I want to ride it! The train looks great and shiny in that rain… But still remember a Burlington (now BNSF) route running West from Chicago then up along the Mississippi to the Twin Cities in the 1960s. Maybe it was twice daily - but I was a kid then…

Metra saves money and trouble be rebuilding and maintajning its EMD power.

Строители вагонов Франции можете увольняется потому что то я вижу эта кошмарный ужас эта такая теснота что даже одному человеку там будет не повернутся я уже молчу про двух а ещё и с ребенком.

Why does everyone love hating on our railways so much when Canadian railways are not really too much different?

train projects in the US, especially "high speed" trains are boondoggles. Politicians should be in prison for the amount of money wasted. Also I'm surprised you made it out of St. Paul and Chicago unhurt!

I love the two stupid clowns behind you giving their dumb opinions of the police.

When I ride coach, I just stay in the lounge car and sleep on the floor. Lol

10:04 what app did you use to show the train tracks?

And more Spanish trains bashing. Again 🤦‍♂️

Thibault, how do you compare comfort of american train seats to europeans

Omg Florida is the most bright place I've ever seen. It looks like a video game. I couldn't walk around there without sunglasses :o Nice train! Great to see that even a southern state now has good rail service.

This is a journey I would love to make. I have the TRAIN SIMULATOR on P.C. with part of this route, appropriately named THE MARIAS PASS. The section covered is between Whitefish & Shelby. A very popular route for the Train simmers. 🚝🚞🚞🚞🚞🚞🚞🚞🚞🙂😍😍

It’s good that they offer this service. But the trains aren’t right for the kind of service a stadler flirt should be used on local services for longer regional and intercity services these trains lack simple features like blinds or curtains to block the sun and many other amenities that trains have had since the 1930‘s.

Love your videos - do more in the US so we can see the fun trips to take and that are not long and not that expensive! Good for us oldies! ;) thank you!

One day will come.. europe will colony of China ...serslsy

Is europe handicap..not able to manufactured railway

I lived in the US for 5 years. In Boston. I always travelled to New York and Washington by train. Often Acelo, business class. Yes, the seats are fine, but that is the only positive thing I have to say. And that is the only benefit for your very expensive fare. Trains in the US are slow, unreliable and cost too much money. I never took a train to Chicago, because it took too much time.

Wonderful!! As a resident of the Twin Cities i am thrilled to have this new service, and will definitely use it as a replacement for driving to Chicago.

The station in Chicago is reminiscent of the interior of an engine shed. Not entirely the way to entice new passengers!

Looks decent to me, the space between seats is awesome, wish it was like this on a plane:) Greetings from Czech rep, country with 0 high speed rails, oh well :) Yet seems Talgo will be very soon in Czech hands, so fingers crossed things will start moving here too

Finally, Thibs is doing what that TrainsAreAwesome guy couldn't in Borealis. Riding in full.

9:08 Smooth, quiet, comfortable, and an all together delightful experience.

Some of the gallery cars aren’t even that old metra has some cars that are less than 20 years old and VRE even cars that are only ten years old.

Always enjoy your video's, thank you

8:10 This lady never listens to trains on the other track 😂

So Renfe haven’t learned a lesson from Santiago tragedy and still overspeeds on curves 💀

Will European high-speed trains compete with Chinese high-speed trains?

I took the Empire Builder to St Paul just a few months ago. It would have been really nice to have had the extra service back then!

Great video, and good to see some improvement in USA. It's still a very long way to go, but evolution is positive. Still needs to find a more sustainable way to haul trains than huge diesel locomotives, otherwise the eco-argument cannot work.

First, quite instructive, Mr Simply, for those of us who've traveled often on trains in Europe, but seldom on trains in the US. Second, congratulations to you & your colleagues for your impressive production values!

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.

Great trip, and thank you Justin for recording the debut of Amtrak Borealis. Hope the brand new coaches and locomotive can be attached in this train after running about few months. But for the first trip, is great.

P42 looks awesome in that livery!

Has Europe really fallen so low that it cannot afford to buy its own trains?

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Omg I walked right passed you while going to look out the back window and didn’t even realize it

This is great!!! You get better on time performance (cause the Empire Builder going east can be very late), you get the River during the day, I may look to this to get from Madison (i.e. Columbus) to Milwaukee.

Nice video and also informative! But imo the person filming the video footage should get credited at the start of the video, not in an aside at the end.

Great video.

Great report guys Thanks Justin for filming this ...:):):)

It looks like a similar type of car that I've ridden on The Vermonter many times. Thanks for another great video!

The route should include Madison. College students use rail.

Haha apparently I watch enough Simply Railway videos to have gotten to know Thibault's fashion style 🤣 when it got to the part of the video where he sat in the seat, I actually said out loud to myself "hmm what is he wearing?" Lol of course he looked different, because it wasn't him!

The Avril looks like an Acela with an identity crisis. Seems like it's of the same quality as well (which is NOT a goid thing)

I like your work. The distances in the US are so great I think trains will never be competitive with planes unless energy constraints curtail aviation. Electrification is prohibitively expensive once you leave the NEC.

Oh god I think i saw myself in this video lmao (I was also on the first train)

Flirt gen 3 trains also run in Serbia 😃 the country also just purchased 18 new Flirt gen 4 trains

I guess the reason why they stuck with horizons and not ventures is because venture seats are basically glorified commuter seats unfit for a 7hr journey, whereas horizon seats are almost of amfleet quality being decades old recliners. But maybe Amtrak should have thought it through when they ordered new trains...

Looks like train crew has comandeered the cafe car.

2 Things I wish to do before I croak. Visit Angkor Wat in Cambodia, and ride the Nordlandsbanen to Bodo in winter.