[4K] The Trinity Railway Express: an Excellent commuter Service in Texas | TRE | Dallas - Fort Worth

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  • Hello! Welcome to Dallas's Eddie Berniece Johnson Union Station! Today I am taking a ride on the Trinity Railway Express from Dallas to Fort Worth.
    Check out the previous video where I rode on Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner in Business Class from Oceanside to LA: • [4K] A Superliner on a...
    --- Train Information ---
    Train Number: TRE #3925
    Locomotive Type: EMD F59PHI
    Locomotive Number: #570
    Journey Time: 1hr 1min
    Departure Time: 4:30pm
    Arrival Time: 5:31pm
    Top Speed: 90mph
    Ticket Price: $12 (Regional Day Pass)
    I also recommend checking out the main channel, where I post more rail and aviation videos.
    Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed!
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    Equipment Used:
    Camera: iPhone 12 Pro Max
    Camera: GoPro Hero 9 Black
    Camera: Sony AX-43
    Mic: Rode Videomic Pro+
    Tripod: Coman DF06 + Manfrotto 502 Head
    This video was pushed back out of respect for the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Never Forget.

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  • @kevincozby
    @kevincozby 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thanks for posting this. We love the TRE and TexRail. We use both services often to get to DFW Airport or downtown Dallas.

    • @LonestarTrips
      @LonestarTrips  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I’m glad you enjoyed both videos!

  • @user-bs1zo6tr2g
    @user-bs1zo6tr2g 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I just rode this, it was quite a nice ride. Exceeded my expectations.

  • @KenanTurkiye
    @KenanTurkiye 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Interesting,
    don't you all enjoy railroad
    trams, trains etc are just so cool
    take a ride in my ''transportation'' folder, (folder 2 in playlists) :)

  • @GreenlightGlory-Jesuswithus
    @GreenlightGlory-Jesuswithus หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love your content and don’t want to be a critic, but I just want to inform you that the line at Dallas is the UP Dallas subdivision. BNSF doesn’t even have trackage rights. But they occasionally rent track

  • @Backslasherton
    @Backslasherton 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very cool station building. I wish they kept up with it more!

    • @LonestarTrips
      @LonestarTrips  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Me too! I really wish the upper waiting hall was open, or at least more accessible to the public. I think so many people consider Union Station as just the tracks and platforms, but the station building adds a whole other element to the experience.

    • @ronclark9724
      @ronclark9724 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LonestarTrips It is a beautiful ballroom upstairs, but the entire Union Station was renovated by the Hyatt Regency Hotel who book the ballroom for weddings, anniversaries, conventions, etc. DART funded the redevelopment of the platforms and the city funded the redevelopment of the former downstairs baggage claim and parcel package areas into the present waiting room. While the present waiting room isn't gorgeous, it is a nice waiting room serving Dallas passengers riding Amtrak well. Eddie Bernice Johnson was a former city council person and a US Congress person... During the heydays of the railroads before Amtrak, the platforms were accessed by a sky bridge from the upstairs ballroom similar in manner as Harrisburg, PA....

  • @johnchambers8528
    @johnchambers8528 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this informative video. It is nice to see there is a good commuter rail service between two of Texas largest cities.

  • @superbaddy4
    @superbaddy4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Coach 1053 on this train here was actually built by Hawker Siddeley, and is actually a primordial ancestor of the Bombardier Bi-Level, built to different standards long before Bombardier bought out the coach design. 1053 was originally built for GO Transit in 1978, and later sold to TRE in 1997.

    • @LonestarTrips
      @LonestarTrips  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for the insight! I was under the impression that they ran exclusively Bombardier Bi-Levels, but it's cool to know that they have an ancestor in the fleet too!

    • @isimonsez
      @isimonsez ปีที่แล้ว

      🤓

  • @randomthings9233
    @randomthings9233 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very informative answers alot of question I had about riding.

  • @gb9727
    @gb9727 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They should get stadler trains

  • @azrailroader
    @azrailroader 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nice video. Is this ridership comparable to other commuter rail service?
    Be interested to see the one on Texrail. Although they seriously need to get a real horn and get rid of the 101 door warnings.

    • @LonestarTrips
      @LonestarTrips  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The ridership is comparable to other commuter rail services in Texas, but hardly in the rest of the US. It's mainly because the service frequency combined with the lack of external connections makes it difficult for the TRE to compete with systems in say Chicago or LA.
      As far as a video on TexRail, that is coming at some point in the future. I have all of the footage ready, it's just a question of when I want to have it go out.

    • @ronclark9724
      @ronclark9724 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@LonestarTrips Its my opinion the largest crime with Amtrak today is the LACK of a daily service from Dallas to Houston. Surely two of the top ten metros in the USA... Texas deserves much more services from Amtrak...

  • @cliffwoodbury5319
    @cliffwoodbury5319 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great Video - i would say i would have liked to see all your nerd info at the end made small enough to see it all. I know some wouldn't be able to read it but all that information would be cool to see all at once. Very impressive!!

  • @deanchapman1824
    @deanchapman1824 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well at least Dallas has a real station!!! Have you seen the station in Houston 😂

    • @LonestarTrips
      @LonestarTrips  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have! It's not good. 🤣

    • @ronclark9724
      @ronclark9724 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@LonestarTrips Unfortunately the best Houston station is presently the Astros offices... I doubt whether Houston will build a larger station for Amtrak unless Amtrak steps up services to Houston significantly... Three trains per week in each direction isn't daily in each direction as in Dallas...

  • @EastofVictoriaPark
    @EastofVictoriaPark ปีที่แล้ว +5

    These look just like Go trains in Ontario. The seating is so much better than on Go. With Go, the seats are designed in four inward facing sections that are impossible to seat four people comfortably. This way is much better.

    • @ronclark9724
      @ronclark9724 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Some were brought used from GO Transit, and others were bought new from Bombardier...

  • @AlexTraxxas
    @AlexTraxxas ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Does this train service share tracks with other railroads or are they the only one on this corridor?

    • @JesManVP
      @JesManVP 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They share

  • @orion10x10
    @orion10x10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wish it was a fraction as nice as the public transit in Europe, one of the richest states in the richest country

  • @bwhempy
    @bwhempy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did it look difficult to traverse from a Dart train over to the Amtrak or TRE?

    • @LonestarTrips
      @LonestarTrips  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Nope! It’s super easy. Just keep an eye out for approaching trains and you’ll be fine.

    • @bwhempy
      @bwhempy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you so much! Taking my son on tomorrow! 😊

    • @LonestarTrips
      @LonestarTrips  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@bwhempy of course! Safe travels and enjoy the ride!

  • @user-jj1uy5qg6n
    @user-jj1uy5qg6n ปีที่แล้ว

    I am going to get off of You tube for a few hours Carol Burnette is 90 years old N B C is having a two hour special tonite I love her I grew up with her show

  • @user-jj1uy5qg6n
    @user-jj1uy5qg6n ปีที่แล้ว

    For you railroad buffs if you want a TRE Train they do make them in HO Scale and Nscale I have HO Scale I purchased it from Hobbytown in Rockwall Tx in like 2006 I am here in the Dallas Texas area Because Hurricane Katrina put me here We no longer had a house One day you have riches the very next day you have just whats on your back But one good thing I now can read the book of job I can feel just like he did or must have felt

    • @ronclark9724
      @ronclark9724 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The Bombardier bi level commuter coaches and cabs are available, but you will have to hunt for the TRE livery....

  • @user-jj1uy5qg6n
    @user-jj1uy5qg6n ปีที่แล้ว

    i am do to go to my eye Dr for surgery to get rid of caterats bUT that needs to be done So I maybe out of comission for a while

  • @user-jj1uy5qg6n
    @user-jj1uy5qg6n ปีที่แล้ว

    In your travels if you notice a railroad station that is enjoying a second life Be cause so many of them are just plain isores today My hat is off to man who drove pass the old rairoad station in Greenfield It has not been used in many a year This man decided he wold spend his own money and fix up the railroad station We do have trains going pass it now

    • @ronclark9724
      @ronclark9724 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sadly the Burlington station in Wichita Falls was demolished as was the MKT(Katy) station in Waco and in San Antonio. However the Missouri Pacific and Southern Pacific stations in San Antonio have been renovated, although not being used by Amtrak. The Southern Pacific station in El Paso has also been renovated, it is a charmer... Amtrak is making do with a more modern modest station in Houston, San Antonio, and Fort Worth...

  • @erichill1230
    @erichill1230 ปีที่แล้ว

    that is not the bnsf track that is the union pacific

    • @ronclark9724
      @ronclark9724 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The tracks serving Dallas' Union Station belongs to the city of Dallas. Presently Union Pacific and BNSF use the outer thorough tracks.

  • @user-jj1uy5qg6n
    @user-jj1uy5qg6n ปีที่แล้ว

    After

  • @user-jj1uy5qg6n
    @user-jj1uy5qg6n ปีที่แล้ว

    We I was 17 years old you would not want to be traveling in the northeast 8 hours travel time would get you as far as Grand Central Trains out of Boston Did not travel to Penn Station until after the merger of New Haven railroad into Penn Central I was 17 years okd going to New York to watch the Macyss Thanksgiving day Parade

  • @user-jj1uy5qg6n
    @user-jj1uy5qg6n ปีที่แล้ว

    Well in the morning we are going to go down to College Station Texas We are going to the George H W Bush Library and museum The nasty weather that has been around Dallas Texas is clearing out

  • @u.s.6909
    @u.s.6909 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is great but I think they need to do much better than an average of 34 miles per hour. Get an electrified high speed line between the cities running at 217 mph (350 km/h) like they have in China.

    • @ronclark9724
      @ronclark9724 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The Dallas Fort Worth metroplex is one large urban area. The TRE does get up to a speed of 60 mph in stretches, but with so many stations on this commuter route of 30+ miles, the train doesn't have the opportunity to even top 80 mph, much less 200 mph... Don't confuse commuter rail with inter city HIGH SPEED RAIL...

  • @user-jj1uy5qg6n
    @user-jj1uy5qg6n ปีที่แล้ว

    After our late President George HW Bush 4141 funeral down in Colledge Station The Union Pacific 4014 took the Geoge HW Bush to Palestine Texas At Palestine Geoge HW Bush 4141 was unhooked It went on another train going more direct up to Little Rock for safe keep ing I have a O scale George HW Bush Lionel trains brought it back out shortly after George HW Bushes funeral