They were trying to keep the company from going under. The LIRR platforms were already dark and underground. In the 1960s, passenger rail wasn’t exactly doing well, and that land in Midtown Manhattan was worth a lot. Don’t hate the PRR for trying to stay alive, hate Eisenhower for building the interstates that killed them.
@@Synergiance What saved Grand Central was its smaller size, which meant building maintenance was quite a bit lower. But it was still very costly to restore Grand Central to its old glory.
Fun to see this trip from a new angle. I usually just see it with my nose pressed up to the glass in the cheap seats. Just reminds me that, unless something drastic changes with rail somewhere else in the country, I don't think I'll ever be leaving the Northeast Corridor.
Thank you for filming this I’m on the west coast and have never been to the east coast before but have become fascinated with the northeast corridor because of how busy and useful it seems It will definitely be on my bucket list to take the northeast regional on a city hopping trip some day. And maybe stop by New Haven to get some pizza :) Also what is being built here? 10:09
That be the new Portal Bridge that’ll replace the old one which is known to get stuck causing lots of delays (something I dread as someone who takes NJTransit trains to and from NYC regularly)
That’s the new bridge they are building and they are also building a new tunnel too because there’s been so many delays because it’s either from mechinal problems inside the Hudson River tunnel , for the bridge being opened for a boat the go thru
Saddens me to see all the places where there is room for, and the NEC probably had, extra capacity but it has been removed over the years. Still, the corridor is in better shape now than it has ever been since the 1960s.
@travisbeagle5691 I think they have the quadtracked sections for where they will most likely have a conflict between the commuter rail and Amtrak. Essentially, outside of passing maneuvers, the outside is for commuter rail, and the inside Amtrak, Acela gets priority probably followed by the next fastest express on down to the long distance trains then the commuter express and finally the commuter local which I suspect is not supposed to leave the outside track unless something is stuck in front of it. So they would only need more if they were going to run more Amtrak trains or the commuter lines outside of SEPTA and NJ transit wanted to run more trains. That might actually require six tracks be built in some locations because from what I could tell they use scheduling as much as express tracks to keep other trains clear of Acela.
@timothystamm3200 The only parts of the NEC that aren't quad tracked are MA, RI, and eastern CT (past New Haven). Those also have to share with the MBTA and SLE.
@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 There were several sections in the video that showed it drop down to 2 or 3 tracks despite the right of way being designed for 4.
@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 what about going in and out of Wilmington and Baltimore, and the approach to Washington as can clearly be seen in this video? Also, the MBTA tries to get off the NEC as quickly as possible, and use side lines for as much as possible for the Providence line and Amtrak signals and dispatches both and is part of running SLE which is a joint creation of them and Connecticut.
Going through the Hudson River Tunnels was so cool, the sights and sounds make it feel like a subway thats really fast with no stops, as someone who is yet to experience the NEC, this was an amazing video.
Damn... That station approach is soooooooo massive! Holy crap! I can't believe that all of that is under NYC! How in the world did that build that?! Amazing!
It was all cut and cover. It would have been impossible to bore all that. Even until a few years ago, the interlocking (or really several) west of Penn Station was mostly in the open, albeit below grade. So you would go under the Post Office between 8th and 9th, then from 9th to 10th was daylight, an underpass under 10th, then daylight to 11th where you'd go under one big beige building and then into the tunnel portals. Sometimes I still think it's weird not to have that daylight view of the big wide cut when leaving the tunnel and approaching Penn Station. The Post Office (now mostly the Moynihan portion of Penn Station) was built at the same time so that space was open during construction as well, and the building I'm thinking of between 11th and 12th didn't come along until at least the '60s, so it really was wide open when they were building all this. They had a little less space to play with at the east end of the station (although the currently-being-demolished Hotel Pennsylvania was part of the same project so that land was available at least)
@@de-fault_de-fault ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,in the 1990 ' s i would hang out with my beers after work ; in the parking lot lookin down at all the train action comin in and out of the tubes........................................amtrak power forever,,,,,,E60's and horns.................................
@@the.abhiram.r what happens when "Slowly Eliminating Public Transportation Altogether" finds it easier to cut back on service rather than expand it. SEPTA hemorrhages engineers and conductors (going to either Amtrak or NJT) after getting both certification and experience all because the agency is too damn cheap to properly pay them (and to get the point across, when SEPTA took over commuter rail operations from Conrail in 1983, they treated the railroad employees like they were rapid transit staff; in fact when SEPTA operated the non-electrified portion of the former Reading RR's Newtown Branch prior to the 1983 handover, they used operators - all members of the local Transportation Workers Union - from the agency's Broad Street Subway, which p*ssed the Conrail employees off so much that they would bolt on the electrified trains the moment they saw an inbound Budd RDC from Newtown). However, with the dedicated capital funding they were getting from tolls collected from the Pennsylvania Turnpike, they have been making major improvements to the rail infrastructure, especially on the West Chester Line including intending service west to a transit hub in Wawa near Glen Mills and Media.
I've gone through the Baltimore tunnels lots of times in my life, but from that camera angle, it makes it look like the last thing you see before you pass on to the hereafter or something. Never realized how long, dark, and creepy it really was until watching video of it taken from the back of a train.
I took pretty much this exact trip the other year but from up in Connecticut to Virginia, to pick my brother's car up. Needless to say, the train ride down was much more pleasant than the drive back on 95.
There's a reason all Chesapeake and Ohio services following the same route used to terminate in Cincinnati. It was the longest route to Chicago, and if they wanted even the Cincinnati service to be successful they needed to have different timing for the trains that put the night stretch mostly in West Virginia.
I caught this train from DC to Indy on the same day! The Cardinal was beautiful, but weaving through West Virginia for 8 hours isn't exactly practical- still better than flying lol.
A trip that I have made so many times, that landmarks along the way have become familiar. It was terrific to see the massive interlocking just out of NYP, a sight one doesn't get to see, but feel as the train enters or leaves. It's truly amazing trackwork to behold. And nice to see the tunnel that snakes under the Hudson River into New Jersey. Now, the new tunnels HAVE to be built to increase the throughput of trains, and allow repair work to the existing more-than-century old tunnels. That was nixed during the New Jersey's ex-governor Chris Christie. Come on, let's get moving on the new tunnel!! Riding along, looking out the rear of this train makes me wish we had true high-speed rail here in this country. I always enjoy taking the train!
They built the whole "tunnel extension" from Hudson Yard in Kearny to Penn Station at one time (opening in 1910), and since there were only two tunnels with one track each, they built the whole thing with only two tracks. The idea had been for many or even most trains, particularly commuter service, to keep using the original PRR mainline to Exchange Place, Jersey City with connecting ferry service (or PRR subsidiary H&M service - what is now PATH) to lower Manhattan. Most commuters at that time were still going downtown rather than midtown, so two tracks seemed like enough to move the longer distance trains, primarily, that would be using the "new" route. What they didn't account for was that Penn Station itself, along with the newest version of Grand Central opening shortly after, would pull the center of gravity to midtown and that's where most people would eventually want to go. The station itself was ill-suited to that kind of use, which meant the crowding and circulation issues it has now were already well established even when the original building was in place.
Don't forget Alan: May 13th is when the FRA is gonna update us about Corridor ID. My city got the initial Step 1 funding so it'll be interesting if we're on Step 2 or if it's just going to be more initial funding rounds.
WOW!!! Leaving out of Penn Station was amazing. Unbelievable that is all underground. Then it looked like you were on a subway train in the narrow tunnel. Great video and sound. What camera did you use and did you have it on a suction mount it was very smooth. Thank you.
Yeah, I also want to know that! I'm planning to record my bicycle rides on video (Catalonia/Spain is soooo beautiful!) Yet. the camera I'm looking now is only recording like 1.5h max, not nearly close enough what I have in mind (my rides are often 4 to 5h, last Saturday I drove around 6h in total)
Why are there never any recordings from the driver's cab at the front? You don't have to watch it like that when driving backwards. In Europe there are millions of videos from the front
@@romanrat5613 Demand for housing is so high down south all the good ones are taken and the cheap ones are so shit you dont want it. Scumbag Republicans won't build any affordable apartments down here, they call it woke communism.
For the first time I see that the 3rd rail has been installed to the western portal through the Hudson Tunnel. Is this new? Is there something planned for an expansion of the LIRR? Greetings from Berlin
The third rail is not new. When the tunnels and the Penn Station were built back in 1910, the electric locomotives were originally running on DC off that third rail. The third rail territory extended into what was called "Manhattan Transfer". There the electric motors were switched over for steam locomotives which continued south to Washington DC and places west. The sight of Manhattan Transfer still exists and that's the place at 12:30-13:10. In early 1930s Penn Station received overhead AC catenary and since about 1933 trains are powered from it. Third rail in the tunnels to the west portal was most likely kept for inspection trains.
They are the Rohr built Turboliners which were supposed to be providing service on the Empire Corridor but got messed up in a contract dispute with the refurbishment company and New York State. Looks like there are also some retired baggage cars there too.
Why is MARC running diesel power under catenary? Just as bad as the MBTA in Boston. Is MARC still planning to extend service to Newark, Delaware with a connection to SEPTA.
,,,,,,,,,,Visible 8 miles out of the tube,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,amazing new elevated structures goin up over the marshlands........wonder how many human bones will be found........
It looks like USSR, only architect plans building different, the nature and oldness very similar.I found today postal card maded in USSR from 1982 with a soviet high speed train,so it is very similar to Armtrack today.and i so after 60 minutes video the new UK style train , which company is that?
Very long, apparently you go straight out of the city and NYC is a very big city :-D (yeah yeah, I know, Newark is basically also a city within the greater NYC metropolitan area)
The Long distance trains on the corridor with Viewliner Sleepers are limited to 110mph either way, tacking a Private Car on the back does not change the max speed
@@alanfisherextras Now that some LD trains are equipped with Viewliner II Sleepers, which are rated for 125mph, it will affect the max speed. Either way, Amtrak has massive schedule padding, so yeah it's not like the private cars would make a difference.
Back in 2022 I rode on the Pennsylvanian between Philly and Trenton with a private car on the back (well actually in front behind the ACS-64 because of how Amtrak swaps locos in Philly Penn Station) and we hit 125… maybe it’s not a fixed rule
Roadways carry so much more people and cargo than rail does. 99% of the time in the video the tracks are empty, not being used, since trains require large headways.
i'd love to make this trip once in a while but ultimately to justify taking the train while I own a car it needs to be either significantly cheaper or significantly faster than driving and amtrak is... neither
Same for me, but on the West Coast. Plus I'm too young to rent a car once I get to California (none of the places I'd visit there are reachable by train)
I'd argue if you're in the city or next to a NEC train station, it's both (at least between NY and DC). The average speed of the northeast regional is ~86mph from NYC to DC, and DC and NY are transit-oriented cities anyway so you wouldn't need to drive or find parking.
And that hour is quickly swallowed up when you factor in having to get to the station Amtrak leaves from in the first place and then either paying to park near the station or paying for a ride to the station so the savings just isn't there at all
If you live in any of the cities along the corridor, its much faster to take the train (especially in the NYC to Washington section). Also if you book weeks ahead you can get surprisingly cheap tickets $50 or under
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Putting this vid in 2x speed to see what true American HSR would look like 🥲
You beat me to it lol
I watched in 4x speed
If TH-cam would let you play it back you'd get a DC to NYC cab ride.
except you would be blowing through tons of red signals. I think I would get a mini heart attack every time.
The new Portal Bridge is looking pretty good!
Agreed! They've done a ton of work there.
They're officially halfway done
I really hate PRR for demolishing the original Penn Station.
They were trying to keep the company from going under. The LIRR platforms were already dark and underground. In the 1960s, passenger rail wasn’t exactly doing well, and that land in Midtown Manhattan was worth a lot. Don’t hate the PRR for trying to stay alive, hate Eisenhower for building the interstates that killed them.
@@michaelimbesi2314 Fair enough.
@@michaelimbesi2314 Grand Central almost had the same thing happen, but somehow it was spared.
Robert mosses?@@michaelimbesi2314
@@Synergiance What saved Grand Central was its smaller size, which meant building maintenance was quite a bit lower. But it was still very costly to restore Grand Central to its old glory.
I wish San Diego to LA had service like this.
I was stationed in San Diego when I was in the Navy and I know exactly how you feel.
let alone la to sf
Despite it being Amtrak's busiest service on the West Coast, the Surfliner could use more round trips!
Maybe in 20 years? Is phase 2 of the CAHSR locked in? If so it’ll be better than the entire NEC.
@@DirectorWestfieldYes, but the NEC is still better for vanilla intercity services and regional services, not counting Caltrain's new electric trains.
currently watching this in the cafe car
syncing the video up to where I am
2:16:45 and 2:23:35 are always my favorite parts :]
NERD
lol j/k
Train inception lmfao
Fun to see this trip from a new angle. I usually just see it with my nose pressed up to the glass in the cheap seats. Just reminds me that, unless something drastic changes with rail somewhere else in the country, I don't think I'll ever be leaving the Northeast Corridor.
all the major upgrades right from the start look sweet, keep it up! cheers from Spain
Now imagine having this across most of the USA, or faster.
57:45 ..."Beacon of Light, Beacon of Hope." 🤣
They're making great progress on the New Portal bridge
Can’t wait for Amtrak’s planned expansions & high speed lines here in the Southeast!
I'm not exactly sure why, but I have a strange feeling of satisfaction watching those concrete ties at speed.
Now, I want a tour of the private car
Just imagine this is your private car they hooked on the back
that's what I did 🥞
Nice to see the installation of new poles for catenary modernization going up north of Trenton
Thank you for filming this
I’m on the west coast and have never been to the east coast before but have become fascinated with the northeast corridor because of how busy and useful it seems
It will definitely be on my bucket list to take the northeast regional on a city hopping trip some day. And maybe stop by New Haven to get some pizza :)
Also what is being built here? 10:09
That be the new Portal Bridge that’ll replace the old one which is known to get stuck causing lots of delays (something I dread as someone who takes NJTransit trains to and from NYC regularly)
That’s the new bridge they are building and they are also building a new tunnel too because there’s been so many delays because it’s either from mechinal problems inside the Hudson River tunnel , for the bridge being opened for a boat the go thru
Thanks!
Saddens me to see all the places where there is room for, and the NEC probably had, extra capacity but it has been removed over the years. Still, the corridor is in better shape now than it has ever been since the 1960s.
Yea it's kinda sad. You'd figure they'd have kept or made the whole thing quad tracked by default at this point.
@travisbeagle5691 I think they have the quadtracked sections for where they will most likely have a conflict between the commuter rail and Amtrak. Essentially, outside of passing maneuvers, the outside is for commuter rail, and the inside Amtrak, Acela gets priority probably followed by the next fastest express on down to the long distance trains then the commuter express and finally the commuter local which I suspect is not supposed to leave the outside track unless something is stuck in front of it. So they would only need more if they were going to run more Amtrak trains or the commuter lines outside of SEPTA and NJ transit wanted to run more trains. That might actually require six tracks be built in some locations because from what I could tell they use scheduling as much as express tracks to keep other trains clear of Acela.
@timothystamm3200 The only parts of the NEC that aren't quad tracked are MA, RI, and eastern CT (past New Haven). Those also have to share with the MBTA and SLE.
@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 There were several sections in the video that showed it drop down to 2 or 3 tracks despite the right of way being designed for 4.
@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 what about going in and out of Wilmington and Baltimore, and the approach to Washington as can clearly be seen in this video? Also, the MBTA tries to get off the NEC as quickly as possible, and use side lines for as much as possible for the Providence line and Amtrak signals and dispatches both and is part of running SLE which is a joint creation of them and Connecticut.
Going through the Hudson River Tunnels was so cool, the sights and sounds make it feel like a subway thats really fast with no stops, as someone who is yet to experience the NEC, this was an amazing video.
Damn... That station approach is soooooooo massive! Holy crap! I can't believe that all of that is under NYC! How in the world did that build that?! Amazing!
Believe it or not that's not the only one. There's a station terminus at Grand Central that is about the same size, right in the middle of Manhattan!
Built by hungry immigrants.
It was all cut and cover. It would have been impossible to bore all that. Even until a few years ago, the interlocking (or really several) west of Penn Station was mostly in the open, albeit below grade. So you would go under the Post Office between 8th and 9th, then from 9th to 10th was daylight, an underpass under 10th, then daylight to 11th where you'd go under one big beige building and then into the tunnel portals. Sometimes I still think it's weird not to have that daylight view of the big wide cut when leaving the tunnel and approaching Penn Station. The Post Office (now mostly the Moynihan portion of Penn Station) was built at the same time so that space was open during construction as well, and the building I'm thinking of between 11th and 12th didn't come along until at least the '60s, so it really was wide open when they were building all this. They had a little less space to play with at the east end of the station (although the currently-being-demolished Hotel Pennsylvania was part of the same project so that land was available at least)
most of it is hudson yards. i remember when it used to be an open air section before penn station
@@de-fault_de-fault ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,in the 1990 ' s i would hang out with my beers after work ; in the parking lot lookin down at all the train action comin in and out of the tubes........................................amtrak power forever,,,,,,E60's and horns.................................
Did anyone watch it on 1.5 speed and thought how nice it would be if it was true?
Yes but 2x
2x speed, 4x more track maintenance.
4x
1:36:40 to 1:37:37 is downright hypnotic. It feels like the rails are converging, even if they're staying the same distance apart.
really sad to see how depressing the SEPTA stations look compared to NJT
also the fact that i saw 50 njt trains running and like 2 septa trains
@@the.abhiram.r what happens when "Slowly Eliminating Public Transportation Altogether" finds it easier to cut back on service rather than expand it. SEPTA hemorrhages engineers and conductors (going to either Amtrak or NJT) after getting both certification and experience all because the agency is too damn cheap to properly pay them (and to get the point across, when SEPTA took over commuter rail operations from Conrail in 1983, they treated the railroad employees like they were rapid transit staff; in fact when SEPTA operated the non-electrified portion of the former Reading RR's Newtown Branch prior to the 1983 handover, they used operators - all members of the local Transportation Workers Union - from the agency's Broad Street Subway, which p*ssed the Conrail employees off so much that they would bolt on the electrified trains the moment they saw an inbound Budd RDC from Newtown).
However, with the dedicated capital funding they were getting from tolls collected from the Pennsylvania Turnpike, they have been making major improvements to the rail infrastructure, especially on the West Chester Line including intending service west to a transit hub in Wawa near Glen Mills and Media.
44:55 Princeton no dinky for those concerned
Saw my hometown. Bristol, PA.
Great footage! Now that most of the NE Regional trains are operating as push-pull, this has become a rare view on the NEC.
This is amazing to see all this underground rail footage… in Manhattan!
Thanks for Alan!
Great work!
Amazing video!
Nice view!
👍👍👍👍
I've gone through the Baltimore tunnels lots of times in my life, but from that camera angle, it makes it look like the last thing you see before you pass on to the hereafter or something. Never realized how long, dark, and creepy it really was until watching video of it taken from the back of a train.
No way, Alan Fisher official NEC ride video
I'd love one for NY-Boston someday
I took pretty much this exact trip the other year but from up in Connecticut to Virginia, to pick my brother's car up. Needless to say, the train ride down was much more pleasant than the drive back on 95.
There's a reason all Chesapeake and Ohio services following the same route used to terminate in Cincinnati. It was the longest route to Chicago, and if they wanted even the Cincinnati service to be successful they needed to have different timing for the trains that put the night stretch mostly in West Virginia.
I caught this train from DC to Indy on the same day! The Cardinal was beautiful, but weaving through West Virginia for 8 hours isn't exactly practical- still better than flying lol.
Newark penn station , Track 3, to your left track 4 to Trenton (NEC line or NJC Line to long branch) , far left wall track 5 Raritian valley line
25:00 was really an awesome meet up
🏆🫡♾️ Thank you for sharing this experience.
Hell yeah
A trip that I have made so many times, that landmarks along the way have become familiar. It was terrific to see the massive interlocking just out of NYP, a sight one doesn't get to see, but feel as the train enters or leaves. It's truly amazing trackwork to behold. And nice to see the tunnel that snakes under the Hudson River into New Jersey. Now, the new tunnels HAVE to be built to increase the throughput of trains, and allow repair work to the existing more-than-century old tunnels. That was nixed during the New Jersey's ex-governor Chris Christie. Come on, let's get moving on the new tunnel!! Riding along, looking out the rear of this train makes me wish we had true high-speed rail here in this country. I always enjoy taking the train!
Great to see Metropolis in the morning.
November sharp steady video. The weather was perfect too.
Wish we could keep upgrading the tracks and get fully dedicated trains. The trip could be 2 hrs
Wow, this was amazing!
This is fantastic!!! Must’ve taken a while for this to upload too!
I’m surprised that west of New York City has just two tracks instead of four.
They built the whole "tunnel extension" from Hudson Yard in Kearny to Penn Station at one time (opening in 1910), and since there were only two tunnels with one track each, they built the whole thing with only two tracks. The idea had been for many or even most trains, particularly commuter service, to keep using the original PRR mainline to Exchange Place, Jersey City with connecting ferry service (or PRR subsidiary H&M service - what is now PATH) to lower Manhattan. Most commuters at that time were still going downtown rather than midtown, so two tracks seemed like enough to move the longer distance trains, primarily, that would be using the "new" route. What they didn't account for was that Penn Station itself, along with the newest version of Grand Central opening shortly after, would pull the center of gravity to midtown and that's where most people would eventually want to go. The station itself was ill-suited to that kind of use, which meant the crowding and circulation issues it has now were already well established even when the original building was in place.
Say what you will about the efficiency of NY Penn's layout; that ladder is freaking gorgeous.
Don't forget Alan: May 13th is when the FRA is gonna update us about Corridor ID.
My city got the initial Step 1 funding so it'll be interesting if we're on Step 2 or if it's just going to be more initial funding rounds.
WOW!!! Leaving out of Penn Station was amazing. Unbelievable that is all underground. Then it looked like you were on a subway train in the narrow tunnel. Great video and sound. What camera did you use and did you have it on a suction mount it was very smooth. Thank you.
Yeah, I also want to know that! I'm planning to record my bicycle rides on video (Catalonia/Spain is soooo beautiful!) Yet. the camera I'm looking now is only recording like 1.5h max, not nearly close enough what I have in mind (my rides are often 4 to 5h, last Saturday I drove around 6h in total)
its only because of the private car train is limited to 110, the V2s can do 125
AMTRAK'S THE BEST!!
Great video! Philadelphia and NY Penn Station could look better, hopefully they'll upgrade them somehow
Cool i just came back from DC. Took the amtrak both ways too. (Business class)
Fascinating! I take it the segment from Sunnyside is behind paywall? \m/
Oh cool the part of the Cardinal I'm not riding this month.
Fascinated to see a few signalboxes dotted around - are they still operational?
Excellent
alan fish
В Нью Йорке веер путей на станции просто фантасический.
10:09
I’m guessing that’s the new bridge being built on the left
Abandoned Cross Bros slaughterhouse at 1:15:20.
Time 38:56 Looks like some sort of Passenger train in Amtrak's Adams MoW Yard. Hard to see what it is.
Courtesy of the ever glorious Pennsylvania Railroad.
How on earth did you get onto a private car?? (Obviously by invitation, but ya know what I mean...)
The best infrastructure railway. in South Africa we don't have something like these I wish we had something like these in South Africa 😢😢😢
Why are there never any recordings from the driver's cab at the front? You don't have to watch it like that when driving backwards. In Europe there are millions of videos from the front
Wish i was born in the northeast. I hate the south.
I hope we can get our stupid politicians to build more housing so more people can afford to live here.
@@romanrat5613 Demand for housing is so high down south all the good ones are taken and the cheap ones are so shit you dont want it. Scumbag Republicans won't build any affordable apartments down here, they call it woke communism.
grass is always greener my friend
For the first time I see that the 3rd rail has been installed to the western portal through the Hudson Tunnel. Is this new? Is there something planned for an expansion of the LIRR?
Greetings from Berlin
The third rail is not new. When the tunnels and the Penn Station were built back in 1910, the electric locomotives were originally running on DC off that third rail. The third rail territory extended into what was called "Manhattan Transfer". There the electric motors were switched over for steam locomotives which continued south to Washington DC and places west. The sight of Manhattan Transfer still exists and that's the place at 12:30-13:10. In early 1930s Penn Station received overhead AC catenary and since about 1933 trains are powered from it. Third rail in the tunnels to the west portal was most likely kept for inspection trains.
Great video! What did you use for a camera and how did you mount it to the window?
What are those EMUs parked on the right side around 38:30 - 39:00?
They are the Rohr built Turboliners which were supposed to be providing service on the Empire Corridor but got messed up in a contract dispute with the refurbishment company and New York State. Looks like there are also some retired baggage cars there too.
Wonderful, wonderful! Almost on-American perfect rail system. Also beautiful surroundings. Shame about using herbicide along the rail.
45:02 princeton junction
Was this filmed in the business class car?
Give all my tax money to Amtrak
13:10 Hey! No pictures of PATH Trains!
There is a PATH train leaving Newark Station.
questo video e bellissimo.
Why is MARC running diesel power under catenary? Just as bad as the MBTA in Boston. Is MARC still planning to extend service to Newark, Delaware with a connection to SEPTA.
Frankford Junction Curve at 1:13
Stobe Hobo tribute graffiti at 2:54:17 ?
I played this at 2x speed to pretend what it would be like if we had true high speed rail
,,,,,,,,,,Visible 8 miles out of the tube,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,amazing new elevated structures goin up over the marshlands........wonder how many human bones will be found........
It looks like USSR, only architect plans building different, the nature and oldness very similar.I found today postal card maded in USSR from 1982 with a soviet high speed train,so it is very similar to Armtrack today.and i so after 60 minutes video the new UK style train , which company is that?
That is very realistic!
Great video but the compression hurts 😭
Sorry can’t watch this ride backwards I get severely nauseous 😢
How long is the Hudson River tunnel😮
Very long, apparently you go straight out of the city and NYC is a very big city :-D (yeah yeah, I know, Newark is basically also a city within the greater NYC metropolitan area)
Three miles long.
Why do they run the private cars if they are not rated for the full 125mph? Who runs them anyway?
The Long distance trains on the corridor with Viewliner Sleepers are limited to 110mph either way, tacking a Private Car on the back does not change the max speed
@@alanfisherextras Now that some LD trains are equipped with Viewliner II Sleepers, which are rated for 125mph, it will affect the max speed. Either way, Amtrak has massive schedule padding, so yeah it's not like the private cars would make a difference.
Back in 2022 I rode on the Pennsylvanian between Philly and Trenton with a private car on the back (well actually in front behind the ACS-64 because of how Amtrak swaps locos in Philly Penn Station) and we hit 125… maybe it’s not a fixed rule
Did anyone catch the Amtrak New Avelila Liberty Train at 3:15:42
Make a video from New York to Florida
1:54:07 Last call Amtrak northeast regional train 172 to Boston
The landscape is very dated, rusty, and industrial looking, isnt it? Its a shame, because much of the US is so beautiful!
What makes the sound at 41:45?
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Roadways carry so much more people and cargo than rail does. 99% of the time in the video the tracks are empty, not being used, since trains require large headways.
Een achterwaartse video ????
put it on 1,75 for the true TGV experience
You should put an epilepsy trigger warning ⚠️ on the Hudson River Tunnel segment.
Well done. Too bad the opening to the West of NYPenn has been covered over. Air Rights and all that.
At 1:54:39 the person who programmed the text to voice should be ashamed on how they had “her” read out RTE’s name.
And there it is again at 2:47:27
why rear view I want front view
Rückwärtssicht ist Mist.
i'd love to make this trip once in a while but ultimately to justify taking the train while I own a car it needs to be either significantly cheaper or significantly faster than driving and amtrak is... neither
Same for me, but on the West Coast. Plus I'm too young to rent a car once I get to California (none of the places I'd visit there are reachable by train)
I'd argue if you're in the city or next to a NEC train station, it's both (at least between NY and DC). The average speed of the northeast regional is ~86mph from NYC to DC, and DC and NY are transit-oriented cities anyway so you wouldn't need to drive or find parking.
@@ayanbarnwal2905 I mean if you've never looked into either option then sure but saving an hour at best isn't worth $164
And that hour is quickly swallowed up when you factor in having to get to the station Amtrak leaves from in the first place and then either paying to park near the station or paying for a ride to the station so the savings just isn't there at all
If you live in any of the cities along the corridor, its much faster to take the train (especially in the NYC to Washington section). Also if you book weeks ahead you can get surprisingly cheap tickets $50 or under
Railway system of the last century 😂😂😂😂