Detroit Lakes - Least Used Amtrak Station in Minnesota
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
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0:00 - Poor Bid from Chicago to Detroit Lakes
7:26 - Detroit Lakes Station Review
10:39 - Exploring Detroit Lakes
14:22 - "Jefferson Lines" to Duluth
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Loved how the conductor was still talking as the train slowly rolled away 🤣 like a movie
He seemed like a really friendly guy
Lol
totally lol
that was so funny
@@bnywtrains9482 That's just how Minnesotans act
The conductor on the incoming train at 10:00 casually flipping the step stool around while the train is still in motion, then dropping it the very instant the train stops, has some serious skills
I don't know how he resisted the temptation to jump out while it was still moving
That’s how you make an entrance
I had to keep that clip in full because it was such a badass move
He's a personl good friend of mine! He been doing ti for a few years, and a Senior Conductor on this train.
Kudos to Miles for forcefully obtaining his scrumptious dinner roll from the Amtrak staff kitchen!
Why do people say not to get it?
A big plus about riding trains is waving to all the cars stuck in traffic! So Detroit Lakes used to be called just Detroit but to avoid confusion with Detroit, Michigan, they changed it to Detroit Lakes in 1927. Détroit is French for strait, which in case of the city in Michigan it refers to the Detroit River, but in the case of Detroit Lakes it refers to a sandbar (that has since been partially submerged for Pelican River watershed navigation) that separates Big Detroit Lake from Little Detroit Lake. The station building's from 1908 but was renovated in 2010 and yes, it's accessible with a wheelchair lift available!
I live in Detroit Lakes and am glad Miles was able to visit our little city! My wife and I were at Bucks Mill Brewhouse (the microbrewery in the Mall) just a couple evenings ago! Staples also has a significant Amish population in the area and you will frequently see one or more horse and buggy tied to the fence while their riders are waiting for the Builder to roll through Staples at o-dark-bleary. With no cars , for those folks the train is a needed source of regional transportation.
Ooh, that helps to explain why Staples gets more ridership!
@@MilesinTransit I find it interesting how the Amish actually use public transit and heavily rely on it when they are out and about.
>He's still keeping track of jaywalking fines almost 7 years later
It's the little things like that that make these vids so special. SO glad I've been around since idk, around 1k lol
Thank you so much!!
That slow zoom in on Eli as you discover the bus is cancelled was lovely. Not that the bus was cancelled - while this time made sense, some of these private bus lines are the only way to get from place to place in parts of the country, and they seem to be falling apart more and more of late.
Those older Superliner bathrooms with the angled toilets are so much roomier than what's in later cars. (3:31)
Looks like Miles really got the authentic Midwest winter experience on this whole adventure
Also hearing him pronounce all the Minnesota town names wrong made me chuckle. They're even worse in Wisconsin, in my opinion!
"Duluth is getting SOCKED" is my favorite quote from this
love that you could say "we're going to detroit! .... detroit lakes, minnesota. the least used amtrak station in minnesota." also I love your "poor bid!!!" sound bite, it always makes me laugh!
OMG!!! The conductor at 6:51 is my dad hahahahahahaha I love it
Wait actually??
Yep that’s him he said he remembered that convo 😂
Holy crap, that's awesome! I really really appreciated that conversation!
Regarding their JCPenney...it's closing in May. I know, I was just as shocked that the place had a JCPenney, let alone a stand-alone one downtown...but it was too good to be true I suppose. I've been to their former flagship at the Manhattan Mall in NYC many times because I used to live in Jersey City and this is where the 33rd Street PATH is. Their flagship revived that mall big time, but ever since the pandemic began in 2020 and the JCPenney closed in July that year and the mall's Aeropostale moved their spot so they could have an outdoor entrance, the mall has been closed to foot traffic. A shame to look at such a prime location go to waste like that.
The first Costco in the US opened in 1983 in Seattle, and then it expanded to Portland and Spokane that same year. Their first headquarters was in Seattle but opted to move to Kirkland just east of Seattle in 1987 (hence their Kirkland products; their current headquarters is in Issaquah which is still within the Seattle metro). Costco is pretty much a suburbia thing, but there ARE urban locations like on Expo Blvd in Vancouver, Rego Park in Queens, 10th Street in San Francisco, and East 117th Street in Manhattan.
Jefferson Lines runs a hub and spoke system in Minnesota. All the buses end up in the parking lot of the Westgate Mall as the hub and you have to transfer there to a bus going to your final destination.
16:33 I love that Miles first Costco experience is in northern Minnesota. haha
Minnesota seems like a lovely place
I had SUCH a good time there. I don't think I've ever felt more welcomed by a US state I'd never been to!
The grocery store I work at started stocking snyders pretzels- Pennsylvania soft power extends all the way to toronto. I tried their cheddar cheese pretzel bites (not super keen on plain pretzels), pretty damn good.
HECK YEAH!!!
Welcome to Brainerd, where you would have passed Strong Towns World HQ on the left just past downtown. A few blocks before the infamous Taco John’s.
Truly pained by some of Miles' pronunciation of Minnesota towns.
Also I've also struggled with refunds for cancelled Jefferson Lines tickets, although I've never been told that they won't refund your ticket! If you haven't yet, I'd contact your credit/debit card issuer, as they should be able to file a chargeback.
Don't worry, most Midwesterners probably butcher Northeastern towns names too
Eli is the best Jefferson Lines driver. They should totally hire him.
Your opinion on Dot's Pretzels is wrong, but I will respect your pretzel preferences regardless. (:
On a more serious note, currently living in WI, and having been in the Midwest my whole life, the winter scenery throughout the video feels nice and familiar to me, even if I've never been to the actual places you went through. That's nice. Glad you seem to have enjoyed your time in Minnesota. Can't wait to see what you get up to in Duluth!
Also, how does the Amtrak "bidding" process work? There's a chance I'm going to get to go from Milwaukee to Denver round-trip sometime soon, and being able to get cheaper tickets somehow would be reeeal nice.. it'd also be my first train-riding experience in probably close to a decade, only my second one ever, and my first one solo/as an adult as well. Nervous but excited for it, if it actually comes to fruition. Any tips or advice or anything I should maybe know (assuming you know anything about the trip)?
Thank you! So the bidding process doesn't get you cheaper base tickets, but rather cheaper ticket *upgrades* - I've found that it's kinda tough to rely on them as a guaranteed room upgrade, but I always like to put one in just in case I get lucky, like in this video! Here are some tips for it:
-As far as I can tell, it only works for reservations involving one train, so for a trip like Milwaukee to Denver that involves two segments, you'd want to book the two legs separately to get the chance to bid up on the Zephyr.
-I always put the bid in right after I buy the ticket...I have no idea if timing actually affects it, but it always "feels good" to do that.
-It really is a toss-up if you'll get it, so if you don't feel like you'd be able to stomach traveling across the country in coach, you'd probably be best off just directly booking a roomette (for what it's worth, I find coach pretty comfortable, but I TOTALLY understand if that doesn't sound appealing). I've had cases where there are still *plenty* of rooms left on the train but Amtrak still didn't give me the bid! I guess if you *really* wanted a room, you could always book coach, wait to see if the bid gets accepted or not, and upgrade to a room with the regular fare if it doesn't, but that seems risky on the Zephyr...
Those were some really unorganized thoughts, but hopefully that helps!
@@MilesinTransit Ah, hmm, goes to show how little I know about traveling via Amtrak and the bid system lol, that's not what I expected it to be like, what with it being a ticket upgrade rather than the ticket itself. Traveling in a room and having the extra privacy for what's supposed to be a 21+ hr train journey (one way) would be nice, but plain 'ol coach is fine by me too, I think. I hope. I haven't exactly put too much thought into this yet!-- since I don't know yet whenabouts I'd be making this trip. I don't remember Portage, WI -> Stanley, ND & back being too all that bad when I was younger, though.
Ultimately, I think the cheapest way from around where I live to Denver would be via plane.. and it'd be a much shorter flight.. but riding the train just seems a lot more enjoyable to me; much less stressful, not having to deal with airports for the first time, more time to enjoy the scenery and all that..
I assume there's no real way to get cheaper coach tickets? In what little messing around I've done, I've figured out that Wednesdays are the cheapest days, and booking well in advance helps (though there becomes a point where it seems to just level out at the same price no matter how far out I plan), but that's all I've got. The cheapest I've been able to get it seems to be around $150 each way, $300 round-trip, and, I dunno much about Amtrak, but $300 is a lot of money (for me at least).
Wait until you hear about Costco's holy pizza! It's made by a ROBOT! This magical machine evenly distributes their delicious sauce on the pizza dough. Thanks to the handy robot, Costco has streamlined its pizza process to make it as efficient (and irresistibly delicious) as possible.
First, they make sure to give the pizza dough time to rise before they press it into pies. Next, it goes to the pizza robot for an even layer of sauce. After toppings are added they put it in the oven, which evenly heats the pizza from all angles (in only six minutes!). And, to ensure that it’s always fresh, any pizza that isn’t sold within an hour gets replaced with one straight out of the oven
Ayy, I've been waiting for this one for a while, great to finally see it! Looking forward to your videos on Duluth and Minneapolis!
These road trips with Amtrak is fun to watch. The snow is mesmerizing there lol
It was so much fun going back to edit this and getting reminded of how gorgeous the snow was!
Love your least-used station video! Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
AS far as I know, Staples gets more passengers because it's worse served by other modes of transit and further from other bigger towns/cities (like Fargo).
Huh, that makes sense!
I used to live in Fargo and very frequently visited Detroit Lakes for my own railfan adventures. I always hit up Main Street Cafe and I got so excited when you went there!
It was quite good!
Very appropriate to be listening to Prince while visiting Minnesota
Eli made a whole Minnesota playlist!
I was very worried you would be locked out of that station completely, and it was cold! The breakfast at the downtown diner looked good!
It seems like the station building is open all the time? That's partially why I retroactively raised the score to a 6!
Thanks for visiting Duluth!
Love you showing the library
That Was Fun Guys!! Loved The Snow, Don't See That Snow In San Diego.🌴 Thanks For Sharing!!
Thank you!
i love how serious u are about pretzels
Ooh I love the roof! A small town with a cute old downtown mall that's awesome.
WHATTT! I can’t believe I came across this video. I work at that hotel, too bad I didn’t see you you guys were there! Come back in the summer it’s much better. 😂😂
Whoa, that's awesome! Honestly it was really beautiful in the winter too!
So this is where your MN transit adventures began. Eli is a true friend to drive to DL to pick you up. I'm glad you had such a great impression of my state. Yup, you really hafta come on back, dontcha know, for the beautiful summer experience of sun and moonlight shimmering on our many lakes. Thanks for sharing!
Your Jefferson Lines driver was nice to have some mid-00s Jayhawks on the radio.
He made a whole Minnesota playlist!
Welcome to my hometown. Next time I would choose any other months than December through April
Was there a Minnesota playlist in the car? I think I heard Jayhawks and Prince?
Yes, there was!
Wow, how on earth have you never been inside a Costco until just now
I guess I'm too much of a city slicker??
Early upload today eh? It's not in the middle of the night here yet... Thanks Miles!
I always upload at 5 PM Eastern Time! But I'm glad you caught the video earlier this time around!
if you went to Duluth, it would be cool if you also went to Thunder Bay in Ontario as well
Unfortunately not this time around!
@@MilesinTransit understandable, though that definitely would mean a forced trip around 3/4ths of Lake Superior, that's for sure
I wonder which desolate stretch of ballast in the bush is the Least Used Ontario station? I bet there’s a few tied at 0
@@Spanderson99 oh, definitely
yo I live in Detroit lakes I didn't know it was the least used in MN that's cool! fun fact the JC penny at 12:22 is now an ACE hardware. hope to see you back in Detroit lakes!
Dang, that's too bad it closed!
Surprised that Detroit Lakes is the least used station. Staples is a significantly smaller town and the station building is boarded up if I remember correctly
Ope, just got to the staples part of the video
I have been to Detroit Lakes and Duluth during the summer and it's better than the winter and I took Jefferson lines between the two and the route Miles took I's the one I didn't take .
I was so excited when I found out my friend Eli was in a Miles in Transit video. Also very glad you watched Fargo and had such great weather.
Y'all got a Roomette! Nice!
Any plans to hit up the least used station in WI? The Broadway Diner nearby in Baraboo is pretty sweet.
Oh wow, that diner looks AWESOME! I don't actually know how I'd get from Portage to Baraboo though...
Find a Dells shuttle
freaking me out to see this video at the top of my feed as I leave my apartment that's 2 blocks away from this station lol
would totally take the amtrak to the cities all the time if it didn't leave DL at 3am lmao
15:45: Wow much graphics such feelings of being on an actual bus with a window wrap
3:11 - Said “Beacon of Light, Beacon of Hope” out loud.
Okay yeah, that is pretty similar!
It will be quite interesting when you get out here to the Wild West - as our stations are much more “bare-bones” then stations in the Midwest, and especially East.
I'm really excited for some of the more remote ones!
This was great! Watching this from a night train from Arnhem to Basel makes it even more fun tho :)
Thank you! And what a fitting place to watch!
This was great! Really enjoyed it.
More Eli....does he have a channel. He seems really cool.
He doesn't have a channel, but I sent this comment to him to let him know - thank you!
@@MilesinTransit if he wants to share an email address that would be great
Phillip Seymore Hoffmann is amazing in this
You should have asked for Snyders instead of the steak.
Any plans for a new Version of the Greyhound Trip? :D
I have some stuff in the pipeline!
MILES IN MINNESOTA!!!!!!!!!!
Does the Detroit Lakes 'Washington Square Mall' count as Transit-oriented development then? Regardless, it looks nice and offers some indoor shopping experience which isn't walmart. Love seeing small places like that which actually aren't run down and depressing. Oh and also, proposing the term ''Amtraklle'' for the free apple.
Poor bid is my favorite miles meme
Hi Miles... Just to know if you're going to be recently in April close to the west coast of the US, so I can maybe meet you in one or part of your trip. I like your funny videos and I will be using the USA Rail pass starting in Las Vegas running all the West Coast from San Diego all the way up to Seattle Washington, stopping in Los Angeles Sacramento Napa Valley, Portland and ending in Chicago with the Empire Builder. My trip will start in April 20th of to May 8th. If by any chance you are traveling in any part of any of those cities I mentioned, I would like to meet you.
Unfortunately I won't be on the west coast at any of those times! But I hope you have an awesome trip, that sounds great!
@@MilesinTransit ok next time... Thanks for sharing your videos.
I'm originally from North Dakota, and yeah, during a storm the driving is definitely not for the faint of heart (especially if you don't have a decade+ experience of driving on ice!)
Jefferson lines lives on Minnesota subsides.
Michigan when. Do the Grand Rapids silver line too.
@15:47 10/10
I MISSED A NEW VIDEO BY 12 DAYS?!!?
Nice
You're joking about it but the car replacement bus happened to me. I went to New Carrolton to take a Bus 921 to Annapolis and a guy shows up and tells me and another woman waiting to follow him to his car. Hen then proceeded to explain that there were usually very few passengers, and since they're regulars (not me) he knew he could just drive a car instead of the bus to save money.
Okay, that's AWESOME
I fucking love Dot's
If you're doing least visited Amtrak stations in each state, does this mean we will see Sanderson, Texas one day? That station looked like such a dump, when i once researched that station on street view. The original station house building was demolished there, a few years ago.
I admire your dedication to getting to those less visited stations. The only Amtrak station in west Texas I'd have a linited interest to want to see, would be Alpine. Not sure if Del Rio would have anything interesting to do there, as i haven't researched this town as much as Alpine. And renting a car would probably be good to do there, since then i could get to Marfa and Big Bend National Park. I think there's also a Texas state park, not too far away. And if you're taking Sunset Limited ive heard the recommendation to be awake by Del Rio, since the train goes over Amistad Lake and Pecos River(both just west of the Del Rio station).
Yeah, I intend to do all of them eventually!
@@MilesinTransitGood. Hope to see your video on Sanderson, one of these days. I recently looked up Benson, AZ(speaking of least ridden stations in various states), and that town seemed to have a little more going on than Sanderson. It even had a Safeway and a Walmart, to my surprise. Hadn't yet looked up Deming, NM(least ridden for NM), but I will soon.
Also, Maurice's is a pretty well know regional women's clothing chain. I spotted at least 2 chains in that Detroit Lakes mall. Even the much deader mall in Marshall, Minnesota(per North CDogg22 and Doomie Grunt), has a Maurice's inside.
New miles content!
I think 5/10 is appropriate, you have a bathroom, but not even a vending machine. And wow who knew Greyhound was better than a smaller coach bus thing, I guess you're not getting that money back. Bad experience with public transit today, so it's nice to see your videos putting public transit in a good light via Amtrak.
Fellow minnesotan here. DL has a high recreational drug use population which is the justification for the locked bathroom and hostile benches.
Eh, that's the kind of thing that kills the waiting experience for everyone else though...I don't think it's worth it
Miles eats like he's never seen a fork before in his life.
You're wrong about dots pretzels but i love you anyway
new 'sit just dropped
I turned around in Detroit Lakes once. Something about waiting on a train in the middle of the night…
"the world's largest turkey" wouldn't that be turkey the country
omg i drove through there once😍
I'm a little surprised you didn't visit chuck Marohn in Brainard
Genuinely didn't know Strong Towns was based there!
@@MilesinTransit it’s actually pretty impressive how many of the case studies in the book draw from, like, Taco Johns restaurants in rural Minnesota
16:36 Miles you've never been to a Costco before?! 😮
✨poor bid✨
Miles seems to "enjoy" Dot's Pretzels as much as I do.
Obamna, SODA!!!!
That city near Duluth named "Cloquet" is pronounced the French way - i.e. "Clo-kay". Silent T at the end.
Ah, thank you! Always hard to tell how US cities with French origins are pronounced...
@@MilesinTransit you're welcome. We regularly joke that it's easy to write a test to prove if you're from MN (if you say you are) - just list some random city names and see how many they get right. Wayzata, Edina, Cloquet, Faribault, Mahnomen, Bemidji, Ely and similar cities are among the common entries.
Also, it's almost comically easy for us to tell when some new newscaster (on one of the Twin Cities stations) is a transplant vs a local, as they'll butcher one of those city names, or similar. :P
You're all good... since MN has a mix of Ojibwe, Sioux, French, Anglo and more inspired place names, it's not easy. :P
Not just a least used station, but least used station bathroom… since it’s locked.
I used the heck out of that changing table crossing the country with a 14-month-old last November. I wouldn’t say I recommend crossing the country with a 14-month-old on Amtrak, but those changing tables sure made it a lot easier. 3:40
I will never tolerate Dot's slander!
I'm sorryyyyy, the seasoning just wasn't for me!
Surprised you didn't get the Amtrak Hotdish. You are in Minnesota, don'tcha know?
12:12 - what's this about research? 😉
I suppose I didn't do it...
11:15 thats a call to the bank right there. You paid for a service and they did not provide it. Easy charge back.
You’ll be happy to know that I’m eating a bag of Snyder’s while watching this.
HECK YEAH!
here's me thinking you were joking about making all local stops as you start pointing out all of the stops...
We had to replicate Jefferson Lines as closely as possible!
I felt cold watching this.... brrrrrrrr
Intrigued why the rental is a Subaru Legacy, cheapest AWD option?
Eli lives in the Twin Cities so it's just his car!
Did the train leave late? It should still be light out when you come to Milwaukee.
We might've gotten stuck waiting for a Metra train? I can't remember now, I guess I cut it out for time.
If u can check out new Mexico amtrak station
My plan is to visit every least used station eventually!
@@MilesinTransit oh ok
how did you book two people in the same room going to two different destinations?
We were booked for the same destination, Eli just bailed early!
What is "Poor Bid" a reference to?
You can "bid up" to a higher fare class on Amtrak, as we did here with the roomette - if you do the minimum offer, it calls it a "poor bid"
@@MilesinTransit ooh that's interesting!
Ok no joke I was on the crew that built that hotel 😂😂
That's incredible!!! Thank you for commenting!