Your videos are great, but the narratives are a cut above! I grew up on LI with the LIRR. Haven't lived there in a while and the last of my family moved away in '20. When I make it back I'll buy you a top notch LI diner lunch and we'll take a train ride. I want to ask you about the six track history that ends west of Forest Hills and an interesting story about a young PRR engineer (slide rule not train operator) that set the speed at 60 for the tunnels. Cheers!
21:04 is the boundary between mainline type double rail track circuit and yard type single rail track circuit approaching Jamica. There's a specifically designed impedance bond (the iron case between the running rail containing an electrical transformer) that collects traction return currents coming from both running rails but send it to only one of them beyond. As single rail track circuits provide no cab signal coding, you immediately hear the alarm when cab signal drops to 'restricted'.
Train Sim World 2020 collectors edition has the LIRR route with M7 EMU trains that you can drive between Westside yard, Atlantic Terminal, New York Penn, Hicksville and another terminal station that has a 5mph speed limit and starts with a B
As a recently retired truck driver I can remember the countless times coming into NYC via the GW and going under apartments and other buildings on I-95.
Great video - I always liked the approach into Jamaica from either end. Forest Hills and Kew Gardens were always nice. That Flying Yankee is one smooth operator...
Very well done! I always thought that they would eventually reactivate the old LIRR Rockaway Beach branch when they increased capacity into Penn. Maybe they'll seriously think about it now?
@@jamesparson Absolutely right! Do it! After all the old Long Island Railroad did it in 1861. And later in 1880 the 34th street 3rd Avenue El shuttle train ran to the ferry terminal across the East River.
By USA standards yes. It’s not quite Clapham Junction. It’s going to get busier when Grand Central opens up for long island railroad trains. Might be close to Clapham Junction.
Ah....how I do love these head end videos. It sure beats looking out of a side window. Shame you can't do more of the LIRR this way. Even rear end shots would beat side window shots. Were you using the suction cups on the glass? The only thing that would have made this video nicer would be if you had your scanner on. That would have been the pièce de résistance.
The LIRR is reviving their Budd M3’s. By the time Grand Central is open they should have 100 of them in service and they are great for RFW’s. I plan on getting many of them
I may be wrong but were you born and raised in Philadelphia? To speak differently from New Yorkers. I myself am a New Yorker who grew up there during the Mad Men era and I speak American English with a New York accent. By the way I am a naturalized American citizen who was born in Havana,Cuba in 1956. We came to America legally on August 2, 1956 to NYC Whalen it was the baseball capital of America with 3 stadiums. Yankee Stadium, Polo Grounds Stadium and Dodgers Stadium.
@@3985uprr Well in that case, THANKS! I lived in Richmond Hill and for the 1964 New York World's Fair, my late mother took me and my little brother to the Fair and we walked to Jamaica station for the special service train to it. We rode on a double decker on the middle of the train. The lead car was built in the 1920s and has a large single headlight on the roof and had straw seats like the old subway trains that still were running then in NYC on the BMT and IND divisions.
What's with the new looking platform and tracks to the right at 21:08 ? I noticed construction on the south side in a Atlantic Terminal to Jamaica video. What's up ?? Aarre Peltomaa
That’s a new platform built for the Atlantic terminal shuttles and the UBS arena trains. The Atlantic terminal shuttles will start running later this year when the grand central line opens
@@3985uprr Thanks. I thought that the line from Downtown Brooklyn was supposed to continue onto the Atlantic Branch to Valley Stream or some such; if so, then the existing two underpass tunnels that line up with the center line of the Jamaica Station just east of Jamaica station would be the appropriate routing, no ?? Aarre Peltomaa
@@musicforaarre according to the new schedule when Grand Central opens it will be Atlantic terminal to West Hempstead through trains. Some rush-hour trains from the east will go into Atlantic terminal but it’s mostly going to become a shuttle operation from Jamaica to Atlantic terminal. The main line west to Grand Central in Penn Station will become a very very busy line even busier than it is now
@@3985uprr Ok. Got it. The West Hempstead trains will continue to run through the center of Jamaica station, but most of the Atlantic Terminal trains will dead end at the new south platform. Thanks so very, very, much !! You are the fountain about Long Island ! Aarre Peltomaa
If you think LIRR into Grand Central will be crazy, wait until Metro-North starts sending trains into Penn Station, that's going to be madness!!!
Someone will need to take a photo of Metro North, LIRR, NJ Transit, Amtrak, and NY&A trains all lined up in a row.
That's not happening
Your videos are great, but the narratives are a cut above! I grew up on LI with the LIRR. Haven't lived there in a while and the last of my family moved away in '20. When I make it back I'll buy you a top notch LI diner lunch and we'll take a train ride. I want to ask you about the six track history that ends west of Forest Hills and an interesting story about a young PRR engineer (slide rule not train operator) that set the speed at 60 for the tunnels. Cheers!
It never ceases to amaze me how much you know 🙂
21:04 is the boundary between mainline type double rail track circuit and yard type single rail track circuit approaching Jamica. There's a specifically designed impedance bond (the iron case between the running rail containing an electrical transformer) that collects traction return currents coming from both running rails but send it to only one of them beyond. As single rail track circuits provide no cab signal coding, you immediately hear the alarm when cab signal drops to 'restricted'.
Not an electronics expert 😀
JT !! 👍🏼
I can’t believe the glove man let’s you do a cab ride
Train Sim World 2020 collectors edition has the LIRR route with M7 EMU trains that you can drive between Westside yard, Atlantic Terminal, New York Penn, Hicksville and another terminal station that has a 5mph speed limit and starts with a B
The ride into and out of Penn is always fun!!!
Interesting video of one of the busiest rail corridors! Amazing how many trains are correctly routed.
Thanks Tim for your review😀😀💚
As a recently retired truck driver I can remember the countless times coming into NYC via the GW and going under apartments and other buildings on I-95.
Getting paid to "play trains" has to be the SECOND greatest hob in the world. (The FIRST, of course, has to be rock star.)
Great video - I always liked the approach into Jamaica from either end. Forest Hills and Kew Gardens were always nice. That Flying Yankee is one smooth operator...
13:56 idk why but that horn reminded me of the starting propulsion for the R160 Siemens
You mention Cedar point. I took my family about 10 years ago. I live in NY, it was a 10 hour drive.. It was well worth the trip
Awesome Amen 😇😻❤️
Thank you for sharing.
Love the video! I would love to know how to identify the block signals like you did in this video. It's pretty impressive!
The signals have number plates on them. I was just reading right off the plates.
You know a lot about trains sir wow
Very well done! I always thought that they would eventually reactivate the old LIRR Rockaway Beach branch when they increased capacity into Penn. Maybe they'll seriously think about it now?
they would have to move the A train if they gon do that
I believe it's in the 2025-2044 20-years needs assessment?
I know it will never happen but...
Long Island City station needs to be rebuilt on the waterfront and have direct connections to ferries.
@@jamesparson Absolutely right! Do it! After all the old Long Island Railroad did it in 1861. And later in 1880 the 34th street 3rd Avenue El shuttle train ran to the ferry terminal across the East River.
And, it will get even busier when MN will come down to Penn.
And lirr coming into grand central
I gotta meet this guy
"It's a busy line, folks". UK: "That's relative".
By USA standards yes. It’s not quite Clapham Junction. It’s going to get busier when Grand Central opens up for long island railroad trains. Might be close to Clapham Junction.
Ah....how I do love these head end videos. It sure beats looking out of a side window. Shame you can't do more of the LIRR this way. Even rear end shots would beat side window shots. Were you using the suction cups on the glass? The only thing that would have made this video nicer would be if you had your scanner on. That would have been the pièce de résistance.
The LIRR is reviving their Budd M3’s. By the time Grand Central is open they should have 100 of them in service and they are great for RFW’s. I plan on getting many of them
7:10 If Harold is the busiest interlocking in the US (? North America), I wonder what would be the next busiest. Jamaica?
Very nice cab view!
Are there any good resources online for current LIRR signal types and how to read them?
I would have enjoyed if there was a follow-on video that went to Babylon.
I was trying for that but an employee boarded the cab at Jamaica
I may be wrong but were you born and raised in Philadelphia? To speak differently from New Yorkers. I myself am a New Yorker who grew up there during the Mad Men era and I speak American English with a New York accent. By the way I am a naturalized American citizen who was born in Havana,Cuba in 1956. We came to America legally on August 2, 1956 to NYC Whalen it was the baseball capital of America with 3 stadiums. Yankee Stadium, Polo Grounds Stadium and Dodgers Stadium.
No born and raised on Long Island and still live there
@@3985uprr Well in that case, THANKS! I lived in Richmond Hill and for the 1964 New York World's Fair, my late mother took me and my little brother to the Fair and we walked to Jamaica station for the special service train to it. We rode on a double decker on the middle of the train. The lead car was built in the 1920s and has a large single headlight on the roof and had straw seats like the old subway trains that still were running then in NYC on the BMT and IND divisions.
The narrator sounds so much like Allan Melvin.
I think his accent is stronger. People say I sound like Jerry Orbach.
What's with the new looking platform and tracks to the right at 21:08 ? I noticed construction on the south side in a Atlantic Terminal to Jamaica video. What's up ?? Aarre Peltomaa
That’s a new platform built for the Atlantic terminal shuttles and the UBS arena trains. The Atlantic terminal shuttles will start running later this year when the grand central line opens
@@3985uprr Thanks. I thought that the line from Downtown Brooklyn was supposed to continue onto the Atlantic Branch to Valley Stream or some such; if so, then the existing two underpass tunnels that line up with the center line of the Jamaica Station just east of Jamaica station would be the appropriate routing, no ?? Aarre Peltomaa
@@musicforaarre according to the new schedule when Grand Central opens it will be Atlantic terminal to West Hempstead through trains. Some rush-hour trains from the east will go into Atlantic terminal but it’s mostly going to become a shuttle operation from Jamaica to Atlantic terminal. The main line west to Grand Central in Penn Station will become a very very busy line even busier than it is now
@@3985uprr Ok. Got it. The West Hempstead trains will continue to run through the center of Jamaica station, but most of the Atlantic Terminal trains will dead end at the new south platform. Thanks so very, very, much !! You are the fountain about Long Island ! Aarre Peltomaa
Can't hear your narration over the train noise most of the time
Not done under optimum conditions.
my cat is sad
What a cesspool, what city is this?
It's THE CITY. There's only one city in the world and here it is! (jk
The BIG Apple......
What are you some wise guy?
Those are not cumulus
clouds at all..