Fantastic video. Glad they brought some M-3''s back into the picture or we'd never have video like this showing all the new construction....... I love how it went through Floral Park on the westbound Hempstead line and new 3rd track.... Great, this video shows everything even all the new stations including Elmont ! 5 STARS ! I moved away 20 years ago, but did the commuting thing for 18 years, and am a huge train fan. I have my own video's of Mineola in the 1980's on here. I wouldn't recognize the entire area anymore !

This video made me go back in time to 31 years when I first visited the US. We stayed with friends in Wantagh and got the LRR to Penn Station for sightseeing in Manhattan. It's not the same line, but even though it has brought good memories. Thanks for sharing!

This is terrific. We can see the entire third track project from Floral Park to Hicksville along with all the station upgrades and grade crossing eliminations. We lucked out still having some old M3s around or you would have been reduced to video recording from a side window. Thanks.

I like seeing LIRR trains under catenary

Wow! Thanks so much. I enjoyed seeing the new Elmont station and taking a tour of the new 3rd track. Seeing the grade eliminations was cool too! Much appreciated.

Thank you, this brought back nice memories. My father spent his entire railroad career on the LIRR as an engineer. My father was described by his Railroad friends as having forgotten more than many would ever learn about the LIRR, my father may have even driven the train where you shot this video.

Awesome job on the 3rd track!! Even took out the grade crossings too. Awesome!!

This is a great video! I don't live on LI anymore but I'm glad the project is done. There are generous noise attenuation walls as well. Maybe the cranky NIMBYs in Floral Park and New Hyde Park will go back to bed. They fail to realize that without the railroad their town wouldn't exist. Any historians out there? After the Port Washington branch peels off to the left you can see the line was 6 tracks. Some of the rails are still there and all of the bridges are built for 6 tracks. I was told that the railroad served local communities before the subway service came to life. The 6-track infrastructure seems to end about a mile before Forest Hills. If anyone knows about this please share it. Cheers

You can't even tell where the grade-crossings were anymore. I will miss all the horn blowing through NHP and Mineola, and bouncing over the rough switches at 80MPH.

Nothing like those mesmerizing views inside the tunnel followed up by a Holiday in Hicksville.

Great video!

Wonderful view, epic video Chris!

Yes!! Glad these M3 can view videos can be made again

Thank you for doing this. It brings back my youth

Great video enjoyed the view

Thank You

Yay I love the Long Island railroad 🚆

I saw that the last M9’s should be delivered by September 2023. The pandemic caused another delay to the completion of their delivery. Hopefully by then the LIRR can permanently retire the M3’s.

Thankyou so much for the Front View videos. Hope they keep coming 🚂🚃🚃🚃

I did this exact ride yesterday! Hicksville to NYP to Hicksville. With my bicycle 🚲

Very nice. Love the M3s. Especially Metro-North's M3As.

Well done. I grew up in New Hyde Park in the 1940s early 1950s and, boy, have the stations, tracks, speed, everything in different. How many M3s are left in service? Thanks for the trip. We now live in Southern Oregon, Medford, so the nearest train-watching I have to drive about 80 miles over the Cascade Mountains to Klamath Falls for a lot of freight train watching - BNSF ands UP and the Coast Starlight . Those trips are always fun. Thanks, again.

Crazy how slow it is into Jamaica. Would expect high speed turnouts there. Future opportunities I guess

I've been riding this exact line for over half a century. It never ceases to amaze me how much CRAP there is on the sides of the tracks, especially around Jamaica. Dirty Buckets, Gatorade bottles, old water jugs, old pieces of wood, trash, trash, and more trash. Why don't the workers pick that crap up?

The horn is it a cord or a button?

Excellent video dude 👏👏👏🤝🤝🤝

No hour delay? Should of gave the full LIRR expierence 😂

29:25 Full 80mph high speed turnout !!! I just LOOOVE it !! Check out the very long switch point to allow the high speed switching ! I also saw for the first time the running though Floral Park on the new 3rd Main Line track. Aarre Peltomaa

The Only Branches To Any M3 Cab Ride Video Is Hempstead Port Washington And Huntington ONLY

Just not the same without all the grade crossings!!

Amazing vid! Keep it up!

More than a few double slip switches … wowsa!

Really entertaining video. Perfect camera positioning 📸

the project seems almost complete

Was this a M3?

Do motormen wave to each other when their trains pass?

Damn this is neat

Are they glazing cars with Lexan again?

You should do all the lines starting from penn station!!

The beginning looks like Dantes hell

Awesome

What did you do to get the camera stable against the window?

11:26 - Bay Ridge Line?

Wow, this is awesome. 👊

Does the LIRR from Penn always stop at Jamaica for JFK connections?

Nice vid! Btw you still trying to meetup soon? Ik you said something like that but I’m still down to anytime.

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Whut....all Oyster Bay trains only run thru Mineola on the city bound track?

Smokey Cat

🙂👍looked good

This LIRR system will not be the same when the M3s go bye bye for good!!!

👍🏿Chris.......The p.erfect VIEW....✍🏿🇻🇨

Play it back at 2X and pretend you're Europe.