@@pietk503 Yes. I am aware. Still you have to make sure you film the train without the Port Authority busting your @$$, which I experienced on PATH. That's when I deleted my PATH videos.
@@mrrockdaddy100 You’re lucky then. Because it’s stilled owned by the PANYNJ. If anything is owned by the PANYNJ, photography is most likely banned. Including bridges, tunnels, airports, PATH, and (retardedly) WTC.
As a Vancouverite I LOVE the Airtrain! It’s like the Skytrain but cleaner and a quarter of the capacity. Were arguing about screen doors when New York got it right the first time! What a great and Fantastic city lovely people! Love New York! ❤️
DJ, I miss riding the trains because of Covid, so glad you are willing to ride and film this run, please keep up the good work, helping me stay sane, 🤣Thank you, Bob
The city originally wanted this air train to continue to LaGuardia, then into the city via a subway route. The airlines (whose taxes paid for this) balked. In a compromise, these air train cars are built to NYC subway standards and could run on subway tracks if, at some distant point, it was to be integrated into the system in some way.
NYC Transit should extend a 4-car LGA ✈️Shuttle train from Astoria Line over the Grand Central Pkwy and looped thru the Airport serving all Air Terminals.
GET RID OF THE AUTOMATED OPERATION AND GIVE US HUMANS A JOB!!! Back then I was hoping to get a job operating the AirTrain until I found out from a baseball teammate who worked for the construction company then saying that the trains were going to be automatically operated. I was so disappointed to have heard that back then 😒
Same model and manufacture too! The rolling stock used on the JFK Airtrain is the same used on Skytrain Mk.2s (or ART 200 series). Only difference is that the JFK Airtrain doesn't use articulated joints between trains.
I use this whenever arriving in JFK, which for obvious reasons hasn't been for a while. I have never done the other branch though, Howard Beach is it? Would be very interested to see this!
Traveling from Howard Beach to Manhattan would be a longer ride than traveling from Jamaica. However, if you live in Brooklyn, then your trip to and from JFK would be shorter via Howard Beach than via Jamaica.
So the AirTrain is a skytrain! Nice. Just like the one in Vancouver, except the platforms are closed in for safety, cleanliness, and comfort. Completely the opposite of the subway system! (For shame New York) I hope the port authority can soon extend the AirTrain to LaGuardia and into Manhattan
the platform side doors are required to improve safety when running fully automated trains. They're quite difficult to implement on human drive trains because they require stopping accurately within a couple inches
Nice to "ride" again. I took this train from the E Train Sutphin Blvd/LIRR Jamaica complex on Christmas night last year to shoot "Connie" by night at the TWA Hotel. Quite a system - and great they have a railfan window. Any idea what the broad silver line running down the middle of the tracks is (not referring to third rail cover beside the track)? Would really be great if PA could implement such a connection between some Subway station and LaGuardia!
15:45 had a special treat at T7! That small British Airways A318 is an All-Business-Class flight between New York and London City Airport. Not sure when this was recorded, but BA scrapped that route back in July I heard. Perhaps they just left the plane in New York or they brought it back online?
This was recorded in January 2020. Friendly note (genuine): if you're unsure of when something was filmed definitely check the description first, there's always a decent chance your answer will be there :)
So you’re allowed to ride it just for fun during the COVID pandemic?? I tried to do that a few months ago I tried to enter the station at Federal Circle and 2 cops stopped me and said the terminals were closed off except for passengers and employees
Thank you very much for doing this video. My beef against NY is instead of this very expensive train, I would extend the A train from Liberty and Lefferts Blvd into JFK. So that there would be a one train ride into Manhattan.
I don't disagree with you, but that would require cooperation between two different agencies (the MTA and the PANYNJ); I'm not sure that would reduce the price tag.
@@aidenstanley7305 To me, 15 minutes non-stop from/to central London is worth the $35 (approx equivalent to £26)-I pay more than twice that for a private sedan in San Francisco. How much would it cost just by Tube?
@@davidthaler7018 £4 by Tube, £11 by stopper mainline. The Express is primarily seen as a tourist trap crossed with a last resort "you're late" style thing.
The east coast stagnation "frump" technology factor. It's always mixed in. Heavy. Slow. noisy, breaks down. Always have a new model type to fix the old problems a couple years later. What's it go? 65?
it's not very fast. Judging by the footage it's looks somewhere around 40-50 mph tops - which is quite normal for autonomous trains, but it's slow compared to full size trains (outside the US anyway)
Yes. Being Automated the trains can run faster, and still stop in the right place instead of a human. London Underground have found that Automated trains can be run closer together, and in Peak they can run trains 90 seconds apart. They still carry drivers, that operate the doors, and hit the 'Start" button, the train does the rest. th-cam.com/video/PJ0zk4MWCQY/w-d-xo.html
There are a few areas in the subway system where trains can get up near this speed Lexington Avenue express comes to mind. These trains have faster acceleration the standard subway system. The issue in New York is the stations are so close together so trains never really get the time to really get up to speed. And other systems around the world like London stations are way more spaced. Even our automated lines subway lines stations are too close to achieve any real speed.
greetings friend. My name is Jaime, I am making the documentary of my whole life, I am in a wheelchair. My goal in writing is to ask you to grant me your authorization to use one minute of this video to include in my documentary. I promise to put your name on the acknowledgments. The reason is that I lost my memory where I had these videos. I hope you can grant me your authorization. I appreciate your help.
@ 18:27, so it's now $7.75 just to ride that Airtrain?? Wow I remember when it was only $5 bucks and the announcements were way better!!!! At least it gave the names of the airline at the terminal's. Ah the change's!!!!!!! "lol"
GET RID OF THE AUTOMATED OPERATION AND GIVE US HUMANS A JOB!!! When the Air Train was being constructed back then, I was hoping to get a job operating the AirTrain until I found out from a baseball teammate who worked for the construction company then saying that the trains were going to be automatically operated. I was so disappointed to have heard that back then 😒
@Daniel Chang Technology is great it helps makes life a bit easier or a lot easier. But it's taking jobs away from people that were able to use that to take care of their family send their kids to school and live a decent financial life. My grandson is nine & my granddaughter is 3 right now and if they plan to automate a lot of machinery in the future what jobs will he have?
@Daniel Chang: The old factory areas here in N.Y.C. mostly have been turned into high priced residential nieghborhoods. Look up the history of Long Island City, Queens.
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Only the bravest can film any Port Authority transit system without getting caught by Port Authority itself. Thanks for the footage!
"Clips taken by Mekhi Central and used with permission." ;)
@@pietk503 Yes. I am aware. Still you have to make sure you film the train without the Port Authority busting your @$$, which I experienced on PATH. That's when I deleted my PATH videos.
Umm you can film in Newark I was never stopped
@@mrrockdaddy100 You’re lucky then. Because it’s stilled owned by the PANYNJ. If anything is owned by the PANYNJ, photography is most likely banned. Including bridges, tunnels, airports, PATH, and (retardedly) WTC.
@@davidng2336 lol
0:16 Jamaica
4:50 Federal Circle (Hotel shuttles and rental cars)
8:39 Terminal 1 (Air France, Japan Airlines, Korean Air, Lufthansa, Aeroflot, Alitalia, China Eastern Airlines, Saudia, Air China, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, EVA Air, Turkish Airlines, Royal Air Maroc, Air Serbia, Azerbaijan Airlines, Cayman Airways, Neos, Philippine Airlines, VivaAerobus, Volaris)
10:38 Terminal 2 (Delta Airlines)
12:20 Terminal 4 (Delta Airlines, Aeromexico, Air Europa, China Airlines, Kenya Airways, KLM, XiamenAir, Air India, Asiana Airlines, Avianca, Copa Airlines, EgyptAir, Singapore Airlines, South African Airways, Swiss International Airlines, Caribbean Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Eastern Airlines, El Al, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Hainan Airlines, JetBlue, Kuwait Airways, LATAM Brasil, LATAM Chile, Uzbekistan Airways, Virgin Atlantic, WestJet)
14:17 Terminal 5 (JetBlue, Hawaiian Airlines, TAP Air Portugal, Cape Air, Aer Lingus)
15:40 Terminal 7 (British Airways, Alaska Airlines, Iberia, All Nippon Airways, LOT Polish Airlines, United Airlines, Aerolineas Argentinas, Icelandair, Ukraine International Airlines)
17:12 Terminal 8 (American Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Finnair, Qantas, Qatar Airways, Royal Jordanian Airlines, Ethiopian Airlines)
21:22 Federal Circle (Hotel Shuttles and rental cars)
25:43 Jamaica
What an amazing infrastructure. It's mind boggling people can design, build and operate such a system. I wonder how many really appreciate it?
Seeing the BA 747 breaks my heart. And the A318. They will be sorely missed.
If only NYC Subway elevated structures looked like this
Part of the (7) train is similar between 33 St and 52 St over Queens Blvd.
The elevated structure on the Rockaway peninsula is similar to
@@activecity4051 ; You mean the part from Smith & 9th Streets to the 4 Avenue stations?
On the A train Rockaway part the tracks look really similar
The Washington DC subway elevated structures and their entrance via exiting booth's are very similar to the JFK airtrain.
as someone who has yet to visit New York, I greatly appreciate your content... it offers so much more than just the view...
Yay! The "Front View" theme is back!
As a Vancouverite I LOVE the Airtrain! It’s like the Skytrain but cleaner and a quarter of the capacity. Were arguing about screen doors when New York got it right the first time! What a great and Fantastic city lovely people! Love New York! ❤️
DJ, I miss riding the trains because of Covid, so glad you are willing to ride and film this run, please keep up the good work, helping me stay sane, 🤣Thank you, Bob
Covid didn't stop you from riding. Lockdowns did.
This is the best Air Train ride ever, I ever get to ride on! : )
Awesome JFK Airytrain!!# I've ridden this line many times on both routes. Always a pleasure!! 😀😀♥️♥️
The city originally wanted this air train to continue to LaGuardia, then into the city via a subway route. The airlines (whose taxes paid for this) balked. In a compromise, these air train cars are built to NYC subway standards and could run on subway tracks if, at some distant point, it was to be integrated into the system in some way.
When I rode this for the first time a few days ago, I literally said to myself "This is a glorified subway". It sounds and acts like one.
Why can't the LaGuardia Air Train be connected to the JFK Airtrain to have one unified system.....??
cant wait!
Nice! Taken right before the pandemic. So many more people and cars out back then.
i remember comparing the r type cars to the airtrains when i was 5 lol
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It looks like the Vancouver SkyTrain!
Same propulsion system!
@@nikomiguel6835 Literally same rolling stock.
They're basically Skytrain Mark II
That was a nice AirTrain ride online.
Now that I have seen the full extent of the Air train for JFK (It's massive). I don't see a problem with them making one for LGA. It only seems fair
NYC Transit should extend a 4-car LGA ✈️Shuttle train from Astoria Line over the Grand Central Pkwy and looped thru the Airport serving all Air Terminals.
GET RID OF THE AUTOMATED OPERATION AND GIVE US HUMANS A JOB!!! Back then I was hoping to get a job operating the AirTrain until I found out from a baseball teammate who worked for the construction company then saying that the trains were going to be automatically operated. I was so disappointed to have heard that back then 😒
@@ronaldharvinjr636 There are no shuttles trains or trains in general that go to LGA. Soooooo
They should have built an Air Train from Jamaica Station to LaGuardia over the Van Wyck and GCP, with a stop at Mets Willets Point
@@dapperdonny4051 ;
True that! That wud make Jamaica the City's Airport Transit Hub 🚝✈️
Even though one of the automatic people mover train systems go on cables and rubber tires but there would be some that goes on magnets and metal rails
Wow, Beautiful Upload friend. keep it up. Thank you for sharing this to us. Greetings from Korea
This is similar to Toronto's Scarborough RT and Detroit's People Mover.
I did this exact thing in January, but this video is the better one.
Me and my mom went to new York and and we were seeing train's
fantastic 8 mile run. great destination as well.
Imagine if the New LGA airtrain ended in Jamaica too
Lmaooo yeah no thanks. Their 1.5 mile proposed track to Willets Point costs 2 billion before any shovels hit the dirt
Imagine if the NYC Transit’s N Line went to LGA.... oh wait, that makes to much sense.
Let me guess this is one of those self-driving trains right, like they have in Vancouver Canada.
Same model and manufacture too! The rolling stock used on the JFK Airtrain is the same used on Skytrain Mk.2s (or ART 200 series). Only difference is that the JFK Airtrain doesn't use articulated joints between trains.
Singing "Take The Train To The Plane" The Train To The Plane" LOL.
BEAUTIFUL THANKS ❤
I use this whenever arriving in JFK, which for obvious reasons hasn't been for a while. I have never done the other branch though, Howard Beach is it? Would be very interested to see this!
Traveling from Howard Beach to Manhattan would be a longer ride than traveling from Jamaica. However, if you live in Brooklyn, then your trip to and from JFK would be shorter via Howard Beach than via Jamaica.
Nice!!!!!!!!
So the AirTrain is a skytrain! Nice. Just like the one in Vancouver, except the platforms are closed in for safety, cleanliness, and comfort. Completely the opposite of the subway system! (For shame New York)
I hope the port authority can soon extend the AirTrain to LaGuardia and into Manhattan
NYC Subway needs a complete modernization and overhaul like replacing track and the signal system for concrete bridges and CBTC on all lines...
Yeah soon LaGuardia should get the AirTrain but for now just JFK and Newark and also there’s the NY subway (classic) and bus and NJ Transit
the platform side doors are required to improve safety when running fully automated trains. They're quite difficult to implement on human drive trains because they require stopping accurately within a couple inches
It would have been king if it then connected to LaGuardia Airport. Probably would not be cost effective though to make.
Awesome video! Wish subways were this clean in NYC
I wish the regular transit subway would look like this…
The older quote of the 1980s is an open quote of something of older times in that open quote of the day.
Cool I haven’t done the Jamaica Line yet did y’all also do the Howard Beach Line as well ?
Wow looks like a Translink skytrain
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Same rolling stock: Bombardier MK II.
Nice to "ride" again. I took this train from the E Train Sutphin Blvd/LIRR Jamaica complex on Christmas night last year to shoot "Connie" by night at the TWA Hotel. Quite a system - and great they have a railfan window. Any idea what the broad silver line running down the middle of the tracks is (not referring to third rail cover beside the track)? Would really be great if PA could implement such a connection between some Subway station and LaGuardia!
I was wondering that too, maybe it is the 4th rail like the london underground?
@@chadmiller6386 Thanks, Chad. That sounds plausible.
10:08 15:00 That sounds like a Mk 2 train on vancouver millennium line 2001
15:45 had a special treat at T7! That small British Airways A318 is an All-Business-Class flight between New York and London City Airport. Not sure when this was recorded, but BA scrapped that route back in July I heard. Perhaps they just left the plane in New York or they brought it back online?
This was recorded in January 2020.
Friendly note (genuine): if you're unsure of when something was filmed definitely check the description first, there's always a decent chance your answer will be there :)
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Nice Video
it hasn't gone live yet lol
@@justinbak12 It is now lol
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15:38 What’s a British Airways E175 doing at JFK???
Nice video 😍
I like the new intro music
So you’re allowed to ride it just for fun during the COVID pandemic?? I tried to do that a few months ago I tried to enter the station at Federal Circle and 2 cops stopped me and said the terminals were closed off except for passengers and employees
Read the description, taken in January last year, before COVID was known in western civilization
Thank you very much for doing this video. My beef against NY is instead of this very expensive train, I would extend the A train from Liberty and Lefferts Blvd into JFK. So that there would be a one train ride into Manhattan.
I don't disagree with you, but that would require cooperation between two different agencies (the MTA and the PANYNJ); I'm not sure that would reduce the price tag.
You call this expensive? In the UK we've got the Heathrow Express and that's £26.
@@aidenstanley7305 To me, 15 minutes non-stop from/to central London is worth the $35 (approx equivalent to £26)-I pay more than twice that for a private sedan in San Francisco. How much would it cost just by Tube?
@@davidthaler7018 £4 by Tube, £11 by stopper mainline. The Express is primarily seen as a tourist trap crossed with a last resort "you're late" style thing.
@@aidenstanley7305 Tube is cheaper than AirTrain/subway ($5.60 vs. $10.50), but mainline is slightly more expensive ($15.41).
god i miss NYC
$7.75 a ride, i dont miss the high transit prices
While railfans shouldn’t be harassed on public property I can understand the Paranoia of the port authority post 9/11.
What country is this?
Whats the speed
Max speed 55 MPH.
The east coast stagnation "frump" technology factor. It's always mixed in. Heavy. Slow. noisy, breaks down. Always have a new model type to fix the old problems a couple years later. What's it go? 65?
nice!!
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Are the trains driverless?
Yes.
Unfortunately, YES 😢 Taking jobs away from humans 😩
same sound as the ART 200 Skytrain noise
i rememeber there wasnt no airtrain over that express way
they should extend the JFK airtrain.
Anyone know top speed? That thing is moving!
it's not very fast. Judging by the footage it's looks somewhere around 40-50 mph tops - which is quite normal for autonomous trains, but it's slow compared to full size trains (outside the US anyway)
1 week from today I b on this very service
GOAT
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train goes like 3 times faster then the NYC Subway does lol.
i thought the intro was snoopy theme song
Is it just me or that air train is faster than a regular subway
Yes. Being Automated the trains can run faster, and still stop in the right place instead of a human.
London Underground have found that Automated trains can be run closer together, and in Peak they can run trains 90 seconds apart. They still carry drivers, that operate the doors, and hit the 'Start" button, the train does the rest.
th-cam.com/video/PJ0zk4MWCQY/w-d-xo.html
It's almost like riding a rollercoaster.
There are a few areas in the subway system where trains can get up near this speed Lexington Avenue express comes to mind. These trains have faster acceleration the standard subway system. The issue in New York is the stations are so close together so trains never really get the time to really get up to speed. And other systems around the world like London stations are way more spaced. Even our automated lines subway lines stations are too close to achieve any real speed.
peculiar why these trains don't join up all the airports
greetings friend.
My name is Jaime, I am making the documentary of my whole life, I am in a wheelchair. My goal in writing is to ask you to grant me your authorization to use one minute of this video to include in my documentary. I promise to put your name on the acknowledgments.
The reason is that I lost my memory where I had these videos.
I hope you can grant me your authorization.
I appreciate your help.
Is it a monorail?
August 15 2023: my dumbass really thought this was a monorail
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15:38 British baby bus!!!
@ 18:27, so it's now $7.75 just to ride that Airtrain?? Wow I remember when it was only $5 bucks and the announcements were way better!!!! At least it gave the names of the airline at the terminal's. Ah the change's!!!!!!! "lol"
Its like LRT Malaysia
It is the same rolling stock as RapidKL Kelana Jaya Line LRT.
Good video and train.
I love JFK because He tried to save USA and world from bad FBI.
I really think the volume should be lowered just a tad on that announcer
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17:54
reat video!
How do I use those emojis?
@@TheJeromeFanner click the little Smilly face right next to the send button
And then what?
@@TheJeromeFanner they are there
How come I dont see them
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LaGuardia could nevvvvaaaa
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Of a political brain is IPHone true about older ones.
So These Are Not Your Videos, You Ask Others For Their Videos & Their Permission To Use Their Content & Make Money Off Of It
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GET RID OF THE AUTOMATED OPERATION AND GIVE US HUMANS A JOB!!! When the Air Train was being constructed back then, I was hoping to get a job operating the AirTrain until I found out from a baseball teammate who worked for the construction company then saying that the trains were going to be automatically operated. I was so disappointed to have heard that back then 😒
@Daniel Chang And that's the sad thing 😩
@Daniel Chang Technology is great it helps makes life a bit easier or a lot easier. But it's taking jobs away from people that were able to use that to take care of their family send their kids to school and live a decent financial life. My grandson is nine & my granddaughter is 3 right now and if they plan to automate a lot of machinery in the future what jobs will he have?
@Daniel Chang : And now those once productive areas are residential apartment bldgs ☹️
@Daniel Chang: The old factory areas here in N.Y.C. mostly have been turned into high priced residential nieghborhoods. Look up the history of Long Island City, Queens.
@Daniel Chang; U from NYC?
Are these trains driverless?
Yes.