POV Commuter Rail Cab Ride | Sounder North 1706 | Seattle - Everett Northbound Trip in Real Time
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- This video, shot through the partition glass behind the cab of a Sound Transit Bombardier BilLevel cab car, shows the entire northbound trip of the Sounder North Commuter train 1706 (5:35 pm departure) from Seattle King Street Station to Everett Station in real time.
Please excuse the glare of the sun as this video was shot in the late afternoon / early evening and the sun was already somewhat low in the western sky. Also please excuse the blue tint of the video you might notice. This was because the partition glass I shot this video through had dark blue colored window film installed.
Circa September 2021. This Video was recorded in full HD and at 60FPS.
I've time stamped moments when the train made stops at stations and when the train passed by points of interest:
0:00 Intro
0:10 Title Card
0:14 A quick external view of my train
1:09 Boarding the train
1:33 Beginning of the POV segment
1:56 Doors closing
2:11 On Time Departure from Seattle King Street Station
2:44 View of a King Country Metro Rapid Ride transit bus on the overpass
3:14 Entering BNSF's Great Northern Tunnel under downtown Seattle
5:59 Exiting BNSF's Great Northern Tunnel under downtown Seattle
06:52 View of Seattle's waterfront
07:19 Passing level crossings in Seattle
11:51 Passing a BNSF container train
16:36 Crossing Salmon Bay Bridge
20:34 View of the Puget Sound
20:54 Passing another BNSF train
30:31 Another view of the Puget Sound
32:14 Approaching in Edmonds, WA
32:49 Stop at Edmonds Station
33:40 Doors closing
33:53 Departure from Edmonds Station
35:03 Another view of the Puget Sound
35:20 Passing another BNSF train
46:15 Another view of the Puget Sound
46:53 Approaching Mukilteo, WA
48:19 Stop at Mukilteo Station
49:11 Doors closing
49:24 Departure from Mukilteo Station
50:52 View of Everett. WA from across the Possession Sound
51:37 Passing another BNSF train
55:33 Passing another BNSF train
58:05 Entering the tunnel in Everett
59:45 Exiting the tunnel in Everett
01:01:43 Arriving at Everett Station
01:02:45 A quick external view of the Bombardier BiLevel car car I rode in
01:02:54 A quick external view of the EMD F59PHI locomotive (unit 903) that pushed my train
01:03:36 Thanks for watching! Subscribe?
I don't know why it's so hard to find cab ride videos on these cab cars that have the glass partition. Thank you so much for filming one of these, great work.
Thanks. I do have to say that Sound Transit did install a pretty dark layer of blue window tint to that glass partition, so without the proper adjustments on your camera and in post production, the results could be kind of unworkable.
Also I don't know if the more recent model of the Bombardier BiLevel cab car still retained a glass partition that provided passengers a view to the front: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_BiLevel_Coach#/media/File:Sounder_Cab_Car_327_(37384615221).jpg
Sound Transit seems to have more of the later model cab cars in service than the older model one I was on board of.
Thank You!
I love this video. I spend a lot of time at Salmon Bay as I live near the locks and it's awesome to get this POV. of the sounder crossing the Salmon Bay Bridge. I may have very well been under the bridge when this train passed. I spent a lot of time on the Magnolia side summer/Fall 2021.
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This is an amazing ride and I just took the amtrak cascade trip on a sunday 10/22/2023 going by that route to Vancouver. Something about the puget sound travel on train is relaxing and seeing the coastline. Do you have other social media stuff to follow with similar content or just youtube?
Is this train running backwards?
Yes and no technically. Because on this line the locomotive for the train is always located on the side of it facing Seattle and the train doesn't get turned around. So on the southbound trips, the locomotive is on the front end of the train, while on the northbound trips, the locomotive ends up on the back end of the train. On northbound trips, the train is controls by a cab car like the one I rode in.
Hello! Would it be okay with you if I borrow some clips of audio for a train simulator game I'm making?
Sure as long as I'm credited. :)
@@Shuotography Thank you!
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How many coaches are on this train?
ua-cam.com/video/_stxHWS0wYM/v-deo.html
@31:43 in my other video, You'll see that the Sounder North trains usually have 3 Bombardier BiLevel coaches. Although technically the one in the front is a cab car.
Well I prefer seeing 15 more to make it longer to 20 even longer!
@@andrewchuang1469 Unfortunately many of the commuter rail systems in the states are rather underdeveloped and underutilized in comparison to their counterparts in Asia and Europe. The Sounder system for example, essentially has no weekend or late night service at all. And its service pattern during the 5 workdays of the week can be summed up as infrequent and peak direction only trains during the morning and evening rush. Also when I rode the Sounder as I shot this video, I was actually the only passenger riding in the cab car/coach. I sure hope there were additional passengers towards the back of the train or otherwise the ride would seem to be terribly wasteful with still an entire train (albeit with 3 coaches) hauling such a small number of passengers.
In comparison to the Sounder, some other commuter rail systems on the east coast do tend to have more frequent service and utilize longer and higher capacity trains. For example, the LIRR and the Metro North in New York use many electric multiple units and longer consists. I've shot videos of those, please feel free to check them out:
LIRR: ua-cam.com/video/EgKad3V5TCw/v-deo.html
Metro North: ua-cam.com/video/oawjc0nGaRE/v-deo.html
NJ Transit: ua-cam.com/video/ZobZTwVe7yM/v-deo.html
MARC: ua-cam.com/video/JuS130IIXJs/v-deo.html
MBTA: ua-cam.com/video/cEDYaGJuwF0/v-deo.html
Timestamp for first honk pls
How do you get permission
I was technically on the passenger side of that glass partition behind the cab. During the ride, no one, including the engineer, conductor, and 2 security guards who briefly boarded the train in Edmonds to check fares, raised any issue with me.
30:50
This is the slowest train ever. Why?
The Sounder commuter trains do run on tracks owned and used by BNSF for mostly slower freight trains. I suspect however slow the train is, it is as fast as they deemed workable given the circumstances.
7 cars and an F59. YOU do the math. That dinosaur isn't getting that train up to track speed any time soon.
@@michlo3393 The Sounder South does have as many as 7 BiLevel coaches. But I did shoot this video on the Sounder North, which only had 3 BiLevels. They do seem to haul some of the Sounder South trains with MP40PHs instead of the F59s. Also some of Sounder South Trains do have have locomotives on both ends, as you can see here: ua-cam.com/video/_stxHWS0wYM/v-deo.html
You spelled Edmonds wrong. It Edmonds not Edmunds