Aboard Amtrak's Adirondack: Montreal to New York
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- Climb aboard Amtrak train 68, The Adirondack, for a ride south from Montreal Gare Centrale to New York Penn Station. Enjoy the view from the picture windows of Amtrak's only dome car as the train rolls through the Quebec farmland and along the shores of Lake Champlain. The leaves have begun to turn as autumn rolls into the Adirondack and Green Mountains. Night falls over the Hudson River as the train races south from Albany after changing locomotives and dropping the dome car. On this journey, train 68 was no more than 5 minutes late at any station, and arrived into Penn Station several minutes ahead of schedule.
Finally! A video that documents the Albany to Montreal section of this train in detail. One thing I notice here - for anyone who wonders why this train takes so long to get from Montreal to Albany, this video shows why. First, note the landscape along the Lake Champlain shore preventing much track straightening/speeding up of the line. Second, notice how slow the train travels within Canada, and how it speeds up notably once it crosses into NY. Canadian National Railway (the host railroad in Canada) has let these tracks deteriorate so much that it doesn't appear it can go any faster than 50 MPH, with multiple sections where it can only travel at 10 MPH!!! Hopefully this can be resolved to a reasonable degree which, with the planned move of Customs inspections to Gare Centrale should speed up this train's schedule significantly.
Thanks for posting! Took Adirondack from Whitehall, N.Y. to Montreal in early Sept of 2012., then back to Whitehall in early Nov. The section along the western side of Lake Champlain is spectacular. Same year, in Oct., took the "tren frances" from Santiago to Habana.
Wow! Cool video.
Bordermarker between Canada and the USA at 34:16.
You can also see the marker on the Mexican border, from the train window, just west of El paso.
Great news: Paxrail saved the Amtrak Great Dome Ocean View.
It’s Saturday February 2nd 2019 I moved here to Florida in 2003 but when I was living in Fresno California I went with my Special ED Class to San Francisco on Amtrak. It was really fun. I am watching this UA-cam video on UA-cam Premium that I pay $15.99 a Month for.
There was a couple old Electric locos that sat for quite a few years that were used to haul the steamers cars into the station and sat rusted just outside until they were repaired and fresh paint,used for service in Montreals Metro service,Only Electrics in Canada that im aware of! It was also quite a thing to sit up front in the Turbo Train early 70s just behind the drivers entering the station,got a view of everything around!
Yeah those electrics were replaced by the MR90 EMUs. Now they've also got the ALP45DP electro/diesel locomotives as well.
Em São Paulo Brasil está precisando um trem desse
Tone kid....fan do trem amtrax.
21 11 2018
Question Amtrak’s Adirondack and Maple Leaf conductors and engineers change at a particular station?
Crew change is at Albany and for the Maple Leaf there is another one at Niagara Falls, Ontario. Right now the Maple Leaf terminates at Niagara Falls, NY and the Adirondack terminates at Albany until the border reopens.
Another COVID suspension along with New York to Toronto service.
I did this trip in 2014 not bad really 10 hours
You could do it in 9 hrs in 1946.
Does it have seats where you can lay horizontally?
Lying across the seats (on The Adirondack) isn't permitted on a fully booked or mostly booked train. But, say, you're traveling off-season and, as I experienced in late November 2018, there are only 37 passengers scheduled to board, then you can sleep across two seats. You can change your seat -- but ask the conductor first before you do so. There's no seat assignment on The Adirondack, but the conductor knows where everyone's located if he or she already has scanned your e-ticket (i.e., the barcode of your e-ticket from your mobile phone).
Don't know if you've taken this trip yet, as you commented last year, but please do so. It's one of our world's top 10 scenic rail journeys. Have fun!
Wow, The Ocean View is still in service? I knew it was being used earlier in the year but I thought they would've put it in storage for maintenance considering the distance traveled and thee age of the Equipment.
Amtrak was using it doing the fall season on the Adirondack, northbound for three days a week and southbound three days a week. I wish Amtrak had two to use everyday of the week northbound and southbound all season long... Maybe one of these days Amtrak will buy several new full dome cars for every east coast single level train like the Superliners long distance trains have Sightseeing Lounge Cars... There should be a investment for the one advantage a train has over airliners, full dome cars...
@@ronclark9724 Agreed
@@ronclark9724, since the new president of Amtrak came in, he's been _cutting_ services on trains like these (dining cars and the like [patch.com/us/across-america/amtrak-dining-car-service-disappearing-they-call-it-evolution]) You need to write to your congressperson/senator and tell them to stop this (and also to consider setting up HSR on some routes.)
Does this train have an observation and dining car?
Right now it has neither as service is suspended north of Albany. It normally has a cafe car but the observation car is no longer on Amtrak’s roster. Amtrak is purchasing new trains that will be used on the Adirondack route and other routes around the Northeast
@@JBS319 thank you.
I can just smell the diesel fumes! ahh!
too bad the wonderful smell will be replaced b siemens charges
Maybe not so many moves in different directions of camera would give better views. Otherwise very nice video.
wonder if the vistadome is still on it?
10031 is no longer on the Amtrak roster
@@JBS319 figures
It attracted too many passengers to this route.
JBS pasastes frontera.s ???
sweet, pack your passports!
Why is it soooo slow at around 25 minutes? Are the tracks in so bad condition?
They are going through the town of St-jean-sur le-richelieu.... but: tracks in Canada are awfull like our roads... plus all other trains have right of way... so .. when i was going trough i had to WAIT 30 min at that juction.... (1h30 min from MTl to the border... wtf...) the track should stop at the USA /Can border and finish by bus...
I have rode on both Amtrak and Via. The worst Amtrak tracks are by and large better than the best Via tracks. Amtrak keeps pressuring the America freight railroads to maintain a speed over 60 MPH, but there are weather related restrictions, ongoing track maintenance, and many slow old bridges. Especially during the summer with heat related track restrictions.
Bridges and yard speeds are verrrry slow entering and leaving
slowly train and no coaches where you can open the window when the train rides ??? They should learn from europe !!!!
there are much better Amtrack trains. trust me.
Why the fuck is this train so slow?
First 5 mins sucked. U shoulda been in the dome car i. MTL. t see the city
Talk about ur obstructed views
Hey, guess what, the dome car wasn't open until all tickets were collected and New York passengers were at the back of the train.
JBS that sucks. still. u coulda filmed outside your window instead of across the isle