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The River Line is more of a tram train than an ordinary streetcar

I see these more as modern diesel interurbans or tram trains.

From 1958 to 1967, diesel streetcars ran in Sapporo, Japan, but due to electrification of an unelectrified line, those cars were remodeled to electric streetcars except for a couple of them and an unremodeled car has been exhibited at Sapporo City Transportation Museum (temporarily closed for renovation).

Unique light rail line using diesel power. Nice scenery along the Delaware Rivet. This follows a former commuter rail line. I've ridden the River Line many times and enjoyed the ride. Thanks Tim for sharing. 😀♥️♥️

The distinct sound of AC traction motors is a dead giveaway that these are diesel-electric hybrids.

I like the Riverline, it helps serve communities and I am interested in it enough to keep a good eye on it

I love these light rails. I just wish they weren't so loud in the interior. This is the longest light rail line in the Garden state, followed by our Light rail system here in Jersey City and the light rail in Newark is the shortest.

These are customized Stadler GTWs for those who didn't know. Designed to traverse like a streetcar and operates like a regular GTW on a mainline for it's railroading segment, which is also why it has a Graham White e-bell for a gong. It's literally you're normal American light rail vehicle but with diesel and no electrical catenary power

Tim I’ve been on this train many times in the past and I will tell you it’s quite a ride and it’s quite the alternative from having to go on SEPTA through the northeast side of Philadelphia up to the Trenton and I’m in NJ the whole time. Though there are certain parts of Camden that are not nice though I’ll just say that much.

Wonderful video my friend, I love all the shots you shown us in it😉 To be honest, I never ever seen diesel "trams", but I really enjoyed the ride, seen around 4:00😉 Well done and cheers to US🙋‍♂

The BART system in the San Francisco Bay Area has an extension of almost 10 miles that uses diesel light rail trains. Extension starts at transfer staton about a quarter mile past the Pittsburg Baypoint BART station. Regular 10 car BART trains leave the PIttsburg Baypoint station and travel the short distance to the transfer station. There they change tracks and align on a platform that accommodates the entire train. On the other side of the platform will be the diesel light rail train. It may consist of either one or two unit cars. Only way to get to this transfer station is via train. The diesel trains then service two stations, Pittsburg Central at Railroad and Antioch at Hillcrest. Travel time on the diesel route is only 10 minutes. Each of the diesel trains has Diesel engines located in the center section. Passenger can walk the length of the unit but the center section with the diesel unit has two sets of closing doors that help isolate the noise from the engines. The route runs in the medium of Highway 4 on rails anchored onto slabs of concrete. Originally this extension was planned to use the regular BART trains. It was found, however, that cost was cut in half by using the smaller diesel trains.

That’s actually a pretty common thing in my country, a lot of cities adopted this kind of system, the only difference is that they’re high floor

It's a fascinating train because it is both a street runner and it shares tracks with freight trains. I've never ridden it even though I ride NJ Transit all the time.

The DMU's of the "tram" look just like the Stadler Railbuses we have here in Greece lol

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The Trams a very pretty. Nice video.😊😊😊👍👍👍

Thank you very much for this very interesting and informative video presentation which is very much appreciated by the people.

I used to work in Camden NJ a few years ago. I parked near the River Line. I always wanted to take a ride on the line but never got around to doing it.

I would consider this interurban and a train as I never heard of diesel trams and it acts like a commuter rail connecting the two cities.

Interesting how the diesel engine is in the middle with a walkway through it between the two tram cars. Looks like it can be driven from both ends so it doesn't have to be turned around. I saw this briefly in another video from someone who was traveling by train and transferred in NJ at the station where the River Line ends, but it's nice to get more information.

I love the river line. I live5 mins away and used to take it daily.

Very nicely done ♐

Very interesting video!

There are some other tram-like systems using Diesel power around the world. There is that weird cable-car-simulation in Portland/Victoria/Australia, which is supposed to be an old Melbourne Cable car and runs on Diesel Power. Then there are the Tram-Trains in Kassel, which have both DC-power and Diesel engines. And the tram in Nordhausen has Rt. 10, which runs on a narrow-gauge railway to Ilfeld, also with diesel power. It uses 17-metre long Combino trams, and the engine takes up most of the low floor area in that tram...

There's also the NCTD Sprinter, which is a hybrid rail, but it's close enough.

The River Line looks very nice. 👀👀✔✔

Brasil and parts of Europe have DMU light rail trains. Although electrification is improving. All Northern Ireland railways and Translink buses are Diesel (including the Belfast-Beal Firste 'Glider' BRT) My city's S-Bahn is all diesel with 'Sprinter', Express Sprinter, HST and IET's - though the Class 800/802's are Electric and diesel they don't hit the Overhead line equipment until 60 miles outside London after over 200 miles under DMU power!

much of the line was once the Camden and Amboy and later Pennsylvania RR Now NS When I take my dog to the county park I might get stopped by same train twice....once in my town, Riverside and then the next town over, Delanco.

Nordhausen in Germany has a diesel tram too! (line 10, while the other two lines are electric)

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very neat train, i take it all the time to rutgers camden

Weird to think that these GTWs were the first trains Stadler ever built for the North American market. They look so much different than all the other GTWs in America, and around the world. Austin, Texas was the second city in the USA to receive Stadler trains, with 10 GTWs being delivered between 2007 and 2017. Austin’s GTWs look much more like their European counterparts than the Riverline ones do.

Wie have a almost same System in Chemnitz and Zwickau (Germany). One is a tram which rides with electricity on the streets and then with diesel on the mainline. And the other one are normal diesel trains who ride through the city centre on the street before they go on the "normal" train tracks.

I don’t understand how can it be efficient to run a regional diesel train (yes, that’s what it is, not a tram) through a city. The running costs must be crazy high

I wish we had something like this here in northeast Queens which is a real transit desert.

I don't know how, but someone did the math and determined that a diesel tram was better value than an electric one. Not very green, though. When the time comes for replacement I'd guess there'll be pressure to put up the overhead wires, or maybe there'll be very economic batteries and inductive charging by then.

Motorak (basically thesame) were very popular in Czechoslovakia, as suburban trams... also, see the midlands railway "tram", not to mention pacers and the many slightly heavier but similar sized "BMW-Wanman series (1-man)" trains in existence in Japan

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That also has something to see the GTW ́s as a tram. For me in Berlin, they run as RE line 6 between Berlin and Wittenberge as Prignitz Express. Now a question about the tracks: are they actually welded?? That gets when driving over as if they are just lyinglled. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven

I mean they have something similar in Zwickau, Germany (and other cities that have the "Zwickau model") that have regional diesel trains run on tram lines in the center of the city (although the trams themselves are electrified)

Connections with PATCO at Camden Walter Rand Transportation Center stymied by PATCO closing the west head house right next to the River Line platforms.

Damn, the "Clack-clack" is so damn loud! Don't they know "long welded rails"? Literally all trams lines (at least in Europe) have that to prevent loud junction sounds.

This has gotta be the only light rail with a Graham White E-Bell ngl

This is the goat of metros: It is compatible with the mainline railway, it is flexible as it can run on street without requiring huge station buildings, it is fast and big as it is a train and can reach speeds up to 75 or 100 miles per hour outside of the city, and it is not outrun by buses or even cars optimally.

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Amazing that the diesel engine isn't very loud, actually being mostly obscured by the sound of the inverters. Thanks for the interior footage. I notice that the passage through the center section is off-center -- how do they balance the center section in the left-right direction? Heavy batteries in the small side?

I was just there a couple weeks ago those things are huge and quite shocking to see coming down the road.

I ride the Riverline a lot!

@Timosha21 those GTW's sound like the NS EMU SLT Sprinter

Thank you for the coverage! Enjoyed the video..this is a tram-train right..?

Only in this area it runs on the street, the rest of the route runs with freight trains and it runs at a high speed

The trams look like they are made by stadler so that is good and despite being diesel it sounds the same as an electric tram like if there is no engine

There are quite a few lines in Germany : Nordhausen, Chemnitz, Kassel, ...

A Diesel Tram is in Germany too. Its in Zwickau

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Wow, weird to see for a Dutchman! They use the very same colourscheme the NS (Dutch Railways) use at their sprinter-trains!

we had a kind of thing like that in portugal , the mirandela metro service

Missed it but got in it as it ended

River line is a hybrid Diesel Commuter Light Rail

Very weird. Wouldn't the capital cost savings of not installing wires be offset by the need to buy a very specific and rare type of train rather than an off-the-shelf model? Not to mention the operating costs of diesel vs electric over time..

It has the length of a tram and the width of a commuter train/metro.

Stadler GTW as "trams" :)

Does the Diesel engine drive the train or does it generate electricity?

Fun fact: those trams came from Switzerland.

I wish that in Athens there was an electric version of this instead of a slow tram that is outrun by buses

Is diesel tram efficiency is better than diesel bus ?? Or better than battery bus ? Specially lithium also create pollution

Cool horn & the one with 4 cars better two me 😷 .

While NJ Transit owns the trains and railroad, the employees of the River Line are contractors, not NJ Transit employees. Same applies to Hudson Bergen Light Rail. Newark City Subway operators are NJ Transit employees.

Anybody have an idea what that blue flashing is at 5:07? Doesn't seem to be the reflections of e.g. a police car strobe or something... Some weird artifact maybe?

looks like the americans are living in stone age. and happily ever after.

I'm surprised the engine noise isn't louder, like a bus. I wonder why they didn't just go with electric. Also, are these diesel-electric or regular transmission diesel?

Do you think Newark NJ would switch to these trains and ditch electric ones even though they made them longer

With no mess of electric line overhead looks much better.

Why is it noisy? It feels as it was going constantly going through a switch

The generator is very quiet during street running

Is it safe ?

Seems strange to only have one set of doors per side per Car, is reminiscent of some other other Stadler designs for mainline trains

Fun fact: Late at night a local frieght train operated by Conrail Shared Assets (Norfolk Southern and CSX in Southern NJ and a few other areas in the Eastern US) goes north along the NJT River Line from the frieght yard in Camden, NJ (Camden Pavonia Yard) paralleling the light rail until just north of Cove Rd. before going on to the light rail to a small yard in Burlington, NJ

I think that Karachi had diesel trams many years ago.

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It is diesel indeed but its still electric. the diesel part is a generator for the electricity this Tram is powered

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Sorry. What's a "GTW"?

You gotta record the Sprinter in San Diego County California.

Another one in San Diego !

Why everything looks so old over there?

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This also exists in Chemnitz, Germany

I see the Rutgers' campus lol

I never knew trams could run on diesel. I thought they were all running on electricity

Do they have plans to electrify the line?

Double track it. And electrify it. And then automate it.

how fast do they normally go?

Not many people on it 😢

Of course New Jersey is the one with a diesel tram

I have some unpublished drone video of it's Camden sections if you'd like it

Euro 6?

I don't hate it!

Also in Germany. Zwickau