Awesome video. The Amtrak trains with 7-8 cars are called Northeast Regionals, those with 5 cars and appear to go backward are Keystones, they can go 125 mph, the sleek, futuristic looking trains are Acelas, they can go 135mph

Alan, I always love your mashups of captured sound at the end! Nice video. Really enjoyed the intensity!

@Millenniumforce

10 жыл бұрын

Thank you

I counted 51 trains, including one not seen on the other side of a train near the end. That's pretty good, but the best places to railfan if you want frequency of trains IMHO are Secaucus Transfer, the Harrison PATH station, Harlem-125th, and New Rochelle. These rank pretty close to UK lines in suburban London that were spoken of by others -- the East Coast Main Line (try Hatfield Station) and the West Coast Main Line (try South Kenton station -- a Tube stop too), or try Stratford and/or Barking on the east side. Fifty trains per hour is quite common. BTW, I love your Gov. Christie impression at 13:10!

@Millenniumforce

10 жыл бұрын

Yeah right LOL LOL LOL

Thank you!! I used to live in New Jersey. All this and next week I will be posting video's from my trip in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Hey Larry, Yes I remember riding them back in the 70's and 80's but still I loved them back then. I was there watching them tare down the old Asbury Park station and all the old brick buildings around there.

Love those NJ Transit trains. Much nicer than the old Lackawanna pullmans they used to run. Those things looked like they were from the stone age.

the wire overhead on the trains is the overhead catenary wire (poles are 280 feet apart), the little doohickie (sp) on the loco is the pantograph, that's where the loco generates its power, from the catenary wire to the pantograph to the train and that's how it movs.

It depends on the area, from Wikipedia (paraphrasing): Norfolk Southern operates over the line south of Philadelphia. CSX operates from New York to New Haven; in Massachusetts; and in Maryland from Landover, where its Landover Subdivision joins the NEC, and Bowie, where its Pope's Creek Subdivision leaves it. Between Philadelphia and New York, Conrail operates usually in between NY-PHL too. The P&W operates local freight service from New Haven into Rhode Island and from New Haven to New York

Sure beats the way it used to be in New Jersey when I lived in Asbury Park, you had to wait longer for a train to NYC, and once you got going, you had to pray a lot, for the tracks getting closer to the Apple, was real bad, the train would sway back and forth, like a ship in a gale. Great video you did Alan, say hi to Mike for me, too. lol

Awesome Video Alan! Too bad I couldn't be with you on this trip, but at least I got to meet you at the WTC memorial!

There's a station in England called Clapham Junction which has currently 120 trains per hour to/from London Victoria and Waterloo to/from various destinations across the south east of england like Brighton, Gatwick Airport, and Portsmouth. once Crossrail is complete they'll be 200 trains per hour through another station in London called Farringdon.

Excellent video!!!

Ok you are awesome!!! This are the trains in New Jersey!!! And nice shots. You should come back, but go to the Rahway, NJ train station.

4:20 That one BARELY stopped!

Thank you We did. Going back up New Years and next 4th of July

It really stopped for about a minute. I just edited the stop out so it would not be boring.

Awesome video Alan! You might be able to catch the Silver Star and Silver Meteor with the Amtrak Electric engines while you're there!

Trains don't stop here too often, its the Jersey Avenue counterpart, no service here on weekends, very minimal service here during the weekdays (its mostly a commuter station).

Great video Allan! I hope you are doing well.

Most awesome vid!!!!!

great shots Alan, you'd love the West Coast Main Line over here in England, we can get 40/50 trains an hour running during rush hour

That's the Keystone. Those trains make trips from NYC to Harrisburg, with only a handful of them making only half the trip (NY-PHL, or HAR-PHL).

BiG M, hope you had a good time up here with us mid state/north easterners...hello from Maryland

Great video at N Elizabeth, some other good spots are Princeton Junction& Hamilton, Amtrak regionals can do 125mph, Acela's 130mph usually on tracks 2&3, the dinky still runs between Princeton and Princeton Junction

Excellent video. It would be interesting to work as dispatcher with four main lines. The train at 12:03 with yellow/black stripes looks like a crash test train. LOL ^^

This line sees mostly passenger service. Freight operations are very sparse during the day, you are more likely to see them operate during the night time hours (usually between 10 pm and 3 AM), and even then its not as much.

This was the time when the HHP-8's were still Rostering in Amtrak's fleet

I lived on the Northeast Corridor for a while. I moved and now I live down south

Jersey City 1964-1974 Point Pleasant Beach 1974-1986 Barnegat 1986-1991 Exmore Virginia 1991-1996 and Florida since then

Very nice, I wish the NEC line had full Comet V

You're a happy little kid and this is your candy store...fun

I was there 2 weeks ago. I used to live there. What station are you near?

Nice video!

More like 4-6 though South of Rahway, and at Secaucus (which that is a whole different world, it's over 20).

You also forgot our long distance buddies too :P

Awesome video!!!!!!'

I hope you got to Secaucus Junction and just wandered around shooting everything that comes into that place. About four different lines at different levels. I wish they'd build an observation deck on the roof of the place! Are you paying attention NJT???

Are you originally from New Jersey, Alan? Wow! What a small world. I lived in Asbury Park, from 1967-1969, from AP took a bus into Philadelphia, but ask the bus driver drop me off at I-70 or 80, can't remember which, and I set out to go to California, via hitch-Hike. I missed Asbury Park, but I've heard it really has changed there, I imagine so much damage since Sandy hitting that area as well as Long Island, NY. Yes, trains been my favorite since I knee-high to grasshopper, lol

That is one thing I like in NJ. The good transit network.

You failed to mention in your video also that not all these trains go to Trenton. From Rahway onwards to NYP, the NJCL (North Jersey Coast Line) shares the line with the NEC, so some of the southbounds past Rahway continue onwards towards the Coastline Connection to continue their journey eastwards (some trains terminate at Long Branch, others at Bay Head).

What Town Would That Be???

14:38 THE LOCOMOTIVES 2 of them, that is rare!

@kytruong5314

8 жыл бұрын

We placed testing engine on top of regular engine.

@orangefan200

4 жыл бұрын

14:38

Nice I was just at Rahway not too far south of here.

Ok Could have been better. Lot's more trains from up north coming soon

LOVE IT!

That's so cool. Wish I had the money to go to England. Maybe one day

Freights are mixed in Once and a while

Have you ever filmed septa during the evening rush hour

I will next July I used to live up there and know where Rahway is

Never understood what the electric guy wire was for! Communications?

Train watching.....sometimes theres nothing and other times they come in droves LOL

@kiaravega2224

5 жыл бұрын

Wide World of Trains yuuuuokkkjjhgfdsmnbvccxzpoiuytrewq

Good ol' Raceway!

There is always next time I am up there.

I wish NJ Transit kept their comet 2s.

Is this the 20 kV 25 Hertz system for the railways, nice video.

Used to be conrail but it is a little of everything More CSX

Was that your first time up here?

I used to work for new jersey transit railroad for 9 years and I can tell you they suck but I can tell you almost all of there rolling stock like alp's 46's alp 45 dp comit's 5's multilevel car's ''comit 6's'' that is an exsample of the rolling stock. also they are upgrading there rolling stock.

most trains express through north elizabeth because most customers use the elizabeth station, but personally i like to go to linden

@Millenniumforce

10 жыл бұрын

***** My favorite rail fanning spot since the 70's

@composerlecturer

10 жыл бұрын

I like Rahway, because you can tell which trains will be going down to South Amboy and the shore. They pull in on the track all the way to the side southbound, so they'll be lined up for the correct branch line tracks. And yet you can see all those Amtrak guys flying by.

Theres a NJT station in my town.

New Egypt, 1966, Perth Amboy 1966, 1966, Plainfield, 1966-67, Bradley Beach, 1967-1968, and Asbury Park, 1968-1969, I was, young stupid, and was trying to find out what I was to be, it took me Hitch-Hiking to California to find myself, but a lot lost friends and hurt.

your in New Jersey? I live in New Jersey.

I may just be an idiot, but I think the engine of the first train looks like the one they use in Germany.

power to the trains, they are electric trains rather than diesel, the trains pickup the juice via their pantograph

Well next time I am up there maybe we can meet

have you played train simulator?

Not here they don't. Trains around this area I believe top out at 90 mph. Once they get to County then they fly.

Trains from Ham to County run 125/135/110.

40 trains in a 2 hour period?. Come to Clapham Junction in the UK, 180 trains an hour during the peak hours, not as fast though, think it's 40-60 MPH (64-96 kph) passing through.

@ERA3733

10 жыл бұрын

What he hasn't shown you is the fact that between those trains you sdaw, there are an additional 20 trains thatr branch off between Secaucus and Newark to head out to Western New Jersey.

@GofaqYusef

10 жыл бұрын

Oh ok.

11:54 the pantographs! Interesting...

Do some of those locals (NJ Transit) really have windows at your feet? They don't look tall enough to be double-decker....

@composerlecturer

10 жыл бұрын

They are definitely double-deckers. They are lower to the ground. When you enter from the platform, you come in between levels an either go up or down to your seat.

I've been here before!

Only 4 Acela's? That makes me sad. ;-(

The Amtrak at 1:36 was leaded by an Amtrak HHP-8 in the HighSpeed Amtrak Acela colors.

@66NEETS

10 жыл бұрын

***** I know that -_-

2 ALP -46s!!!

Go on

Wow

Hawthorne

And many of the other trains. (I posted the first comment in the beginning of the video.)

Exited huh!

Its amtrak acela.

All electric to power the trains

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is he crazy