PrimeTrains - Roanoke, Virginia Amtrak Station Full Tour
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- We visited the Amtrak Station in Roanoke, VA and the surrounding area. What did we find? Should we return on the train in the future?
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thank you for the tour :) i am taking a train out of here soon and it’s made me feel so much less nervous now that i know what the station looks like!
Good luck!! This right here is why I do these tours. Hopefully I csn visit them all someday. Come back and see more soon.
Thumbs up 10. Nice tour and exciting one to see!
Thank you very much!
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Greetings from Naples, Florida I used to live just outside of Roanoke in a little town named Newcastle, in Craig County years ago. Worked at Mohawk Rubber manufacturing plant in Salem. Thanks for sharing with us, have a great weekend. 💯
Thanks for sharing that. So I was all in that area for the day. Did a vlog at Buchanan Swinging Bridge too and another Amtrak in Staunton.
nice Amtrak tour! Glad security didn't chase you away. Interesting history with the bridge! safe travels guys!
Thanks for watching! Yeah security and sometimes just shady characters hanging around make these hard to film. Most on this trip have been easy. Thank you bro for watching! Appreciate you!
The architecture is impressive for sure there
Love the older city feel
Don't think I've ever been to Roanoke, but would sure love to one day! What I remember about Virginia is there are a lot of cannons and battlefields. Great video, thanks for sharing guys!
Please do! Love to see you guys explore the history there. We will be back
I enjoyed the history you shared about the bridge and buildings. Safe travels to your next destination. 👍
Thank you. Lots to come from our travels
Wow😍 That's absolutely AMAAAAZING🔥 Awesome Tour💗✨
Thank you so much!! New train station tour every Saturday
A lot of historical material there in Roanoke, not too many stations in the east are like that. The first of many more great tours coming!
Yeah this station was a pleasant surprise. Lots more to come
PrimeTime Traveler, Those cast-iron "cannons" you-called-them were actually cast-iron train engine wheels that would transfer the power of steam locomotives that were once built at the Norfolk & Western Railroad/Railway-Norfolk Southern Roanoke East End Shops, which were once not much more than three-four football fields away from the new Amtrak platform you filmed this footage. Sadly, the shops closed in 2019 after 143! years of continuous service and production. And what many people don't know is: N&W's East End Shops was an entity within N&W akin to most if not all British Railroad companies that built the engines that powered their companies' trains unlike here in the States where railroad companies came to depend on outsourced suppliers like General Motors' EMD Division and General Electric. That's why when you watched the famous British animated series Thomas The Tank Engine & Friend/Thomas & Friends there were so many distinct styles of train engines that were to say the least odd looking to an American railroad enthusiast. The British railroads had far more train engine looks than you'd typically find on U.S railroads for any particular similar era. Britain comparably-speaking which was really no larger than a region (say part of the Northeast, or part of the Midwest) here in the States, but had large number of varied engine types and definitely varied aesthetics. Another note to history about Roanoke relative to rest of Virginia: Roanoke could almost be called a city created by "carpet bagger" Northern money after the Civil War given that primarily Philadelphia financiers purchased and pulled together several railroads that needed a headquarter town. They first offered Lynchburg, Virginia (which in my opinion made the best location choice), but if you know anything about the time the city fathers, patrician, and merchant and monied classes didn't want to be up-staged by all the "new monied" groups generated by affiliation with the railroads (the dot-coms of their day). They then offered Salem, Virginia, which rejected it for similar reasons (plus, I believe there was a necessary bribe-fee involved that neither city was willing to fork over). So the obliging kind folk of Big Lick and Gainsboro who actually voted to name themselves Kimball, Virginia after the first president of N&W (who graciously declined and now has only a street named after him), settled on the second choice "Roanoke". Roanoke, unlike the rest of Virginia is not a 17th-century city like Norfolk (1636), or Petersburg (1675) nor is it an 18th-century city like Winchester (1729), or Richmond (1737), it instead was founded in the time of when the latter cities of the now Midwest were settled and when the far Western states' towns were formed. So, while there was a burning of an early rail depot in what predated Roanoke in Gainsboro during the Civil War, there was no there there for anything to really happen there earlier in American history. Roanoke made its own history with being Virginia's "Silicon Valley" of the railroad industry rocketing from not much more than a saline deer lick hunting ground (that is now where its downtown is located) to at one time the 3rd largest city in the state behind either Norfolk or Richmond as they vied for the top spot. Roanoke once had clout on the level of Northern Virginia back in its day 70-100 years ago. But alas history waits for no one...
Wow thank you for sharing all that knowledge. It's not everyday you can learn so much in the comments section. Thank you for watching and hope to hear from you on another video soon
Very nice! We are on the train in November to Savannah for the weekend!
We have a Savannah station tour on our channel too if that helps. Thanks for watching
@@PrimeTimeTravelers I will check that out! Thanks!
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The "big building" at 4:18 is the Wells Fargo Tower. Buchanan is pronounced"Buckanon" in Virginia. Thanks.
Thanks for watching and for the info! I would've never gotten that pronounciation right! Hope to hear from you again someday on another video!
It is an odd pronunciation for many outsiders. Not far north, in Pennsylvania, the natives there say Byoo-Cannon, same as past U..S. President James Buchanan (widely viewed as somewhat ineffectual, at best, even by his birth state). If the Virginian pronunciation of Buchanan is surprising, there's more. Here, Staunton must be pronounced as Stanton, and the next door county of Boutetort is universally pronounced as Bott-ah-tott. I love living here, but I had enough trouble relearning to pronounce App-uh-lay-shia as App-uh-latt-cha (which is probably more correct; I grew up farther north and in the foothill area east of the mountain chain).
The parking garage closest to the station IS crappy and recently was closed, at least temporarily. We parked there almost a year ago for a multiple days train trip from Roanoke and would never do so again. The facility was poorly maintained, unattended (that's okay, but...), and the posted instructions were incorrect. For over 24 hours, we received emails informing us that we had not paid and were at risk of towing, despite trying to pay again and contact someone to figure out what was wrong. Eventually my partner reached a person and learned that the only posted instructions were not correct; there was an entirely different app or URL for extended parking. There are several other parking garages nearby that are within walking distance. We chose a local for hire service for our third train trip out of Roanoke.
Wow thank you for all the valuable information! I always like to take an Uber to train station so I know my car is safe at home, but depending on where we are traveling it doesn't always work and sometimes we have to drive. Thank you so much for watching and leaving us an awesome comment! Hope you subscribe and we hear from you again in the future!
We've always loved visiting Roanoke, Dan and Tori. We've been down the Parkway several times and always stop there for a few days. Love the area and we enjoyed the station tour. Love the swinging bridge! Looking forward to seeing it. I used to be a master paper pusher and enjoyed seeing the old photos better! Thanks for bringing back the memories of our time in Roanoke.
Yeah used to be able to move paperwork too but glad I don't have that much anymore. Work is work it's just a little easier to manage now. We want to return to Roanoke for sure, lot to do in the area. The Parkway is a MUST do for us someday. Just have to figure it all out.
Yes, this stop is not staffed, but I see the police roll through whenever the train comes. i totally wish that you were able to walk around more. First, park at the Tower Garage in the Wells Fargo building at 19 Norfolk Ave ($8/day) NOT the "Air Garage" across the street. (total scam) or the Gainsboro garage directly across the tracks to the north at 25 Shenanoah Ave. There is a completely adorable "old school" downtown just 2 blocks away with TONS of restaurants, shops, microbrews, and live music open late too! The Virginia Museum of Transportation is right there! With restaurants like (Billy's, Local Roots, Alexander's, Table 50, Bernard's Gastropub & Eatery, Big Lick Brewing, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, etc.) You can bring your bike on Amtrak, and get right on the Lick Run Greenway and ride your bike through several parks all the way to Huff Lane Park and an actual working shopping mall. LOL Also, this train line is filled with students who take a shuttle from Virginia Tech and ride the train all the way to Boston. Buy your tickets 3-4 weeks in advance for the best rates! There is also talk about opening a new stop in Christiansburg moving forward. :)
WOW! That is a lot of information! Next time I come to Roanoke you can take me all around town! I wished I had more time to look around too. I would've loved to have seen the old school downtown. Oooo, keep me posted on the new stop in Christianburg. I am trying to visit all of the Amtrak stations in the country and we post a new video of one every Saturday night!
Those wheels aren’t cannons. They are locomotive wheels.
Oops thought they were cannons. Guess that's what happens when I film at 7am.
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The name Big Lick was because there were natural salt deposits, favored by the local wildlife.
That makes sense. Thanks for the info!
All the Roanoke Amtrak station is a multi-million dollar lean-to. No seating, protection from the elements or bathrooms. Roanoke is a town with city problems.
Yeah for being a bigger city, I was surprised that there wasn't much there but a platform.