First Brightline Train at the Orlando Station - May 17, 2022
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- Orlando, Brightline has arrived at the Station!!
On Tuesday, May 17th at approximately 5:39PM, Brightline's BrightBlue 2 train arrived at the future Orlando Station at the Orlando International Airport (MCO) Intermodal Terminal, becoming the first train at the station. The train, which had no passengers, was at the station for about an hour for some testing before returning to the Vehicle Maintenance Facility for the night.
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1:37 BrightBlue 2 arriving at the platform for the first time from the Vehicle Maintenance Facility
4:15 Walk alongside train at platform
6:25 Moving to north end of the platform
8:37 Moving to Track 1
13:39 Arriving on Track 1
15:17 Departing back to the Vehicle Maintenance Facility
This was filmed on May 17, 2022.
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After all these years: welcome to Orlando, Brightline! Long live the King!
Ya got that right!
I can't wait...😊 great new!
This is a huge milestone! I'm so happy to see the first train arrive at the Orlando station!
For real. Can’t wait.
Being from Germany, I hope blind politicians will not kill this project. I live north of Florida and hope that someday our area will be served. From Orlando to Miami, I'll be using this train.
I agree. I can’t wait for it to reach Jax, if it ever does that is.
Fantastic Brightline gave you such exclusive access…maybe they should bring you on their marketing team?
I'm always skeptical of transit projects actually going somewhere, though Brightline less so since it's not under the direct control of incompetent government bureaucrats. (And you know, they're already providing real passenger service on the existing FEC Corridor, but I'm a "I'll believe it when I see it" type of guy as a matter of principle.) But it's stuff like this that makes me go "Man, this is really happening for real" and it just makes my day.
It is cool right? I think things are getting better regarding rail in the US. While it took long enough there are some rail systems that have been expanded and are actually useful.
Brightline is very promising. Rode it from Miami to Palm Beach and back just for fun (one time in smart class and premium on the way back) last night and it was a very comfortable, smooth, and fast ride. The amenities were great, stations are clean, and staff very friendly.
Driving to palm beach and back in under three hours seemed almost unthinkable before Brightline and I am beyond excited for the Orlando and Tampa extension.
Thank you for taking us on this journey
That horn will let everyone in Orlando you have arrived!
It is interesting to see how much Brightline has been able to do is such a short time compared with the High Speed Rail in California.
And thanks for all the great videos. I look forward to each one every week. I sure hope BL invites you aboard the inaugural run between MCO and WPB.
Progress!! That great that they made sure to include you in this big moment so that you can share it with all of us. Thanks!! (150 videos is quite the commitment on your part. Thanks for that as well.)
Really nice to see modernisation and new lines for the American rail network.
WOW , #150....Wonderful progress
Thank you for all you've done....
I have been watching the progress of this for a year now. My brother and his wife came down from PA to FT. Lauderdale earlier in May and I told him about this. They took the train and Loved it. I cannot wait until my wife and I get to ride it. Super!
Will be awesome to see it stretch across to Tampa!!
I made a transfer in Orlando International Airport back in april. I could see the right of way from the plane and i got some nice pictures of it!
Congrats on #150. Love the videos and the precise geographical slant you bring to the construction process.
BrightLine trains are so awesome looking...
I’m Proud to be apart of this amazing JV W/ Herzog, Stacey and Railworks. We’ve accomplished so much in the past 3 years. Building a class 6 railroad and rehabbing the Existing Fec mainline. It’s Not easy with freights running all day it hinders our production but safety is key.! #BrightlinetoJacksonville
Gotta like the horn that locomotive was using, anyways the horn tooting sounds like a celebration to me.
Bright Blue looks like a gorgeous train set.
This is awesome 😎
I can’t wait for wait to bring Brightline trains that are happy to see them being welcomed to the Orlando International Airport (MCO)!
Awesome Brightline Construction video :)
This was marvelous! So glad that you could get the opportunity to document such a massive milestone. I'm very happy for you. Looking forward to the next milestones that lay ahead!
As always great work and congrats on being able to.see first hand the first train into.the station
Great video today! Glad that Brightline allowed you to be a part of it and that you got some exclusive angles!
Congrats on 150!
I cant wait to ride on it to my cruise in 2023!
Man that horn is music to my ears and love the echo as it is pulling into the Orlando Station
Very exciting to see!
Congratulations on 150 amazing videos!
New York, California and Chicago could never compare to such clean, neat and beauty
Florida is just beautiful
That's smart of them to invite you. Free publicity. I wish more organisations understood the visibility social media creators like you can bring to a project.
Congratulations and I've really enjoyed watching the progress of Brightline!
Congratulations! on over 9K Subscribers.
I would like to say thank you for your 150 films on the Brightline Train. Your films are really interesting to watch everytime you release a new film. Otherwise I would not know about the Brightline trains ;in Florida and on the otherside California high speed train either. From Scotia, New York
150 👍👍 great video, we’ve come a long way. It’s happening I can’t believe it. Thanks for all your hard work, I personally totally appreciate it.
Looking forward to riding this nice clean train.
Excellent historic event for sure...thanks for sharing. I have been following this series from the start!!
Huge congrats on 150 episodes! I look forward to seeing your updates, thanks for making this such a great inside look into how a railroad is built and the important milestones it reaches!
This is extremely exciting and congrats to Brightline in this achievement!!!
Congratulations on #150 and being there tp document this momentous occasion!
This IS the future of passenger rail travel in America, hoping several more routes across the country can be developed in the near future...
Congratulations on your 150 update & yes finally the station see's its first train. Looking forward to see Passenger service on this line
Thanks again for the updates. This is so cool to see a real HS train in Orlando!
So cool you get this level of access. All of your effort has paid off in spades. Of course, only you would know. But thank you so much for sharing all your insights and access. This is the largest railroad construction project since Southern Pacific built the Palmdale Cutoff. I imagine SP documented that project in great detail, but all that film is lost to history. You are making a serious contribution to the world of railroading!
150 updates (so far). I have seen many of them! FIRST CLASS JOB!
Great to see the progress at my favourite destination airport. I hope that the project is a success, both financially and with the travelling public.
Awesome progress, thanks for the update.
Always enjoy your vids. Congratulations on 150! Lots of work here in Vero Beach on the crossings and the second track. Come see us!
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Those are some great on the train shots. Seeing this progress getting so close to completion be great. You have produced so many videos documenting this.
Orlando will have one of the finest train stations in the country. It would be best if Sunrail would come to that station soon. Brightline should be a pure highspeed passenger service. Serving the Disney resorts could be done by Sunrail better. It would bring the revenue to that system it is lacking now.
It’s perfect!!! Can’t wait to get on it! See you next year!
Finally!!!! It is beautiful!
So happy this is staying on track! I hope it’s successful!
Great video. This is very exciting!
Thank you for keeping us informed!
Congrats on #150!! I look forward to the continued updates, especially as we hear more about possible Disney and Universal stations, and especially the Tampa station. The Tampa portion just got a huge boost today from a recent grant that was received for the track between Orlando and Tampa to be built.
Brightline and the airlines would be clever if they combine the plane and train tickets. Getting people to and from the airport by rail
The sky is the limit for this train once it actually comes into fruition. I mean think about the economy, price of gas and the state of the nation right now… it has all the perfect conditions to propel this project to the moon! Then that infrastructure bill?? To top it all off, the influx of more people to the amazing state of Florida??? Brightline couldn’t have timed this any better. I can’t wait to see where it goes from here.
Great video 👍🏽
Thanks for sharing.... great info, and thanks for the continued updates. Can't wait to take a ride.
Very good look for Central Florida...and Florida in general.👍💯
Awesome to see how much Brightline and the other companies involved in the project are giving you access like this as things progress. Congrats on 150!
nice
Where’s the Love Button!??
Can't wait to take a ride from Miami to Orlando in this train
This video and historic event makes me very optimistic for the future Las Vegas, Los Angeles route- I predict that it will be incredibly profitable!
Fantastic footage of a great milestone.
So awesome!! Finally!
As always, an excellent update; congratulations on reaching 150 updates!
Can't wait for the Orlando / Miami trip
Congrats on the 150th video & nice views
Cool! Thanks for the update! Looking forward to riding this train someday.
Love it ❤️ ciao from italy🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Very nice.
Awesome progress!
Also...how freaking cool is it that they worked with you to get you special access!!! You do good videography and it's nice to see a company understand how good this makes them look. Keep up the good work!
150! Do I need to start saving up for the Brightline Completion Compendium Edition Blu-Ray release? :-)
Wonderful!!
Great that you were invited to attend this bit of history. But given the the amount of support and free publicity your videos provide them it would have been something of a travesty if they had not invited you. As always very good camera work and excellent voiceover to explain what is happening.
Amazing!
Hope to see connection to Jacksonville and Tampa soon.
I really hope this takes off as a really popular way to get to miami from orlando. Sure this looks cool, but only time will tell how successful this route is
Nice Video, please keep doing more of the area. Thank You.
Nice. This is a big step forward. How many miles of track have yet to be laid between Orlando and Cocoa?
Still about 20 miles to go
Congrats on 150.
Can’t wait for this service to begin and the future plans to go through Disney to Tampa
Finally.
A great milestone. Florida is looking better and better has a place that is desirable to live. Now let’s see if Brightline can kick it up to Jacksonville to interface with the extension of the Sunset Ltd Amtrak through service from Los Angeles.
Thank you buddy
That's really cool thank you
Im gonna ride it just cause it exists. Comes by me in Cocoa regularly in their tests.
Henry Flagler, as well as Henry Plant, would be happy -
Wow this is awesome!
I would personally be OVER THE MOON if there is a future Cocoa Station linking Port Canaveral with the Brightline system.
I am seriously considering buying a vacation home in Canaveral and this would be the final piece of that decision!
EDIT: Thanks so much for these fantastic videos!
Have any of the test trains traveled through the station at MCO yet and gone out onto the track along 528?
Nope, they were only authorized to go to the end of each platform. That will be another milestone.
I'd love to be able to take a train from Orlando to Miami to catch an afternoon Marlins game and back the same day on either Brightline or Amtrak or both.
Great video and milestone!!
Curious...just how did you get those great clips from the side of the train??!
Magic…
Sunrail is like I feel all alone just waiting for my buddy brightline to be with me....
Will the signals eventually face out? It seems weird them facing towards the track
Yes they will, the signal system has not been activated yet so the heads are turned so there is not confusion for the train crews.
How long from Orlando to Miami.
3 hours
I like the horn
It's happeningggggg
Now if they could just make SunRail useful...