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- This is the second of two parts of my video documentary on AMTRAK's "Silver Star" train from Washington DC's Union Station to Miami, Florida. I am calling this trip "Train 2", and it is the second of three train trips on my "Train Odyssey 6" that also includes the AMTRAK "Capitol Limited" (Train 1) from Chicago to Washington DC and "Silver Meteor" (Train 3), from Miami, Florida to Washington, DC. So, overall there are six videos in this series.
As part of the same overall trip, I will have separate videos on various attractions, including a "Bridge Odyssey" for the Florida Keys, and a visit to the Florida Everglades National Park. - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
He has the best train videos on TH-cam I love the narration and the map and the GPS thank you keep it up
And the scanner radio!
I'm planning on taking a few AMTRAK multi-day trips in the not-too-distant future. I don't currently have a small, portable, GPS unit but I intend to get one before embarking on my rail adventures.
I enjoy watching the landscape change from urban to rural and back again. Views which can only be seen by rail travel, not from the air, or the superhighway. America's back yards are unique.
Welcome back, keep them coming. So relaxing and informative.
Top man tipping the attendant 😊
Thank you for taking us on vacation with you.
This was great!! I live just north of Tampa and have always wanted to take the Tampa to Miami route. Narration is great and appreciate you going to the map to show where everything is located. We didn't actually see the Tampa station which was restored a few years back and added to the National Register of Historic Places.
FYI Tipping: I get my groceries delivered to my home as well. I tip 10% of my order. That usually means about a $5 tip, sometimes a little more, other times a bit less depending on the total cost of my grocery order.
Got your stuff?... out you go. you made it.
oh, i thought you were getting off but you are continueing on in your original berth.
I was on a west glacier amtrak train in a two person roomette with my daughter... she loved the trip.
that looks like my Garmin RV 1090 -- gps, I love the big screen.
Amazing as usual
Thank you very much kind sir for another great video.
As usual, very enjoyable. Looking forward to watching your excursion videos!
The Silver Star does stop in Philadelphia. I've taken it from Philly to Ashland, VA and from Philly to Fayetteville, NC.
I used to watch it drive by my old apartment complex as well. 😀
I like how you have your GPS screen on the window and I can see what the screen says when you look at it.
Awesome!
Thank you. I'm loving your train video's. This episode was especially good for showing the overdue upgrades I've recently read about. I'm planning several trips late 2022 (Zephyr first up). Best regards from Australia.
David McInnes, keep in mind that on the western trains, including the Zephyr, you will be in a SuperLiner train car, not the ViewLiner type shown in this video.
@@youtuuba All good, understand. Cheers
21:01 Jacksonville
30:50 Palatka
41:52 Deland
53:19 Winter Park
1:01:17 Orlando
1:04:58 Kissimmee
1:11:21 Lakeland
1:30:44 Tampa
1:46:09 Winter Haven
1:52:09 Sebring
1:58:08 Okeechobee
2:06:58 West Palm Beach
2:08:11 Delray Beach
2:12:00 Deerfield Beach
2:15:08 Fort Lauderdale
2:31:03 Miami
Loved your comment on the CSX track in South Carolina, no surprise to hear about that! I've followed that line and it's still all jointed rail between Camden and Hamlet NC. CSX hardly runs any freight on that portion anymore, if it were not for Amtrak, CSX would probably be taking the line up. When they did have freight on it, hearing those trains hit the joints, it was almost scary watching those cars shake.
That is great info insight! I wonder what rail conditions are responsible for the various effect and reactions to the passenger cars?
Just watched your 1st Brigade band play Gary Owen. Well done! Wonderful instruments.
You should’ve gotten off the train in Tampa. They’ve built a new platform that’s level with the train. Very nice. I go on day trips from Tampa to Sebring round trip. About an 1 1/2 hour trip on way. Enjoyed your video. At the beginning of May I took the California Zephyr from Chicago to San Francisco. An amazing trip!!!
They grow ferns under the black tent-like things, for florist shops all over the country. I was born in Orlando and family there since 1919...I always heard and said it as Kuh SIM ee...
This is cool your in my home state, and I might want to add that at 47:11 mark that's Amtrak Auto Train that runs from Sanford, FL to Lorton, VA. We also have a commuter train, Sunrail which runs in the greater Orlando area. Nice to see you traveled in my home state! Yes the Tampa station is reachable by both Silver Star and Meteor, and the Lakeland station is visited 2 times, westbound then eastbound for the Silver Star. Silver Star is the only train that makes stops in Tampa, so it stops 2 times in Lakeland, first westbound heading to Tampa, then eastbound before it goes southern to Miami. Silver Meteor does not go to Tampa, its more a direct route to Miami . There's 3 lines if i am not mistaken: Silver Meteor, Silver Star and the Palmetto as they both share some sort of similar routes.
Thank you for doing a video of a trip to Florida. It's hard to find a good video.
When we went through in 2012 there wasn't a station in Okechobee, more of a bus stop type shelter. Looks like they have moved forward.
your comment about how bad the ride was while you were trying to sleep made me think about my experience sleeping on the Crescent north or south of greensboro nc , I guess the freight trains beat the heck out of the tracks , back in july just south of chester pa in coach the train got up to 115 we were in a slight curve and it was vibrating so bad I thought it was going to derail I think they should really pay close attention to track maintenance
I enjoy your train odyssey video's. I can tell you have trouble with pronouncing the names of southern towns. That's to be expected if your not from the south. i have difficult time with northern towns with native American names. I'm disabled to a point I can not travel, I do however travel through these video's. Thank you.
Also, pronouncing places with Spanish names.
The 1st and 3rd sleepers are new, not renevated. The 2nd sleeper is a Viewliner I model and the other ones are Viewliner II cars.
Frank Carter, I want to accept your statement at face value, if it were not for so much information I have heard over the last couple years from lots of train/rail fans saying that AMTRAK was renovating older Viewliner cars, with removal of the toilets in Roomettes being one of the changes to be made. Maybe all of those sources were misinformed. I have not been able to find any authoritative sources on this, If you can point me (and others) to such a source, please do.
@@youtuuba Your have heard correctly on renovations. When all of the new Viewliner II cars have been delivered, Amtrak will begin renovating the older Viewliner I cars. Eastern Amtrak trains use Viewliner sleeper, baggage, baggage-dorm and dining cars. The coaches, lounge/cafe cars are Amfleet cars. Amtrak has recently refurbished the Amfleet I cars(vestibule doors on both ends) and will soon start on Amfleet II cars (vestibule doors on one end) in the near future. Amfleet I cars are used on the NEC and in other regional areas. Amfleet II cars are used on long distance trains. Again this just pertains to Eastern trains. I tell you this because in some of your other videos you seem to think all Eastern trains equipment were Viewliner cars. By contrast, Western trains cars are all Superliner cars except for the Viewliner baggage cars. As for sources, I have subscribed to Trains Magazine and Trainorders.com for many years and have been a NARP member for many years as well.
@@frankcarter5051 , thanks for the explanation. Makes sense to me.
As for your impression that I seem to believe all eastern trains use Viewliner cars, those statements were only in reference to sleeper cars, since my videos are almost exclusively about first class AMTRAK travel and rarely involve coach class travel/cars. However, as I ammended in these Capitol Limited videos, that train at least is using Superliner cars.
Ha...we caught a glimpse of you. People never look like they sound. I pictured you as Lowell Thomas
i pictured him lurking in the bathrooms. twenty bucks is twenty bucks!
I don’t use Uber or Lyft for the very reason you just explained about the user agreement
The only problem is many of the cities I go to a lot of the taxi cab companies that I would do business with or no longer in existence Quetion point in My Home city Pittsburgh soon as Uber, and these other rideshare companies came in most of our taxi cab companies went out of business
The reason I wear my mask under my nose is because A) I am a nose breather and B) I wear glasses and (I despise anything that hinders me from seeing where I am going authorities be damned otherwise known as fogging of my glasses...) and it fogs up my glasses but otherwise you are on point about people wearing their mask under their noses.
I had "mask nutzis" diss my tightly-crocheted face masks (remember how in Spring 2020 there were all kinds of patterns online to sew/knit/crochet your own masks, since there weren't enough in the stores yet?), even though I was wearing them over the nose; only the disposable masks were good enough for personnel enforcing mask-wearing requirements. Now that my entire family has been fully vaccinated (and Illinois has entered Stage 5 - Full Reopening), the only places where I would be required to wear a mask are places like Amtrak. That requirement (and not having retired yet, which would free up a lot more leisure time) is a big reason why I'm not in a rush to undertake any Amtrak train journeys just yet. Once my husband and I can lose the masks on the train, however, watch out!
@@DOSBoxMom If you stay in the roomamte for the whole trip with the door closed you are not required to wear a mask, only when you door is open and always in the hallways and other cars mask is needed beside active eating on the cafe or dinning car.
masks were proven to be not only useless, but a danger to your own health! effin sheep are killing me holmes!
Viewliners one and three of which you were in are part of the new CAFUSA 130 car ordered back in 2014. 55 Baggage 25 Diners 25 Sleepers and 25 dorm/baggage. You weren't in a remained car though the original viewliners are scheduled for overhaul starting soon as is the Superliner II sleeper fleet. I don't know when. As for new one I'm in 100% agreement with you. They should ditched the sink in the roomettes and made the second seat full size.
Lake Okeechobee in Florida is a freshwater lake
It is the largest lake in Florida and the second largest lake in the United States after the Great Lakes
I think $10 a day tip is pretty good. I often wondered what should be given on Amtrak. I hope to take the Empire Builder this Fall and if not then Spring of 2022 to Washington. We also tip $5 to any home deliveries - they earn it for my convenience of not going out.
just think how much youre gonna love CBDC! oh the convenience!
Thanks for the taxi v Uber tip could be useful when I visit the US next year. Chicago for Cubs v Braves ps how much was the better ticket for Sears Tower ?
The vacant apartments are Tampa's version of Cabrini-Green. Waiting to be demolished and redeveloped There are many nice areas in Tampa; this is not one of them. That Winter Haven station was bleak. Like Gary, with better weather. It's very interesting to see a big chunk of Florida that tourists (and maybe most Floridians) rarely see. Hi-ah-lee-ah. :) The taxi vs Uber thing: Absolutely agree. I have had great experiences with taxis in Chicago and NYC. Other cities it's been more of a crap shoot.
winter haven was where the clowns from the circus spent the winter. now its just clowns from california and new jersey
Just think-in less than a hundred years or so most of Florida will be under water. Enjoy it while you can!
A lot what you see growing under those nets are Ferns..
Under the nets at Seville they grow ferns.
ferns you can smoke!
A couple of FYIs: The strange track you described at the Miami station is commonly called a 'runaround' track for obvious reasons. They use it for turning engines and cars and probably avoid using expensive union crew. Also, when we were there in 2012 we arrived around an hour late, but found 8-10 cabs outside ready to go. There was a nice old black gentleman who acted as the steward, asking people their destinations and sheparding them to the appropriate car. The reason for all this was, according to another cab driver, in Miami that business was extremely territorial. Most everyone is allowed to drop off at any location, but only certain groups are allowed to pick up at certain places, such as the airport, Amtrak, certain hotels, certain major venues, etc. They all get along very well as long as everybody plays nice. But God help anyone who fudges the rules, probably Tony Soprano style. May be different now. And yes, the cab was very modern and clean and the driver was dressed impeccably in a suit and tie and the fare to our hotel was almost exactly that quoted in the website. From what I saw, you wouldn't have wanted to walk to the hotel from there.
everything is done with a 'union crew' you want to end up in the swamp?
Yeah, it ALWAYS seems to take MUCH LONGER to get a rental car than it should!
You should have washed your window at the Jacksonville stop 😉
I think it would bring some windex and paper towels to take to that window although you’d probably need a long handled squeegee to do the outside with a bucket of a mixture of water and dish soap and vinegar ???
then you can stoke up the locomotive and give the hogger a han-job?
Longwood, he said longwood, twice. With emphasis the second time. Is that where Dick Woodcock from the Benny Hill show lives?
As for pronunciations, DeLand is the 2nd way you said it, Altamonte Springs is Altamont, no E sound at the end. And the worse one for tourists is Kissimmee, Ka-Sim-E, not Kiss-I-Me. Otherwise not too bad. Toll road 528 is the Beeline Expressway, South Orlando to Cocoa and toll road 408 is the East West Expressway.
*_was_* the Beeline Expressway...has been the Beachline for quite a few years now.
and mango fla is pronounced..'man-child'
What I would have done was to walk naked through the cars asking everyone if they'd seen any clean towels...
you so kraay..!
What is the robotic voice announcing ....."no defects"? Hear it on various routes and at intervals. Thank you very much. Always wanted to see Florida. Enjoying the views and the details.
its a guy who elon musk built, transhuman, blonde hair and a tan, whos good for relieving his.. tension!
that viewliner dinette car replaced the old heritage diner car
Rewatching your train videos, just a quick question how far apart are the detectors on the railway, I know they say which mile post or marker they are at, but I'm guessing there not at every mile. My guess would be every 5 miles or so, else they'd get very repetitive and a bit distracting if you had the same message every 60 seconds or so. Keep up the good work
Also what are they detecting, problems ahead with the track, or problems with train like hot axle etc?
Ah Florida, Danny Harmon's stomping grounds. I noticed no tent cities or graffiti in Orlando. Probably to hot. It does get to be eleventy billion degrees there. A guy would need a lot of cold snacks to survive.
+1 for the Vice Grip Garage reference. :)
them bums all get 'food stamps' they could buy 'cold snacks' maybe some cheez doodles too
Hi, what type of Garmin do you use in these videos? This is a great video and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Re: your explanation of the configuration differences between Viewliners and Superliners (approx 01:35:00). I know you prefer the upper level of the Superliners (I think I would, too) but is there any compensation in the fact that rooms on the lower level would generally only have passenger "traffic" from those whose accommodations are on that lower level (that is, they belong there), quite unlike the "pass through," car-to-car pedestrian traffic past rooms on the upper level?
Re "compensation" perhaps you mean "consolation"?
@@Beargizmo3 No, I meant "compensation." That word can mean money (as perhaps you've taken it) but it can also mean providing an equivalence. Or to put it another way, a "fair trade-off."
well you see billy,.. when two plumbers love each other very much..
9:02. I thought the baggage car was always right behind the engine. You used to get views out the back window of the last car.
yeah and we used to put that doggie thing there, whos eyes would light up when the engineer stepped on the brakes
I believe it is pronounced Hi-A-Le-Ah -- But I could be mistaken.
So, were the walls soundproof? :)
When do you get to alligator alley?
Why the heck did they drop everyone off a mile away from the station in Miami?
to save their lives is why is was that or issue bulletproof vests
I'm so jealous! 😭😭😭😭 and my feet is hurting me too 😭😭😭😭 Sorry about it.
So did you see the barber of Seville?
I'm delighted another train Odyssey are you going to shoot video in Key West too?
kip lupton, I guess you misunderstand the timeline here. I have completed this trip some time ago, there is no "going to" involved here. I am in the process of preparing my non-train related videos of this trip, and there will be some coverage of the Key West area.
@@youtuuba thank you very much, sorry about the incorrect wording, i knew the trip was in May .looking forward to finishing the trip
by aqua train perhaps? driven by the sub-mariner of comic book fame?
Ooooh, did you take in a Space X launch at all?
I went nowhere near Cape Canaveral on this trip.
I notice that your GPS doesn't show the train tracks. I thought you had upgraded a few years ago to one that did. I upgraded my Garmen GPS so that it showed tracks since I plan to use it on my odyssey, which has now been delayed until next year.
This was a brand new GPS. It seems to have no option for showing tracks. How did you upgrade yours to show tracks?
@@youtuuba I bought the Nuvi 57 model and it showed the tracks. I looked at the displays on different models and some did and some did not.
At 27:00 you have "Glen Cove Springs" - shouldn't that be "Green Cove Springs". As someone who has lived in this area for 60+ years I have never heard of "Glen Cove" but have seen Amtrak pass through "Green Cove" many, many times.
Qapla !, I saw either a sign saying Glen Cove Springs, or my GPS or map showed that name, and indeed I have found, through online search, some mention of place names in Florida containing the words "Glen Cove", e.g. "Laurel Glen Cove", and others. But I don't find a town called "Glen Cove Springs" on the map, and you are correct that the train goes through "Green Cove Springs". I don't think I would have misread a sign saying "Green" as "Glen", but maybe.....
Where I live, there is a road that, between road signs, maps, etc; is called Mund-Hank, Mundhank, Mud Hank, Mund Hawk, Mundhawk, Mudhawk, Mud Hawk, and other permutations. I would not be surprised if there were maps and/or signage in your area with place name errors that have not been noticed or fixed.
33.25. I hear the people on the scanner talking in code. Why are they doing this and what does it mean, if you know.?
Dan Mathers, I suppose they use codes and abbreviations for the same reasons aviation, trucking, taxi services, police, abd industry do. Mostly to save time, but in some cases to disguise what they are saying on open radio frequencies.
they said to order a pepperoni pizza at the next stop to the dispatcher. its a secret code. when i worked on amtrak, we had codes for everything! pizza, subs, antacid, hookers..
People are rude and/or totally clueless in the narrow train hallways.
Turn off autofocus and set manual focus to infinity!
No
Having watched most of your videos, I have noticed that you make a lot of little negative or critical comments about Amtrak throughout and it makes me wonder why you like to travel by Amtrak.
Brenda Wei, are you a child? I provide a travelogue on the whole experience. That includes being truthful about the experience, both good and bad. From your comment, it seems like you would prefer only happy, positive commentary. Mature adults want to know the whole story, not unrealistic filtered/censored content.
brenda likes to be lied to,.. ok, i wont come in your mouth darlin' ..
I like train odyssey, except when you start complaining.
when slamtrak gets its shit together..
Kissimmee Florida he keeps pronouncing it wrong kiss simm ee not kiss a me 😂
Larry Fries, I looked up the pronunciation online (while I was on the train) and found a couple variations involving the middle syllable, and then when I got on the train, I decided to use the variation that most closely matched the way the train crew and dispatcher were saying it. From that I conclude that I am pronouncing it one of the acceptable ways. But with few exceptions, there are always people who prefer a slightly different pronunciation. Even the area where I live, there are variations on the pronunciations of place names by long time residents.
Because of your comment, I called the Kissimmee city hall this morning and asked them. The person there laughed and said there are quite a few common and acceptable pronunciations. She said the preferred one is more like KUH si mee, which differs from your own spelled out pronunciation in a couple of ways. She said most common pronunciations don't have the 'm' sound in the second syllable (so my pronunciation fits with that, except perhaps I used more of an an 'uh' vowel sound in the second syllable than the preferred 'ih' vowel sound.)
So, it would have benefited you to have checked into it a bit more before flatly insisting that I got it wrong.
It's kiss simm ee I live here lol 😆 you have the best videos thx 😊