[ Amtrak Train Ride ] Complete Trip Report, All 37 stops and highlights, NOL-NYP
Northbound Amtrak Crescent Train 20 from New Orleans Union Terminal in Louisiana to New York Penn Station (June 20-21, 2022)
[Train Information]
Train: Amtrak Crescent 20 (northbound)
Depart (scheduled): 6/20/2022 9:15am New Orleans
Arrive (scheduled): 6/21/2022 6:08pm New York
Distance: 1,377 mi (2,216 km)
Duration (scheduled): 31 hours 53 minutes
Fleet: Veiwliner Bag Dorm and Sleeper, Amfleet II Cafe and Coach
[Timeline]
00:00 New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal
03:25 Lake Pontchartrain Bridge
05:07 Amtrak Amfleet II Coach Interior
06:04 Slidell, Louisiana Station
06:39 Mississippi-Louisiana State Border (Pearl River)
07:15 Picayune, Mississippi Station
07:52 Clickety‐clack sound
08:38 Hattiesburg, Mississippi Station
09:37 Laurel, Mississippi Station
10:22 Norfolk Southern Southbound Freight Train (Amtrak reversal procedure)
14:10 Meridian, Mississippi Station
15:14 Alabama-Mississippi State Border
15:48 Tuscaloosa, Alabama Station
16:32 Birmingham, Alabama Station (Fresh air stop)
18:02 Amtrak Crescent 20 Train Consist
21:37 Coosa River in Alabama
22:17 Anniston, Alabama Station
23:18 Amtrak Crescent 20 Interior Walkthrough
24:54 Atlanta, Georgia Station (Fresh air stop)
27:22 Gainesville, Georgia Station
27:55 Toccoa, Georgia Station
28:22 Clemson, South Carolina Station
29:02 Greenville, South Carolina Station
29:32 Spartanburg, South Carolina Station
30:28 Gastonia, North Carolina Station
31:08 Charlotte, North Carolina Station (Fresh air stop)
33:17 Salisbury, North Carolina Station
33:53 High Point, North Carolina Station
35:12 Greensboro, North Carolina Station
36:51 Virginia-North Carolina State Border
37:29 Danville, Virginia Station
39:06 Lynchburg, Virginia Station
39:40 James River
40:18 Charlottesville, Virginia Station (Fresh air stop)
42:11 Orange, Virginia Station (not Amtrak station)
42:52 Culpeper, Virginia Station
43:48 Manassas, Virginia Station
44:47 Alexandria, Virginia Station
45:41 Potomac River
46:35 Washington D.C. Union Station (Fresh air stop)
47:40 Power change at Washington Union Station
49:28 BWI Airport, Maryland Station
50:25 Baltimore Penn Station
51:25 Susquehanna River
52:00 Elkton, Maryland Station (former Amtrak station)
52:21 Wilmington, Delaware Station
54:25 Amtrak Crescent 20 Interior Walkthrough
56:05 Philadelphia 30th Street Station
57:33 North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Schuylkill River)
58:39 Trenton, New Jersey Station
59:10 Princeton Junction, New Jersey Station
59:52 New Brunswick, New Jersey Station
1:00:46 Metropark, New Jersey Station
1:02:40 Newark Penn Station
1:03:29 Hackensack River and North Tunnels under Hudson River
1:04:24 New York Penn Station
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great trip ride along video on the Crescent Route with outside and indoor tours and the engine swap
Awesome Trip ❤🎉😊
Thank you so much for this video. We are traveling by train from Philadelphia to New Orleans round trip. I felt so good about the ride back home. I am excited and cannot wait to see the country this way.
You are awesome. I will try to video the entire trip also. This is something totally different for us and I am up for the experience.
Finally a review of the actual train instead of an ego fest by an annoying presenter. Awesome job!
Glad to see that infamous subway 😋 is still in the station. Remember grabbing one pre board. Lol Takes me down memory lane forreal I have rode the crescent many times from NY to NOLA glad to see not much has changed with that good old station 😇🥰😍 love ❤ it. Driving past that dome and riding across the Pontchartrain, good footage.
Great video. Thanks for taking the time to put this together and share it with the many rail fans on KZread. I’ve seen the Crescent many times at Laurel Mississippi and would love to take it all the way to New York.
i can remember getting a sleeper up to philly or ny you still had time to catch a few zzzzzz now it's daylight when the train arrives in greensboro
Seeing the train on the skinny bridge over Lake Pontchartrain was so cool, it's like the train is just flying over the surface of the ocean. Beautiful views, almost a little scary
One hell of a video. Thanks.
When you posted North Philadelphia on your video, you were still in West Philadelphia, by the Philadelphia Zoo, the first zoo in the USA... after that, pass the river then that's North Philadelphia
You can tell that so many of these stations along the way were built to handle far more traffic than they ever see now. Multi-platform stations for what, two trains a day? It's a very obvious sign that things used to be different regarding rail travel in America.
Station stops were nice touch.
Dude all the diagrams you put on your videos really put it over the top. I’m bedridden for a couple weeks and enjoying your videos!
Thank you. We need more videos like this where the persons with the camera are not talking or showing their faces through most of the videos. I usually check travel videos when I plan to take a trip somewhere & most of the people posting the videos seem to be more focused on recording their not-to-attractive faces than on the sceneries.
Change my plan from Seattle to New Orleans for Feb2024 just to see Lake Pontchartrain
Just wish you would have filmed going over the dam at Lake Accotink between Burke, VA, and Springfield, VA.
Very cool video. Thanks for sharing. I live in Atlanta and am contemplating taking the Crescent to NOLA then the Sunset Limited to LA then Coast Starliner close to Emeryville then the Zephyr to Chicago and fly back to ATL. I would do a roomette with all those overnights. Do you see any problems with that itinerary?
Great video record of your trip! Did you use Google maps for tracking your progress? I noticed there were several images of a map on your phone. (traveling from Burlington, VT to Minneapolis, MN and return in 2 weeks)
@arandomyoutubechannel2940
9 ай бұрын
It was apple maps
Any preference of which side is best to sit on?
I rode the Crescent from Atlanta to New York several years ago. Arriving at Penn station under Madison Square Garden is really like arriving in a basement. Would love to get a chance to see the new Moynihan Train Hall in person.
I've ridden the Crescent numerous times. Believe me, you should have shown the scenery. You missed half the trip!!!
why use your hands when going to the cafe car? i use my feet when going from coach to coach by using the switch at the bottom of the door. just tap it with your toe and the doors open.. simple!
Can anyone tell me if Coach class seats are assigned? Most posts claim they are not, some claim the car is assigned, but I just watched a post of a guy buying a Coach ticket and getting an assigned seat (on the Sunset Limited). I am trying to avoid hassles with conductors.
@bj_savy3079
Жыл бұрын
It depends on what car they put you in if they put you in a car that don’t have a lot of people there are no assigned seats but if it’s crowded they gone put you in assigned seats that’s how they do it on the crescent. I really think it depends on where you are going.
@harvey2465
Жыл бұрын
With computers seats should be reserved to spread boarding and alighting to minimize dwell time using all doors. This means automatic doors and solving trap issue for low-level platforms. Reservations can facilitate bicycle and handicapped needs.
@kirkgoshert7876
Жыл бұрын
@@harvey2465 Amtrak uses the latest cutting edge technology. It's 1978, right?
@jackcole3146
Жыл бұрын
Were when I used it, but that was about 10 years ago.
@kirkgoshert7876
Жыл бұрын
@@jackcole3146 I've ridden 5 coach trips since posting the question. Twice I got a seat assigned. On all 5, people seemed to do whatever they wanted anyway, so I followed suit.
Haven’t taken this route to NYC from Atlanta in years since before the pandemic. Back then the schedule was much earlier. You’d leave ATL around 9 or 10. I hate the new schedule. Leaving ATL at midnight stinks. Before we’d be near charlotte at that time. It is nice to see scenery that before would be at night.
Nice diagram of reversal
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i think one of the worst things they could have done was removing the dinning car and taking the good food off this long trip train i remember when they came up with this crock of manure about how people didn't want to eat in the dinning car anymore especially after waiting so long for the new viewliner diners
@wilmatineslaughter2934
4 ай бұрын
I agree. It doesn't make sense especially on long distance overnight trips. I live eating in the dining car following in the footsteps of my dad who was a dining car waiter for nearly 30 years prior to his passing in 1977. I have called the Transportation Committee in Congress to see what can be done especially since more and more people are riding the trains.
Heads up Amtrak travelers if you are a Senior or Mobility Impaired. There is NO Red Cap service in Atlanta for the northbound arrival. You are literally on your own to wrestle your luggage into the elevator for the decent to the track level. It's then a very long hike down the platform to your sleeping car/coach.
I worked this train as an SA in the 90’s. Bring back the FULL dining car. Cliff at Metro-North. 👍🏽🚃🚃
Get with -the program, ride sle-e*p/er% on long distance t-r-ips.
@ZazzelTheGamer
9 ай бұрын
wtf?