A great video! The fact that Brightline even allows and/or invites you to film this goes to show that the think highly of you! And that they are adding a new car to their trains goes to show that Brightline is thriving. I hope others in this county see that passenger service is still wanted if the option is there.
It is so neat to see a success story in American passenger rail service. Thanks so much for bringing this to us. As always, your cinematography work is excellent.
INCREDIBLE VIDEO!!! Absolutely everything about this video is PERFECT! The drone footage, the switching moves, the wrap installations, the in depth explanations, the soundtrack, EVERYTHING!!! This is one of your greatest videos yet, and it's so amazing that you were given the amazing opportunity to film this whole process at the basecamp. Bravo on this absolute masterpiece!
Brightline is an exciting new passenger rail service here in this country. As railfans, we are so lucky to have our friend, The Roaming Railfan, to do such a wonderful job in documenting the stages of it's development. Thank you, Roaming Railfan!!!!!
The wrapping is painstakingly slow, but boy does it make the train look great. Having matching color themes for each train was a brilliant idea. I am ecstatic that Brightline is successful enough to need to extend their trains with extra coaches. As I have said before, taking Brightline between here in Miami and Orlando is much more civilized than flying, especially with the long wait at the airport and the intrusive TSA screening one has to endure. I would love to know if Brightline service has had any impact on airline passenger service between the two cities.
I did see that Silver Airways is discontinuing their Orlando-Fort Lauderdale service in March 2025. I’m not sure if Brightline is the reason but it seems possible.
I really enjoyed watching the whole process of getting these new coaches into service. Brightline certainly knows how to get the job done and and om time too! Great video of both inside and outside the maintenance facility! Nice work!
This is a great video! Today is Thanksgiving Day, and I just now completed watching the video in its entirety. I'll have to say that I have been waiting weeks to get a report on the new Brightline coaches. Every time I've tried to get information, only "ancient history" (4 months, 10 months, more .....) could be located. Thank you so much for a beautifully presented documentary. You answered a lot of questions for me as to how such a procedure is done, even including the details one would easily take for granted. I look forward to watching Brightline continue to expand its services, even up to the 10-coach maximum capacity. And I will again watch for your reporting on it as it happens! Well done!
It has to do with their long term positions in the train once they increase to 7 cars. Temporary decals with the correct numbers for the time being were installed on top of them.
@@RoamingRailfan cool, thank you for the reply! do you know why the new cars weren't put at the end-- oh, it's because the new ones don't have the permanent doors on the end and are thus designed to be added in the middle, I guess?
This video is awesome! Very informative and gives an eye inside of 'how' many things have been done with the make up of these trains! Great job! Is 7 coaches going to be the max length? Do you how long the station platforms are? How many coaches can be accommodated on the station platforms? Will Brightline be getting any cab cars or are they sticking to locomotives on each end?
Great video! Thanks for showing us the process (and for 3X the speed a few times LOL). But…why, why why didn’t they just put the new coaches in the back since they were labeled as “5”? That’s really going to confuse people. And on the walk through they printed a “5” to use in the vestibule to cover the “4” but that coach would still say “4” on the outside. 🤯
The old "4" car always has to be on the end since it has the baggage compartment and metal cover over the end so it can never be used mid train. The numbering situation was corrected within 24 hours with new decals installed to show the correct numbers. They were in a rush to get the cars in service to meet the demand for people evacuating from Hurricane Milton that they ran out of time before they entered service. They had extra attendants outside the cars to direct passengers to the correct coach in the meantime. The new car will be positioned as coach 5 in the long run once more coaches arrive.
@ Thanks for the explanation! Appreciate it. Also…forgot to ask in my original comment: what is the maximum number of coaches the stations are designed to accommodate. Will Brightline ever outfit their trains with the maximum number of coaches? Is demand there enough demand for max trains? Maybe it would make sense on more heavily traveled routes, but not on all?? Thanks again!
They have a trackmobile but beyond that I don’t think so considering every train set has two locomotives and the only time there are loose coaches not in a consist is when there are new coaches being delivered.
As a way to get the cars delivered faster, it was determined that they could be installed during the commissioning process rather than at the factory. I show the skirts being installed starting at 22:57.
Scharfenberg couplers are called the same in english, despite them struggeling a lot to spell and pronounce it :) Brightline does not use them. The coupler the cars had when delivered was a Janney coupler, a type of knuckle coupler. The semi permanet coupler they added would be called Schalenmuffenkupplung in German.
Interesting, I always assumed the locomotive would have access to the coaches, but it looks like the permanent door is installed on the end coaches. That seems less than ideal, but idk why
Wow, I hadn't realized how much I missed your Brightline videos! Question: Are the sponsored wraps applied over the Brightline color wraps or are the cars stripped of their livery before the sponsored wraps are applied? Also, I assume that the sponsored wraps are for a specific amount of time - do you know if that's a set duration or are the sponsorship durations per contract?
Kind of goofy that the train cars follow the order of 1, 2, 3, 5, 4 on the outside wraps. Or 1, 2, 3, 4, 4 on the Sail Princess train. Guessing they will rectify that in the future.
They were all fixed within a day of entering service, just ran out of time to put the correct decals on with the push to get trains in service ahead of Hurricane Milton.
It may be now, but there are plans in the works for it to become a 4-6 lane road to new developments sooner than later, hence the size of the Brightline bridge…
@@RoamingRailfan And where did they learn that from, I wonder?🤔 As a bonus, the “beam” under the coupler is the coupler carrier. For a knuckle coupler the shank rides directly on the carrier. For muff couplers (semipermanent) the shank “floats” above the carrier. As such the carrier was changed with the coupler. (I was wondering how they would handle the ferry move from Florin.)
Semipermanent couplers provide a smoother ride as there is no slack in the train and fixed consists ensure consistency in seat layout for every train so that any train set can be used for any service.
They are certainly better than Amtrak. It would have taken them months to years to do just what Brightline did in a few days. Amtrak has become a joke.
A great video! The fact that Brightline even allows and/or invites you to film this goes to show that the think highly of you! And that they are adding a new car to their trains goes to show that Brightline is thriving. I hope others in this county see that passenger service is still wanted if the option is there.
It is so neat to see a success story in American passenger rail service. Thanks so much for bringing this to us. As always, your cinematography work is excellent.
It's good to see this progress! Can't wait to see the 7 cars trains by next year.
I can't wait to see 10 car trains.
Brightline has given you phenomenal access to their facilities. Thank you Brightline and roaming railfan.
INCREDIBLE VIDEO!!! Absolutely everything about this video is PERFECT! The drone footage, the switching moves, the wrap installations, the in depth explanations, the soundtrack, EVERYTHING!!! This is one of your greatest videos yet, and it's so amazing that you were given the amazing opportunity to film this whole process at the basecamp. Bravo on this absolute masterpiece!
Brightline is an exciting new passenger rail service here in this country. As railfans, we are so lucky to have our friend, The Roaming Railfan, to do such a wonderful job in documenting the stages of it's development.
Thank you, Roaming Railfan!!!!!
Good to see ridership up so soon to support an additional car per train.
Babe wake up,
The Roaming Railfan uploaded a new Brightline video.
The wrapping is painstakingly slow, but boy does it make the train look great. Having matching color themes for each train was a brilliant idea.
I am ecstatic that Brightline is successful enough to need to extend their trains with extra coaches. As I have said before, taking Brightline between here in Miami and Orlando is much more civilized than flying, especially with the long wait at the airport and the intrusive TSA screening one has to endure. I would love to know if Brightline service has had any impact on airline passenger service between the two cities.
It’s a slow process to wrap them but the installers are perfectionists who make sure they get all the little details right!
I did see that Silver Airways is discontinuing their Orlando-Fort Lauderdale service in March 2025. I’m not sure if Brightline is the reason but it seems possible.
I don't find TSA intrusive. I'd rather have that than another 911 where I worked on Wall Street. No thanks!
I started to notice the different colour coaches as they go wizzing past our home. Thanks for the great video.
Wow , Great Video. You are lucky to get this insider shots !
I really enjoyed watching the whole process of getting these new coaches into service. Brightline certainly knows how to get the job done and and om time too! Great video of both inside and outside the maintenance facility! Nice work!
Thank you!
Thanks for that update from Brightline. Merry Christmas and greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
Excellent overview and remarkable process from manufacture in California, transport to FL and finishing the coaches for service!
While it is probably the *newest* one I've seen, that's also the *cleanest* and *tidiest* rail maintenance facility I've ever seen!
Really interesting. Great coverage and insight.
Thanks!
Ah yes, the cursed brightline single locomotive and 3 car single loco consists. Great videos man I enjoy seeing your content post construction
Nice work! The music during the wrap process was giving major "How its made" vibes!
That was very cool seeing the BTS process.
Awesome video. I saw a bright pink train set Sunday with a orange car in the mix. This video helps me understand why it had a odd one in the mix.
Great video, always good to see one of your uploads. Those cars must still have that "new" smell to them. Nice to see you got insider access.
It’s that new car smell but better!
Thanks and to Brightline you guys are incredible!
9:44 Homer Simpson: Oh, how convinient!
Awesome video! Great to see your still doing coverage even after the Orlando extension!
Great video. Thanks for doing the work to bring it to us. 👍🏼
Interesting, that’s a neat process the have, you got lucky to view it!
That was very informative, and a great review of their systems here. Kudos!
Thanks!
very cool. I hope Brightline west is your next project!
Great access to their shop
Your videos are always the greatest.
Nice work, Austin!
Your videos have always been top notch.
This is a great video! Today is Thanksgiving Day, and I just now completed watching the video in its entirety. I'll have to say that I have been waiting weeks to get a report on the new Brightline coaches. Every time I've tried to get information, only "ancient history" (4 months, 10 months, more .....) could be located. Thank you so much for a beautifully presented documentary. You answered a lot of questions for me as to how such a procedure is done, even including the details one would easily take for granted. I look forward to watching Brightline continue to expand its services, even up to the 10-coach maximum capacity. And I will again watch for your reporting on it as it happens! Well done!
Thanks for watching and glad I could answer your questions!
Love this video. Great behind the scenes views !! Thanks
Man how I missed these videos😌
A NEW EPISODE!!!!
Fantastic video!
Thanks for the video! Do you know why the car numbers appear to go 3-5-4 on the trains instead of 3-4-5?
It has to do with their long term positions in the train once they increase to 7 cars. Temporary decals with the correct numbers for the time being were installed on top of them.
@@RoamingRailfan cool, thank you for the reply! do you know why the new cars weren't put at the end-- oh, it's because the new ones don't have the permanent doors on the end and are thus designed to be added in the middle, I guess?
Correct
Sweet!
This video is awesome! Very informative and gives an eye inside of 'how' many things have been done with the make up of these trains! Great job! Is 7 coaches going to be the max length? Do you how long the station platforms are? How many coaches can be accommodated on the station platforms? Will Brightline be getting any cab cars or are they sticking to locomotives on each end?
Eventually they can expand up to 10 coaches as that is what the platforms were built for. They’ll always have a locomotive on either end.
What an amazing journey, love to see it! Is there thought of double tracking the ORL extension at some point?
Interesting
Those dimples on the chamfered part of the roof come from the factory. Every time I see them rolling by I wondered how they got hit.
Great video! Thanks for showing us the process (and for 3X the speed a few times LOL). But…why, why why didn’t they just put the new coaches in the back since they were labeled as “5”? That’s really going to confuse people. And on the walk through they printed a “5” to use in the vestibule to cover the “4” but that coach would still say “4” on the outside. 🤯
The old "4" car always has to be on the end since it has the baggage compartment and metal cover over the end so it can never be used mid train. The numbering situation was corrected within 24 hours with new decals installed to show the correct numbers. They were in a rush to get the cars in service to meet the demand for people evacuating from Hurricane Milton that they ran out of time before they entered service. They had extra attendants outside the cars to direct passengers to the correct coach in the meantime. The new car will be positioned as coach 5 in the long run once more coaches arrive.
@ Thanks for the explanation! Appreciate it. Also…forgot to ask in my original comment: what is the maximum number of coaches the stations are designed to accommodate. Will Brightline ever outfit their trains with the maximum number of coaches? Is demand there enough demand for max trains? Maybe it would make sense on more heavily traveled routes, but not on all?? Thanks again!
Platforms were built to accommodate trains up to 10 coaches long
Any plans for Brightline to obtain a dedicated engine for switching duties? With only 1 spare, Murphy’s Law will, at sometime occur.
They have a trackmobile but beyond that I don’t think so considering every train set has two locomotives and the only time there are loose coaches not in a consist is when there are new coaches being delivered.
how come some of the cars dont have the skirts along the bottom hiding the underside?
nevermind finally reached the part where they put the rest on
As a way to get the cars delivered faster, it was determined that they could be installed during the commissioning process rather than at the factory. I show the skirts being installed starting at 22:57.
In train cars 2 and 3, what's that locker-looking compartment where the bike racks used to be? Are they used for anything?
Baggage carts
The clutch cables on the car are not Scharfenbergkupplungen (I couldn't find what they're called in English) or? I couldn't tell that complettly.
Scharfenberg couplers are called the same in english, despite them struggeling a lot to spell and pronounce it :) Brightline does not use them.
The coupler the cars had when delivered was a Janney coupler, a type of knuckle coupler. The semi permanet coupler they added would be called Schalenmuffenkupplung in German.
Interesting, I always assumed the locomotive would have access to the coaches, but it looks like the permanent door is installed on the end coaches. That seems less than ideal, but idk why
One more coach and it will stand alongside Amtrak's Acela. Alas, still with diesel power instead of electricity.
Wow, I hadn't realized how much I missed your Brightline videos! Question: Are the sponsored wraps applied over the Brightline color wraps or are the cars stripped of their livery before the sponsored wraps are applied? Also, I assume that the sponsored wraps are for a specific amount of time - do you know if that's a set duration or are the sponsorship durations per contract?
The advertising wraps go on top of the Brightline colors
Kind of goofy that the train cars follow the order of 1, 2, 3, 5, 4 on the outside wraps. Or 1, 2, 3, 4, 4 on the Sail Princess train. Guessing they will rectify that in the future.
They were all fixed within a day of entering service, just ran out of time to put the correct decals on with the push to get trains in service ahead of Hurricane Milton.
"Dallas Blvd"...a gravel road ::D
It may be now, but there are plans in the works for it to become a 4-6 lane road to new developments sooner than later, hence the size of the Brightline bridge…
Is it bad that now I want for them to be 10-coach trains? LOL
Whats the reason for the use of that bell while the train is in the depot?
It’s a rule to make sure everyone is aware that there is a train moving.
No one gave kudos to brightline for putting those cars in service and onto sets in time to get people out of the way for Milton.
What's the maximum lenght the platforms can accommodate?
10 coaches
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Excellent work as always, Austin. Thank you for the update...but those two guys at 7:00 look kinda sketchy. 😜
Looks can be deceiving as those guys are absolute experts on these trains and I learned a ton from them
@@RoamingRailfan And where did they learn that from, I wonder?🤔 As a bonus, the “beam” under the coupler is the coupler carrier. For a knuckle coupler the shank rides directly on the carrier. For muff couplers (semipermanent) the shank “floats” above the carrier. As such the carrier was changed with the coupler. (I was wondering how they would handle the ferry move from Florin.)
Brightline beings busy on Thanksgiving and Christmas/ new year week.
How many coaches can station platforms accomodate?
10 coaches
Do they name the locomotives at brigt lines?
No, all the locomotives are identical other than their road numbers.
Why are bright line trains fixed consists and use knuckle couplers to add or delete cars as Nessary?
Semipermanent couplers provide a smoother ride as there is no slack in the train and fixed consists ensure consistency in seat layout for every train so that any train set can be used for any service.
They are certainly better than Amtrak. It would have taken them months to years to do just what Brightline did in a few days. Amtrak has become a joke.