Ride on LIRR South Fork Commuter Connection train #94 from Speonk to Montauk. 1/10/24
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- We take a ride on this little train designed to serve East End, commuters and businesses.  Narration, with plenty of infographics, identifying all the roads and crossings that we pass over. Train is powered by DE30AC #413 blasting his K5LLA horn.  Was kind of a gloomy, cloudy day, but it was a most enjoyable ride through this pastoral area which is much more pastoral in the winter months.  It’s not the rat race that it is during the summer months.
I just found this video (somehow missed it when you posted it). I moved out to North Babylon back in the spring of 2016. In September 2016 on a day off I decided to ride the railroad out to Montauk. I rode from Babylon to Montauk arriving around lunch time. I was shocked to find how little there is around the area of the Montauk station. Not being familiar with the area, I took a guess and walked south on Edgemere Street to the village on the Atlantic shore (I figured that I'd find something there). Well, I wasn't disappointed. The village was very nice. I walked around for a while, having lunch at John's Pancake House restaurant. After walking around a little more, and taking a nice long look at the Atlantic Ocean, I walked back up Edgemere Street to the station and caught the train back to Babylon. It was a nice day.
I need to visit the other half of the Montauk Branch. I've only been as far as the amazing town of Patchogue 💗 Great video!
in response to the blown down trees at 22m, there was a tornado in Nov 2021.
Wow. I thought that area looked strange.
You experienced the big problem with 261 signaling out there. They only remoted the sidings at Hampton Bays and Southampton, basically for their scheduled meets. When something gets delayed (and in this case ironically due to signal problems), the whole line goes in the bag. Had it still been manual block, you would have gotten there sooner!
Should add more remote sidings
I live less than 10 miles from the Brightline station in Orlando that would be a great video if you ever came down here. I'm always thinking of Riding that train just haven't yet
Fascinating ride. Thanks Tim💚👌
at 42:28 is where the Sag Harbor brand breaks off to the north. Sag Harbor was the Original LIRR terminal that ran from Manorville to East Port then onto Bridgehampton terminating in Sag Harbor. At some point, the LIRR added an extension to Montauk. It explains why there is a south east curve here. Manorville to East Port was abandoned in 1949. Sag Harbor abandoned in I believe 1960.
Hello from Florida Tim. I really enjoy your videos and train rides enjoy listening to your narration this was really good I started laughing when you got to Southampton made me think of the old Phyllis Diller TV show Pruetts of Southampton
i really like the montauk view like i would just buy every single camera in existence and take lots of pictures of it
Thank you for the trip my friend
Grew up on LI for my first 32 years of life… never knew LIRR went to montaulk… next you gonna tell me i coulda taken a train to the Hamptons ? Lol
The South Fork Commuter Connection Needs Be Extended To Jamaica After Speonk Next Stop Express To Jamaica
Train 17 does that. Not sure there’s enough business to justify such a service.
One last question Tim. All the videos I've watched from that area surprising I've never seen them in the area of MetLife stadium East Rutherford New Jersey / The meadowlands do they have rail transportation to take people to the games there
Yes they do
Since I've never been to New York question for you. When you take the train to Philadelphia as you get to Secaucus there's some tall buildings I don't think that's Manhattan. Is that Jersey City? And is the bridge that you see in the distance i-95?
Yes on both counts
When I was a kid, I remember riding to Montauk being led by Old Alco F Units, numbered in the 600s. Is this the same line?
Yes it is. Those 600’s were power cars
@@3985uprr Thanks Again! Great videos!
They need to double track the Montauk branch. Do you know when that's happening?
Lol never 😂
They could use an additional one or two sidings
@@Hobinator17 never say never
@@3985uprr that would be great as well
55:45 Isn’t Riverhead Yaphank stretch longer? I know it may not count because of the extremely limited service but still
Well there is Medford between those stations. Between Amagansett and Montauk, there are no stations.
@@3985uprr Medford is west of Yaphank
Edit: I do feel kinda bad because of the half hour delay in Southampton tho (Riverhead, not Ronkonkoma, I get it can be confusing)
Do you think you could get a montauk branch or greenport branch RFW video at some point? Saw all your previous videos recording out the C3 side windows but you can’t ever beat the RFW POV
It’s hard to get a good video shooting out the front of those cab cars. They’re not designed to get up close to the window like on some of the other equipment that I ride.
Was it crowded on the train?
More so on the way back
@@3985uprr ok