Amtrak 352 Wolverine HAULS A$$ AT 115 MILES AN HOUR through 4th in Kalamazoo, MI

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6 ай бұрын

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@OneLastHitB4IGo 5 ай бұрын

My Grandfather worked as a machinist out of the old roundhouse in Kalamazoo. He started in 1916 fresh out of the Army in Bay City with what was then the Michigan Central RR. He retired in 1961 to care for my Grandmother who had Alzheimer's /Dementia. She passed away in August of '71 and Gramps died 4 months later in December of '71 and I believe it was from a broken heart.

@tigertiger1699 4 ай бұрын

Cheers for sharing…🙏 from an ex machinist in 🇳🇿

@WesternMDRailfan 5 ай бұрын

Dude i didn't know they could go that fast outside the nec

@user-gv9dq9eo1r 4 ай бұрын

I think it's the *only* place outside the NEC that Amtrak owns the tracks completely, so they can run at these speeds.

@alwhalen3488 4 ай бұрын

Chicago-St Louis and around Albany, NY also have segments of 110 MPH trackage.@@user-gv9dq9eo1r

@keithchartrau1970 4 ай бұрын

State of Michigan owns the track between Kalamazoo, MI and Porter, IN. That ~100 mile stretch is limited to Amtrak only (no freight trains). That stretch was basically rebuilt as high speed rail between 2009 and 2012 (rail and grade crossings, etc). The Wolverine and the Blue Water do 110 mph on that stretch of track....and have been doing 110 mph for over a decade.

@ConrailQuality775 4 ай бұрын

@@keithchartrau1970this is incorrect. Amtrak owns Porter to Kzoo. Michigan owns Kzoo to Dearborn. The entire stretch is in the process of being made 110mph if it isn’t done yet.

@cswproductions1206 5 ай бұрын

Good catch at a great spot bud

@muskegonaviation 5 ай бұрын

Why thank you!

@gda44256 5 ай бұрын

He was flying!

@SCPEthicsCommittee 4 ай бұрын

That's crazy! I see these types of Amtrak trains speeding through my town all the time. They should make this crossing have 4 gates so people don't try to go around them.

@mrvwbug4423 3 ай бұрын

My assumption is the gate goes across the full width of the road, it's probably a narrow road. Anything over 79mph line speed requires quad gates or that the gate go across the full width of the road if a narrow road.

@SCPEthicsCommittee 3 ай бұрын

Definitely! Because where I live, all the railroad crossings have 4 gates, including signs saying trains may exceed 80 MPH and ignoring railroad crossing signals is a $500 fine.

@superdriver777 4 ай бұрын

Yep, works out to 115mph by my math! I timed each carriage at around 0.5 seconds, and they are 85' 4" long (but I rounded to just 85'): 85/0.5 = 170 feet per second 170*3600 = 612,000 feet per hour 612,000/5,280 = 115.91 mph Although, if we are a bit more precise...and say the cars are 85.33 feet long, and they are going by in more like 0.53 seconds each... That yields 161 feet per second, or 109.77 mph Which is likely correct, as the "official" speed on that line is 110 mph...but who cares!

@douglasalan5783 5 ай бұрын

Very nice catch 🔥

@bbtrainproductions4203 6 ай бұрын

Dam! 🦫

@muskegonaviation 5 ай бұрын

Ikr

@TheosTrainsWalesOfficial 5 ай бұрын

Absolute HELLFIRE!

@darkman7010 4 ай бұрын

Wow!!! That Wolverine would have disintegrated anything that would have gotten in its way. Great footage!!!

@tengoindiamike 5 ай бұрын

I just booked ticket on this for a trip from PNT to CHI. It’s been like 11 years since I’ve been on this route, looking forward to it. Also love the video and sound!

@muskegonaviation 5 ай бұрын

Oh nice! I’m going to Chicago and taking one of the trains back to Kalamazoo, I’m going out of Bangor on P371. When are you going?

@tengoindiamike 5 ай бұрын

@@muskegonaviation Feb 23rd to Feb 26th

@muskegonaviation 5 ай бұрын

@@tengoindiamike oh nice! I’m going sometime in April to railfan for a couple of days

@johnwebber6485 4 ай бұрын

That was awesome!

@daphetidroberto797 4 ай бұрын

That seems awfully fast to be going through level grade crossings!

@bennygstrainvideos 5 ай бұрын

Wow!

@mccoy79productions66 4 ай бұрын

Awesome

@WH_Railfan84 5 ай бұрын

Awesome.

@wideworldofkevinstransport2002 6 ай бұрын

That's wolverine service 352

@muskegonaviation 6 ай бұрын

Thank you

@wideworldofkevinstransport2002 6 ай бұрын

@@muskegonaviation anytime

@wideworldofkevinstransport2002 6 ай бұрын

@@muskegonaviation on May 11 on national train day, I'll be Railfanning in Royal Oak, are you interested to come railfan in Royal Oak

@muskegonaviation 5 ай бұрын

@@wideworldofkevinstransport2002I wish I could man, i live a good 2 and a half hours away from there, maybe even 3

@tommyboy71 5 ай бұрын

We don’t care!

@whammy3323 15 күн бұрын

I lived a lot closer to the Grand Rapids station/Pere Marquette route, but would make the extra effort to go to Kalamazoo to get the Wolverine or Blue Water.. I saved almost an hour

@jim5148 3 ай бұрын

Too bad the US isn't covered with fast trains like this. An 850 mile trip on Amtrak is 44 hours! And that's not counting the inevitable multi hour delays.

@westwasbest 2 ай бұрын

A little problem with the LED ditch lights?

@squibrail4014 5 ай бұрын

Wow! Fast.

@nightowl5793 Күн бұрын

Believable

@keithbrown8814 5 ай бұрын

Interesting how, as this massive, fast moving behemoth gets farther and farther away.....it looks like its barely moving!!

@jwilliams8210 8 күн бұрын

Nice!

@jamesburnside3023 4 ай бұрын

WOW

@v6cole 4 ай бұрын

I live in kalamazoo! :)

@garryferrington811 4 ай бұрын

Geez, slow train to Palookaville. 😴

@fredericklockard3854 2 ай бұрын

That was actually 114 MPH 😂

@banksrail 5 ай бұрын

That’s actually 110mph. Max speed of the Michigan line is 110mph and it hasn’t changed. Also seeing the fact that there is a railroad crossing and the FRA rarely certified crossings for speeds past 110mph, this is indeed 110mph. Still sort of fast though. Nice catch!

@danielh1708 5 ай бұрын

Fastest trains outside the NEC currently.

@banksrail 5 ай бұрын

@@danielh1708 Actually, that would be Brightline Florida.

@danielh1708 5 ай бұрын

@banksrail Odd...I heard that brightline hadn't started operating at the full speed yet. I'll check it out.

@alwhalen3488 4 ай бұрын

Brightline IS operating at 125 mph on the new grade separated segment from Cocoa to the Orlando airport. There was a delay in the 110 mph segment of the FEC track until all the signal certifications were completed, but that only held the trains to 90 mph. FULL SPEED AHEAD now !@@danielh1708

@ELAlcoRS3 4 ай бұрын

BL does 125 mph Cocoa to Orlando (sealed corridor), up to 110 Cocoa to West Palm - same as here, grade crossings limit them (Hourly 16 round trips a day wish they could do it in MI). They are talking about 150 mph Orlando to Tampa (2029) in a sealed corridor but I don't understand how 2 Chargers can reach that speed. They're planning BL West from SoCal to Vegas by 2028 at over 180 mph, that'll be the fastest in the US. Can't wait! BL West started work this week.

@TokyoNightGirl-fk4cn 3 ай бұрын

beats

@bensrailfancam 5 ай бұрын

Amtrak is technically only supposed to be going 110 MPH

@muskegonaviation 5 ай бұрын

Amtraks Michigan line they bumped it up to 115

@bensrailfancam 5 ай бұрын

@@muskegonaviation oh

@tengoindiamike 5 ай бұрын

@@muskegonaviationWhere did you see that? I’ve been trying to find info on that

@alexbaker2851 4 ай бұрын

@@muskegonaviationamtrak engineer here, i work blue water and wolverines. 110 is max. and depending on your definition of kalamazoo city limits, no trains are doing 110 near kalamazoo (at least in the downtown area. its all 45 and 30)

@Fireball409 5 ай бұрын

How did you know the speed was 115?

@muskegonaviation 5 ай бұрын

It’s track speed on the Amtrak Michigan line for all Amtraks

@Midwesttrains21 5 ай бұрын

@@muskegonaviation they upped it from 110?

@muskegonaviation 5 ай бұрын

@@Midwesttrains21 from what I heard

@Midwesttrains21 5 ай бұрын

@@muskegonaviation that's cool

@muskegonaviation 5 ай бұрын

@@Midwesttrains21 I enjoy it

@RedArrow73 5 ай бұрын

In better times, they used to make Gibson and Epiphone guitars here.

@Jleed989 Ай бұрын

And world famous mandolins

@oliverheidelberg 4 ай бұрын

That looks like 85mph…

@ConrailQuality775 4 ай бұрын

it’s not

@muskegonaviation 19 күн бұрын

for sure not 85

@garfstiglz3981 3 ай бұрын

That's about 90mph. No where near 115mph. I work at track level where trains routinely run at 125mph. The noise of the cars passing is too slow.

@muskegonaviation 19 күн бұрын

Definitely not 90, trains at this part of the track run 110-115

@elacorp 5 ай бұрын

Do American trains really run this fast? Because everywhere I see is mocking American trains as slow compared to Chinese

@muskegonaviation 5 ай бұрын

Chinese trains do run faster, but Amtrak at this line runs 110-115

@elacorp 5 ай бұрын

@@muskegonaviation but why do the rail authorities reduce speeds at some places and not allow them run their best to meet up with modern demands like it's obtainable else where

@muskegonaviation 5 ай бұрын

@@elacorp Curves, small towns, restrictions

@danielh1708 5 ай бұрын

@@elacorp Not having the correct, updated track to safely run at those speeds.

@ELAlcoRS3 4 ай бұрын

@@elacorp Grade crossings too