Hi Paul, I really love this 2 part video. You make a good traveling companion and a good commentator. All of your videos are great. Keep up the good work.
Oh, man flashbacks! Once the Crescent was late and I was taking the SEPTA Regional Rail Train(Wilmington-Newark Line) from Ridley Park, PA into 30th Street. Crescent had the priority, so our train had to sit in the station for 15 minutes. The train, of course, becomes packed and then breaks down twice on the way into 30th Street.
Like everyone else; I love your videos. Your comment about overhearing the discussion about the dispatcher messing with Amtrak is funny. A friend of mine is a technician for metro and they sometimes work in conjunction with both Amtrak and NS and he tells ne about how they each will mess with each other. It's only the customer that feels the blunt of it. I guess that's life. But being a gentleman of leisure, I'm never in a rush anyway. 🤪 Keep up the great work, in envious of all your travels. Be safe
This was great, as usual, but those windows were filthy. I think I remember a time when our window was cleaned mid-trip due to decreased visibilty. Maybe it looked worse on camera. Anyway, I really like your set-up with the scanner, map and GPS. Almost 40 years of rail travel and I've never used those tools before. I guess I can appreciate that now.😊
I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your train odyssey videos. You realize that people like me don't want to see shaky 5-second scenes and pictures of the conductor's shoes. You actually put the camera to the window and keep the scene running to let me see exactly what you are seeing and tell me from the Garmin what it is and where it is. Some people would find that boring; I find it captivating. It makes me feel as though I am in the roomette and not you. When I was growing up my mother was a hopeless drunk. Sorry, but the word 'alcoholic' doesn't work here; she ruined my life growing up and riding the train was my best escape. Of course, I also played 'train' as much as possible. I'm not a train geek who can tell you the numbers of all the engines and their horsepowers, etc. Riding the train has been my happy place for the past 72 years. Once a month my wife and I go 25 miles to Deland, FL to meet the Silver Meteor. Most people would think this is stupid, but the station agent, David, understands perfectly. If I were single I would be doing exactly what you're doing and maybe there would be a gray-headed fat man somewhere who would get to look at the scenery going by whenever he wanted to and smile. By the way, I also really appreciate your responses to my comments that are written clearly, completely, and with appropriate paragraphs, spelling, and punctuation -- something that somehow has fallen by the wayside since we were in school and learned how to communicate with normal people. Although my career was at the unemployment office in Ohio, my degree is in EE. So you can see how much I appreciate communicating with someone else who speaks my language. I hope you never give this up and when you've finally taken all the trips possible, start over and take them all again, but sit on the other side this time! (And always remember, if you write your software properly you don't have to go to the plant to correct it.)
Swim Coach, thanks for your comments. I appreciate how YOU appreciate the efforts of others to write intelligibly. In this era when it seems that very few people have learned anything about spelling, grammar, punctuation and paragraphs, and generally organizing their thoughts, I often get short tempered with those who don't bother.
The old Amtrak train clicker board that was in 30th Street station is now at the national railroad musium in Strasburg Lancaster PA and the current board that tells the trains that are arriving and departing has been replaced with an LED display board at 30 street station in Philadelphia PA now
It's my understanding that Amtrak is supposed to have priority over the freight trains but the freight companies ignore that and give priority to their trains over Amtrak. Nice ride I've take that train from NYC to Virginia but never down to New Orleans. Thanks for sharing.
Tom King, it is not crazy, it is economics. AMTRAK cannot afford that kind of cleaning anymore, apparently. They know HOW to do it, just don't have the money.
Well, you were asleep when you came to my hometown, Greensboro, NC. You got your shower after departing Danville, Virginia, which is 1 hour from Greensboro. The Crescent is notorious for being late. Most of us, from Charlotte to NY (Moynihan Station) travel on the Carolinian. It's a longer ride but it's normally on time, and it departs for NY at 8:40a, and arrives from NY at 6:30p. The last time I rode Amtrak from NY, the train left at 6:05a. Some of us paid close attention to our ticket. Over 100 Carolinian passenger's missed the train. The train usually leaves at 7:05a from NY, but they were doing a trial run, by connecting the Palmetto, and the Carolinian, and disconnecting in Rocky Mount, NC. I could only imagine what those Carolinian passenger's went through.
Thank you for the trip thinking of phila to new Orleans see world war 2 museum and fort polk la 1970. And or greenville s c were went to bob jones u. In 1967. In 1985 21days on European rails understand bigchanges yours sgt ret Evans w robinson
I love all the videos I seen so far. On timestamp of 40:27 you see Glen Burnie on your phone. I live there. Nice to see you went Maryland. So did you make it to your dinner appointment???
I was watching one of your other train odyssey videos. You were driving a rental car on I-10 and got stuck in the traffic on your way to LA union station. I just came back from a long west coast trip. I recalled you mentioned that you stayed at a place in Chino Hill. I was in Arcadia and almost had to drive the same or similar route to downtown LA and beyond for several days.
The reason the Wilmington Station in Delaware is well kept is because frmr V President Biden uses the station on a regular basis. He's used Amtrak since the 1970's.
your crescent trip reminded me of the rain forest-like foliage back there where i grew up. You passed several places completely covered in kudzu. You may know, but it was imported from China in the 1930s for erosion control, and quickly took over. I think it is impossible to kill the stuff!
I very much enjoy your RR videos. I think I've watched them all, and it seems that you've done just about all you can in the U.S. Have you considered doing the Canadian transcontinental trains?
fyi, on NS, if amtrak isnt on time/schedule, they take the back burner to freight and go when they can. they are promised a specific time slot and are only given right of way on main line when on time
On another film of yours, aboard VIA, you mention Canada having but one track and the oft need to sidetrack Via for freighters. You said this is 'unlike Amtrak'. I understood we had that problem, too. I live on the Sunset Limited line ~ NOLa to L. A. ~ it is but one track in Louisiana. This is often given as the reason for the train being so very late.
Just finished all four Odysseys. The Amtrak Crescent was both interesting and tiring. ;) I suppose delays are par for the course when using freight lines.
@@youtuuba This was back in the 70's. I have no idea that was what the schedule had. It seemed like we stopped in every hole in the wall on the east coast. I was in the Army at the time and going to Philly for a seminar.
Hey, I got an inportant question for ya. I imagine a train, or any vehicle for this matter, can carry only a very limited supply of water. What if...I shower too long on an Amtrak train? Would my car run outta water? Would the entire train run outta water? I mean, it's not like there's a tanker car full of water attached to the train, right? If I got the water running for thirty minutes, would that be too long? How 'bout an hour? What should be my cutoff point be? Five minutes? Does Amtrak its tell passengers how long they are allowed to shower?
IAmtrakted 2U, I have never heard any AMTRAK employee mention water restrictions before or during trips. I imagine that the majority of water use in each car is the shower (I believe that most coach cars don't have showers, but I have heard that at least some do); on about half the sleeper cars I have been on, the water in the shower starts when a button is pressed, and runs for longer than I need to take my shower before automatically shutting off, in some others the button causes about 30 seconds of water to flow, and another button press is required to get more water, and still others seem to have the button bypassed, so just the water temperature handle also turns the water on and off. The showers are not like in my house, and are actually fairly low-flow, but still adequate. It also seems that passengers in the sleeper cars and using the showers are fairly courteous and considerate, and try to get in and get out as fast as possible, since there is just the one shower for most passengers in that sleeper car. Having said that, I have never encountered a situation where a particular passenger car ran out of water. It is my guess that each passenger car has its own water tank; I don't know if there is any provision for interconnecting car-to-car to pump water where it is needed (I doubt it). But then, railroad cars are very large, and there is a lot of room underneath for things like large water tanks. Since the main water users must be the shower and the tiny bathroom sinks (the toilets are more like those on airplanes, and use very little water), I gather that the usage is far less than the storage capacity. I have seen certain cars having their water topped off at longer station stops, usually when the locomotive(s) is being fueled. Somebody will walk to a car, unreel a hose from a storage area, and stick it into a valve on the side of the passenger car. I have NOT seen any time when every car on the consist gets topped up like that at the same station stop. Apparently, AMTRAK has some ability to gauge how much water is still in each car's tank, and top off those that need it. Or maybe they just take turns topping off different cars at different station stops. If anyone know the real info regarding this, please share......
@@youtuuba Amtrak, being Amtrak, can actually run out of water if they incur significant delays in between refilling stops. I've been on a trip when it happened. I've been on more than one trip where they've run out of food. I've been on others (could have been on one of the aforementioned trips) where the toilets ran out of water. Amtrak can be a hot mess. Lol. But I must be a glutton for punishment because I love the train anyway.
@@germyw , that kind of thing can happen on any train, AMTRAK or other, if significant delays occur. It rarely happens on commercial aircraft because their ability to stay aloft is limited than their supply of water.
Kenny, you need to think this through. The windows can be scratched, and should not be dry-wiped be or squeegeed to avoid damages. So the passenger would need to bring not only a LONG handled squeegee (to reach the high train windows), somehow fitting that into the luggage or hand carrying it everywhere on the trip, which probably involves more than just the train trip portion. AND the passenger would need to bring a supply of soapy water in order to not be dry wiping the windows. This is really very unrealistic. Also, AMTRAK would most likely prohibit it for any number of fairly obvious reasons.
John Mclaurin Mclaurin, since NC is your home state, maybe you might know that it is in the same time zone as Georgia. My video shows the train pulling into Atlanta in the dark of night. What exactly do you imagine that I was going to 'show' in the wee hours as the train traveled north through SC and NC? Lots of darkness. At least I got a tad of NC in my post train trip video on Patriots Point, as I was driving through at the end.
I take the Regional from Roanoke and hate the creasent b/c when it’s late they love to put coach passingers on the reagional and can overcrowd that train
I waited on asking this question. I began watching all your Odysseys in March 2020. Now that the world is slowly reopening. Do you have A Train Odyssey 5 planned or thinking about for the future?
@@youtuuba so sorry....I thought there was more.....I loved watching this train odyssey and look forward to more trips in your future. Happy New Year to you!
Shannon Raleigh, you are basing your assumption of noise on a very inaccurate method of measurement. Actual perceived noise when a person is there is quite different from perceived noise when listening to a recording. This is called psychoacoustics. While there is noise, it seems like low level background noise to a person who is actually there. Most people have no problem with it, and personally I sleep just fine on the train, even this one.
J Smith, I thought that I mentioned this in the video. I was actually trying to get to Richmond, but the Crescent does not go there, so I would have to get off and wait, possibly for hours, to catch a different train going to Richmond. Secondly, this trip was part of my Train Odyssey, and as such I wanted to take as much of the Crescent route as possible given my time constraints. As originally scheduled (no delays) I figured that I could get to either DC or Philadelphia and still have time to drive back to Richmond on schedule. The final decision on where to get off was determined by which rental car deal I could get. Turned out that a rental from Phil 30th Street station, dropping off several days later at Richmond airport was considerably less expensive than other options.
There does appear to be some added noise whenever I get the camera close to the window, and those Viewliner cars have air coming out vents just below the window...... But I also noticed that there seemed to be some electronic noise when I got the camera in certain positions, and I don't know where that was coming from. I know that if my camera gets too close to the smart phone, THAT results in some noise, but there was something else causing it in that Viewliner Roomette.
moishglukovsky, I thought I already answered your question in my narration in the video.....I wanted to experience as much of this train route as was practical.....a big point of this trip was taking this train route, so cutting it short was something to be avoided where practical.
You really need to use maps other than out of a road atlas, which is too crowded and cluttered, not giving one time to visually locate the place you're mentioning.
c5back9, you don't need to figure anything out. I am pretty sure that in the video I stated that, while I did not need to stay on the train for so long in order to reach my destination, I wanted to experience as much of the "Crescent" route as possible. I have, after all, been trying to experience all of AMTRAK's long distance routes from end to end. Unfortunately, I simply did not have time to go all the way to New York, so Philadelphia was my terminus.
youtuuba: BTW, there were a few years more than a decade ago now that I found it necessary to travel to Manhattan a couple times each month. Because I lived at that time about 30 minutes from the Wilmington Station, Amtrak was my best option for traveling comfortably and conveniently. Those trips were my first train travel since as a youngster in the early 1960s. I completely understand your affinity for Amtrak travel. I’ve since traveled Amtrak to Florida a few times aboard the Auto Train, and until Covid, had intended to travel this Autumn o. Amtrak from Philly to Chicago and then on to the west coast along the northern route. Seeing the country by rail is splendid - finding your videos on YT has been terrific!
You seem to keep putting your camera where the air-con is blowing on it, thus producing that horrible rattling noise on the microphone. -- - - And I thought that the roads in England were rough!!
This guy drives me absolutely nuts. IDK about anyone else, but I THOUGHT I'd be able to actually SEE the train ride...you know, the scenery, places of interest, etc. But all this guy wants to do is show us his GPS and his toilet ! Every time it gets to some pretty scenery, he goes right back either to his laptop or his baggage. I don't get it.
The Snodly, what video do you think you are commenting on? You mention a laptop computer, which is not in this video (I know, since I took the video and I had no notebook computer on the trip). You mention that I keep showing the toilet...that is not true. You think the video should be about the scenery......the video is about the whole experience of this train trip, not just the scenery. And if you bothered to watch and listen with an open mind instead of a chip on your shoulder, you would realize that the "Crescent" is NOT a scenic trip. I cannot create scenery that does not exist....most of this route's "scenery" consists of trees flashing by just outside the train video.
@@youtuuba It may have been a tablet or your phone, but I tuned in to watch the train trip, not your luggage or the toilet or your GPS. If I go to a restaurant and order a pizza, I guess you're saying I should be happy when they bring me a club sandwich instead. SMH
How are you evaluating the cleaning (I assume you meant "their cleaning")? It would be pretty difficult to tell just from watching the video(s). But I agree that my main complaint is that it seems nobody is tasked with washing the windows anymore before each trip starts. Certainly I have noticed on train trips I have taken repeatedly over the years, trains that used to get window washings two or three time during the trip, especially before very scenic sections, no longer get that treatment. It is no secret that AMTRAK is strapped for cash due to Congress cutting their budget, and they have a mandate to serve certain sectors and areas, and that probably means that they can't just increase their ticket and carriage prices any old way they might want to. So, something has to go, and apparently it is how often the windows get cleaned and whether certain trains keep hot meal service.
Hi. May I ask why you do not use a road map that shows railway lines as well?? I find railways are very good landmarks and would be good to have you show the path on a rail map than rather a Road Map. Your USA viewers would relate to the Interstates and Highways far easier than me in Australia. Apart from the "road"atlas you cannot fault you videos. Keep up the good work.
There are no comparable maps that also show all the rail lines. There ARE maps showing rail lines, but they are not as good for general navigation and understanding where one is, than a general purpose road map.
Enjoyed my virtual train ride! Thanks!
A fan of your train videos too, sometimes they lull me to sleep, and I miss parts so there’s always more to watch!
Love your train videos..keep em coming! This one seems like a more troublesome one..and damn that dirty window!
Hi Paul, I really love this 2 part video. You make a good traveling companion and a good commentator. All of your videos are great. Keep up the good work.
Oh, man flashbacks! Once the Crescent was late and I was taking the SEPTA Regional Rail Train(Wilmington-Newark Line) from Ridley Park, PA into 30th Street. Crescent had the priority, so our train had to sit in the station for 15 minutes. The train, of course, becomes packed and then breaks down twice on the way into 30th Street.
Another fine travelogue
Another fan love these videos, especially during these times of weirdness
Like everyone else; I love your videos. Your comment about overhearing the discussion about the dispatcher messing with Amtrak is funny. A friend of mine is a technician for metro and they sometimes work in conjunction with both Amtrak and NS and he tells ne about how they each will mess with each other. It's only the customer that feels the blunt of it. I guess that's life. But being a gentleman of leisure, I'm never in a rush anyway. 🤪
Keep up the great work, in envious of all your travels. Be safe
Anther great video keep them coming
love the ride. Thanks
This was great, as usual, but those windows were filthy. I think I remember a time when our window was cleaned mid-trip due to decreased visibilty. Maybe it looked worse on camera.
Anyway, I really like your set-up with the scanner, map and GPS. Almost 40 years of rail travel and I've never used those tools before. I guess I can appreciate that now.😊
Beautiful dawn colors at 1:39; city unkown.
I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your train odyssey videos. You realize that people like me don't want to see shaky 5-second scenes and pictures of the conductor's shoes. You actually put the camera to the window and keep the scene running to let me see exactly what you are seeing and tell me from the Garmin what it is and where it is. Some people would find that boring; I find it captivating. It makes me feel as though I am in the roomette and not you. When I was growing up my mother was a hopeless drunk. Sorry, but the word 'alcoholic' doesn't work here; she ruined my life growing up and riding the train was my best escape. Of course, I also played 'train' as much as possible. I'm not a train geek who can tell you the numbers of all the engines and their horsepowers, etc. Riding the train has been my happy place for the past 72 years. Once a month my wife and I go 25 miles to Deland, FL to meet the Silver Meteor. Most people would think this is stupid, but the station agent, David, understands perfectly. If I were single I would be doing exactly what you're doing and maybe there would be a gray-headed fat man somewhere who would get to look at the scenery going by whenever he wanted to and smile. By the way, I also really appreciate your responses to my comments that are written clearly, completely, and with appropriate paragraphs, spelling, and punctuation -- something that somehow has fallen by the wayside since we were in school and learned how to communicate with normal people. Although my career was at the unemployment office in Ohio, my degree is in EE. So you can see how much I appreciate communicating with someone else who speaks my language. I hope you never give this up and when you've finally taken all the trips possible, start over and take them all again, but sit on the other side this time! (And always remember, if you write your software properly you don't have to go to the plant to correct it.)
Swim Coach, thanks for your comments.
I appreciate how YOU appreciate the efforts of others to write intelligibly. In this era when it seems that very few people have learned anything about spelling, grammar, punctuation and paragraphs, and generally organizing their thoughts, I often get short tempered with those who don't bother.
The old Amtrak train clicker board that was in 30th Street station is now at the national railroad musium in Strasburg Lancaster PA and the current board that tells the trains that are arriving and departing has been replaced with an LED display board at 30 street station in Philadelphia PA now
It's my understanding that Amtrak is supposed to have priority over the freight trains but the freight companies ignore that and give priority to their trains over Amtrak. Nice ride I've take that train from NYC to Virginia but never down to New Orleans. Thanks for sharing.
Really? I thought it was fright first as it makes more money.
Fright trains have propriety over amtrak because they own the rails...
Another excellent video, thanks for another great upload. A bit of a nightmare trip with all the delays.
it seems crazy that an industry whose major selling point is the view out the window can't figure out a way to clean the windows ...
Tom King, it is not crazy, it is economics. AMTRAK cannot afford that kind of cleaning anymore, apparently. They know HOW to do it, just don't have the money.
Well, you were asleep when you came to my hometown, Greensboro, NC. You got your shower after departing Danville, Virginia, which is 1 hour from Greensboro. The Crescent is notorious for being late. Most of us, from Charlotte to NY (Moynihan Station) travel on the Carolinian. It's a longer ride but it's normally on time, and it departs for NY at 8:40a, and arrives from NY at 6:30p. The last time I rode Amtrak from NY, the train left at 6:05a. Some of us paid close attention to our ticket. Over 100 Carolinian passenger's missed the train. The train usually leaves at 7:05a from NY, but they were doing a trial run, by connecting the Palmetto, and the Carolinian, and disconnecting in Rocky Mount, NC. I could only imagine what those Carolinian passenger's went through.
Thank you for the trip thinking of phila to new Orleans see world war 2 museum and fort polk la 1970. And or greenville s c were went to bob jones u. In 1967. In 1985 21days on European rails understand bigchanges yours sgt ret Evans w robinson
Fantastic!
I love all the videos I seen so far. On timestamp of 40:27 you see Glen Burnie on your phone. I live there. Nice to see you went Maryland. So did you make it to your dinner appointment???
I was watching one of your other train odyssey videos. You were driving a rental car on I-10 and got stuck in the traffic on your way to LA union station. I just came back from a long west coast trip. I recalled you mentioned that you stayed at a place in Chino Hill. I was in Arcadia and almost had to drive the same or similar route to downtown LA and beyond for several days.
The reason the Wilmington Station in Delaware is well kept is because frmr V President Biden uses the station on a regular basis. He's used Amtrak since the 1970's.
your crescent trip reminded me of the rain forest-like foliage back there where i grew up. You passed several places completely covered in kudzu. You may know, but it was imported from China in the 1930s for erosion control, and quickly took over. I think it is impossible to kill the stuff!
9:46: Southeast of Orange, VA, is the town of Lahore, a namsake of a town in Pakistan.
I very much enjoy your RR videos. I think I've watched them all, and it seems that you've done just about all you can in the U.S. Have you considered doing the Canadian transcontinental trains?
I have done the ViaRail "Canadian" from Toronto to Vancouver......sort of transcontinental......I have a video on that trip
fyi, on NS, if amtrak isnt on time/schedule, they take the back burner to freight and go when they can. they are promised a specific time slot and are only given right of way on main line when on time
at 6:48 I remember passing that business on us 29 back in my days as a trucker I thought it was a fruit processing plant of some sort
Thanks for another Fun tagalong!!
On another film of yours, aboard VIA, you mention Canada having but one track and the oft need to sidetrack Via for freighters. You said this is 'unlike Amtrak'. I understood we had that problem, too. I live on the Sunset Limited line ~ NOLa to L. A. ~ it is but one track in Louisiana. This is often given as the reason for the train being so very late.
PS: I enjoy your work.
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Just finished all four Odysseys. The Amtrak Crescent was both interesting and tiring. ;) I suppose delays are par for the course when using freight lines.
Took me 3 days to go from New Orleans to Philly on Amtrak. Couldn't get a roomette until I arrived in Atlanta.
Explain.....the Crescent is a 2-day train....how did you manage to make it 3 days?
@@youtuuba This was back in the 70's. I have no idea that was what the schedule had. It seemed like we stopped in every hole in the wall on the east coast. I was in the Army at the time and going to Philly for a seminar.
@@youtuuba Enjoy the trips on the Amtrak that you are recording. Keep it up.
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The locals never call it Ronald Regan Airport, It's Washington National Airport. Period. :) Always. Ronald Regan Airport should be in California.
Hey, I got an inportant question for ya. I imagine a train, or any vehicle for this matter, can carry only a very limited supply of water. What if...I shower too long on an Amtrak train? Would my car run outta water? Would the entire train run outta water? I mean, it's not like there's a tanker car full of water attached to the train, right? If I got the water running for thirty minutes, would that be too long? How 'bout an hour? What should be my cutoff point be? Five minutes? Does Amtrak its tell passengers how long they are allowed to shower?
IAmtrakted 2U, I have never heard any AMTRAK employee mention water restrictions before or during trips. I imagine that the majority of water use in each car is the shower (I believe that most coach cars don't have showers, but I have heard that at least some do); on about half the sleeper cars I have been on, the water in the shower starts when a button is pressed, and runs for longer than I need to take my shower before automatically shutting off, in some others the button causes about 30 seconds of water to flow, and another button press is required to get more water, and still others seem to have the button bypassed, so just the water temperature handle also turns the water on and off. The showers are not like in my house, and are actually fairly low-flow, but still adequate. It also seems that passengers in the sleeper cars and using the showers are fairly courteous and considerate, and try to get in and get out as fast as possible, since there is just the one shower for most passengers in that sleeper car.
Having said that, I have never encountered a situation where a particular passenger car ran out of water. It is my guess that each passenger car has its own water tank; I don't know if there is any provision for interconnecting car-to-car to pump water where it is needed (I doubt it). But then, railroad cars are very large, and there is a lot of room underneath for things like large water tanks. Since the main water users must be the shower and the tiny bathroom sinks (the toilets are more like those on airplanes, and use very little water), I gather that the usage is far less than the storage capacity. I have seen certain cars having their water topped off at longer station stops, usually when the locomotive(s) is being fueled. Somebody will walk to a car, unreel a hose from a storage area, and stick it into a valve on the side of the passenger car. I have NOT seen any time when every car on the consist gets topped up like that at the same station stop. Apparently, AMTRAK has some ability to gauge how much water is still in each car's tank, and top off those that need it. Or maybe they just take turns topping off different cars at different station stops.
If anyone know the real info regarding this, please share......
@@youtuuba Amtrak, being Amtrak, can actually run out of water if they incur significant delays in between refilling stops. I've been on a trip when it happened. I've been on more than one trip where they've run out of food. I've been on others (could have been on one of the aforementioned trips) where the toilets ran out of water. Amtrak can be a hot mess. Lol. But I must be a glutton for punishment because I love the train anyway.
@@germyw , that kind of thing can happen on any train, AMTRAK or other, if significant delays occur. It rarely happens on commercial aircraft because their ability to stay aloft is limited than their supply of water.
At 47:39, there is a structure with 14 and TFF NIQUE BFF. I keep trying to figure out what that is.
What date did you take this trip? My buddies a conductor over there somewhere
At Manassas I kept wondering what it would look like with Civil War soldiers around.
My understanding is that the Viewliner sleeper cars are only allowed to go 100 mph maximum.
110 mph. But who's counting?
Would it be great if you could bring your own squeegee with you to clean your own window? Wonder if Amtrak would let you do that.
Kenny, you need to think this through. The windows can be scratched, and should not be dry-wiped be or squeegeed to avoid damages. So the passenger would need to bring not only a LONG handled squeegee (to reach the high train windows), somehow fitting that into the luggage or hand carrying it everywhere on the trip, which probably involves more than just the train trip portion. AND the passenger would need to bring a supply of soapy water in order to not be dry wiping the windows. This is really very unrealistic. Also, AMTRAK would most likely prohibit it for any number of fairly obvious reasons.
Man you didn't show North Carolina ,my home state
John Mclaurin Mclaurin, since NC is your home state, maybe you might know that it is in the same time zone as Georgia. My video shows the train pulling into Atlanta in the dark of night. What exactly do you imagine that I was going to 'show' in the wee hours as the train traveled north through SC and NC? Lots of darkness.
At least I got a tad of NC in my post train trip video on Patriots Point, as I was driving through at the end.
I take the Regional from Roanoke and hate the creasent b/c when it’s late they love to put coach passingers on the reagional and can overcrowd that train
I waited on asking this question. I began watching all your Odysseys in March 2020. Now that the world is slowly reopening. Do you have A Train Odyssey 5 planned or thinking about for the future?
Nothing planned, although I have some ideas which train(s) I would go on.
when do you plan to go on your next train odissi?
I don't share my personal plans. You will have to wait until after I have published the next video.
Your windows looked a little more than normal dirty...I would send in a report to AMTRAK
I keep checking to see when the continuation is going to be ready......any ideas?
UnBoxIt, what do you mean? Everything is there already. There is no 'continuation' beyond "Part 2 (Day 2)".......
@@youtuuba so sorry....I thought there was more.....I loved watching this train odyssey and look forward to more trips in your future. Happy New Year to you!
Hi, is that the same railroad bridge the carries the Capitol Limited to New York City and Boston?
Lindsaymoore, the train crosses many bridges. I have no idea which one you refer to.
ww so coo what is your next video be comeing out??
Bruce Sumter, I don't usually answer comments that are written in an unclear manner. I have no idea what "ww so coo" means.
@@youtuuba sorry my key boards get stuck i said wow so cool train ride's
@@brucesumter4327 , new keyboard(s) are practically free these days, why not get a new one?
At 12:57 you catch a glimpse of Culpeper National Cemetery where many Civil War soldiers are buried
Would that be from the north or south or both. Yours Evans w robinson
That car was really noisy. Is hard to sleep with all the racket?
Shannon Raleigh, you are basing your assumption of noise on a very inaccurate method of measurement. Actual perceived noise when a person is there is quite different from perceived noise when listening to a recording. This is called psychoacoustics.
While there is noise, it seems like low level background noise to a person who is actually there. Most people have no problem with it, and personally I sleep just fine on the train, even this one.
The noise is muffled when you're on it. It's quite quiet, especially in sleepers.
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When will there be A TRAIN ODYSSEY 5?
I don't tell others of my travel plans in advance of the trips.
@@youtuuba ever considered hopping on the empire builder at the Mundelein station?
Not sure why you took the train all the way to PHL 30th St. and then drove South to Baltimore. Why not just get off the train in Baltimore?
J Smith, I thought that I mentioned this in the video. I was actually trying to get to Richmond, but the Crescent does not go there, so I would have to get off and wait, possibly for hours, to catch a different train going to Richmond. Secondly, this trip was part of my Train Odyssey, and as such I wanted to take as much of the Crescent route as possible given my time constraints. As originally scheduled (no delays) I figured that I could get to either DC or Philadelphia and still have time to drive back to Richmond on schedule. The final decision on where to get off was determined by which rental car deal I could get. Turned out that a rental from Phil 30th Street station, dropping off several days later at Richmond airport was considerably less expensive than other options.
It seems like the AC vent is blowing directly on the microphone at certain camera angles in your roomette.
There does appear to be some added noise whenever I get the camera close to the window, and those Viewliner cars have air coming out vents just below the window......
But I also noticed that there seemed to be some electronic noise when I got the camera in certain positions, and I don't know where that was coming from. I know that if my camera gets too close to the smart phone, THAT results in some noise, but there was something else causing it in that Viewliner Roomette.
I feel compelled to ask why you took the train to Philadelphia only to get into a car and drive to Baltimore.
moishglukovsky, I thought I already answered your question in my narration in the video.....I wanted to experience as much of this train route as was practical.....a big point of this trip was taking this train route, so cutting it short was something to be avoided where practical.
@@youtuuba did you get to see your mimmaw on this trip?
Why did you continue to Philly just to get a rental car and return to Baltimore, especially if you were running so late?
at1:00:49 amtraks Bear Delaware maintenance facility
DC homicide number keeps climbing; 160 murders in 2018, a 39% increase over the previous year.
So? And in walked Corona.
You really need to use maps other than out of a road atlas, which is too crowded and cluttered, not giving one time to visually locate the place you're mentioning.
frank, no, I dont NEED to use any other kind of map. The Road Atlas is a good compromise between detail and portability.
Was this trip just for fun? I’m trying to figure out why you took the train to Philly only to head back toward Annapolis?
c5back9, you don't need to figure anything out. I am pretty sure that in the video I stated that, while I did not need to stay on the train for so long in order to reach my destination, I wanted to experience as much of the "Crescent" route as possible. I have, after all, been trying to experience all of AMTRAK's long distance routes from end to end. Unfortunately, I simply did not have time to go all the way to New York, so Philadelphia was my terminus.
youtuuba: thank you! I’ll try to listen better going forward. Love your videos brother! Please keep them coming!
youtuuba: BTW, there were a few years more than a decade ago now that I found it necessary to travel to Manhattan a couple times each month. Because I lived at that time about 30 minutes from the Wilmington Station, Amtrak was my best option for traveling comfortably and conveniently. Those trips were my first train travel since as a youngster in the early 1960s. I completely understand your affinity for Amtrak travel. I’ve since traveled Amtrak to Florida a few times aboard the Auto Train, and until Covid, had intended to travel this Autumn o. Amtrak from Philly to Chicago and then on to the west coast along the northern route. Seeing the country by rail is splendid - finding your videos on YT has been terrific!
You seem to keep putting your camera where the air-con is blowing on it, thus producing that horrible rattling noise on the microphone. -- - - And I thought that the roads in England were rough!!
Ever plan on doing the Trans-Siberian?
No.
That scanner is really annoying.
I disagree, and it is my video or my trip, so it is my way, not your way.
This guy drives me absolutely nuts. IDK about anyone else, but I THOUGHT I'd be able to actually SEE the train ride...you know, the scenery, places of interest, etc. But all this guy wants to do is show us his GPS and his toilet ! Every time it gets to some pretty scenery, he goes right back either to his laptop or his baggage. I don't get it.
The Snodly, what video do you think you are commenting on? You mention a laptop computer, which is not in this video (I know, since I took the video and I had no notebook computer on the trip). You mention that I keep showing the toilet...that is not true. You think the video should be about the scenery......the video is about the whole experience of this train trip, not just the scenery. And if you bothered to watch and listen with an open mind instead of a chip on your shoulder, you would realize that the "Crescent" is NOT a scenic trip. I cannot create scenery that does not exist....most of this route's "scenery" consists of trees flashing by just outside the train video.
@@youtuuba It may have been a tablet or your phone, but I tuned in to watch the train trip, not your luggage or the toilet or your GPS. If I go to a restaurant and order a pizza, I guess you're saying I should be happy when they bring me a club sandwich instead. SMH
Amtrak, is not doing a very good job on there cleaning [ hope your roomette is cleaner than the windows ] that is no way to run a business.....
How are you evaluating the cleaning (I assume you meant "their cleaning")? It would be pretty difficult to tell just from watching the video(s). But I agree that my main complaint is that it seems nobody is tasked with washing the windows anymore before each trip starts. Certainly I have noticed on train trips I have taken repeatedly over the years, trains that used to get window washings two or three time during the trip, especially before very scenic sections, no longer get that treatment.
It is no secret that AMTRAK is strapped for cash due to Congress cutting their budget, and they have a mandate to serve certain sectors and areas, and that probably means that they can't just increase their ticket and carriage prices any old way they might want to. So, something has to go, and apparently it is how often the windows get cleaned and whether certain trains keep hot meal service.
Hi. May I ask why you do not use a road map that shows railway lines as well?? I find railways are very good landmarks and would be good to have you show the path on a rail map than rather a Road Map. Your USA viewers would relate to the Interstates and Highways far easier than me in Australia. Apart from the "road"atlas you cannot fault you videos. Keep up the good work.
There are no comparable maps that also show all the rail lines. There ARE maps showing rail lines, but they are not as good for general navigation and understanding where one is, than a general purpose road map.
@@youtuuba Thank you.