CT Rail Shore Line East extension to Providence, Rhode Island with transfers to Amtrak and MBTA, that would be legit!!!

Amazing video; try MBTA, SEPTA, MARC and possibly the MTA NYC subways

The M8s used on Shore Line East are newer ones that are owned by ConnDOT alone, not jointly with NY. They are not used on the New Haven Line. They have had their third rail shoes removed, and therefore can not operate into Grand Central Terminal, or anywhere west of Pelham.

It was never called the "H&NH". Also, they didn't build the line to Boston; the part between Boston and Springfield was constructed by the Boston & Albany Railroad.

great video!!! you should do mbta next 😝

Let’s go dtransit

Awesome 💯 Happy Friday from Palm Beach Florida

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What about the light rails?

The original station looked grandiose and gorgeous, such a shame it was demolished.

It was a cool set up NJT had with the locomotives it was a fun ride to AC so sad it stopped

$175 BILLION is an insanely large amount of money to spend on a single train corridor, especially one that already exists. The inflation adjusted cost of the ENTIRE original Interstate Highway System is $500 billion. This is the best investment in USA transportation ever. From San Francisco to LA is about 400 miles, and CAHSR will likely spend $160 billion ($400 million per mile). Highway construction is about $2.6 million per lane-mile, a six-lane freeway therefore costing $15 million per mile. Note that the estimated cost of extending Caltrain/CAHSR from where it presently ends in SF (4th and King) 2.2 miles to the ALREADY BUILT WITH A TRAIN BOX Salesforce Tower is $6.8 BILLION ($3 BILLION per mile).

3:06 "shooting upwards of 100 ⁰F for days on end" but the TV screenshot at 3:09 shows Central Park having a peak **heat index** of 96 ⁰F even Newark Airport, a local hot spot, only hit 100 ⁰F (air temperature) just once so far, on 22 June given the overhead power lines can start sagging well below 100 ⁰F, it doesn't help to exaggerate...

M3A and M7A trains do not run on the New Haven Line. Only M8s do.

Summer of 2011, one day in July, the new haven line of Metro North suffered catrastriphic failure due to overhead loosening due to heat. Some trains were stuck with no power, no air conditioning, no ventilation in the middle of nowhere in intense heat during rush hour (so trains full) until trains behind could be cleared and a diesel shunter could get to them and bring then to the next station. I beleive after that, the overhead wires were updated to have weights instead of springs to provide the tension even in hot weather. Surprised this wasn't done to the new York to Trenton line.

I was caught up in this mess. I was just about to enter the subway @157th when exiting commuters told me that nothing was running and to turn around. I immediately caught a southbound bus, but within a matter of a few stops the bus was jammed to capacity, forced to bypass more riders attempting to board. It took over an hour to get back to Columbus Circle. Visitors to NYC, who often are infrequent users of its transit systems, have no idea how critical they are to the daily functioning of the city.

Is anyone proposing ANYTHING to replace congestion pricing? Are there any signs it will return after the election?

Keep building more highway lanes that will solve the issue for sure

Correction: Communipaw Terminal was CNJ’s terminal in Jersey City, the Pennsy’s Jersey City terminal was Exchange Place

I'm from New Jersey myself and let me say this the most horrible train system ever to deal with the most horrible train system ever, they increase the fair and we still got to deal with this nonsense every week Stupid Ass NJ Transit...

4:47 THE MEME

the intro goes HARDD

I wish we still had Andy byford

In Japan/Germany/France, high speed trains are like 16 cars long. Why do we put up with such puny Acela trains, when they could serve so many more people and have more affordable fares if the trains were longer? We keep doing little piecemeal things.

There are times the Harlem line diesel shuttle to Wassaic goes all the way from Grand Central but it’s very rare same with the Hudson line shuttle to Poughkeepsie.

Wow so amazing train

damn you have really good b-roll and editing. so many great foamer shots lol

New Canaan Branch is fully electrified, and runs trains through to Grand Central.

10:45 Bombardier is pronounced "Bom-BAR-di-ey" (french)

Penn station access story would be very interesting.

The horn on the new Acela! sucks, sounds weak

If only NJT was like Metro North or LIRR

7:42 you sure?

I worked for Metro North for 26 years and I never once heard it called “The Metro North”. 😂 I won’t nitpick some of the mistakes made and say it’s a good representation of MN.

nice to see you again dtransit!

wow! those are awesome service stats🤩

Aqui que somos el tercer Mundo, pero tenemos trenes de muchos tipos que pasan silvando por los campos de Don Quijote, y las competencia favorece para conseguir precios muy buenos. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZ2Af92l35q7c6s.htmlsi=2xt2eDt9AMfJREuz&t=1

Remove the 2 track bottlenecks at NYC and Baltimore. Add more service to MARC/NJT/SEPTA eliminate some Amtrak stops and let boosted local trains serve it

I like the Sound of the horn it’s definitely different

For decades, NJ transit has been exploring the possibility of a mid state commuter line that runs through western Monmouth and Ocean counites using the old Blue Comet route. They should be working on restoring that route for commuter service and potential Atlantic City and Philadelphia Express services. The rights of way still exist but are in need of major reconstruction and upgrades to meet modern track standards. It could also take a load of the North East Corridor Line.

Great video!

What if Amtrak got rid of all its slow trains and replaced them with fast ones in the coming years once railway infrastructure improves and resembles the European model.

The Main Line is a combination of the former Lackawanna Main Line & Erie Main Line. The Erie Main Line ran through Rutherford into downtown Passaic into Paterson. The Lackawanna Main Line ran through Lyndhurst into Passaic Park to Paterson. This changed in the early 1960s with the merger of Erie & Lackawanna and the closure Erie line through downtown Passaic and the closure of the Lackawanna line for the construction of Interstate 80.

5:09 what did the Acela do to deserve thay from the ACS engineer 😭🙏

The opportunity that has been lost was to, first, move MSG to the Post Office building and then build a new Penn Station on the original site between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. While acknowledging its dazzling history, MSG is a dated facility - a bowl whose seating rises away from the main floor ending up with seats that, I'm guessing, might be the furthest away of any major arena in North America. A new arena is needed for and befitting New York City. Meanwhile, some of the problems with Moynahan Hall (I admit that it is beautiful) is that it doesn't have access to all of the tracks underneath it, it lacks a taxi / bus drop off zone (the existing Penn Station had one running from 32nd to 33rd Streets until MSG closed it off), and it's entrances are on northbound Eighth Avenue when I would bet that most passengers are coming from north of the station - and thus would be better served with a drop-off on southbound Seventh Avenue.

While i don’t think it’s as beautiful as the old penn station, the train hall is beautiful af. Not only that but it still serves its original purpose as a post office/mail sorting tool come extent. Funny how Amtrak got rid of mail cargo but now one of thier main stations is a former post office

the downeaster service from Boston North Station to Brunswick (Maine) should be extended to connect Toronto and Montreal on an electrified line, using leftover northeast regional trains and Amtrak airo trains, bringing more service to both areas, as North Station has a bigger potential capacity.

the MBTA should extend the Framingham/Worcester line to New Haven through Hartford, meeting up with the extended Providence line, and both possibly continuing on to new york

They need to just pay Dolan to move MSG. I'm sure they can give him enough in tax breaks and subsidies to make it work. The "build around MSG" plan is dumb and untenable.

Not your best video......there's no real information here. What, exactly, are these plans hoping to change? Are there any renderings to show us? I basically heard six minutes of "they want to make it better" without any details or specifics, which I could have learned from a simple headline.