This is so NC to me. Run down strip malls, no sidewalks, the train station is in the middle of nowhere, an afterthought 😢

I love how Miles goes through all this shit to go to least used stations that are nearly halfway across the country, but still hasn't done the least used station that's a 25 minute subway ride away.

That's ALOT nicer than the Gastonia station used to be.

Absolutely great you toured the entire local transit system of Gastonia, even more impressive they have one! *Poor bid*

Did you know that Charlotte is the Gateway to Gastonia? So when you finally reached Charlotte, I knew you were a hop, skip, jump there. Congratz on a successful tour at the Gashouse!

if they ever make a corridor between Charlotte and Atlanta they should make a station like highpoint,nc where the platforms are on the ground but the station accessible via stairs and elevators, keeps the tracks below but gives easy access downtown without much of a footprint

Really cool that Gastonia had free transit throughout the bulk of the pandemic, looks like they only ended it in July 2022 once federal funding dried up

Let’s hear it for Miles and his POOR BID! 👊❤️👊

You’re a really good narrator, sometimes I listen to your videos like an audiobook

Eastridge Mall was once a Westfield Shoppingtown and i think i sorta remembered that night when Train 19 went forwards & backwards out of Union Station.

I've also been on the Sunway bus that stops in Gastonia twice. It links Charlotte w/Gastonia, Lincolnton, Hickory, Lenoir and ends in Boone.

I actually live near gastonia… so surreal seeing you go by so many familiar places too me

I had know idea we had this

Hi miles, I'm a new subscriber, found you through Geoff Marshall.. I'm a Bus driver in Brighton, south of England. Uk. So love your transit vids especially buses 🇬🇧👍😁🚌

I remember that live stream

What have I just stumbled upon lmfao you came all the way down here to go on Gastonia's public transit?? Some people here like to call Gastonia "The Armpit." Good to know they have an accessible Amtrak station at least 😆

Least used Amtrak stations in every state. What a simple but brilliant idea

When you said you were going to Charlotte I hoped you were planning a video there. Very excited for the video on the light rail system!

For the Madrid Metro: missing 1 south of Atocha, 2 east of Principe de Varga, 5 North of Alanso Martinez, 7 north of Guzman El Bueno and Estes from Coslanda, 8 missing Pinar Del Ray and Columbia, 9 NW of Saniz de Brenda, 10 south of Casa Del Campo/Old 8-Norte, and all of 12. Haven't actually gotten off at all stops on 3 & 6 but have gone end to end on both (the latter was after I went to Faunia and decided to take the long way back because I was bored-also did it on another occasion. Line 3 was to escape rain on Dos de Mayo). I visited most of the key stations on line 4 (but that's a whole mess your going to need to key an eye out for. I did do that trip weekly), but I did visit all 6 current stops on line 11. I've been through Reclotas once (after that time I took Metro Este), but mostly C-3(a) out to Pinto for Parque Warner and once all the way to Aranjuez, as well as the first Airport Line of the day to the Airport

Can't wait for when you do the least used Amtrak station in Texas! Great vid!

You just reminded me to upload the 2nd half of all buses; Gastonia edition: Summer/Fall Edition. You had it free while I had to pay a $12 10-trip Ticket.

I've gotten on and off the train at Gastonia a few times. Including this April and November.

I'm coming back to watch this video and it makes me wonder if places like this could do a Penn Station for their train station. Yeah the station would be below ground, but it being in the city center would be a massive improvement. Sadly trying to get that done in a place like Gastonia with the station still being so new would probably be a total disaster.

I like the crescent the best of any of the Eastern routes we have been on. A lot of people prefer the cardinal but actually I like the crescent better.

I'm surprised you didn't have a travel companion in this video These trips always look fun

4:53 I like how Classy Whale got in the video lmao

You are really learning the knobs of the video editing tool 😂

I also don't understand why the Charlotte Amtrak station is where it is just outside of uptown. The tracks run right through the city. Could easily put a station right around where Bank Of America Stadium is.

Educated guess based on another small station where I waited out a delay. The doors lock at the appointed time but you wont get in trouble for trespassing if youre ticketed for a delayed train.

Amlate for sure

And just when I thought we couldn’t get another “poor bid” in! 17:59

Next time you come to Philly we should meet up. When i would go get my sister in Charlotte i would take the Carolinian down and wait in the station until the Crescent took us back north at like 230am. But they changed the time it leaves so now it leaves at like 615. wouldn't it have made more sense to just bring an engine down from DC instead of backing the entire train up?

Hear any Gastonese while you were there? It a pretty unsettling language to an English speaker, but as a local you get use to it.

Oh wow this was actually filmed on my birthday 😂😂 12-8

Genuinely I’ve never been on a train that’s left union station to go south on time

You missed the secret abandoned top floor of the mall

Where can we find the list of least-used stations? Gastonia remids me of Sandpoint, ID, the least (and most, it’s the only one) used station in the state. Just the Empire Builder daily in each direction, both in the middle of the night. Never got on, but stayed up a couple times to watch trains while vacationing there.

Surprised it wasn’t Kannapolis 😂

Tbf just because the tracks are in a ditch doesnt mean it cant have a station. Reno grade seperated the entire city and lowered the train platform with it keeping the station in the Same place so if they actually invested properly they could have put a train station in the trench but that would require actually staffing the station. 😅

Bet they had PTC issues with the engines at DC.

I live in Gastonia. The area where that station is and where he is walking around before. Daylight is full of drug addicts and homeless people

@6:10 ALCs can’t come soon enough

miles come to richmond and ride GRTC with me it’s so bad it’ll be fun

But what did you get for lunch in Charlotte?

Those business centre computers are terribly out of date. That version of Chrome looks at least 5 years old and that Windows 10 is a version pre-May 2019. Also I know the Genesis locomotives are old now but three? Siemens please help!

Where did this guy start from what city?

I should've been in it lol, that 2 dollar donation was clutch no?

What does the poor bid thing mean?

Damn they don't serve "railroad french toast" before 3:22 am? What a scam smh

In Poland timetable must be correct, not old. In USA not?

Yo Miles, that cat café bit reminds me of a cat café that almost opened in Brighton. Here's a 50-minute documentary video on the owner's online antics, really kinda sad tbh kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rbSjpKif2a7Zhmw.html

What does it mean that your bid was "poor"?

The soda or water in the machine is already cold why get ice? You're wasting space in the cup of what matters the soda.

🤔😲✌🏾

Poor bid? More like poor vid /s

Lol they are all barely used stop coping