lol...those Are original wooden benches...I sat in them in 1949, and every summer until 1959. :) Many wonderful memories here. The main feature I recall about the Greensboro station was the continuous echo of called-out departures and arrivals... the Redcaps, and luggage trolleys. It was not as sterile as this view shows. It wasn't air-conditioned, and the warm, humid Southern air was thick with the promise of a wonderful summer of fun for this city boy. The people, especially thr Redcaps were superbly friendly and sweet...if I could travel back in time, I would go here. Those were the days.

I love it that rail fans are so adept at photographing trains and so inter connected that a train vlogger can have his train photographed in transit by another rail fan. That's awesome!

I think the “crazy weeds” is kudzu. It’s an Asian plant introduced to the southern US to prevent soil erosion, but it grew out of control.

Your videos bring me so much comfort and happiness on days when my chronic illness makes me miserable. All I can do is sit and take in something calm. I just wanted to say thank you.

Made that trip between Atlanta and New Orleans twice during the 1960s before Amtrak. The train took a more southern route (on the L&N tracks) and involved crossing the nightmare bridge at Bay St Louis. The train had to travel at walking speed and rocked and swayed so violently that it was extremely frightening. Fortunately, Hurricane Camille erased that bridge from the face of the earth. (That was the only good thing about Camille.)

That shot of the sunset over the lake is beautiful !!!

Six years ago my son and I took the Crescent from Slidell to New York. We had a roomette which was run down and not very clean. Wifi was not available at that time. The dinning car was the highlight of the trip. The food was good, and the portions large. Too large really, because for two days we just sat and ate. When the train got up in speed it was really not a smooth ride, which is to be expected using freight tracks. That swamp you mentioned right before crossing the lake is a saltmarsh, and that lake is really a lagoon.

Me and my family used to take this train from Washington DC to Mississippi to see my grandparents

We just got back tonight after taking the Crescent as part of a Connecticut to Florida to N. Carolina and back to Connecticut trip. Had a great time and every train was on time. There is some great scenery on the Crescent route, especially through Virginia. Our portion was coach from Charlotte to Washington.

I like the trains in the USA. They are monstrous, powerful and incredible trains. Great video as well.

OMG how many memories! I did that trip in 2003! (I traveled in coach and was very comfy to sleep) from NY to Atlanta!! 😍😍😍😍

Such charming views of the Deep South...which makes it a pity that the Crescent has such a short consist with no dining car. I used to watch this train come and go on my visits to Atlanta in the mid-1980's, when this was an impressive sized train with at least 10 cars including diner and lounge (railfans used to call this "Mr. Claytor (then Amtrak CEO)'s train" back then, but that's another long story). On the other hand, it's encouraging to see people continuing to ride this train. Hopefully the infrastructure legislation will help bring about the much needed improvements. Great documentary as always!

Wonderful videos and I particularly like your positive outlook to your travels. So many presentations by other only focus on the negatives while you see the charm of the old stations and point out how to enjoy each trip to the fullest. A side note... the freight railroads own and maintain the track and give their trains priority as does Amtrak where they own and maintain the right of way.

Great to see you’ve been to Greensboro, that’s my home sweet home and I’ve traveled in and out of the passenger station many times. And actually in July, I did the same exact trip from Greensboro to New Orleans as I went on a journey across the country to LA on Amtrak

I love to watch the landscape go by. It seems as if the rivers are loaded with algae. I'm so happy that people videograph their train trips and share them with us.

When I rode the Crescent we were 4 hours late into New Orleans. Now Amtrak is issuing a new schedule for the train lengthening the journey time and guaranteeing a late evening arrival into New Orleans.

Thank you very much for this video. I have loved traveling on trains since I was a little kid. Everything about the trip was special... scenery, relaxed pace, the cozy roommette, the welcoming staff etc. Now I am old and have a terminal illness. I still hold on to the hope that I will be able to take on last train trip In the meantime I love these videos - they bring back wonderful memories and bring me peace.

The Crescent is on my list of Amtrak trips, mostly because I have a close friend in NYC, and I think it would be a fun way to get there...I'd have to take The City of New Orleans down from Memphis to catch it. Thanks for giving us a great look at what seems to be a really nice station at Greensboro...I never get tired of viewing all the cool stations around the US, first time for this one. Seeing them from the outside always makes me want to see the interiors as well; I'm often surprised at how nice and well-preserved or well-restored many stations are. Possibly I'm sensitive to this matter because, until recently, Central Station here in Memphis was a disaster, but has undergone a major renovation. I don't know if you've ever travelled aboard The City of New Orleans (the only Amtrak service we get in Memphis), but if you do so in the future, I'd really enjoy seeing and hearing your impressions of Central Station. Also, you may have convinced me to take the Coach option next time, for the City of New Orleans from here to Chicago (an all-nighter), or to New Orleans (a day trip). But for a long-distance trip, such as the Crescent, Southwest Chief, or Empire Builder, I still think the Roomette (or bedroom if you can get a good deal) is the way to go. I was excited to see the old 2-8-2 Mikado coal-burning engine from the Frisco Lines (St Louis and San Francisco Railway, although it never went anywhere near San Franciso), because one of my grandfather's worked for the Frisco all his adult life, retiring in the early 1960s. The Frisco had a number of named trains in its heyday, most notably The Texas Special; there's an overpass here in Memphis on which you can still see a sign for the Frisco passenger service to St Louis and Kansas City painted onto the concrete; considering the fact that they stopped carrying passengers in the late 60s, and were absorbed by the Big Nasty (Burlington Northern, now BNSF) in 1980, that's some very durable paint! Frisco TX is named for the Frisco and uses their classic logo as their own; it's supposed to represent, or so I'm told, a stretched raccoon skin...why, I don't know! Again, thanks for another informative and very enjoyable video journey!

When I rode it home in a sleeper an employee gave me one of their keys and I think it's for the door in between the 2 family rooms

I recently took a multi-train trip that started with the Crescent (Atlanta to New Orleans) and later ended with it (Philadelphia to Atlanta). The first train left ATL on time, but because we had to stop for 45 minutes south of Tuscaloosa to wait for a freight to pass, we arrived, like you, about 30 minutes late, which is not bad. But the schedule has been changed, so we crossed the lake after dark. The DiGiornio pizza is no longer offered, so I had an excellent turkey and cheese sandwich on an oat roll for lunch, and a decent (but under-baked) cheese stromboli for dinner. At least this was a day trip, in coach. On the later train, I took a roomette (Viewliner I); this train left PHL a bit late but we arrived in ATL on time. The "flexible" dining is definitely inferior to the traditional dining car service, and I hope that returns. For dinner I had the beef short ribs, which were decent, served with a salad, green beans, a roll and a brownie, and I ate them in the lounge car to "simulate" a dining car experience! For breakfast I had pancakes with sausage, which were just fine, and I again ate them in the lounge car. Since the Viewliner I roomette has a toilet, if I had elected to have the meals delivered to my room, I could have gone the whole trip without ever leaving it, but what fun is that?

Great video! I was waiting for this one! I am taking this train from Baltimore (BAL) to New Orleans (NOL) in July! Thanks for the report!

I love seeing my country through your eyes!

Thank you for an excellent review. I thoroughly enjoyed your trip, and the wonderful typical small town America scenery.

I had no idea crossing Lake Ponchartrain was so epic! It looked like you were crossing the ocean via train.

A long train trip through beautiful scenery and "Trailer Park Boys"? Now that's my idea of a great trip!

Great video! Really enjoy seeing you and hearing you talk about the trip. Thank you ; you do a fantastic job!

Interesting how you’re talking in your video intros now. Great video as always and I want to ride this one day!

Bonjour Thibault, Thank you very much for your trip logs. I enjoy every one. When I first crossed the US, there was no Amtrak. the next year 1971 it began. Please come back to California

Everytime I watch another one of your amtrak videos it gets me so excited for my northeast regional trip in October! 😁

thank you for this post! It's so informative and helpful. (I especially like the captions for the locations.)

Nice video! I hope to be traveling Boston to Atlanta this summer and riding the Crescent. Thus gave me an idea of what to expect! I loved the scenery. Great job!

😁 My Old Friend, for the last month and a half I haven't been able to be with you in company, but for the last few days I have made up for everything that has been missed. I just arrived in New Orleans with you and I see all the impressions from the trip through the deep US south. I am glad to be able to say that you have made a huge step forward in the preparation and release of the video. The most beautiful of all is that with all your knowledge and passion, your creativity has finally come to the fore, which leaves true and strong impressions. I'm preparing to embark with you on a magnificent journey of the perfectly good California Zephyr. I would be lying if I didn’t confirm that I expect a spectacle from this trip. Also, I believe that a great movie and a wonderful experience awaits me, on the way to San Francisco. Great Thibault, thank you for excellent company and perfect adventures on the steel tracks!

Great video - I hope to travel to the US one day to experience their trains too! Good that you are doing intros and we can see and hear you!

Amazing video! I am a citizen of the beautiful state of Louisiana but I have never seen the heavenly view of the sun setting over Lake Ponchetrain until you shared it. Thank you so much!

Love the mix of the on camera in person intro, and then your classic text and video combo :)

Great journey across the American South the scenery was amazing especially the lake as if it was crossing the ocean. The greensboro station looks very good including the train interior. It must have been a great experience to travel across America by train when you were there

Great video! The interior of the train is nice. Wow, the view of the lake is great!

That train was rocketing into that station and slammed on its brakes!

Having a great time stuck working from home living vicariously through your trip reports! Looking forward to trying out some of these routes for myself once the restrictions ease and the borders reopen

The Southern Crescent was last privately owned inter-city train when it was handed over to Amtrak in 1979. Greensboro Station has an interesting design. Two platforms heading in different directions. The Crescent is well known for having an incredibly high On-Time ratio. I think NS takes pride in hosting it. Passengers have been complaining about the size of Atlanta Peach Tree Station. The Station was original designed as a commuter station. Most inter-city traffic went through Terminal Station. The station wasnt designed for the amount of traffic it sees.

Fantastic as always, Thibault! Thank you for always taking us along with you on these treks! It's your videos, especially the longer ones like these that play a part in me creating this channel in the first place, to do trips alongside some outdoors content inspired by some of my favorite outdoors creators on KZfaq. And speaking which, I don't know if you recall, but I actually mentioned that I was planning on making a Trip Report video myself on TriMet WES, which then you ended up doing too haha. Well, that video has been made. It's fun and motivating to have this thing come full circle in a way like that! Hope you are doing well and all the best to you!

Station was probably built by the Southern Railway System; class act. When they ran the Southern Crescent, it was a class act train.

Thank you . This was the coolest ever. God bless you with many safe journeys 😊

Another great video! It’s definitely a route I want to take!

Love your positivity! Keep 'em coming, Thibault ~

Nice job Thib! The Crescent always a special place in my heart to connect my significant other and i to see each other

Passed through my home state, Sweet Home Alabama! It’s definitely worth a trip to visit some of the small towns and cities in Alabama.

Good to see you personally giving introductions. You're a very handsome guy;)

This was the first long distance train I ever took (NY to Atlanta). I rode in one of the Viewliners :) Awesome trip. Our steward on the ride north was exceptionally friendly and talkative about his life riding the rails.

I'm really surprised at how easy the trip was. I definitely have seen the crescent being 4+ hours late a lot of the time! Great video as always!

Nice trip! You got lucky on the 30 min. delay! Thanks for sharing!

Excellent report!

The lake view with the sunset was mesmerizing 😍

It's great to finally see the face behind the vlogger! 🙌 Awesome trip!

Good job. Track appears to be pretty smooth. With a career in the travel industry, I have ridden on almost every US train. Much of it Amtrak. A lot of Canada and the Copper Canyon of Mexico. Again, good job on this video.

I used to ride in coach on the Empire Builder (Milwaukee, WI to Fargo, ND) to get to and from my undergrad college back in the 1970s. It always seemed to run 3 hours late, not so much departing Milwaukee westbound, but always arriving Milwaukee eastbound and arriving westbound/departing eastbound at Fargo. I was comfortable enough in coach, but thought the dining car food was overpriced, and really didn't like the plain potato chips which always seemed to be a side dish with lunch/supper meals on the train. Where I work, the Texas Eagle passes by my office window every afternoon (but doesn't stop), right when it's time for me to head home for the day. Would love to take one of the Silver Service trains to visit my sister in South Carolina sometime!

I can't wait for my train trip to DC Now! Thank you for this video ❤

Metro Atlanta is the ninth largest and one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the nation. Home to 6 million people in 2019, metro Atlanta experienced the fourth-largest population increase of all MSAs in the nation-an increase of approximately 734,000 people from 2010 to 2019. More than 500 thousand. A lot more

That sunset over Lake Ponchartrain was epic!

Really enjoyed. Great video

Nice job, Randy!

Watching Trailer Park Boys while eating breakfast on a great train. Doesn't get better!! :-)

It's awesome so many folks remember their train journeys from their childhoods like me. Long distant train trips are forever etched in my memory. I can't say I remember plane trips which are for the most part uneventful-unless someone has a melt down or there's a celebrity on board. The Crescent doesn't have many scenic views on account of the trees, but crossing Lake Pontchartrain makes up for the boredom for me.

Crossing the beautiful lake is wonderful! Someday I will get on this train

I've been taking the Crescent from DC to NOLA once or twice a year for thirty years. I used to take just sleepers but one year waited too late and they sold out. I was shocked at how smooth the coach ride was and was never again pressed about choosing between the two. It does make a the difference however if coach is sold out! Going to Atlanta and Birmingham both ways increases the number of passengers. So I learned that I could comfortably do a twenty four hour trip in coach but I would not like to do much more than that. You wee generous about the scenery on this trip. You caught pretty much every water scene on the trip. Leaving DC, seeing Manassas and Charlottesville makes good viewing. After that it is usually dark so there are just night shots until approaching Atlanta. After Atlanta for about fifty minutes you go through great small town shots but once you hit Anniston Alabama you have some of the most boring view of the same terrain for hours until you get to Birmingham. After that there are several small towns that are very quaint and the train is right next to main street so all traffic has to wail for passengers to unload . Some have beautifully restored cars at the stations. The reason the on time rate is so bad on the Crescent is that the freight trains have right of way since its their tracks, and can make your train pull over for them to pass especially if they are late. In thirty years I have only been within an hour of on time arrival in NOLA but usually pretty close when going back to DC. Slidell is the last town before the lake and you want to video it and the boathouses and docks as you leave it. Remember the best views are during the months when the days are long. You cannot see the lake when its dark!!! While to me this route is not a gem is has it's moments and will be even more fun when the dining car returns! Breakfast and dinner in the diner totally enhances the experience. KB

Awesome! I rode this train a few months ago!

Very well done so informative! thank you

Cool report! The northbound Crescent was rescheduled through Greensboro at 7:20 am, gives it a bit more time in the daylight heading to Washington and New York

Most important thing congrats again for 100k and 1st video after this.....as understanding and seeing the fab and awesome Amtrak's Eastern Corridor with more than you expected...as New Orleans and Chicago is good place for and act as hub for Amtrak operation.The Crescent is a thrice a week train it operates between Pennsylvania Station in New York City and Union Passenger Terminal in New Orleans as train numbers 19 and 20 and daily services resumes June 7, 2021 as intercity train operating between 100 to 150mph through scenic way of Pearl river in Mississippi connecting southbound train by Acela from Boston or Washington DC to NYC or etc.. or from Chicago as Blue line or Lake shore limited or Cardinal or northbound train from New Orleans by many ways good and fascinating video.....need videos on California Zephyr or Coaster trains to commuter train from MBTA or Caltrain or Maple leaf to Toronto

i hope when you returned the phone to the conductor you told them to remind the girl who said it was stolen that she carelessly left it in the toilet

This video deserves 1.000.0O0 stars. I watched before an extraordinary video from Deutsche Welle about The Crescent and this one have nothing to envy it. I´m very glad about yor opinions because when you're on a train you are living an adventure and it doesn´t matter what happens. IT´S AN ADVENTURE and that is the reason why we love trains and the people who works there. Greetings from Osorno, Chile.

We really enjoy your videos and it's nice to see your face! My husband and I took coach from San Antonio TX to New Orleans since it was from 7am to about 10pm and packed food since we were visiting our daughter. This was mid-April. We spent a couple nights in New Orleans before taking the Cresent home to Manassas Virginia. We traveled that leg in a roomette. We had an enjoyable trip but I did not sleep very much on the train. I think I need to get used to the movement and if we do overnight again I may take a sleep-aid! Unfortunately we were 3 hours late but we were going home and it didn't really matter! Did you notice that the lease signs on buildings in New Orleans say "haunted" or "not haunted". We also enjoyed crossing the lake and waved at the people fishing below us!

Great video !! Thanks to Randy too !!

Thumbs up for watching trailer park boys! That show is hilarious.

One of my first memories of *any* kind is of taking the Southern Crescent with my mom in the 70's, in an open section car! That was an interesting setup that you don't really see much anywhere anymore, although VIA Rail Canada still have some I think (also using the same old Budd equipment). I still have pictures from that trip, including the several dome cars on that train and the *four* E-8's pulling us. It was a great trip and the scenery in your video looked very familiar! Still wish Amtrak hadn't discontinued diner service, or the domes, but progress, I guess.

with curves like the one you filmed, I can see a definitive reason for a train being delayed! Great photography!

Atlanta metro actually has almost 6 million people-making the one train in each direction per day even stranger!

Amtrak has one of the most comfortable coach seats, even better than coach on the Euro Rail......and those trains are fast and sleek. I love European trains

Well said! Looks like The Crescent is one of Amtrak's best-kept secrets, it's definitely worth checking out! Adieu!

Oh my gosh - I don't know if this was your intention or not but this video is giving me serious ASMR! Love it.

We need to see more of you !

Worth the wait!

Thank You. That was so informative.

As always a great video! I can't believe the plane is preferred to train when you travel in so much comfort...

I remember crossing lake ponchartrain on amtrak, definitely a sight to behold!

I'm planning on taking The Crescent from Anniston, Alabama to Danville, Virginia to watch my brother play baseball. Thanks for your review on Coach class. Will be definitely worth the money paid for!

I,m from Greensboro. Growing up in Greensboro on Sunday afternoons we went to the train station with my Grandfather who had worked on the railroads during world war 1. We would see the early train from Asheville(15) The Northbound Piedmont (34)Southbound (35) Carolina special (21)with pullmans for NY and then at exactly 8:38 no.38 northbound Crescent all Pullman. All stainless steel. This was our Sunday routine from 6 pm to 8:30. Plus freights on the station passing tracks. I never rode the all Pullman Crescent but instead rode the all coach at the time Southerner usually to DC. When I was in college in Charlotte on the weekend I rode home on the Piedmont. In the Early Amtrak era Southern was not apart and ran the Crescent with coaches but it was still nice and always on time. I miss my Grandfather and I miss the old trains and that era of rail transportation. Back in the 60’s there were passenger cars from every railroad in the US in the station in DC but I always thought ACL purple coaches were the best

The Charlotte station was also built by the southern railway in 1962 but it is being replaced by a Much bigger station in central Charlotte called the gateway station it will Amtrak light rail and bus the fist part of this complex which includes the station and several buildings will completed in 2024 And the station in Charlotte is tiny and ugly

Love from Southeast Asia 💕 thanks friend for watching ❤️

13:52 watching Trailer Park Boys with breakfast, I love it 🤣🤣

Wow, brings back memories. I took the Crescent from Atlanta (my home then) to New Orleans way back in the 90s. It looks like they have upgraded things since then a bunch. might try again soon but the other way.

Great video.

Really really like your videos. 👍👍

I've ridden the Crescent a few times between Atlanta and Philadelphia and have always enjoyed it, even though most of that part is at night in both directions. You're right about the poor on-time performance; you were very lucky! (Once the northbound train arrived too late to have dinner in the dining car, so there was a long line in the cafe car. I like the DiGiornio microwave pizza, but the guy in front of me bought the last one, and I wound up with a merely adequate turkey sandwich. Breakfast in the dining car was very pleasant, and I hope they bring dining cars back; they're a "blast from the past" which makes the journey unique!) While the coach seats are fine, I just do not sleep well sitting in a seat, even my own living-room recliner! Last time I got a Viewliner roomette (which was actually still a bit cheaper than plane fare!) and had a much more restful night. (I do not mind having the toilet right in the compartment.) Oh yes, Greensboro's train station is much more impressive than Atlanta's!

Wow, that's a trip !!!

Enjoyed the video thank you

25:30 good ole Slidell! Been in those marshes plenty of times! That crossing before you got to the lake was “Car Drive”. Beautiful little stretch, but gets BLASTED by hurricanes. The bridge In between the train trestle and I10 is the highway 11 bridge. During your ride it was under construction, and it just reopened after 3 years of construction lol. But that ride is a fun ride. I once rode on a just for fun trip. Slidell has an Amtrak station, and depending if anyone had tickets they’ll stop.

Thank you for the Crecent experience

That was very interesting. It's on my bucket list...:):):)

I'll be taking this train from NYC to Atlanta in two weeks and I just hope it's this empty 😍 Great video!