Because the way they build the extended length trains dictates this setup. They take the normal 6 car train (loco+5 trailers+1 cab) and smack on an additional 3 trailers and one locomotive. So you have a train that is built like this: Loco+5 trailers+Cab Car+3 Trailers+Loco. This setup is easier to put together and take apart in the yard, as opposed to shunting the cab car off the set, squeezing in 3 trailers, shunting the cab car back onto the set, and tacking on the engine to the other end.
The first two clips showed some semblance of speed. Does Amtrak have a cap on maximum speed or is it the same all over the States? I guess the max speed we saw in the clips could be around 75~80 MPH, right? Spencer Hughes, any comments pl...
I've watched this video everyday in 2017 (best year for me) and I have came back and watch it again. :-) 👌🏽 Also, Happy 2 Million views on this video Spencer! ;-D 👌🏽 Great video ever! ;-) 👌🏽 I really like how #464 was flying through Sand Canyon Ave in Irvine. :-D Your video have reached 3M views, amazing! 👏🏽
I just returned from a trip from NY to San Antonio, Tx. I will Never take the train, Amtrak, ever again! First problem was no checked baggage from the station my wife and I boarded so our so-called first-class sleeping compartment was full and I am disabled and had brought my wheeled walker. Walker did not fit in room so the conductor put it in the entryway. I had three tags on the walker but another conductor took it off the train in Toledo, Oh thinking it belonged to another passenger. Upon arrival in Chicago I have no walker. Train from Chicago delayed by freight traffic got into San Antonio 2 hours late. Compartments are very small, air conditioning runs constantly so we froze. Ride is very rough swaying side to side and end to end. Numerous passengers got sick. Meals, included in first class are very poor. Restaurant car ran-out of numerous items enroute and the refrigeration unit failed on the return trip. No eggs, cheese, meat, or deserts.. Amtrak offered to put my walker on the next train however we were staying 5 hours from San Antonio. Walker was returned on my way back home but was without it my entire trip. Per Amtrak website water, ice, juice, and coffee for first class passengers. No ice, rarely was water available, juice was warm, and coffee is made at 6 AM and still cooking when shut-off at 10 PM. No daily newspaper as listed on website. Cars are old and need repaired. Wi-Fi needed onboard Amtrak says available at some stations but didn't get a signal except in the Amtrak lounge in Chicago.
Please remember. Amtrak funding gets cut almost every year. Also, Amtrak has to use tracks owned and maintained by freight lines. They do pretty well with what they are given. That said, however, each car has it's own attendant and some are better than others. Most are pretty great.
They are being used as there are some of the Pacific Surfliner cars being overhauled in Beech Grove, Indiana. That is why there are Amtrak Superliner cars on the Pacific Surfliner runs. I like the Pacific a Surfliner coaches better than the Superliner coaches because of the easier climb to the upper level and the thicker seats on the Pacific Surfliner cars.
Delayed by mechanical failure would not be a good situation for passengers going to and from work. Delayed Cargo would cost more than having another Engine in emergency to take up the job is smart. Word of mouth is the best advertising ...but problems can impact a company with negative comments, which is a form of bad advertising.
The Pacific Surfliners consist of the locomotive & 6 passenger cars 1 of which is a cab car needs to be expanded to 10 cars as ridership on the Pacific Surfliners are now packed full on many of its runs. I ride them when I'm in the Civilized San Diego area when I'm home there. I ride them to & from Los Angeles & Oxnard alternating my visits there between the 2 cities. I enjoy train travel very much & don't ever want to drive long distance or. On what is becoming the I-5 parking lot between the Mexican border & 6 Flags Magic Mountain in Newhall and between Olympia & Everett,WA.
i am an intense train lover..i watch trains as much as i can i wish i had the discipline and make movies of various trains and locations so i watch you tube
+Maisia Kenyatta, I share your love for trains and especially the steam power of earlier times. I am facinated by them and I travel by rail whenever I can. In our country steam power has disappeared except in a one luxury line meant for tourists who can afford the very high fare. Here's cheers to all train buffs...
I find it odd for a surfliner to be tugging around a superliner diner. I can see the normal consist, business-cafe-coach-coach-cab, but the extras I haven't seen before, coach-diner-coach.
Two locomotives (f59phi only) are better than cab-car, also helps the train and gives it a more modern and best design and more efficient as they are more aerodynamic, cab car has ugly design
7 years and still watching... 🥲
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Just 7 years and I’m watching this to 🥲😢
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1:10 classic 90s horn! 3:35
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Nice!
Cool trains nicely filmed, it is a pity that so few Americans use them.
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2025 and I’m still watching and the video is still great as it was in 2013, God time flies.
I love ❤️ the sound effect of the Amtrak train P042
Train station
Its a p42dc and it has a whoop sound from the air compressor
@@Mrmonkey19888 i know
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4:05 is my favorite scene... a train riding next to the highway during sunset, beautiful background and AMAZING horn
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Love both the engines too
This is the kind of stuff that brings me back. Thank you Spencer!!!
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Anyone watching in 2024? Man its been a decade. I will miss you F59phis and Dash-8s and Dash-9s 😞
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@@matiahayes36 Ikr. So sad
Dash-8s are still in service F59phis aren’t
@@2308officialLuckily they weren’t scrapped (besides their accidents), they were either sold to NCDOT or Metra
@@AmtrakNJTCSX_MTAfannerNYC correct, and norcal still has theirs and the dash 8s vome to service time to time.
At 13:28, you can see P42DC #47, the locomotive involved in the 1997 Southwest Chief derailment and the 2018 Cayce train collision.
And shes still running like a troop
At least she’s in a happy corridor up in heaven now.
Sadly, it was scrapped after the Cayce train collision.
IT WAS “TOTALED“
Because the way they build the extended length trains dictates this setup. They take the normal 6 car train (loco+5 trailers+1 cab) and smack on an additional 3 trailers and one locomotive. So you have a train that is built like this: Loco+5 trailers+Cab Car+3 Trailers+Loco. This setup is easier to put together and take apart in the yard, as opposed to shunting the cab car off the set, squeezing in 3 trailers, shunting the cab car back onto the set, and tacking on the engine to the other end.
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The train growled! At 9:44
3:21 that dude honked at 2 invisible crossings before honking at a visible one
6:33 did 454 sound like CDTX 2009?
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ah thats nice the EMD f59PHI makes a nice assortment when they are in both extremities of the superliners they looks like a supersized autorail
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The first two clips showed some semblance of speed. Does Amtrak have a cap on maximum speed or is it the same all over the States? I guess the max speed we saw in the clips could be around 75~80 MPH, right? Spencer Hughes, any comments pl...
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ViswaNath GummaRaju The maximum speed a train without PTC can go is 79 MPH and most railroads don’t install it.
The surfliner can go 90
P42's have PTC. Same with F59PHI's.
Very nice, lots of great shots in this video.
Any idea why there is a Budd dome in the consist at 2:18? Private car?
Yeah, it’s called the Silver Splendor
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Great video. I like the Surfliner paint scheme much more than Amtrak's regular paint schem.
I disagree and agree.
I've watched this video everyday in 2017
(best year for me) and I have came back and watch it again. :-) 👌🏽
Also, Happy 2 Million views on this video Spencer! ;-D 👌🏽
Great video ever! ;-) 👌🏽
I really like how #464 was flying through Sand Canyon Ave in Irvine. :-D
Your video have reached 3M views, amazing! 👏🏽
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Nice video and beautiful trains!!!
I love that Amtrak dash 8 engine!
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Love those F59s, sad to see them go.
At first i thought they got scraped but they got moved to Metra so I'm sad but I'm also relieved that they didnt get scraped.
13:26 horn is good
4:06 who remebers this clip from FAST AMTRAK TRAINS!!!
Great compilation, Spencer, both video and audio. Thanks!
spencer what kind of train is on the back of the amtrak train on 2:27 minutes?
Its just f40phi but with a sticker
4:10 is my favorite horn on the Dash 8
4:06 I like this horn Amtrak dash 8 I like this horn also 8:19 10:44 13:27
You don't often get to see the locomotive "knock down" the signals. Good video.
The signal should be taller to be able to clear the train.
I just returned from a trip from NY to San Antonio, Tx. I will Never take the train, Amtrak, ever again! First problem was no checked baggage from the station my wife and I boarded so our so-called first-class sleeping compartment was full and I am disabled and had brought my wheeled walker. Walker did not fit in room so the conductor put it in the entryway. I had three tags on the walker but another conductor took it off the train in Toledo, Oh thinking it belonged to another passenger. Upon arrival in Chicago I have no walker. Train from Chicago delayed by freight traffic got into San Antonio 2 hours late. Compartments are very small, air conditioning runs constantly so we froze. Ride is very rough swaying side to side and end to end. Numerous passengers got sick. Meals, included in first class are very poor. Restaurant car ran-out of numerous items enroute and the refrigeration unit failed on the return trip. No eggs, cheese, meat, or deserts.. Amtrak offered to put my walker on the next train however we were staying 5 hours from San Antonio. Walker was returned on my way back home but was without it my entire trip. Per Amtrak website water, ice, juice, and coffee for first class passengers. No ice, rarely was water available, juice was warm, and coffee is made at 6 AM and still cooking when shut-off at 10 PM. No daily newspaper as listed on website. Cars are old and need repaired. Wi-Fi needed onboard Amtrak says available at some stations but didn't get a signal except in the Amtrak lounge in Chicago.
Please remember. Amtrak funding gets cut almost every year. Also, Amtrak has to use tracks owned and maintained by freight lines. They do pretty well with what they are given. That said, however, each car has it's own attendant and some are better than others. Most are pretty great.
Edwardo Pepperoni ,
Go to hell y r u here anyway
Don’t give hate on Amtrak like that dude.
What a killer zoom, excellent shots,
0:57 is my favorite scene
SAME
Still is my favorite
Same bro
13:10 is my fav
I love ❤️ the sound effect of the Amtrak train P042DC 1:08
*p42dc
Yeah sorry
I'm curious, what's up with the basic Amtrak Superliner cars? Every Surfliner train seems to have 1 or 2 of them...
Charles Randolph probably for extra capacity
They are being used as there are some of the Pacific Surfliner cars being overhauled in Beech Grove, Indiana. That is why there are Amtrak Superliner cars on the Pacific Surfliner runs. I like the Pacific a Surfliner coaches better than the Superliner coaches because of the easier climb to the upper level and the thicker seats on the Pacific Surfliner cars.
P60 quality in 2013????
you mean f59phi right???
@@frostbyte3978 I meant the video quality.
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Why two locomotives in all the trains?
manuels89 it's a longer the normal train so one engine is providing electricity to the cars and stuff and one is doing the pulling of the train
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Delayed by mechanical failure would not be a good situation for passengers going to and from work. Delayed Cargo would cost more than having another Engine in emergency to take up the job is smart. Word of mouth is the best advertising ...but problems can impact a company with negative comments, which is a form of bad advertising.
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I love dash 8s too
Wow cool K5LA on dash 8
13:10 one of the best horns ive heard in my life!
Your video was awesome, what type of camera do you use mate?
I like Amtrak it’s like a good day but it’s ok to go back and watch it again go by
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6:30 nice k5la!
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This video has some nice shots, but it often FREEZES!
Munchabunch that’s ur internet
The Pacific Surfliners consist of the locomotive & 6 passenger cars 1 of which is a cab car needs to be expanded to 10 cars as ridership on the Pacific Surfliners are now packed full on many of its runs. I ride them when I'm in the Civilized San Diego area when I'm home there. I ride them to & from Los Angeles & Oxnard alternating my visits there between the 2 cities. I enjoy train travel very much & don't ever want to drive long distance or. On what is becoming the I-5 parking lot between the Mexican border & 6 Flags Magic Mountain in Newhall and between Olympia & Everett,WA.
7:20, dat zoom though!!! :3
It wasn’t that fast
@@iemv8900 it was did you see the trees flying
@@dallasrailfanner3870 yup the tree is flying
@@iemv8900 southbound trains usually go 70-80 there, but northbound trains go 90
you caught f59 #457 more than once. I liked that dome car on that one train.
@ 3:25 Amtrak Dash 8
452 has the best horn
Push pull seems much more efficient than just a cab car.
Zach Rudnick push pull is a cab car on 1 end
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Zach Rudnick that’s exactly what it is....
And best design
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Wicked Rad!!! 6:21
Even though it’s a raise letter, it’s still a good one 8:15
40/10!, 9:23
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Old stock but well worth viewing !
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i am an intense train lover..i watch trains as much as i can i wish i had the discipline and make movies of various trains and locations so i watch you tube
Me too
+Maisia Kenyatta, I share your love for trains and especially the steam power of earlier times. I am facinated by them and I travel by rail whenever I can. In our country steam power has disappeared except in a one luxury line meant for tourists who can afford the very high fare. Here's cheers to all train buffs...
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Why are there loco's at each end when they also got coaches with cabs for push-pull?
Steampunk'd for electricity and extra power for the extra cars
Imagine just praying at that church than a train blows a huge horn 😂
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I find it odd for a surfliner to be tugging around a superliner diner. I can see the normal consist, business-cafe-coach-coach-cab, but the extras I haven't seen before, coach-diner-coach.
They always have diners.
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I'm sorry, I can't after that first train's horn.
Wilma E what do you mean?
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lol theres a dead bird on the head of #74 at 1:13
that isnt a dead bird, its just a mark on the loco. I just saw #74 on the Downeaster a few days ago and it still had that mark there
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461 sounds like 47
Which is 47?
The Amtrak P42dc that crashed
And At the end of the vid
Love this video!
My favorite is amtk 461
Two locomotives (f59phi only) are better than cab-car, also helps the train and gives it a more modern and best design and more efficient as they are more aerodynamic, cab car has ugly design
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Not a single fuk was given about the red light at train 12
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