America had an absolutely amazing transportation network. The idea that everyone 'needed' the convenience of personal transportation, the abundance of vehicles, and society's shift to instant gratification after WW ll along with the subsidized interstate highway network (after Eisenhower had seen the autobahn) were all factors in the demise of our intricate system. I personally wish we could go back ---

Love the drag race at about 23:00 with the BNSF unit. That must've woke up the neighborhood.

I was a sleeper attendant on 30 in this period. I love this video - it brings back MANY memories. I would have been making up berths at this point.

Some of the best videos I ever got were behind st. Vincents...on the high bridge in latrobe....and in loyalhanna. Conrail 94

I do like watching cab ride videos as a general rule. A couple things that bring me back to these two video subjects: 1) The position light signals, of course! 2) The snow. I grew up in Colorado in the 1970's, railfanning the Burlington Northern and the ATSF (and the occasional Rock Island until it stopped running in 1980). I considered myself fortunate for having railfanned the L-O-O-O-O-N-G BN coal drags in those cold winter months as they came through downtown Colorado Springs (especially, when I was older, having supper with friends at Guiseppe's Old Depot Restaurant!). And from my bedroom window, I could hear the throbbing of the GM 567 prime movers echoing off of the Rampart Range! This video reminds me of those times. 3) Conrail Blue. What could be better than looking out the window at a long Conrail coal drag? I'm sure you eastern mountaineers miss all of that awesome "Conrail Quality" blue as much as we rocky mountaineers miss the forest green of those BN diesels (the EMDs and the Alcos). Just as BN green meant raw power out west, the same could be said for Conrail Blue back east. So, Jersey Mike, as long as you keep showing these two videos, I'll keep watching them.

Wow that is one of the best K5LAs I have ever heard! Very clean sounding and perfectly in tune. Awesome to listen to the echo of it blasting around overpasses and buildings.

I grew up in California, PA, which is near Connellsville. So, it was interesting for me to take this train ride. Winter in western PA is exactly as we see it in this video: snow and many dark, gray days when the sun is just a little bright spot behind the clouds. I have been in all the towns along which this train travels. The Youghiogheny River mentioned by the guys in the cab is a beautiful river and is a favorite for white water rafting further upstream.

Living in Cali on the Mojave desert gives incredible train watching 24/7, but not the feel of my past NE home and grey wintry days that are great to nap!!! 😂 This video is great to watch and end up dozing off to. It’s not boring, it just reminds me of how warm and dreary things were.

What a ride....I love it...absolute pros

Really neat as you head through the city going by three different types of signals from the Pennsy, B&O, and P&LE all within a couple miles!

This is the best cab ride. Pittsburgh: my favorite city for rail fanning. I love seeing the different routes. Nice treat to see that BNSF Dash 8 ( I think). I was always fascinated to find out where all the different ROW goes..,

I've grown up in the Pittsburgh Westmoreland County area and it's actually cool to see how that train ride is I didn't think it took that long though but it's pretty cool to see all the areas by trains you that I used to go on as a kid and as a young adult

I never cared that this video lacks some of the "polish" of the Final Product. It is always a pleasure to watch this anytime I want to take a cab ride over former B&O trackage. The videography is still quite good, the details (signals) show up well, and the sound is superb. My only minor complaint is I wish he had kept the tape running early on to see that RoadRailer go completely by and the signal at Solomon change from STOP to Approach Medium.

Great video. My father was a fireman on the P&LE during the days of the steam engine. He worked the same route. I would take him from Connellsville to DC in the fall. We would have dinner in Union Station if time allowed then catch the west bound back to Connellsville.

Just took this exact route just a few days ago. It’s amazing watching it from such a different time, seeing everything that’s different and everything that’s barely changed at all. Buildings and bridges above and below. Some of the roads and the state of some buildings are still practically identical

My first ever U.S. train journey on YT and what a treat it was! I usually follow those in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, having a close connection therewith via my music blogging interests, so this - to some extent scenery-wise - fairly took me back to my favourite trip to the Czech Republic and Slovakia in January 2017 what with frozen-over rivers (-21°C in Žilina!)! You'll probably gather from that spelling, 'favourite' and my use of °C and not °F that I'm on the other side of the Water! ;-) I also loved the way that the houses were right beside the track, which is also typical of what one sees in those countries, more so than here in the UK.

Superb! Thanks so much for shooting this video and for sharing it with us. Great ride through Pennsylvania

Jersey Mike's Rail Videos I truly Enjoy watching Both parts of these videos,This must have been quite a Incredible Journey to be able to ride and film inside of these Amtrak Trains What view And the scenery in these videos are amazing I keep watching the videos over and over again at least 25 times +, It seems like I'm inside here too the engineer was real friendly,Nice Job I'd sure would like to see more just like these from 7 years ago Thanks for sharing.Stay Safe 👍👍👍👍👍

2004-2019 your awesome video isn't growing old hasn't aged a bit and always please us.

I have watched this now a couple of times, still finding it one of the best US cab ride videos on KZfaq

Used to ride over this route at night on the B&O Capitol Limited and Ambassador and once or twice on the Shennandoah . They made better time, but, of course, back then it was their railroad!

That's one hell of a horn show!

Thrilling to watch. Some slow going in the first 15 miles leaving Pittsburgh. So many interlockings. Quite a departure from the NEC.

I’m obsessed with this video now!

@Jersey Mike, thank you for posting the two Amtrak videos between Pittsburgh and Cumberland. I live in the Pittsburgh area and I'm very familiar with all of the railroads that serve Pittsburgh. It was nice to see the route of Amtrak's Capital Limited from the engineers point of view, thank you.

Very enjoyable video. I'm happy to see it was published in some form for us to see. An advantage I see of this being taken in Winter, despite the low angle of the Sun and many places in shadow, the lack of vegetation and leaves on the trees allows for objects that would be hidden in Spring and Summer to be seen.

Wonderful! I love those B&O CPL signals. Since this is from 2004, they are probably mostly gone now?Also, at Glenwood, the line splits to the right across the Mon. It once went all the way to Wheeling, WV and was very, very busy. I lived above Streets Run valley and used to love watching the trains. There were two tracks then as well. Great memories. You never really leave the 'burgh...

Ahhh... Memories. I trained as a freight conductor through there in 1998. I ran, between Cumberland and New Castle. Funny to see some of the old position light signals still operating. Tey were replacing them with Chessie color-light signals. Now, it's Chessie all the way through. The house they used for exteriors for "Buffalo Bill's" house in "Silence of the Lambs" is just east of West Newton. It was either at about 1:08 or 1:15, I couldn't tell. It'd be a yellow house on the left side of th picture in this video. I remember there was a disused third track, a siding, that was still active when they shot the film. There was also a caboose in someone's yard across the tracks (on our right). But I didn't see the caboose in this video. Later, in 2006 - 2009, I was one of the "Operator V.I." folks, like the one you hear PO030 talking to at about 1:32 in this video. All but one of us got laid off when they finished the signals and put the area under Dispatcher control. Due to the shutdown of coal mines (EPA regs) 129 train crew also got laid off that day. Tough for a little town like Connellsville.

I really enjoyed watching this video!!! Thank u so much!!! Beautiful PA.

My parents now live less than 100 yards from this line near mile post 304. My mom grew up in West Newton.

I know Connellsville from my childhood. Dad's father was engineer on B & O from 1905 until 1954. My Mom's dad was the station master at Smithton until the mid to late 40's.

Been on this route as a passenger many times. Cool to see it from the engineer POV. Thanks.

Boy those old seaboard position lights 🚥 need to be updated. I was a conductor for CP on the other side of Pennsylvania some years ago on the Sunbury sub, on NS track going to Harrisburg, we would get some of the wildest signals you ever saw. Shit like medium, medium, approach medium, or three flashing diagonal yellows over a red yellow and green. We had to break out the signal chart many times. As soon as we got back to CP (D&H) territory along the susquehanna River, it was normal single head H2 signals again. Excellent video. Lots of great stuff. Signals, talking to dispatchers, switching. I'm retired now but boy was Pennsylvania great for trains, but dreary and ickey. Florida's better. UPDATE after watching this video again, I can’t believe how old, dirty, dreary, filthy and depressing Pennsylvania was, this is a great train video, but it’s so gray, it looks like it’s in black and white. Yuk. Don’t miss the place one bit

I would say this is the BEST video from Drivers view from a AMTRAK train I have seen. Once you get use to the terminology used, it is amazing how much information there is. The weather may have been disappointing but to me who has never seen snow from a train, it was quite spectacular. Any more like this ?

Thanks for posting. These videos are always relaxing to watch.

Oh wow.. I didn't know that the PGH -> HAR and PGH -> COV runs split so early on.. Thanks for the share!

This is awesome, my friend! Thank you so much for sharing this!

That is a sweet sounding K5LA horn. Neat because a number of Amtrak's K5s are in serious need of retuning.

Love the sounds in this video!

Very nice video, saw a lot and learned a couple things along the way.

1:00:10 You are going through the HOG PEN and right past Jackmp294.5's house. This is also the location of a Railstream Web Cam. Awesome!

Love the Conrail locomotives at the beginning.

Thanks I enjoyed this video, I love trains 🚂

Used to date a girl in the Pittsburgh suburbs. LOVE seeing the Pittsburgh area. Great video!!

I look forward to watching this video. Thanks for posting~!

Know this route from watching trackside. Great to see it from the head end. Thanks!

56:17 Shout-out to the UPS Driver for waiting safely for the train to pass.

Guy Mitchell,"pawnshop on a corner in Pittsburg,PA" Good Luck getting THAT song out of your head!!

This is what we're waiting for. The magic man is back! Amtrak leaves Pittsburgh and the crowd goes wild! Is the cafe car open? It is!

Great video. The trains route leaving Pittsburgh was driving me nuts. Watched this video while using an interactive RR map on my ipad to follow along. Very interesting and informative

Great video. Really enjoyed it.

two thumbs up great videos and great railroad videos

Excellent videos !

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

cool to see what the route from Pittsburgh looks like. I'm in Illinois.

As real as it gets. HIGHBALL YOUR ROLL-BYE. It was nice going through My old neighborhood, rather what's left of it.

благодарю автора за интересное видеопутешествие...) еду дальше - в Cumberland...

Thank you SO much for sharing this.

That side by side meet up with the BNSF was really cool.

Fantastic video

Enjoyed the ride!

At 22:55 that was a cool little surprise.. imagine how loud that must have been with both blowing at the same time

For someone like me, who grew up in and around Pittsburgh, this video is cool as fuck. I'm watching you pull out from the station, and I'm going, "You're going east, following the East Busway. Hey! There goes a slinky bus! Now you're going thru Panther Hollow. I did a lot of drinking and partying there in the early 80s. Walked thru that tunnel, tripping on purple microdot! Down thru Greenfield, thru Hazelwood, under the Glenwood Bridge, Homestead High Level Bridge.. Yep, fished all along there. Thru McKeesport, turn left.. You're on the old B&O mainline going up the Yough, anat. Fished all along there too. B&O ran right past my aunt & uncle's house in Dawson. I used to watch the big blue EMD F7s going by in the early 70s. Stayed in Connellsville for a minute, in a rat hole building right by the tracks. The roof was infested with pigeons. That was it on the left there, right before you stopped. Your video brings back a lotta memories for me dude. Thanks for posting it. I subbed.

Nice train race!

Thx for posting this up

Great video. Serves as a time machine compared to Walt Berkos head end video from 1985-86 on this route. The graphics were difficult to read at times.

My gr uncle ...marv would have loved this...erie Lackawanna and pennsyin50s n60s in oil city pa

Fantastic, thank you!

this sound is so mesmerising.

I love the railroad I love to ride on trains

shame there are general rules that allow a person not to do this, id be doing it all the time if i could ;)

Yeah! I rode that train many times before.

i love trains nice video

I like this on my big 42 inch screen tv

I watch this every day

To all those commentators complaining about all the horn blowing, To not do that would invite car-train accidents and the ensuing lawsuit by the surviving family members wanting retribution for killing their family member! Simply spoken, getting the distracted person's attention, before they kill themselves!!!!

I really like the bell!

ha, at 1:02:27 I thought there was about to be a wreck, the train obviously is falling over

SWEET Train Race through Braddock at 23:13!

great job, love the BNSF race at 23:00. At 1:02:27, I thought we were derailing!!!

great video, but I wonder how smooth it was? Everything go well?

Ha! When I was a kid one of our dares was to walk through the Schenley Tunnel from Oakland/Panther Hollow to Bloomfield. It was pitch black and a bit creepy.

Love the video and thanks for posting. Question: what is the single light on top of the position light masts for?

I liked that racing there around 23 minutes.

Some sad little towns on this route. One home looks as if you could walk out the front door and get hit by this very train.

since you were driving the train,would you know if the amtrack trains going south cross over the river or stay on the side where the amtrack station is?

54:22 Sutersville 56:20 Lowber Road Crossing 57:57 West Newton

This a great video. Enjoying it very much. Does this train go to Greensburg,PA as well?

what I would like to see is a train ride from Pittsburgh to Orlando,florida

Brillent video

The signals at East Schenley and Field were replaced in early July 2016.

Between 59:00 and the 1 hour mark, the train passes through a town where a railfan has uploaded several videos from. One of my favorites being Amtrak 145 in the lead but I am unable to find it, nor can I remember which railfan it is on here.

interesting to see so many cabooses in 2004

squirrel ftw!!! :)

That tunnel look creepy af like something can just jump out and attack the train That could be a movie scene

Is this the the old PAT line? I have a video of the PAT with their comet cars, and F Unit in the front, plus about 3 passengers

Nice what was the Dash 8s engine Number?Never Mind heard the Enginer say PO30 Engine 18. P42 BTW Subbed and Liked.

Huh I never knew Amtrak went through panther hollow. I'll have to check that out someday.

My brother worked this train from Pittsburgh to DC and back and sometime Pittsburgh to Chicago ndbsck as conductor and engineer

It looks OK for the most part, then again, he could've shot another version so you can have 2 versions of the ride: one while sunny, and one while snowy