Starting around 26:00, after passing Mamaroneck and all the way through Harrison, you'll notice how wide the catenary structures are. There used to be two more sets of tracks that ran on that line but were removed back in the 1930s. You can also see that some of the old ROW is now part of a few parking lots with the old catenary running overhead.
Could you please explain what Canterbury structures are? and ROW? (to the 99% of us are not as train savvy as you are) & How do you know that’s where it’s passing Mamaroneck? This video has no graphics and what town its going through.
I rode this line to Bridgeport to connect with the ferry to Port Jefferson NY. Great ride. And detrainung at Bridgeport was from a center track using those steel bridges. Thanks Tim💚😀
Metro-North made a mistake rebuilding Bridgeport without island platforms. The same can be said about NJ Transit and Metropark. Pennywise but pound foolish.
@@PhillyBagel most Amtrak and NJT super-express trains skip Metropark, but all Metro-North and most Northeast Regionals stops at Bridgeport. but Bridgeport has some really sharp curves and if they weren't able to get rid of that, I don't know if they could make island platforms
I spent three years in New Haven, discovering they roll up their sidewalks at night. My last year there in a Bridgeport apartment a block from the station. So spent a lot of wonderful time on the New Haven Line going to GC ‘station’ 🤣. I wish they had the, uh… Super Express back then. Nice to roll without stops breaking the inertia. Thanks for the wonderful memory of my favoritist train ride in the U.S.
I thoroughly enjoy your videos, especially the Metro North ones. Having commuted daily to NYC in the 70's on the New Haven line, your vids bring back many happy memories. Back then the first car was always a smoker for the tobacco crowd. A great way to mothproof your clothes :). On the afternoon commute back home to Westchester there was a bar car. A bartender would be on the platform preparing drinks for those who needed to take the edge off a hard day. The main beer served was Foster's, in unusually supersized cans. Interestingly, college courses were offered on the New Haven line for a few years - the class started in CT and was conducted in a specific car. A novel idea for it's day. Oh, by the way, if you were the last of those leaving the train car you had a choice of free NYC daily newspapers to choose from that were left behind. Thanks so much and keep up the excellent work.
The white rail could be an experiment. In Italy, most of the rails are painted white to reflect the sun's heat, thereby keeping the rails from expanding too much. Just an idea. Great video.
Nice ride. I wish you could get a font view on the New Haven branch like you have on the LIRR and Septa. I assume that you tried to get permission to record a front view which would even be more fantastic on the express run!
Ask! Ask! Please?!? When you record a front view, you give out so much additional information that realize explains how railroads work! Thank again for your wonderful videos! @@3985uprr
From the looks of it ... damn, guess that means if I want to get measurements and data on the Penn Central era platform design - including railings etc for my train sim re-creations and avoid going TOO far from home (which for me means remaining west of Stamford), I need to go to Cos Cob or Old Greenwich seeing how now it seems even the other Connecticut stations are getting the renovations that the NY stations on the NYL got...at least, currently, west of Stamford.
What are your thoughts on the fact that with the new Long Island railroad schedules, there will be no morning a.m. for Rockaway service into Penn Station before 8:00 a.m. and no express services and to either of the Manhattan terminals which is far worse in my opinion, then the previous schedules where we had express service and actual service in Manhattan beore 8:00 a.m. do you think I'm right?
I really hope they speed up the corridor, an hour and a half between GCT and New Haven isn’t very good compared to the rest of the Northeast corridor. I feel like the New Haven line is always under construction
@@3985uprr we need more turnouts like CP248, tried looking up online to see what speed they could go through those switches at, but I couldn’t find anything
Well i heard Metro North Railroad's New Haven Line will make its way to Penn Station in a few years from now, and it will save commuters an 1 hour and 15 minutes (which is 75 minutes).
@@mbclev I doubt they will exclusively use concrete ties. Hopefully the New Haven Line will eventually use concrete ties like the rest of the NEC, only decent section is CP248 as seen in this video. The LIRR is pretty close to using mostly concrete ties on the electrified portions. Penn station has barely any concrete ties. The amount of money it would take to rebuild the interlockings in Penn Station is probably more expensive than keeping it like it is right now, although maybe they have a plan in the works for when Hudson tunnel project starts getting more funding to begin tunneling. Harold Interlocking has come a long way from what it was even a decade ago. Most crossovers are high speed, concrete ties, and moveable frog switches and it’s a very smooth ride. Hopefully all of Harold Interlocking will be done by the end of the decade. It already looks and feels amazing, just a few more turnouts to be rebuilt, and the eastbound bypass tunnel to be constructed. The westbound should open next year I believe, and it started construction about 8 or 9 months ago.
We use that to signal to the train crews that we are crossing over. These MUs ride like boxcars so we give them the heads up that we are crossing over to brace themselves. We don’t have to do it but many engineers will do it.
This video is really boring! I thought it was going to have graphics of each city you’re passing through. AndI also thought it was going to have a corresponding map in the corner,,showing where the train is located geographically. & why did they film out of the left side of the train instead of the right side? The town that grew up in Westchester on the New Haven line. I was waiting to see when the train pass is a Town, but there is no graphics and tell you what town its in?
@@3985uprr Thank you for telling me that, I don’t have to watch the whole video. I was concerned that the UA-cam FBI police was gonna force me watch his whole video. I was giving you a few suggestions that would make your video more entertaining You spent all this time to produce this video. A video this long should have chapters, and not many are going to want to watch 1½ hours, to maybe catch when you’re going to actually narrate. I was waiting to see where my hometown was going to come up, but it was impossible to tell because you’re filming out of the wrong side of the train, and you do not indicate anywhere of what city you’re passing through. (that’s why I suggested having a real time map in the corner that would show the interesting places that the New Haven line goes through because all the trees look the same) It was as exciting as watching people driving two hours to visit their Grandma for Christmas, and watching two hours of trees going by. Grandma got run over by a reindeer, at least they show you that right in the video of where it’s happening.
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Starting around 26:00, after passing Mamaroneck and all the way through Harrison, you'll notice how wide the catenary structures are. There used to be two more sets of tracks that ran on that line but were removed back in the 1930s. You can also see that some of the old ROW is now part of a few parking lots with the old catenary running overhead.
New York Westchester & Boston tracks
Interestingly you can still make out where the RoW widens for where the West Street station used to be if I recall correctly.
Could you please explain what Canterbury structures are? and ROW? (to the 99% of us are not as train savvy as you are) & How do you know that’s where it’s passing Mamaroneck? This video has no graphics and what town its going through.
I rode this line to Bridgeport to connect with the ferry to Port Jefferson NY. Great ride. And detrainung at Bridgeport was from a center track using those steel bridges. Thanks Tim💚😀
I’m still very surprised that Bridgeport only has 2 platforms instead of 2 island platforms since so many trains seem to stop there
Metro-North made a mistake rebuilding Bridgeport without island platforms. The same can be said about NJ Transit and Metropark. Pennywise but pound foolish.
@@PhillyBagel most Amtrak and NJT super-express trains skip Metropark, but all Metro-North and most Northeast Regionals stops at Bridgeport. but Bridgeport has some really sharp curves and if they weren't able to get rid of that, I don't know if they could make island platforms
Super express trains!! Need more of them. Great ride
Westport is where the last season of I Love Lucy of 1956 til 1957 where the Ricardos and Mertzes lived. 😊
I spent three years in New Haven, discovering they roll up their sidewalks at night. My last year there in a Bridgeport apartment a block from the station. So spent a lot of wonderful time on the New Haven Line going to GC ‘station’ 🤣. I wish they had the, uh… Super Express back then. Nice to roll without stops breaking the inertia. Thanks for the wonderful memory of my favoritist train ride in the U.S.
I thoroughly enjoy your videos, especially the Metro North ones. Having commuted daily to NYC in the 70's on the New Haven line, your vids bring back many happy memories. Back then the first car was always a smoker for the tobacco crowd. A great way to mothproof your clothes :). On the afternoon commute back home to Westchester there was a bar car. A bartender would be on the platform preparing drinks for those who needed to take the edge off a hard day. The main beer served was Foster's, in unusually supersized cans. Interestingly, college courses were offered on the New Haven line for a few years - the class started in CT and was conducted in a specific car. A novel idea for it's day. Oh, by the way, if you were the last of those leaving the train car you had a choice of free NYC daily newspapers to choose from that were left behind. Thanks so much and keep up the excellent work.
The white rail could be an experiment. In Italy, most of the rails are painted white to reflect the sun's heat, thereby keeping the rails from expanding too much. Just an idea. Great video.
lovely express. awesome views 🍐
What about the super express on the Hudson line only stopping at Beacon,New Hamburg then Poughkeepsie
I do mention that later in the video
Now that's the best super express of Metro-North
I got to see this at GCT today before i made my trip up to Harlem 125th street to catch rarer things. Such as an M8 on the Hudson, Great video!
My fav New Haven express service is the 5:41 out of GCT nonstop all the way to Fairfield!!
Great vid
The Graphics supplement the Spoken Words...Much appreciated!
No need for the screaming! I had headphones on 😂😂😂
Satire on people who call it Grand Central Station or GCM!!!
Dear Retired Railfan Horn Guy I Like All Your Video On UA-cam
Nice ride out to New Haven!
Nice ride. I wish you could get a font view on the New Haven branch like you have on the LIRR and Septa. I assume that you tried to get permission to record a front view which would even be more fantastic on the express run!
I wasn’t planning on asking but hopefully at some point I can get an M3 ride on metro north. Those windows inside are not crystal clear.
Ask! Ask! Please?!? When you record a front view, you give out so much additional information that realize explains how railroads work! Thank again for your wonderful videos! @@3985uprr
Hey RRHG ~ remember in the old days when it was "Grand Central TOINminal"? Nah, they just don't talk the way they used to back in the way back when.
Warning, if wearing headphones first minute turn down the volume.
Cannot emphasize calling Grand Central by its correct name!!!!!! I added a warning to the title.
From the looks of it ... damn, guess that means if I want to get measurements and data on the Penn Central era platform design - including railings etc for my train sim re-creations and avoid going TOO far from home (which for me means remaining west of Stamford), I need to go to Cos Cob or Old Greenwich seeing how now it seems even the other Connecticut stations are getting the renovations that the NY stations on the NYL got...at least, currently, west of Stamford.
40:13 Just noticed the M8 on the train stopped at Stamford has a green display.
1:26:19 ex-Metroliner cab car! (1:26:23 - 1:26:24: a second ex-Metroliner cab car visible just behind the first one, for a monent!)
I see myself at Harlem-125th Street, interesting to be in a RRHG full ride by complete accident 😆
What are your thoughts on the fact that with the new Long Island railroad schedules, there will be no morning a.m. for Rockaway service into Penn Station before 8:00 a.m. and no express services and to either of the Manhattan terminals which is far worse in my opinion, then the previous schedules where we had express service and actual service in Manhattan beore 8:00 a.m. do you think I'm right?
I have no opinion on the matter.
CP216 Interlocking...Otherwise known as "SHELL".
Regional Rail schedules change August 27th.
Yes, they are putting an end to those 30th St. to Arsenal constructions
I really hope they speed up the corridor, an hour and a half between GCT and New Haven isn’t very good compared to the rest of the Northeast corridor. I feel like the New Haven line is always under construction
Agreed!!!!
@@3985uprr we need more turnouts like CP248, tried looking up online to see what speed they could go through those switches at, but I couldn’t find anything
Well i heard Metro North Railroad's New Haven Line will make its way to Penn Station in a few years from now, and it will save commuters an 1 hour and 15 minutes (which is 75 minutes).
Will the LIRR and Metro-North lines eventually have concrete track ties exclusively? (I see a mix of concrete and wood ties in this video.)
@@mbclev I doubt they will exclusively use concrete ties. Hopefully the New Haven Line will eventually use concrete ties like the rest of the NEC, only decent section is CP248 as seen in this video. The LIRR is pretty close to using mostly concrete ties on the electrified portions. Penn station has barely any concrete ties. The amount of money it would take to rebuild the interlockings in Penn Station is probably more expensive than keeping it like it is right now, although maybe they have a plan in the works for when Hudson tunnel project starts getting more funding to begin tunneling. Harold Interlocking has come a long way from what it was even a decade ago. Most crossovers are high speed, concrete ties, and moveable frog switches and it’s a very smooth ride. Hopefully all of Harold Interlocking will be done by the end of the decade. It already looks and feels amazing, just a few more turnouts to be rebuilt, and the eastbound bypass tunnel to be constructed. The westbound should open next year I believe, and it started construction about 8 or 9 months ago.
I take this line into New York my family lives in Greenwich
It's the faux Northeast Regional!
What’s the sound at 6:57? I’ve heard it a few times on my two years using the NH line but never understood it . Crew to crew signal?
I believe it’s to let the crew know that they’re going over a crossover and to me cautious while going in between cars
We use that to signal to the train crews that we are crossing over. These MUs ride like boxcars so we give them the heads up that we are crossing over to brace themselves. We don’t have to do it but many engineers will do it.
I often wondered what that meant, but I later figured it out it took long enough
@@ghostengineerVery thoughtful.
@@ghostengineer it's ghost engineer!!! Seriously, thank you for such an insightful comment.
The NWP local is indeed slow. I could take the 60 bee line bus from Pelham Parkway to White Plains and arrive faster than the local train.
Hey! 50:06, is the Danbury branch now electric?! I don’t remember it being electric.
No it isn’t
Awesome trip Was Flying Yankee driving the train?
I’m afraid not 😂
What app or website do you use to figure out what Amtrak trains bypass you?
Just Amtrak app plus I check the train status. The rest is just diligent research
Why is the GCT Clunker so slow?
Too many stops in a short distance
@@3985uprr that makes sense
Cool ride, did it stop at Harlem to pick up passengers?
No Harlem stop
@@3985uprr wow, I thought they all made stops at Harlem
Ahhhh 🤣😂 Yayyyy👏🏻👏🏻
It’s Grand Central terminal. It’s always Grand Central terminal and nothing but Grand Central terminal.
This video is really boring! I thought it was going to have graphics of each city you’re passing through. AndI also thought it was going to have a corresponding map in the corner,,showing where the train is located geographically. & why did they film out of the left side of the train instead of the right side? The town that grew up in Westchester on the New Haven line. I was waiting to see when the train pass is a Town, but there is no graphics and tell you what town its in?
You are under no obligation to watch my videos if they don’t meet up to your expectations. I will narrate in lieu of graphics at times.
@@3985uprr Thank you for telling me that, I don’t have to watch the whole video. I was concerned that the UA-cam FBI police was gonna force me watch his whole video. I was giving you a few suggestions that would make your video more entertaining You spent all this time to produce this video.
A video this long should have chapters, and not many are going to want to watch 1½ hours, to maybe catch when you’re going to actually narrate. I was waiting to see where my hometown was going to come up, but it was impossible to tell because you’re filming out of the wrong side of the train, and you do not indicate anywhere of what city you’re passing through.
(that’s why I suggested having a real time map in the corner that would show the interesting places that the New Haven line goes through because all the trees look the same)
It was as exciting as watching people driving two hours to visit their Grandma for Christmas, and watching two hours of trees going by.
Grandma got run over by a reindeer, at least they show you that right in the video of where it’s happening.