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Enjoyed the ride. Nice video. 👍

Most of these stations - especially between Harrisburg and Paoli - or between Paoli and Philadelphia - have never seen AMTRAK service - Exton is an ideal example - when did Exton gain AMTRAK service? (Paoli was connected to New York as far back as the Age of Steam via the 20th Century Limited - I myself took AMTRAK to Paoli a grand total of once - it is repeatable today - not just to Paoli, but to Exton or any Keystone Service train via a feeder train that meets Keystone Service trains at 30th Street Station. But how much demand is there for AMTRAK service - at even longer term stations such as Paoli or Lancaster for that matter, let alone Exton?

Thanks for posting this video. I'll be taking this route next month.

W scenery

Last time I was on an Amtrak train was before I had a driver's license, so before 2007. It was from Newport News, VA to 30th St. Station in Philadelphia. Hopefully one of these days I can take one several states away instead of driving. I find train rides to be much less stressful than driving

The CNJ heritage loco in the opening montage freaked me out for a second. When I took the Chief, that was the power leading the local train that started my journey. Yes, it was a long trip

We all saw the PRR GG1 on the right at 1:31 yeah?

33:41 RIP wigwag, but long live the semafores

Could you do Acela 2169? It stops at New Haven right?

1:26:26 - 1:26:27 You can watch the direction of the switch change back to allowing through traffic on track 1!

1:06:23 A railfan spotted? 😅

40:39 To the left of the track your train is on, is that ... a buried piece of track? I ... didn't expect to see that, wonder if it is from more recent stuff, or if it's actually a leftover spur from the old Russell, Burdsall & Ward factory that used to be in Port Chester.

16:49 -17:23 & 17:25 - 17:29 To the right the RoW (with catenary bridges!) where the New York, Westchester & Boston traveled.

2:19:31 - 2:19:32 Ohhh, ex-Metroliner cab!

love riding Amtrak

love riding this Amtrak route

You did the same video in the morning from Los Angeles to San Diego, filming out of the right side of the train. On this trip, you should have stayed on the right side to give the opposite scenery. And you wouldn't have had the sun in the shot.

The ship is a Wasp class LHD. It lands Marines on the beach using aircraft and landing craft.

It’s not going away dude-it’s just gonna be out for at least the next 3 years so that Amtrak can do Sandy-related repairs to the East River Tunnels as well as to allow other trains to get their Superliners back (like the TE, which hasn’t had a dining car in over 4 years)

Well, if there's any consulation to all of this, we're going to get dining car service back finally.

Man I’ll miss the Silver Stars that passed here

Too bad Amtrak elected not to use South Bend's Union Station.

Sweet catches dude I have to hit up Elkhart

Very nice video

Heck, if they just make all the platforms at Union Station level boarding, I'll count that as a win. Honestly in this day and age that should be the bare minimum to meet ADA compliance.

Union Station DC. Marvelous station that has gotten quite run down in many respects and is due for a major renovation (assuming all the planning commissions can agree on the final design. The station and yard has a fond place in my heart as one of my grandfathers was a US Postal clerk working a railway postal run out of Union Station DC to NYC and back along the Pennsy RR railway lines. He retired from that job a few years before they discontinued the service. When I was very young my father and I went over there and got some pictures of one of the last crews and cars working the run for his and grandmothers 50th anniversary celebration. Some of the old timers actually remembered him and posed for some photos. The station has certainly undergone some changes over the years. I myself rode one of the last runs of the Southern Railways "Southern Crescent" into the station from New Orleans It would have been one of the very last runs of the train as within a month it had been turned over to Amtrak. And I assure you that the service level wasn't even close to the same as when the Southern ran it. IN any case Union station is due for a very exciting refit, although one of the changes I would most like to see won't be happening. That change is an expansion of the First Street tunnel that would allow it to accommodate Superliner or Taller freight cars so that the Auto Train to Florida could get north of the river and Amtrak could run Superliners south of Union station. Talk about an East Coast bottleneck! Never happen though. The clearance just doesn't exist to do it. Although they are putting in a new Long Bridge south into Virginia, which should speed up both VRE and Amtrak trains using the old FR&P right of way to Richmond Virginia as well as trains using the Norfolk & Southerns route from Union Station south and west from the old Alexandria yards.Oh well, half a loaf is better than none they say.Getting the freight and passenger traffic separated at that point will improve things a bit.

Although you sort of blew through Brunswick, if anyone is in the area in the fall be sure to visit for the annual "Brunswick Days" Arts Festival. A celebration of Blue Grass and Appalachian Music and Crafts. The town also has (at least the last time I visited) a very nice Model Train Club with a display open to the public at regular intervals. Good food and drink too. Also the last time I visited they offered a short scenic train ride from Brunswick to Harper's Ferry along the spur line track (The other bridge you saw as you were crossing out of Harper's Ferry which actually travels along the Shenandoah river Potomac and through the remains of the old arsenal and powder works (now all ruins) to the gravel quarries just outside Harper's Ferry to the north. A very nice way to get a view of the historic section of the National Historic site. Fun Fact: during very high floods of the rivers, CSX will park a train of freight cars full of gravel on the bridges across the river to anchor them in place.

Ahhh Harper Ferry. Once upon a time the site of a National arsenal and critical to the production of munitions prior to the Civil War. The Site of John Brown's famous raid. And nowadays a National Historic Site run by the National Park Service. Well worth a visit for the many period buildings in it. Sitting in a very tight valley and overlooked by high bluffs from both the Virginia and Maryland sides it was a natural target of both Union and Confederate forces. Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson once said of it that he would rather attack it a dozen times than defend it even once. With so many tall bluffs around it, it could be easily shelled by both sides. I know of no other site that changed hands so many times over the course of the Civil War. Fun Fact: The Priest of St. Peters Church (which sits overlooking the town) Father Michael Costello, during the Civil War, protected the church from being shelled by flying the British Flag from the church steeple. Since neither side wanted to anger the British, neither side ever shelled the church. It was thus able to stay open and neutral throughout the Civil War. It was the only church in the town that was left untouched.

In Martinsburg did you notice the double roundhouse to the left of the tracks? That's the site of the Martinsburg B&O Museum/Martinsburg Cultural Center. Or at least that's what it's trying to become. Like most community/volunteer projects it needs money and a lot of work. They have big plans for it's future development. Right now they rent the restored roundhouse out for Events (weddings, receptions, concerts, etc) and the central machine shop/repair building is the site of the Martinsburg Farmers Market on the weekends. The station itself houses a very nice set of historical exhibits and displays, and the town has some very nice historic homes and small museums. Worth a weekend visit.

IN Cumberland you missed a treat. The Western Maryland Scenic Railroad was off to the Right Hand side of the train (given your direction of travel.) You might just have been able to see the station as you pulled out of the Cumberland Station, except somebody parked a CSX freight there. Shame! It is a beautiful old station well worth a visit.The lower level hosts a museum dedicated to the C&O canal and the old Cumberland road.The County historical society also has a very nice museum dedicated to the history of Cumberland. Discover why it was called "The Queen City" of Maryland.

Hard to believe. "29 and 30" goes back a long time. "The Capitol Limited" hearkens back to B&O days.

It will be back.

Awesome video. The Silver Star will be missed as well

This train will be the Floridian starting November 10 of this year.

Excellent video! Sounds like the car you were riding had a bit of a flat spot on one wheel.

BEAUTIFUL view of our beautiful NY state 😊😊. Thank you for sharing 🫡

Recalls many good memories from the 1980s-1990s of riding the Hudson Division both ways aboard open-platform PVs Lehigh Valley 353, with the late Dick Horstmann, and Caritas, with owner Clark Johnson. Much appreciated!

How’s Albany?😊

Gotta love URHS

When did Amtrak add new lighting under the West Side overbuild? This is great! In older videos I would just skip this part because it was too dark to see anything.

Why doesnt it use third rail on the metro north portion?

Hi Nathan, Thanks For The Video. Breathtaking Scenery. This Was Done During The Fall Season? I Think I Like To Take That Ride Someday, Ok😊?

Nice intro tunes

Btw what editing app is that? I’ve been looking for it for a year

Hello and greetings from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil! An excelent video, thank you. Nice to see that from New York (NY) to New Haven (CT) Amtrak has retained many of the old catenary poles from New Haven Railroad era, although of course the old triangular catenary wires were replaced by modern standards.

What's the speed limit on the upper portion of the Hudson Line?

Most NYC area politicians "Commute" on Amtrak to Albany.