Petition for Canadian episodes to be called Kilometers in Transit

Imagine naming it züm and not making the ü a smiley face

"Hey transit, Miles here"...never change, Miles! Not only is it too late to abort, but apparently it's too late for a fork! Second guessing whether it was a trip report at the beginning with the music coming in and out is the quality entertainment we come to this channel for! And I can't believe they use an airplane "ding-dong" to announce stops on GO trains. I agree that the Georgetown GO station is cute! The station was constructed between 1855 and 1856 and was designed by the Grand Trunk Railway chief engineer Francis Thompson and built by Casimir Gzowski. The station actually once had a water tower for steam trains, and used to have platforms on both sides of the station building, but the south side of it became a commuter parking lot. Dr Pepper was first made in a drug store in Waco, Texas and was formulated by Brooklyn-born pharmacist Charles Alderton. When he tested it, he first offered it to store owner Wade Morrison, and then everyone in town began ordering a "Waco." Alderton ended up giving the formula to Morrison, who named it Dr. Pepper after Dr. Charles Pepper, a Virginia doctor who was the father of a girl Morrison was once in love with. The drink was then introduced to the world at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair!

Kitchener was originally settled by the PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH! This is because after the American Revolution, John Graves Simcoe, invited Americans like the Pennsylvania Dutch to settle in Upper Canada and offered tracts of land to immigrant groups, thus many Pennsylvania Dutch chose to emigrate to an area called the German Company Tract, a subset of land within the Haldimand Tract, in the Township of Waterloo, which later became Waterloo County, Ontario. Kitchener was first called Ebytown after members of the Eby family who moved there from Lancaster (though originally from Switzerland). It was then changed to Berlin in 1833 after the then capital of Prussia. However during the First World War, there was a lot of sentiment against the Germans living in the area. Rising tension in the community culminated in soldiers of the local 118th Battalion ransacking German social clubs and attacking an outspoken German Lutheran preacher. So in May 1916, there was a referendum where the Germans were intimidated by the 118th Battalion to vote in support of changing the name from Berlin, with just 51.32 percent in support. The following month another referendum was held to pick the new name, and Kitchener was selected with 38.79 percent of the vote, named in honor of Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener who was the British Secretary of State for War during WWI.

1:31 little does he know how rare this is. Go Transit only has 8 F59PH locomotives left. They are very rare to see.

My favorite underrated travel tip: always bring spare forks! Too many bad experiences with takeout and a lack of forks. It’s easy to keep a few in my backpack

I love any video with a Trip Report jingle. Well done. I hope the ridership increases so they can return this trip to the schedule. I like long slow scenic transit trips. Perhaps you learned to invest in a set of travel-size reusable cutlery to keep in your backpack for future meal emergencies? Just saying. Thanks for sharing!

Nice catch on the F59PH locomotive at 1:31! And the new station at 2:50 is Mount Dennis. The station is being built on the lands formerly known as Kodak Heights, which was a camera manufacturing facility operated by the Eastman Kodak Company from 1918 to 2006. The station uses Kodak Building 9, a heritage building and local landmark, as a station entrance. Guelph was named after King George the IV, the British monarch at the time of Guelph's founding (who was king from January 1820 to June 1830), whose family the Hanoverians was from the Welf (or Guelph in English) lineage. This is why Guelph is known as the Royal City. London was named by John Graves Simcoe, who also named the local river the Thames, in 1793. The reason he named it London after the British capital is because Simcoe had intended London to be the capital of Upper Canada. However this plan of moving the capital there was rejected, but Simcoe's second choice of Toronto (which was first founded as York) was selected as the capital of Upper Canada in 1796, and Toronto would later become the capital of Ontario in 1867 when the Canadian Confederation was formed.

Brampton is named after the one in England's Cumberland, and it's called the Flower City because it once had a big greenhouse industry that was started by Harry Dale who built many greenhouses for roses and sold them across Canada. Come for the GO train review, stay for the cinnamon roll ASMR at 2:57. You know it's a good pastry when it has a nice crunch. Fun fact, cinnamon rolls originated in Sweden! Romans first introduced cinnamon from Sri Lanka to Europe and then much later after the First World War, Sweden developed the kanelbulle (literally cinnamon bun). During the war, there were restrictions put on the import of several goods such as sugar, egg and butter. People didn’t always have the luxury to bake what they wanted to. In the 1920s, these products started to return to shelves and cinnamon buns slowly started appearing throughout the country. But two of the main ingredients, cinnamon and cardamom, were pricy and not everyone could afford to bake or purchase these treats. So it wasn’t until the 1950s that they were affordable for the majority of the population. Now it is popular across the Nordic countries! In Sweden, October 4th is Kanelbullens Dag or Cinnamon Roll Day! The average Swede eats equivalent to 316 cinnamon buns per year.

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Impromptu Reece appears talking about axle loads!

It’s unfortunate that this service is ending but the ridership isn’t there and the tracks need to be upgraded to make the service feasible long term.

lol GO finally fixed the French 77777 announcement

Hey, Kitchener native here! Great to see you visit the area. The two-way all-day promise that was spotted in Guelph has a bit of a hitch as Metrolinx does not own the tracks between Georgetown and Brampton so will have movements restricted by CN. There had been a plan by the previous provincial government to build CN a bypass, but the new boys cancelled it when they came in and it's still not clear how it will get sorted out.

1:04 me EVERY time someone sits in a bay of four arghhhh

Reece appears, but then doesn't take the train with you, but you _are_ joined by [REDACTED]^2, so that definitely qualifies this as a trip report. This honestly feels like if there was a commuter rail train through Upstate NY.

Miles in Transit for Jet Lag 👏👏👏

You passed through Kitchener-Waterloo, which is currently trying to save its Symphony orchestra from extinction after financial backers pulled out. Reccomend looking it up to find more info, gofundmes etc

7:48 there’s no aesthetic quite like a Novabus in a Canadian farm town in the middle of nowhere 😍😍😍

Woohoo, GO Transit to Fake London! And a special guest, Reece! Stratford is the site of a famous theatre festival, so if they ever bring this service back they can get there by train. Wait, but why would they call it "London" in a French accent when there's literally a word for "Real" London (Londres). And it's kinda gnarly you got recognised! Celebrity status. 😎

Small world: the old station (with a caboose) that you missed taking a photo of received provincial heritage designation thanks to my late father's nerdy efforts in the 1980s. 😅

The "is it or isn't it" intro had me 💀 lol

Metrolink has several lines that are more than two hours long, including my frequent ride between Los Angeles and Oceanside, 85 miles of travel through three counties.

"Imagine having commuter rail" -Me, a guy who somehow commutes regularly using the Amtrak Heartland Flyer

Here in Italy it's quite normal to have regional trains whose origin and destination are more than four hours apart, and the kind of seating and service provided seems comparable to this one. Most of the people just travel on them for short segments, but I did the whole trip several times!

It’s very cool to see this trip from a different point of view! I’m a conductor for CN in the Toronto area and I regularly travel on all the lines you’ve filmed on!

Great video can't wait for the (VIA) video.

Let’s hope Jim can run better “commuter rail” to Rockford.

There's actually a lot of demand between Toronto, Guelph, and Kitchener. The Greyhound service between these cities and Toronto operated about every 20 minutes in the height of the afternoon peak. IIRC there were 4 or 5 departures scheduled from the Toronto coach terminal between 430PM and 6PM, and this doesn't count trips scheduled at the same time on different stopping patterns. And there was so much demand they often operated multiple sections and unscheduled extras. Until 1990 this service was actually operated by the TTC, by its Grey Coach subsidiary. For a long time Greyhound operated the services they inherited from Grey Coach under a sub brand (Greyhound Quicklink) and sold special commuter discount tickets and passes. This was before Greyhound Canada started to have financial problems in the late 00s and began the process of dismantling its network.

So strange seeing all these places where I live in your videos! Love all the Canadian content. Hope you enjoyed your stay. : )

IDK the last time anyone referred to Brampton as a "nice little town", was good to hear

I always carry a MRE spoon in my bag. It’s come in handy many times when my Uber Eats shows up sans cutlery

One of the good thing about this is the ticket is way cheaper than the VIA. If they ever be able to run a GO train to Montreal is will be only 65$!

2:50 the new station over there is mount dennis, it's probably gonna open along with the Eglinton Crosstown (whenever that's finished) but otherwise a pretty good trip report video!

This reminds me of Latvia's regional commuterish trains that only run to coastal cities twice a week for university students!

Miles is Da Man!!!!

SCREAMING I live in Guelph and take the go all the time so cool seeing u ride through

Teasing the "Apparently a trip report" jingle at the beginning was genius

At 122 miles, it's only slightly longer than NY Penn Station to Montauk.

yesss a trip reporttyy

They probably thought more students would take it. Because Toronto Kitchener an London. All have both colleges an universities. London even has a Med School.

6:11 that tractor is pulling a manure sprayer, so the overpowering smell of manure is not surprising.

seeing you ride this line is WILD. this go train frustrated me to no end, in college i could have ridden it easily to brampton from kitchener to get home for the weekends. but back then (2016-2020) it was only running from toronto TO kichener direction in the evenings, not the other way. It was many GO bus rides to brampton for me, LOL! not sure if the service has expanded in that direction yet, but i think they were planning to at some point

I’ve looked at this line all the time on apple maps, but never put two and two together to realize it was the longest commuter rail in North America. This was a very cool video and and love the trip report series. On a different note, I thought that was really cool that you were recognized by someone who worked for the train you were on. (And the Reece cameo was also a cool part). quite the turkey ass turkey

Whoever invented 4 seaters, I'd would like a word with you in the back alley. You never meant a introvert, or someone who doesn't like people, there wasn't even a table. I can barley handle talking to myself in a empty house with a camera, even worse in public, don't know how you're able to do it. Also I would have said bye to REDACTED, if everyone else is talking in the quiet zone, I should be able to too, it's clearly not being enforced. That's a rule meant to be broken!

Congratulations on being famous in Canada, how the conductor knew exactly what you're doing is strange, but congrats either way. Also I'm sorry to any employee who had to do this run, must be painful not to go to sleep in your own bed, when you're doing a "local train" , unlike VIA or Amtrak, where they have the excuse of being a Intercity system.

I like your perspective on GO transit. It has some flaws, but will be very good when all lines get all day service.

Little does he know, Bramptons bus system is actually only called **Brampton Transit** ((Zum are just busses that are supposed to *stop less* on some of the main streets))

What you've got to meet Reese an Geoff Marshall recently? I'm jealous!!!

3:23 Little does Miles know that Brampton has 650.000 people in it

Come to Houston and let’s ride our poor excuse for light rail together!

I went on a GO train once. I managed to get from downtown Toronto out to the Royal Botanical Gardens on a Sunday. Though I have no memory of which station I got off at or weather or not I got a bus part of the way

12:17 " *VIA's* bringing back service between Toronto & London, and that's true. But it's not going *VIA* it's going the other way, which is *VIA* Hamilton." Via stays true to their name of how they operate via different routes. 😜

Never been on a train here in the US or Canada, let alone commuter rail. But I still watch this

Wow, I didn't even know this route existed. It sounds exhausting. lol

A tractor? Never once in my life would I see a tractor while riding a commuter train.

I 100% Love a Trip Report :)

Miles at the coalface of the intercity rail vs regional rail enigma tbh that service was so well hidden on go's site I thought it had ended already

You were absolutely right, I do love the latest from this series!!

I have a suggestion/ challenge: Montauk to Waterbury. (I think) it’s the longest commuter rail ride that can be done on a single ticket. It costs $31.50 and takes roughly 7 hours.

Happy to see you met some cool missionary kids on the train out to London! Always so nice to ride on GO Transit

I'm so spoiled with the UK rail network that when you said about hourly all day service i was like "yeah that's standard"

From what I've heard the reason its being shut down has less to do with the ridership it got and more to do with operational issues relating to an upcoming renovation of London Station with there being no place where GO can park its trains overnight (they allegedly got approached by CN to park their train at their yard, but once CN learned of GO's security procedures they backed out). IANAE though and I could be wrong.

Loved the @DownieLive reference at 7:53 😂

??? you probably heard this elsewhere, but nobody uses the train to commute from London! I'm amazed that it goes that far.

Miles in Transit and RMTransit and Fake London, now thats a crossover event.

Probably the first and last time that I will see a GO transit into London Ontario .

Got me good with that Vsauce bit, haha!

A kind of crazy thing about Brampton is that due to its rapid population growth over the last 30 years more people now live there (656K) than live within the city limits of Boston

I think that the LIRR's Jamaica/Montauk service does come VERY close to this, i feel like you should ride on the LIRR/metro north from Montauk to port jervis on one of your videos soon edit: "The LIRR's Montauk station is 117 miles from Penn Station and a total ride time of 3 hours and 16 minutes for the fastest train."

RM made an appearance!!! LOL

4 hours is pretty long .Some of those local trains around Sydney in Australia are very long too, the ones that go to places like Newcastle and Wollongong.

Stratford still is lamenting the loss of the GO service. Now they only have the Transdev minibus that runs to Kitchener infrequently.

woah, that was a 4 HOUR trip?! I had no idea Go Transit went that far. That's like more than the entire length of the Amtrak Keystone Service

word up to downielive! what a nice guy! you two should hang out in BC!

Ah yes, Canada’s Ronkonkoma Brach…

The "Hello Transit" got me.

I imagine a lot of people getting off at Stratford on a Friday are going to the Stratford festival (one of canadas biggest theatre festivals)

ur intro video is a thumbs up by itself

Him using the words Brampton and nice in the same sentence killed me 💀

Hey! That boardwalk system is in my hometown. Bigger than St. Mary's, but we tore down our train station in the early 20th century so no stop for us

I think Go to Startford feels like the furthest extent (2-3 peak round trips, 1 reverse peak), and then give London its own commuter rail service with limited Kitchener service (2-3 peak round trips, 1 reverse peak), then you have 3-6 Corridor trains a day (be nice if there was a Corridor train that went between Windsor and Quebec w/o transfers)

You can tap on and off at the presto stands and then you’ll get the presto fare

Releasing this video in September but filmed in April(?) felt so confusing. I’m thinking- the leaves haven’t fallen yet. Also you need to do the Ontario Northland train all the way to Moosonee via Cochrane when the route returns.

I ride Metrolink our commuter Rail here in California. We have a lot of those Bombardier cars. They don’t have that glass though luckily.I feel like people could hit their head on that. It’s a shame that line is discontinued though.

For your information, Presto is primarily used in GTA and Ottawa.

I haven't seen much about the Kitchener route anywhere, and I didn't know GO Transit were operating beyond Kitchener, so thanks for posting. One question though: the timetables I can find show VIA Rail also running trains 84 and 87 via Kitchener - are 82 and 83 going to be additional services?

🎼🎵🎶 ONE singular silo, la, la, la, LA, LA, LA, LA... 🎵🎶

I have to say, I don’t feel like this distance or seating would be all that strange for a regional train here in Germany. I wouldn’t think of these trains as commuter rail though, they’re regional rail. Most people take these for much shorter segments, but they also provide one seat rides for longer journeys at a more affordable cost then a long distance train and on routes which don’t warrant a faster service. I coincidentally have an almost end to end trip planned on one of these services next weekend. It’s a few kilometers longer then this train, but will only be around 3h, because of higher speeds. It’s about the same time with a car and it’s by far the best route by train, because there are no major cities on the route and taking an IC or ICE long distance service is actually slower, because of necessary detours and transfers. Oh and the train of course runs hourly service all days of the week including Sundays, because people will use it, if it’s actually an attractive option to take the train.

4 hours is especially long given how earlier this month I took Via Rail from Montreal to Quebec City in 3 hours and from Montreal to Ottawa in 2 hours lol

Here's a NYC challenge. Ride the 44s, the 5s, 41s, and 3s both in the Subways and buses. Do separate videos.

Shore Line East commuters became Canadian.

Well, congrats, you got to ride it before it ended. This route ended because no one was using it... It was supposed to help connect London better to Toronto, but it is so much nicer, and faster to sit on VIA for about 2 hours instead.

So i you were recognized in Canada, then you've gone international!

Perhaps a trip up the coast from San Francisco to Astoria, OR. It will take a few days to complete but it's doable.

I argue that it does because the whole idea of the arrested development is stupid things like "that's why's you always leave a note" or in this case "that's why you always bring a fork"

these lines should exist. stopping services to smaller places are great.

Me: *hears “London” “Yay, it’s time to see how many towns with OHL teams I can name.”

RMTransit caught me so off guard

Now that the Orlando extension's opened, I really think you should do a trip report for Brightline sometime later (though please do correct me if you're doing one soon). Really would love to see your perspective on it given that most people who've ridden it have given it such high praise.