The moment when the amtrak train passed behind you when you were sitting in front of the river was pure cinema.

Please note: The big city in New Jersey - Newark - is pronounced "new-werk" but the college town in northern Delaware -Newark - is pronounced "New Ark."

I used to do parts of this trip all the time when I was a UDel student - I volunteered for an org in DC and dated someone living in Queens - but rarely all in one go. Very cool.

FYI from Penn Station ticket machine you can select 30th st Station and it will give you SEPTA ticket for connection from Trenton.

That was the sound of a LIRR M7 train coming in as you were talking in the NJT train at NY Penn at 2:40...sweet music to a Long Islander like me! Google Maps is definitely inconsistent when it comes to transit. I mean where I'm at, Google Maps doesn't acknowledge that Suffolk Transit even exists what so ever! But that aside, the Amtrak train zooming behind you on the bridge at 12:22 as you were speaking was simply perfect! Now that's a great trainspotting location, quite scenic! Newark, Delaware is pronounced New-Ark! And if you really want to sound like a local, Newark, New Jersey is pronounced NORK! My mom's from Newark, NJ, so I've been many times. Fun fact, Newark, NJ actually has the largest collection of cherry blossom trees in the country, NOT Washington, DC! Newark's Branch Brook Park has 5,200 trees and 18 varieties of cherry blossoms!

I am glad you didn't walk to D.C.! Great video!

I just checked the lowest priced ticket on Amtrak from NYC to Washington is $20, booked 30 or more days in advance. Booked next day, I'm getting an $82 fare on Amtrak. Compared to $51.75 total fare using local/regional transport for this route. So going this way could save money IF the trip is last-minute and IF the traveler had all day to spare. Otherwise, just plan ahead and save both money and time.

as a midwesterner just this whole concept boggles my mind lol. that was awesome! great video :)

Interesting way to challenge yourself without Amtrak or big bus companies like Greyhound and Mega Bus. I knew NYC to Wilmington or Newark DE was simple because I been on those but after Cecil transit, I didn’t have a clue how to get to Baltimore without those big companies. But once in Baltimore, I knew the Marc Train. But I did just learn the Marc train gets pretty close to Elkton in Perryville. I enjoyed the video!

I have been in Perryville at the end of the MARC line and had no clue about local busses. I needed to get to Oxford, PA and luckily had a ride lined up. It's a scary feeling to be on that last train.

Great vid as always! Love seeing your travels.

Northeast transit is so nice. Trains between NY and NJ leaving every twenty minutes. Greetings from California. We have multiple Amtrak routes that leave once a day or less. Flixbus and Greyhound are a single company, and they've got monopolies on most routes between big SoCal cities.

I was once contemplating this very thing when I had an unfortunate overnight layover between the Maple Leaf and the Northeast Regional in Penn Station. So frustrating that there’s such a small yet too big gap between Perryville and Newark DE. I’m pleased to see someone pull it off! Also I find it amusing that you were worried about nighttime ruining your Capital dome shot; at least for me, I find all the marble DC buildings at their most striking lit up after dark

I hope you keep making these videos, I really enjoy them! Thanks☺

I like the champion sweater. Retro look

Delaware fun facts: Unlike the majority of what is now the United States, Delaware was once a SWEDISH colony called New Sweden! New Sweden was made up of settlements on both sides of the Delaware Valley, with the first being in what is now Wilmington called Fort Christina. New Sweden didn't last very long as it only existed from 1638 to 1655 due to being conquered by the Dutch. Delaware is named after the Delaware River and Bay, which in turn was named after governor of Virginia, Thomas West, Lord De La Warr by Samuel Argall in 1610. While Georgia is known as the peach state, the first state to produce peaches commercially was Delaware! That's why the state flower is the peach blossom! Newark was founded by Scots-Irish and Welsh settlers in 1694. The town was officially established when it received a charter from George II of Great Britain in 1758. Schools have played a significant role in the history of Newark. A grammar school, founded by Francis Alison in 1743, moved from New London, Pennsylvania to Newark in 1765, becoming the Newark Academy. Among the first graduates of the school were three signers of the Declaration of Independence: George Read, Thomas McKean, and James Smith. During the American Revolution, the Battle of Cooch's Bridge (just outside Newark) was the first instance of the Stars and Stripes being flown in battle

I’ve seen two other people do this and they cheat and take Amtrak between Wilmington and Baltimore since there’s no rail connection between Newark and Perryville. Good on you for doing it properly as advertised! I guess it didn’t work out time wise, but the Septa Wilmington/Newark line goes all the way out to Newark, would have gotten you a smidge closer without doing bus transfers.

Dag, this guy beat me to it because this was something that I had always wanted to do but just never got around to doing it. More power to you bro!!!!

This was awesome man and yeah naturally not preferred route but this is good if everything else is sold out like on a busy pick holiday and you HAVE TO get home. Thanks for sharing! ❤

3:16, sounds about right. They don't hold connections in Trenton anymore. And for whatever reason each train comes in while the other is leaving.

Amazing ! Thanks for the great adventure.

Really enjoyed watching this. I do something similar but with a bike and various forms of public transit up and down the NE Corridor between Boston and DC.

I thought of doing this exact thing years before covid. I never did it because I had no real reason to aside from the lols. So I never took the idea seriously. Today I would do something like this because I'm into video recording adventures and it would just be another adventure. But now I have to be careful living with high at-risk family getting sick from me travelling, which has happened, so I'm not keen on the idea anymore.

Watching the video and then reading the comments was a lot of fun!

What an interesting video!! Subscribed.

This is awesome I always wanted to see a Public Transit Video Like this.

I love the beauty and opulence of 30th Street Station and Union Station. Then there's the squallor that is Penn Station....

Congrats on an EPIC video!! I live in Texas, but recently visited Boston and one highlight for me was the simple fact that MBTA regional goes all the way to Providence, Rhode Island. I really enjoyed your concept and will have to try more of these local hops when I get back to the region!!

I can't wait to see this channel grow.

Loved this video!!!!

I just took NJ Transit to New York the other day and I've also taken Amtrak from Newark, NJ to Baltimore a few times, so this was cool to watch.

awesome video and awesome idea man

Man, I love your videos so much! I've always wanted to do this (although I've kinda done with South Florida transit), but as you noticed, the logistics can be quite stressful specially because regional/commuter transit has odd frequencies (like having trains every hour from 6am to 11am and then the next train is at 2pm). Just researching online before attempting the whole trek is stressful enough. Instances like that with Google Maps are something I also watch out for, specially when it's making walk long distances between stops. And I really liked that you asked the drivers for clarification, never be afraid to ask the drivers!

That was fun to watch.

Can't wait to watch this. DC is home for me. Next time you come through town, dinner is on me.

Love these

Sometimes, the journey IS the story. So cool you took the route less traveled and just wasn't interested in getting to the destination in a hurry. The Capital looked really cool lit up like that. Thanks for posting this.

I use to commute between NYC and Philadelphia via NYC Transit, NJ Transit and SEPTA

I've been wanting to do this for years nice video

Taking DART route 33 in Delaware would have swung around the south of Newark and come in from west side on Elkton Road. You could get off there and catch the Cecil Transit outbound. May not have been quicker overall but would have shortened the time on the DART bus. That 10 route just meanders all over and feels like it's taking forever.

I think you could have saved the later $6.75 if you did not leave the paid area of the station at 30th Street and just transfer inside paid area from Trenton line into Wilmington/Newark line. One fare $9.25 would be sufficient that way to go from Trenton to Wilmington/Newark.

NJ Transit and SEPTA generally coordinate the scheduled arrival/departure of trains in Trenton such that you can exit NJ Transit and board Septa on the other side of the same platform (and vice versa). And they generally time the train departing Trenton to leave close to when the arriving train arrives.

From Philly I always take Septa to Trenton, then NJTransit to Penn Station. If you time it right, it doesn't add too much time than it would to take Amtrak. But the cost savings is huge. If going to Boston or DC from Philly it's the Acela on Amtrak.

It'll be a great day when MARC is finally extended to Newark, DE

Fun video!

Great vid

i dream of having time like this lol. Good job!

your channel is so good man ,,wonder why you don't have that many subscribers !!!?

I actually did the same exact trip back in 2021, except I took Amtrak to Wilmington and then I took the three buses to Perryville for the MARC. It was definitely an arduous journey. And I also remember riding the mini buses.

Amazing brother greetings from New Orleans

I used to get between Baltimore and DC using WMATA. They had a BWI shuttle from the end of the green line in Greenbelt. It was then just hopping on light rail at BWI to get in to Baltimore.

“The bus is going to perryville, I’m going to perryville…” this is the conversation I have with myself when I’m on a bus I’m 98% is correct but won’t relax until I arrive at my destination 😅

Thanks! Always wanted to know how to do this. Just noticed that you could have bought a single ticket from NY to Philly at Penn Station.

Awesome video. So wish there was commuter rail service between Perryville and Wilmington, DE.

Yooo this guy’s elite

the bottle flip behind you at 3:32 lol

love this video....seeing all the sights guess you are going back to DC to see your former college places???????

I often took local bus to Arlington Vamoose bus to NYC, then shuttle subway to Grand Central and local train to CT. Or. Local Arlington, VA bus to Metro subway to DC, then at DC to take Amtrak train to NYC then local train to CT.

What a silly goof! I enjoyed it.

How bout trying to get from NYC to SF using ONLY regional transit. Now that is a challenge..

I came up with a similar idea but mine goes from Newburyport MA to Spotsylvania VA and uses MBTA •Newburyport/Rockport Line •Orange Line •Providence/Stoughton Line RIPTA •95x Walking for an hour from Westerly to North Stonington SEAT •108 CTrail •Shore Line East Metro-North •New Haven Line MTA •7 train •1 train NJT •Northeast Corridor Line •Bus 409 PATCO SEPTA •Market-Frankford Line •Wilmington/Newark Line Cecil Country Transit •Newark Connection •Cross County MARC •Penn Line & VRE •Fredericksburg Line

This video is awesome. I think the term "megaloping" was coined for this kind of travel, but it seems to have fallen out of use! Would you consider another trip, extending it with Metro-North and the Virginia Railway Express, say?

Thanks!

Interesting. I would so do this.

I wish I knew this was possible when I was like 20 21 yrs old and live close to LIRR!!!!

Thanks for attempting, completing, and documenting this trip. I'm glad it showed up on my feed. I've lived various places along the NYC-DC corridor (currently toward the DC end of the corridor now) and am mildly disappointed/frustrated that in the 21st century there is no direct connections by commuter rail between NYC and DC. Or even between BOS and DC (actually pretty angry/frustrated). This stretch of country represents some of the most dense and economic rich (and poor) areas of the USA. The mindbender is that they are all physically connected by ELECTRIFIED rail (because Amtrak Acela can run the whole route in about 6 hours), but our squabbling state governments cannot figure out how to play nice in the sandbox together to cobble a commuter rail network that can connect all the places.

In Delaware, it’s actually pronounced “New-ark”, as in Noah’s ark.

I agree with your analysis. I'll only do commuter train between New York City and Philadelphia. If going from NYC to DC, it's more worth taking Amtrak.

Wow that's very interested taking local regional trains down to DC that gotta take forever to travel down with just local transit , I taken Amtrak down to DC instead!

cool video, I would never consider this kind of regional/local transit being so knitted together as to make it possible. Remarkable how empty all the trains and busses seemed,

From Trenton you can buy a "tunnel" ticket which allows travel through to Wilmington/Newark without paying for two tickets.

The first thing I thought when you started talking was “whatever you say handsome”

When in doubt, trust the information from the transit agency over Google Maps.

That was hell going from NYC to philly is hard enough Septa NJ transit

Traveling like you in that same geograhical area in my younger days and before youtube, when I went to visit the University of Delaware campus in Newark, DE I was informed by the locals that the DE Newark is pronounced as though tehy were two separate separate words New and Ark.

I wanna do sth similar next year, I wanna do at least Boston-DC by train mostly

I skipped around so I don't know if you mentioned it, but at times the SEPTA line from Philadelphia to Wilmington continues to Newark. This would eliminate one connection, although I don't know if the bus to Elkton passes near the SEPTA station.

Solid video, what phone did u use?

I'm faint at heart (unlike you), so I wouldn't do a challenge like this alone. I did tire of seeing Lincoln Tunnel on the D.C. to NY bus though, and wanted to see the NEC north of 30th St Station, so I opted for Amtrak & WMATA Metrorail. This in spite of it not being competitive time-wise with an on-time bus, given my location in the D.C. suburbs. Will try to do the same with Boston (vs. flying) some day

Wow crazy stuff. I’ve done Seattle to Vancouver a couple times via local bus only. No Amtrak or private bus companies like what you did. It takes a while, can’t be done on Sundays at all, requires an early start and a lot of patience. The cost: my flixbus return ticket was $35 so I’ll use that as a reference point. For the trip up it was $3.25 from SeaTac (I live in the city not the airport) to northgate with a free transfer to a bus to Everett. $2 each to mount Vernon and then Bellingham. $1 to Blaine, then walk to border checkpoint and then to the next bus stop. The buses north of the border run kind of frequent so no time crunch here, but it’s about $4 Canadian to downtown Vancouver. Took about 6 or 7 hours would have taken 4 hours on bus or train. But that four hours doesn’t include my travel time to downtown Seattle but the six or seven does. And I walked to the bus to the SkyTrain instead of getting a feeder bus. So it’s actually closer to ninety minutes disparity if done right. Big thing is customs checkpoint is a minute at the foot crossing and up to 45 minutes on the bus.

quite interesting and to me FUN as I don't have a car....BUT overall the whole video is an ad for Amtrak, Greyhound, Peter Pan Trailways, Megabus and lots of others....I suppose you could also walk.... if you don't mind arriving in a month or so....still without doubt you got there....maybe next...how to fry an egg on the sidewalk in extreme heat(THUS... if anyone says it is impossible...I will prove them wrong) keep at it....

Just curious do you know Miles in Transit? Y’all would be good friends. Great vid btw 👍

In Trenton you could also have caught the NJ Transit River Line to Camden. SEPTA has a train right into Camden.

I remember my first time taking New Jersey Transit to Penn Station. I was your stereotypical "autistic train kid," so I spent the whole trip talking my parents' ears off whenever we saw a train out the window and because this was North Jersey, there were a lot of them. 😂

SEPTA actively changing their schedule to make NJT connections at Trenton less convenient is one of the dumbest things that ever happened. It used to be you'd step off an NJT train, walk up the platform, and get on the SEPTA train that would take you the rest of the way. The extremely slow ride to 30th Street was still a thing, though.

Good to see Delaware on the big screen !

Great concept. Quick note - we pronounce the river Sus-*qua*-han-a.

I discovered the most extreme version of this would be going from Spotsylvania, Virginia to Salisbury, MA. It is entirely possible (however absurd it might be) to get between these two cities on only local/regional transit.

"The river is beautiful"... if only you had some device that could show it to us...(don't quit your day job just yet. but keep at it and good luck)

I’m seen the train route on the map countless times and thought, “wow if only they’d could close that Perryville to Wilmington gap, this route could be affordable no matter when you wanted to go.”

Did this all the time in the 80's. Lived on Long Island and went to college in DC (GWU). Lived right by LIRR. Took LIRR to Penn Station. Amtrak to DC union station. DC Subway to GWU stop, 2 blocks to dorm. Basically Door to Door.

As someone who lives in the area, I just wish they’d connect Marc to Newark, DE (which is supposedly in the plans but still several years away)

The scenic route from NYC to DC.

I’m not sure just how this ended up in my feed, but interesting video! This brought back memories of an old trip back in 2009 with my late grandfather from Boston to DC by car, I had driven down in about 6 hours. We came from Missouri by way of NYC, so I had to run that gauntlet twice. I’ve always wanted to go back but for a lot of reasons I’m simply not willing to drive to NYC and deal with the psycho traffic, or NJ either for that matter. What would my best option be for SECURE short-term (1-4 days) parking and transit to NYC and back? Philly airport perhaps? Is there a SEPTA/NJT connection there?

Nj Transit has an app so you don't need to figure out the machine. There should be an app for septa too. You can do all this ahead of time.

As an European, I just watch till 1:22 and then I understand why we are so lucky to have good transportation like bus route without making this amount of connections as well as our high speed train system. I know any system is perfect but yours, well come on Americans, just improve it seriously 😶

You can do this from San Francisco to Los Angeles too!

Do you recall the name of the place where you got the crab cake sandwich? It looked great!

I always kind of wondered if this was possible, but never was motivated to research it. The bus bit seemed like the worst part, although you still spent a lot of time sitting around and waiting for the next train.

3:31 Bros soda wanted to be in the video so bad lol