Raleigh and Columbia S.C. he comes back in at Savanna, Ga, and winds up behind po 53, since we stay along the coast.
If 98 is on time... They would be well north of Palatka when auto train leaves.....
+Torice Sullivan do you live in Folkston,Ga, Or Jacksonville?
+Mike McKay Jax....
+ Torice Sullivan, If is a mighty big word when it comes to 98. There have been times when 91, 97, and 98 were all at Orlando at the same time. 98 had to wait to get into the station till 91 and 97 got out of the way. That day 97 beat 91 to Miami by a long stretch. Between Jax and DC 98 does make up time and often gets in to DC early even if late passing Jax.
0:02 the best. :-)
I just realized that auto train had no sightseer lounge car in it. Why?
Yea nice catch catching this race
what a catch!!
Great catch!!
FEC knocked down a signal. that should be here uploaded soon
on the silver meteor what were those 3 coaches after the baggage car
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i have ridden the auto train several times. i work for the railroad. usually by the time we get to Jessup, Ga, we have caught up to po 98.
+Mike McKay I've noticed that every time I go to Amtrak.com and track the East Coast trains :P
Correct.
Mike McKay I live in Fayetteville, NC and I've seen Silver Meteor PO98 and Auto Train PO52 30 minutes of each other. PO98 was abut 2 1/2 hours late though that night, but if it had been 3 hours late, PO52 may have gone ahead of PO98 since it goes straight to Lorton, VA while PO98 stops at the station. But then again, I don't know what has higher priority, but Auto Train doesn't stop so I would think PO52 would. With one exception if PO98 was really late then PO52 would go before PO98 before getting here, and I've seen PO98 about 2 times, 6 times in my life time, and PO52 3 times.
+Captain Justice last time i rode the auto train, we caught up to po98 in jessup,ga. we again caught up to it in Savannah,ga. they held us on the mainline while 98 was working the station. after he departed,we were on the move. but his speed limit is 79 while ours is 70 due to the auto racks, so of course he gains ground on po 52.
Mike McKay Yeah that I know. Kinda wish the Auto Racks could go up to 80mph, but I'm not a Mechanical Engineer, yet, to know how to fix that. And also I'm not sure if that would save money or it would be for nothing. I've never rode the Auto Train, but one day...I will..
Awesome!
WOW!!! Extremely lucky!!!
0:09 I need that moment.
Fantastic video. I subscribed.
Who won the auto train or the silver meteor?
Awesome!!!
❤🚂🚃🚃🚃❤
awesome video!
we got lucky. I saw when dispatch put 52 on track 1 to keep him moving and allow 98 to leave the station and we were at the right pace at the right time
+Torice Sullivan Yep, you got lucky.
There have been times when 98 & 52 and 91 & 53 have been along side each other on double track. And some times the AT wins.
Amtrak really needs to introduce auto train service running between east and west coast. If the florida-dc run has that kind of ridership numbers, then it stands to reason that an LA-CHI-DC run would do similarly well.
+Jesse Bains Amtrak would actually like to have Auto train service from... Chicago to LA, Chicago to seattle, & LA to FL. however on the law books its stated that the freight railroads actually own that service and the name and only allowed Amtrak to take the DC to FL route when Amtrak was created. When Amtrak tired to expand that service in the 80s the freight railroads denied them service on there rails, which brings us to why we only have 1 Amtrak auto train service. Amtrak has tried but was shot down on there request you need to get some smart people in DC to re-write the laws so amtrak can expand that service just under a different name and make sure the freight railroads cant object to it.
+buddah bless Amen brotha!
+buddah bless I've also heard that the freight company's wouldn't want Amtrak to have the auto train to go cross country because the freight company's would loose money since moving auto is such a good way to make money like for rental car companies and things like that. I hope I explained this good enough
UGNUG 71 Yeah, there wouldn't need to be many Auto Racks for Freights
Since the meteor has stops will the Auto train get to the DC area first ?
No, they’ll never catch the meteor
who's talking ,the conductors?
Awesome
Longest Amtrak Auto-Train I've ever seen! The usual 16 passenger cars, but I counted 32 auto carriers! Usually there are only 20-27 or so. May be an equipment move.
+Richard Gerlach I've seen like 18 passengers cars and about 32 auto carriers once on Auto Train #53
LOL...Is that safe?? I'm sure they had the situation under control though.
Cool catch BTW
Track 2 for 98... track 1 for 52
+Torice Sullivan Yep...thought as much.
A minute later? More like 25 seconds later.. LOL!! It's the simple things in a railfan's life!
The Crossing Sounds Like It's In The UP Line
My favorite Amtrak train the auto train.
AWESOME
Odd that the Silver Meteor gets 2 locomotives for such a short train while the Auto Train gets the same number of locomotives but it's much longer and much heavier.
the reason the silver meteor gets 2 diesels is in case one breaks down, so they have a spare.
+Mike McKay not really why they have 2...
Torice Sullivan have you noticed now the Silver Star only gets 1 diesel? Have you seen the new baggage cars? They are rated for 110 mph. On the n.e. corridor.
That Amtrak train in the thumbnail had an older baggage car which was actually behind The engines for once
Railroad,Preserver,2000 That was also 10/2013
Trex1094 I know also, I subscribed
hmmm that's new to me can anyone awnser what are they carrying in the last freight cars...I'm curious.
"Auto train"
Its in the name theyre carryong passengers cars hence the name auto train
Amtrak Silver star wins
+Zack Zane there was no star
+Zack Zane Silver Meteor*
Two Amtrak trains racing each other......hmmm.....sounds like the beginning of a math word problem........:P
Bonito video se los recomiendo
yes, the juice train does go through that area.
This is great
awesome
That's sweet
Love it
The Auto Train is the longest train in North America.
Not even close... But it is the longest passenger train in the world
Silver Meteor seems to be going faster, but the Auto Train will likely catch up since the Silver Meteor makes intermediate stops.
Collin Parsons auto train will never catch 98
I would SO ride the Auto Train
WOW!!!
Holy fuck! They are hauling freight also? That’s a passenger train going no where fast lmao
Cool.
damn thats a long as train
I suspect the passenger train from Miami Florida got to the crossing first before the auto train from Sanford Florida got there
Scott Whiley I mean P098 is scheduled first.... if on time, they should be there at 5:13PM
Where as P052 about 6:30 give or take. 98 ran late
so its about few minutes apart between the two right mate
Does the United States use it?
Yea why?
Thats a Freight train carrying passengers!!!
seeing as po 98 is only 10 minutes ahead of the auto train, this is usually the case.
What exactly do you mean by 98 being 10 mins ahead of auto train
While i wait to board the train in Sanford,po 98 will pass by.on the southbound trip, po 91 will usually pass while waiting to get my car.
+Mike McKay yeah no you won't...
Me gusto 2 Amtracks
They already raced already
The auto train has 48 cars.
i am that amtrak auto train at 1:37
Lorena Santana what do you mean you are it?
because i like amtrak auto trains
2+2=4-1=amtrak auto trains
@@lorenasantana9018 Uhhhhhhh
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Giggidy
Nice video, but there is no race.
Aaron Friedman how was it not? Lol
The trains you filmed are separated by a pretty large distance. Races are usually when trains are side by side. Anyway,, don't trip. It was a nice video.
Aaron Friedman lol considering they had to be side by side at one point... largely apart would mean crossing goes up;
Besides we watched 98 race up the side of 52; and was ahead by the time he got to us; therefore race
is that momo face at the left trees?!?!?! idk
The hell do you see that?
This is funny. The auto train would never in a million years catch the silver meteor. Travels at slower speeds. Like alot slower..
It's not a silver meteor it's a crescent
Peter H no its Amtrak P098 silver meteor.
666 sub scary
the auto train chased the metor
Silver meteor will win because its faster then auto train
*TrainKart.MP4*
Mom said that you be home 🏡 minutes late tonight y and the Niners would be able to
The Silver Meteor is way ahead of the Auto Train.
They were ahead but not by that far. The crossings left by 98 stayed down for 52. Though 98 is running 79 while 52 is running only 70, 52 will likely never catch 98, unless held up at a stop in a station like Savannah, but dispatch would likely line 98 out and 52 would just stop on the main waiting on 98 to come out
Torice Sullivan Not the way it has happened with us. :) 98 has to make station stops, 52 does not. 52 normally only has one stop at Florence for fuel and crew change. Watch the trains on Amtrak's train tracking website and you'll see the two running on each others markers if in single track and 52 passing and getting into the lead on double track at times. All depends on what the dispatcher does. Tonight 98 is ahead of 52 and should get to Richmond before the AutoTrain does. 98 is running 37 minutes late. I'm never that fortunate on it. Diner opens for breakfast at 0730 on 98. If the train is late enough, I would get a free breakfast.
Same thing happens on 91 and 97 in Florida southbound. Whichever one gets to the Auburndale turn and gets the trackage right gets into Miami first. Last trip south the crew of 97 just lost out to 91 as 91 hit the interlocking before we did. I've been on 98 just south of Orlando when both 91 and 97 were in the station. 97 got in first that night. From Richmond VA, it is a bet if 91 or 97 will get to Miami first even though 91 hits Richmond 4 hours ahead of 97.