It would be hilarious if you went to Washington Union Station just so that you can say that you went to the least used Amtrak station in DC.

New Haven getting the shoutout it (mostly) deserves. Fun fact about that park: it’s built on an old cemetery and one time a tree fell over in a storm and the roots exposed some nice corpses

8:55 It's 3:41PM and the board is informing you that the 5:14PM train will be 2 minutes late. I think the board overestimates its own precision.

Exactly the Amtrak series I've been waiting for, looking forward to the rest of this series and visiting my states later this year...Sanderson, TX.

Love this series! Jackson is a great partner for your adventures!

15:57 that’s the best description of New Haven I’ve ever heard.

As a NYer, I've purposefully taken Metro-North from Fordham to New Haven to get on a bus to go to Boston (rip Boltbus) just to experience the pure awesomeness of New Haven Union Station. **Much** better than the Port Authority or Penn Station, and the OTP of Metro-North is superior than the OTP of the subway.

Lmao, I’m from the “not New England” part of CT technically, but our town was pretty rural so it reminds people of Massachusetts suburbia! Personally, I feel trapped between both identities and belonging to neither like some strange awful curse

Those CT rail cars look so nice! When they first started CT Rail service in about 2018, the train cars weren't produced in time so they borrow decommissioned MBTA commuter rail cars which was a weird deja vu on my first ride as they had cleaned and painted the outside but changed nothing on the inside so it was like being back in the train cars of my very young childhood.

Dang ! Least used stations AND retro music ? The intersection of my interests !

you got me at the biggining with the fake ending I thought it was real!

vermonter is my favorite train I used to take it from DC to Essex all the time. Always met interesting people when i took it. can't abide by the Montreal bagel shade though

Gotta say this station is nearly a carbon copy of Meriden! Also...did you seriously do an entire video in CT without once mentioning Ned?!

The acapella deviation segments never gets old!!! 6:17 15:12 16:23

14:21 has a rear hornshow form a mafersa cab car, one really nice conductor likes to do them for us fans on the Springfield line! Great catch!

"In the middle of nowhere and a long walk to downtown" cracked me up as someone that lives in New Haven lmao

Thoroughly enjoyable, as always!!

You got me at the beginning for a second

11:02 "Aaaaaaa ... this is an augmented chord ..." Perfection 😂

>CGP Grey in the recommended vids Say it with me now: What. A. Chad. Great video as always Miles!

Shoutout to Ned Lamont

I had an error pop up at 5:10 and after your previous bit it took me a second to realize it was real

I always appreciate Jackson's enthusiasm for Nova artics

14:08 The guy waving deserves a shoutout.

Excellent!

That note about business class having less legroom. Recently when I was on the Pennsylvanian the Business class car actually had less legroom then coach. It was like 100 dollars extra. I really tried to take advantage of the free drinks on that trip…

Another two weeks Springfield line will be my regular. Hope to see you

There is a free shuttle bus between New Haven Union Station and the New Haven Green. The CT Rail Hartford Line is operated under contract from CTDOT by Transit America, which makes their joint ticketing with Amtrak interesting because the CT Rail Shoreline East is run under similar contract by Amtrak but does not have joint ticketing. The rolling stock for the Hartford line (which some now call the Springfield line) has always been a mix of cars that used to serve elsewhere, some MNRR, SLE, MBTA (MA) and VADOT cars. The same goes for the engines which come from MNRR & Amtrak.

1:27 It's the reality where all proper nouns start with "Schma"!!!

Tasty is my new high level ranking for stations

Gotta love Amtrak

That looked a fun trip. Nice station but it should a heated waiting area and toilets, in my opinion. The trackside subway car diner was way cool.

0:04 WOW another fantastic Miles in Transit video on the books!! Minimal but iconic :)

I just used this station about a week ago. Th Vermonter doe stop in Meriden at least.

Rowan University (my college) also has a Highway running through it

2:53 that reminds me 😢 of sandy hook elem in ct many of the kids and their families rooted for my sports teams like the Yankees and giants

Ayyyyyye my hometown

2:47 you are SO right

So, will you be hopping across the pond to check out Crossrail when it opens on May 24?

Do remember the New Haven livestream!

The station used to be downtown...surprised Choate Rosemary Hall does not provide many passengers.

Stamford! My station!

Came for the trasit videos. Stayed for the acapella tunes.

There's an always free shuttle bus from New Haven Union to downtown jsyk

Nice

14:53 "who is this sunny side" Kinako Sakurakoji, 2022

Can you do a penn station vs moyhihan station review?

1:29 "It's the Smpire Shate Smilding"

You Should Do One On The Station In Meriden, Witch I Live 2 Blocks From lol

You should have made the video end in the first 5 seconds, and upload a second, unlisted one >:) Good video as always! Just curious, how come you chose Amtrak station, instead of just… “station”?

if you think that pizza place was nice check out Old Saybrook station

On the New England part I agree 💯

you should do the two only amtrak exclusive stations on the corridor, mystic and westerly!

Also, 5:20 Jackson is become Drew Gooden, Fixer of Roads

So, Amtrak employees don't have to witness your entering or exiting the train on a high platform?

I live in Milford on the New Haven Line and we certainly don’t feel like New York. Sure we have dozens of trains a day to grand central but we also have a large town green that feels more like Litchfield than New Rochelle, if you see where I’m going. And, unlike New Haven, our green isn’t a giant cemetery to my knowledge. As for sports teams, in my unofficial poll of local friends, neighbors and coworkers, we’re about 50% New York (split between Yankees/Mets, Jets/Giants etc) and 40% Boston teams (Red Sox, Patriots, etc), and about 10% everybody else. Not sure why Cowboys fans live here but some do. I would also argue that 75% follow UConn basketball, it is the state school and has had a lot of success after all, and there are still a small but vocal group of Hartford Whalers supporters around…I realize this may have been before you were born but they up and moved the franchise from Hartford to Raleigh and become the Hurricanes in the late 1990s. Some people can’t let go.

Miles - come out the The Bay and we'll ride Bart, Muni, and a collection of random crap transit systems!

My only complaint is that it’s cold in the indoor spots

Came here from Geoffs channel! So grinders are actually a CT term, why? No one knows!

I really would have thought it would have been Windsor Locks that was least used... but then I guess you could transfer to Bradley from there via a bus, is that why Wallingford beats it? I mean, just look at the Windsor Locks stop. It's just a small parking lot, a tiny concrete stand, and basically just a bus stop cover. That's it.

Would love to hear more a cappella deviations, but with lower mic gain.

Sorry for the comment spam Miles, but 11:01 Jackson had the chord wrong: that's just an F Major chord in 2nd inversion - He was singing an F4, you were singing an A4, and the TV buzzing was a C4

The Hartford line CTrail thing confuses me to no end, why and how is that a thing? Exact same stops, and you just said the ticket thing, why?

Unrelated but now I just think of your frustrated reaction when ever I see buses with dots on their windows.

newark, de is the funniest half-ass amtrak "station", and i bet it gets thousands of riders just from UD freshmen who live on long island or in the city (me)

No bathrooms! I would take off a thousand points for that. And was that pointy table in an old Mafersa car? I rode thousands of miles in those (with one bathroom on the train for about 500 passengers) commuting out of the busy Fredericksburg station, which has, guess what, no bathrooms. And people in southwestern Connecticut root for New York teams? That's messed up.

I don’t understand how this is the least used Amtrak station? Because it’s especially busy coming from and to New Haven and Springfield. So can you explain how it’s leased used?

Let’s do most used station in CT

Wallingford is used less than Mystic?

I bet miles will heart this comment

It never came across my mind that Wallingford is the least used station in Connecticut. I honestly thought Mystic was the least used station.

How to describe a train station: t a s t y

Diner food is the best

148/141 55/56 and regionals do not stop here

As a montrealer, you're wrong 😈

Ned Lamont does not appreciate you trashing his new station.

I love Moynihan hate!

Another RAD random accapella deviation

"It's bigger than I remember" - That's what she said.

There are people in Connecticut who are functionally literate in Spanish and not in English? That's absurd.

No u leave