Amtrak Train 95 Cab Ride: Richmond to Newport News (2003)
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- This video was produced by a friend in May 2003 aboard Amtrak Regional Train 95 s it runs from Richmind Staples Mill Rd to Newport News. Train 95 is the daylight "full length" NEC train running all the way from Boston to Newport News. It's northbound counterpart is Train 94 and the overnight edition are Trains 66/67.
Enjoy all the classic RF&P and C&O signals that were ultimately removed around 2013. Watch as the train crawls through the Richmond Terminal area at 15 mph before opening it up on the Peninsular Sub. Note the still standing R Cabin along with electro-pneumatic point machine in the local interlocking plant.
Glad I came across this video! Very nice to see a full, unedited cab ride on a US rail carrier. Plenty of them from Europe and other places, but seems hard to find similar for mainline US. Appreciated that there was no commentary, no music, no edits; just the ride. So thank you! And hopefully more will come out!
The conversation in the cab is - by far - the most interesting part of this trip
New York Times coverage of the 1992 derailment and the subsequent arrests is available on Google
What derailment? They talking about chase? I can hardly hear over the purr
Awesome video. Love seeing those C&O signals especially.
Thanks for posting this video....It brought back some great memories for me being a conductor on this route...We would start out In acca yard and end up yarding the train in newport news yard...Thank you again for posting it.
I really enjoyed that.
In my Navy days I lived in Newport News and took this train many times.
Brings back old memories, thanks
Thanks for posting these vids man they are awesome I’ve gotten stuck watching like 3 full ones today
Brings back some old memories of when I rode the C&O Fast Flying Virginian from Ashland, KY to Norfolk, VA back around 1955. We had to take a C&O ferry boat from Newport News to Norfolk. Thanks again for posting this.
Larry, you probably remember the C&O passenger depot in Huntington, WV when it still had the passenger platform awning.
Yes, but my trips on the C&O always started at the old Ashland, KY depot before it became a bank. Rode the old C&O on trips to Detroit, MI and Lexington, KY; even took several special trips to Cincinnati, OH to the old ballpark where the Reds used to play.
I always wanted to bid on this route.
Awesome video ! This video shows all of the old C&O cantilevers, signal bridges, signals before the dreaded darth vadar hooded signals.
I RODE THIS TRAIN WAY BACK IN 1992 AND WE SURE WENT A LOT FASTER THAN THIS THROUGH THE RICHMOND TERMINAL AREA.
This shows Norge station where it was before being moved next to the library near the bridge overpass nearby. It's now a museum with a caboose off of Croaker Rd.
We rode this same train in Aug of 2006. I really enjoyed watching, & it really joggled some memories of the ride from Richmond to Newport News.
Very cool and entertaining. I've never been on the Amtrak, but live close to Newport News. Lee Hall and the Newport News station are two of my favorite train watching places.
I've never realised how much of the Newport News area is single track. I'm very surprised that no westbound coal trains met you on that run.
Looking forward to seeing more of your footage.
Thank you!
Yes I too enjoyed the country freight train ride, listening to Alan Jackson and viewing the lovely scenery. People like to rush here and rush there but this ride was a nice pace to travel on rail. Lots of cross roads, over bridges. You do like sounding that train horn, don't you USA?
Nice seeing the run-up to Williamsburg (my fave vacation spot) from the cab rather than the passenger seat.
Thanks for posting this, I've been staying in the Hampton Roads area for 2 years now and its interesting to watch the NEC from here and its curious to watch the line. Especially that far back I still think 2003 is not that long ago, but its 14 years! I was looking at the scenery in Williamsburg and everything is still there except 1:22:26 the cantilever has been replaced by modern signal posts, 1:23:05 the grade crossing across HWY 143 is gone and so are the buildings along HWY 60 on the other side. 1:23:12 the shack off to the right is now a 7 eleven store and the motel block further up is gone and replaced by Riverside Hospital tucked way in the back. The signals at LEE hall have been upgraded to modern posts and rearranged but its still a signal hub.
I didn't see any Coal Trains, there are at least 4 coal trains a day now on this line
What's the address!
Nice to see the Providence Forge station. Sadly, it pretty much fell down before it could be saved. However, it's original sign was rescued and resides at the Norge Depot.
Geez, how utterly depressing. 25 minutes to get from Staples Mill Road station to Main Street station? When I rode it back in 1967 it was a double-track Main Line all the way from Hampton Roads to Richmond. Now the former Hampton Roads station is the Newport News station, the Newport News station doesn't have tracks running to it any more, and Lee Hall isn't even a station stop any more.
Freight favoritism rears its head, sir,
No need to remind me; I am shocked that AMTRAK - or Amazon for that matter - did NOT put a VRE station in the old RF&P intermodal facility between Crystal City and Alexandria. VRE uses the tracks, and there is even space to put such a station in the shopping center where the yard used to be! (Why did I bring up Amazon? HQ2 is - literally - just north of the space in question - Potomac Yards.)
@@PGHammer21A I worked at the old Southern Railway yard in Alexandria in the mid 80’s and stayed in a house across the street from the Amtrak station there. I went up there because I was laid off from my Sou. Ry. job in NC, and I couldn’t believe how many trains came in and out of Pot yard in a 24 hour period! The place was basically a funnel through which moved pretty much all rail traffic between the northeast and southeast, and was used by Conrail, Southern, RF&P, C&O, B&O, D&H etc.. Used to love to sit at Crystal City and watch the action! Still can’t believe it’s all gone!
@@tomt9543 RF&P owned the tracks between Richmond & Alexandria, they probably made more money from pulling someone else's freight than from running their own.
@@checkyoursix5623 Oh they were a running railroad for sure! If memory serves correct, all their even numbered road engines faced north, the odd numbers south! Another unique practice was sticking switchers in engine consists if they were short on road engines! RF&P bought their switchers with trucks geared for mainline service! Really a shame the “Run Fast & Push” is gone!
My god it took 26 min to get from Staples Mill to Main Street Station. LOL
Yeah, that was really funny.
The classic train movie "The Silver Streak" was about as fast as this......Streak it is NOT.......
Yeah, that was really funny.
@@jamielacourse7578 what?
Keep. Your draws on !!!
living in the newpot news williamsburg area this video really shows alot. thanks for sharing
Beautiful trip. Thank you to notice the interlockings.
Good video, but how sad looking at all the area where double track used to be.
Hello, here is a good way to discover your country. I am French and I love your trains. Thank you for sharing.Tranlator made with Google Translate.
Thanks awesome! Glad you enjoyed it.
Wish they could’ve done the wrong trip from Boston to Newport News. That would be awesome!
This trip takes 1 hour 28 minutes according to Amtrak schedule. Distance is approximately 70 miles.
Please, if you have any more cab ride footage, please share it.
I like those white New Century sw/stands in the beginning shots.
❤ it ! I live in Richmond. Saw "crossings" that I stop for on a weekly basis! Nice video, but who the heck was that talking so much ??? Have they ever heard of the word - HUSH ?! 😊
Interesting video, one of these days I'm gonna take a cross country trip on the train, guess I'd better bring a good book it'll take a while! Still, it's something few Americans experience.
Thanks for posting, brought back some memories. I was a qualified T&E employee from Baltimore to Richmond on CSX in that era. I had to go to Fulton yard a few times to get a coal train (yard at the end of the James River Viaduct), but was never officially qualified past South AY, always got a pilot. So I never saw the railroad east of the Fulton yard office area. Not very scenic is it? Really sad it takes over 30 minutes to get from Greendale station to past Fulton Yard, but for one train a day each way not really worth the money to upgrade and bypass a lot of the yard stuff. Was Doug Ridell the engineer? He's a great guy if it was him.
i live right down that bridge on staples mill. parham rd.
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1:23:25 I drive by those tracks some times I even stayed in the hotel by them and it's so cool seeing my city from a train
Nice footage, but geez, all that time to get out of Richmond. Wow!
Jersey Mike, you've got the moniker, now we need to teach you how to ride freight. :)
The train rides slowly but surely.
Rail Videos and Hoagies the guy does it all
I rode this train in the 90s from Newark Penn to Staples Mill Road.
Putt, putt the Peter popper. Oh wow we got up to 40 mph. This run is wild fast. 1940s tech.
Wow the unit you were in had a K5H Horn.
How can you tell the difference?
The chimes of the horn.
Amtrak GE P42DC's are not equipped with K5H's. When they rolled out, they always had K5LA's.
@@amtrakamerica1913 it might have been a k5h i mean i cant tell because im not that good at guessing but its somwhere in there maybe a really fouled up k5la. Usually though k5la's have a bit more lighter sounding note
lol. We used to party under that bridge. Hillard Rd Bridge @Glenside Drive and Staples Mill Rd.
What happen to Ashland, VA? When I took the train, twice, to Williams Berg we went through Ashland, that was in the last part of the 80's.
Ashland is before Richmond,
oh, sorry, I forgot, thought it as after.
This video is hypnotizing
thank you detail ride on train show diff things long line in real railroad today
1:28:40 Lee Hall Station has been moved to other side of tracks, and is being restored to be a museum.
Not sure why the stretch from Richmond Stable Mills to Main Street is so slow, but at least it picks up speed later
FYI...at 1:32:30...it's Oriana...not Orina.
Not trying to be a jerk or minutia freak...just thought I'd point that out. But that doesn't take anything away from this being a great video. I'm glad you posted it Mike.
I didn't add the graphics.
Very cool video to watch.
The interlocking you called AY is actually NA. The one you called South AY is actually AY. Hermitage Road (the first time you called one Hermitage Road) is actually South AY... the second one you called Hermitage Road actually was Hermitage Road. The intermediate they went by after Hermitage is called Dog Pound. Most of those signals at Fulton are gone now. Heading the way they were now it's just Coney Island -> R Cabin (with no cabin anymore) -> Darbytown.
Shame R Cabin was demolished :-(
This is a cab-ride in an Amtrak passenger train. Starting a passenger train is always gradual for the comfort of patrons who may be walking in the train car aisles. Note that the first signal bridge is YELLOW which signifies a maximum speed of 40 miles-per-hour prepared to stop short of the next signal, and that the next signal is a red-over-yellow signifying crossing-over to another main track at the prescribed speed being prepared to stop short of the next signal, which is "all red" (red over red over red). Pay attention to that signal when the bottom signal changes and goes red-over-red-over-yellow!
I do not like the way they re-built the tracks due to railroad mergers and I definitely do not like their signal system. I also do not like the air horn habits of this engineer but modern train operations have changed greatly from when I was a locomotive engineer! Also notice the great speed handicap that Amtrak has today which did NOT exist during the days of steam and pre-Amtrak! This is not railroading at its best!
Departing Richmond this train was following something slow for some time. Also, don't assume that things were waster back in the day. Most terminal areas were low speed operations (15-30mph).
CSX rule for "Approach" is reduce to medium speed (30 mph for CSX), prepared to stop at next signal.
Things have gradually improved over the years as money was put in to improve service.. less coal service and better track allowing 75 to 80 mph on some stretches. Richmond has and continues to be a very slow area
What exactly do you mean air horn habits? I heard nothing wrong, in fact he did a pretty good job of trying to quill the horn sometimes which is pretty hard with a button. Man i wish they still had levers for that sorta thing
40:45 what did the windshield say to the bug? Bet you don’t have the guts to do that again!
Truly enjoyed watching the video. :)
very cool. awesome video.
wow, somewhat crusty trackage near Richmond - fun to see though
Wonder what OSHA would say about the noise levels in the cab.
OSHA doesn't cover railroads.
FRA jurisdiction
Enjoying the video. It was disturbing how slow the train was going. Does it usually travel that slowly?
It's a 70mph line. The camera zoom likely contributes to the effect.
ONCE WE CLEARED FULTON YARD WE REALLY STARTED MOVING ALL THE WAY TO NN.
Wonder what engine number is the P42DC
I'm wondering the same thing
Perfect cab ride asmr, 👌 what is that blot on the windshield? Birdstrike
Insect
Our rail infrastructure is in a terrible state of disrepair!
Good video. Good Sandwiches😄
How did you get a cab ride ?? It appears as though something disappeared at Hermitage rd
Can you make another video just like this?
I've seen freights do faster over the road. This engineer was certainty not in a hurry. Never seen one that drug his feet quite so much. I notices a track speed sign of sixty five and the engineer kept it a 35 or 40. Remind me never to ride this train. It's a wonder why Amtrak trains are late most of the time with timid engineers such as this one. I don't think he ever reached sixty!
They are doing quite a bit of work from Staples Mill to Main Street to raise the speed limit to 40 mph
Oh, interesting!
This is 2018 -- why would the speed limit be less than 100??
Great video.
This video was very good I enjoy it so much, do another one.
@joan jackson -- maybe you'd enjoy it more in reverse.
Next time try 2x speed, what a headrush........ not.
So they use the WYE loop down the tracks to turn around and then where do they sit overnight? I don't see a layover yard
In 2003 I think a set would just hang at the station.
I’m a news expert. They take the HAMTPON Branch wye, then go to the shops
Nice bug smash at 40:30....
Diano is actually Toano. At 1:05:45
That is Diano at 1:05:45 the signal at Toano is at 1:09:09 right next to Jack Massie stone yard.
The train and the bug were almost at zero relative velocity thanks to limitations on Amtrak passenger trains being set at 35 mph.
@Ethan McDowell -- The bug splat is at 40:19 and it's the only thing that happens, making it the video subject, besides moving the camera at 1:02:19, so the bug smash is now on the left side where it remains, all the way to the end of the video! So the video should be titled, *Amazing Bug Splatter on Windshield **40:19** Gets Moved at **1:02:19** -- Stay Tuned for Sequel!*
Makes you wonder why at 17:23 they do not restore the track to the left
Not sure what you mean. There isn't an interlocking at 17:23
I love watching American cab rides after watching British and European cab rides.
Obviously, those 'across the pond' do not understand that passenger service should be limited to 35 mph or that American passenger trains travel as far side-to-side as they do forward on any given day.
Peninsular Sub is a 60mph line and you wouldn't want to be in a piece of Euro trash when it slams into a semi-truck at a crossing.
Enjoy paying 2 euros a liter for petrol to subsidize all that rail service.
Train travel in Norway alone makes this ride look like America is in the Stone Age. Amtrack sucks.
Im faster on the bike lol.
Wouldn't be an American train video without someone from Europe talking shit. They cant help themselves . Always trying to compare things.
What engine are u driving a heritage unit or original
I'm confused about something. the ACL line toward Richmond cuts off way North of Broad Street Station. So did their trains have to back track every day? Seems like a stupid place to put a station then.
RF&P Broad St Station had a loop to send trains baco to the belt line junction or send them on via Main St Station and continue across the river and re-join the A-Line south of downtown Richmond.
Possibly a stupid question, but why every so often does the locomotive make a "thud...thud...thud...thud" noise almost like an unbalanced washing machine? It happens several times throughout the trip, is it the air compressor or something? Or just a phenomenon that occurs when the diesel is at a certain RPM?
Adam M air compressor cycling on and off.
@Adam M -- That would be the lone passenger pounding on the cabin door trying to tell the conductor to do something exciting because he's bored out of his mind.
Adam M, that was Chuck Norris chug-a-lugging a pony keg in the club car
You’ve got to remember! This is somebody else’s R R. M A C
If they have this route in Train Sim, please tell me!
CSX Peninsula Sub.
Slightly surprised that there seemed to be no Platform starter at Richmond..
What are you talking about?
@@PositionLight That's a British term and practice. They usually have a station person on the platform to signal to the driver when it is OK to depart (usually by blowing a whistle).
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Do you have any recent videos from ladt year and this year?
No sorry.
@@PositionLight Will you have any soon
#95 is running so slow. They wonder why the ridership is low
It's a 60mph line.
You be going by my old place when you get into providence forge area of new Kent county
The bug hit the window and messed up the shoot.
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My son takes this train…
Takes a wile to leave out from yard. I could not get a good read on the signal's leaving out of the yard. Was it flashing caution then red over approach caution?
The 8:42 and 10:39 signals are both lunar white Restricting.
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Wow , my grandmother could beat this train in her wheelchair lol . Or hopping on her crutches even lol . Even me with this arthritis lmao & smh ....
I like trains.
Great video amazing footage..
What Train Simulator route is this?
It is real life
Whats the normal consist on there, Mike? Seven or eight cars, more or less?
Tom Gray I think 8. Trains 94/95 are quite busy.
nishioka.com/trainmap/fm8_qz7wrhk.html is a page i wrote which shows the current position of this train on Google Maps. It also shows speed and elevation.
American high speed rail at it's best, thanks for the video! That is a joke by the way!
1:17:32 wait that crossing had no side walk gates! i live next to here and now they have sidewalk gates
video is 17yo yeah it caught me by surprise as well.
40:20 Splat!
Yep 😂👏
he doesn't have the guts to do it again
sorry not sorry
it looks like it's giving the finger too lol
Lol
I miss it when GP38s were a more common sight where I am. Nowadays it’s mostly GE AC6000CWs and those like it
Why 15 mph???
Thanks. Great vid!!! Loved it. Are you married to your college sweetheart yet?
Is this CSX cab footage?
It's Amtrak cab ride
Saw old telegraph posts!!
Nice!
I love the sound of the motors what is the type of that locomotive? a GM?
Nah, P42.
No GM could ever sound that good :)
like to see dc to new port news