A long afternoon at Princeton Jct. NJ. 150 mph Acela Express trains and great horn shows. 6/16/22
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Exhilarating experience seeing the Acelas rocketing thru on this recently raised to 150mph track territory. The Regional trains impressed as well with their 125mph speeds. NJT was not prioritized but some interesting examples are seen and heard as well.
I remember standing at Holmesburg station waiting for a Septa train and Amtrak flew by and sucked all the air around me.
Especially when it's on the local track
Holy crap! There I am in the white sweater on the end of the platform towards the end of the video!
I notice you’re standing there for quite a while I wasn’t sure if you were a buff or not
Having a rough day this video really gives me a pickup thank you
Glad I could help
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Talk about horn shows,,,,,I'm 73,,,,,,,I worked on Skillman ave. in 1981 ; fixing Taxi cabs.......Trains coming into sunnyside yard would blast those horns as they came out the east river tube......Man it was loud and cool......That got my attention.........I had to see what these monsters looked like.......My education began.......The E60's ,,,the AEM-7's......The gg-1's looked mean......but they had a horn that sounded like a tug boat.......
Sentimental. These video's make me proud of our Country! Thank you.
Boy, this is great! Grew up in North Jersey and every Fri. night in the 70's we'd trek down to Pct. Junction and watch GG-1's slam through along with E-44's on loads of freight trains with occasional diesels. Around ~1:00 AM the last remaining RPO (mail) train left running in the U.S. would head south, always with two G's and then we'd head home. Rail therapy at its finest! Thank you for jogging the memories and I loved your presentation of train info-most times I hate narration so that says a lot. And never lose your NY accent! Makes me homesick... now I gotta go watch all 6 Sopranos seasons over, LOL! Subscribed.
This video never gets old
Great stuff took train into ny and back from here the Acela rolling through sounds awesome
Thank you for informative and interesting videos. Great descriptions and filming.
Nice NY&A bonus shot!
Who needs the stress of travel anymore, when you can see stuff like this ?
Loving the commentary. Most railfan videos just show the trains but the numbers and destinations are a nice touch.
I saw on FB that on 7/30 the Silver Star is expected to have a private car in tow from NY-WAS. Would be a great catch.
Fab film, really enjoyed having your commentary too, gives a bit more insight as to what’s happening to the unfamiliar eye. Think perhaps one day I need to head to the states for a bit of “railfanning” or TrainSpotting as we call it in the UK.
I was on the 2170 to Boston yesterday, glad someone caught our train!
Sick pelican is a perfect description of the Arrow III horn! 🤣
Thank you for your service
Your narration certainly makes these videos. Love all the info you impart.
We don't have any High-Speed Rail in St Louis but your videos are excellent and showing the high-speed
I was actually on the Acela Express June 15th from Philly to nyc.
It was a lovely ride and I didn’t expect to get to nyc so quickly and it was my first ever Acela ride.
The speed was always scary to me standing on the platform at Princeton Junction. It's nice to be back there, if only virtually.
Very enjoyable video, love your commentary too.....great information.....just watchin em fly by!
I'm a southerner, but I love listening to you speak in your NY accent. Your voice is quite soothing and is very pleasant to listen to.
I really like the way you compose your videos, and the way you give lots of relevant information for each train. Your camera skills are also quite impressive, with nary a camera jiggle in sight.
You have become one of my favorite railfan channels!
I appreciate that. My New York accent is very pronounced and people know I’m from out of town everywhere I go. No point of trying to imitate the local accent as people would be insulted by that so I just have to be myself 😀😀. I must say that the camera that I use I owe a great deal to.
@@3985uprr 18:44 now THAT'S my kind of horn! 🤘🚆🤘
Great video and narration! I grew up in Princeton Junction. The 'Dinky' ran right by our house about a mile W of the station. Back in the day of wooden! (1970) Also loved being on those platforms when the big ol GG1's would fly by.
The engineer at 23:12 is awesome! Stuck his hand out of the side window at 150 mph!
Love the action on the Corridor Especially Princeton Junction!!!
Excellent video thanks for sharing 👍
Princeton Junction is one of the best stations aka one of my favorite stations to railfan
Oh how well I remember waiting for a connection at Princeton Jct for a PRR train to Philly. Metroliners were being tested and the speed and sound were fantastic.
Thanks RR😀💚
Congratulations on your retirement. I just subscribed to your channel.
Love those fast Amtraks..Acela is such a cool locomotive. Thanks for sharing!
Acela is not a locomotive, its an Amtrak train
My oh my, but you have the knack for this! My early youth NYC subway rides and 90s AMTRAK "Fast Mail" New London to NYC are coming back to me. Love the trains and your delivery... you are sort of the "Lou Garagiola (of baseball announcer fame)" of trains... your narration brings these videos to a special level that could otherwise be much less interesting. THANKS so much for your work and hope to learn someday what you did for a living and what makes the trains come alive for you! Watching your Caltrain videos AND THEN trying the trains out in train simulator made them come to life for me! BTW, are there no more AMTRAK FAST MAILS? The once in a great while rides in 'business class' (add newspaper, coffee, and a bit of quiet) were wonderful. I hope you can keep up the great journaling of the vast East Coast railing!!!
Thank you much. You mean Joe Garagiola? If so, I’m complimented you compare me with him.
Yes, Joe... It's been so many years now. But you have a golden voice and style, and the way you add color and context to your reporting as well as great video quality! Thank you!
Great footage. Great railfan location -- thanks for making this recording.
Love your knowledge and narration
Sweet. Love the old warhorse Amfleeet cab car. Got to Halethorpe MD last simmer for an hour or two. Love the NEC.
@for the love of God Non Stop fast trains. Love it.
This was an awesome video. My 1st time coming across your rchannel as well. I just subscribed. I enjoyed the commentary. I grew up in Albany, NY & when we would travel to NYC/NJ growing up, it would be awesome to see the high speed trains going through the NYC/NJ area. Remember the AEM 7's & the EMD F40PH's, & the Turbo Liner? Looking forward to watching more of your great train content. I started watching another of your vids just now, sorry about your Eagles last night. I'm a Giants' fan...so I have no reason to trash talk lol. Have a great day.
Delayed, distant horns very romantic.
Holy cow! That was some amazing action...great catches and keep it up!
I’m gonna miss those K5LA hybrids on the Acela. It’s really got a funky tone to it. It’s a great Doppler effect sounds
The 9649 has a K5LAM horn using one of its bells from a M5.
Uhhh no. You cant put an M bell on a on a K5 manifold. With M horns you can only install through the manifold. With K horns they are bolted on.
9649 uses bells 1 2 3A 4 5 which can either be called a hybrid or a K5LAM. K5LAM is just a technical term.
Horns aren’t really Interchangeable unless you do some major modifications that can actually ruin it.
Really enjoyed the video. Thx
I didn't know NJ Transit had all electric trains, good coverage
also Horn Surplus Disorder, i love it.! i might just have a bit myself HAHAHA
nice! I'll be flying 150mph through here in a couple days on 2103! needless to say I'm pretty excited. I want to come back to railfan PJC again over the summer. last time I was there I took 652 back to new york with no problems, and it was quite an upgrade over NJT for the same price, which I was really surprised by.
Nice when are you gonna take 2103, I might be able to railfan your train pass-by!
@@AcelaRailan2150 this Thursday, 6/23
@@nathanjiang100 oh cool I just might be able to, I’ll keep you posted if I’m able to
Great video!
I love the older cars.........much more comfortable ride......shock absorbers and seats...
Love your videos!!
Amazing rail movie! Great captures! Nice speedy trains! Good work, master! Thumbs Up & Subscribe
Greetings from Romania
Andrew
he mentioned at 13:41 train 19 was southern railways southern crescent , I can remember that train being twenty two cars long before amtrak took over
Nice! Some of the Amtrak trains in this video I saw as well down in Newark, DE.
Great coverage. At 7:55 I saw the platform edging strip sticking out into the path of the trains, it made me nervous!
That is crazy fast!
i need to upload my Princeton Junction video soon, 150mph is insane
You mean Newark penn/Airport, Metropark (sometimes), Princeton Junction (Sometimes) Trenton, North/Philadelphia, Ardmore, Paoli, Exton, Downingtown, Coatesville, Parksburg, Lancaster, Mount Joy, Elizabethtown, Middletown, and Harrisburg.
It's cool watching Amtrak trains at Princeton Junction train station in seeing Amtrak trains speeding on the north east corridor line. Princeton Junction station is a nice train station.
Hey Tim it's Jimmie I am making my railfanning videos I caught some NJ transit heritage units the marine Air Force and army units sometimes I even see the Pennsylvania railroad unit and even at time I seen the pride ride unit
Good to see a weed-free, tidy permanent way.
The next best place for watching speeding trains in the area is probably Rahway.
I think the Acela trains on the westbound express track are still running 135 mph, but on the eastbound express track they are now running at 150 mph. I'm not sure the reason for the difference.
I haven't been back to PJ in a long time. Looks like Nassau Tower got some new windows.
I still like Mansfield and Kingston because they pass the platform at speed.
Glad to see Budd cars are still on the rails
They are GE built.
I like showing this video to my friends we live in St Louis so we don't see any high-speed like this they did increase the speed between St Louis and Chicago to 100 mph but the thing is there's over 100 Street Crossings between here and Chicago so you have to figure that into your speed
Glad to see Budd cars are still on the tracks
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We used to think the GG1's at 80 mph were crazy fast. Then they let them run 100mph to pull the metroliners when they were unable to run in the snow. They were half a million pounds so the under carriages would slam horribly going through interlockings. Very scary.
Too bad you don't have a radar gun just to see how fast some of these trains are going. Great videos though. Your mind and memory amaze me!!
The speed limit may be 150 but I’m not sure that many of those trains were close to that they were probably in the 140s though
enjoy your videos...while AMTRAK has restored a great portion of the NE corridor schedule since covid....I estimate about 80%....scheduled trains in "off" hours....overnight, late PM, very early AM....not yet....HOWEVER many trains now have 9 or more cars....by my count 125 had 10.....I do miss those missing...last departure from NY to DC 8:13pm acela....(prior to covid 3 departures were 9pm or later including 187 and 177)... Acelas from ny to dc and back are 10.... was 15/16(in number).... any insights as to full restoration
Soon I hope. Hopefully by the time the new duckcelas are in service in 2023 it’ll be full service
@@3985uprr,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, duckcelas......great name,,,,,the new design is duck ass ugly..........
Why not build new dedicated high-speed rail tracks?
Nice.
Hello all. Amtrak 2103 is from New York Penn - Washington D.C.
Love the new name!
How about the curvy parts, especially in New England?
I’m very interested that both the NYC and Harrisburg-bound Keystone trains were cab car first - every time I’ve ridden the service, the loco is pulling through the Philly-NYC sector
Keystone trains go through Sunnyside Yard like any other Amtrak train terminating in NYC, so if the cab car leads the train eastbound, it will lead again westbound after traveling around the loop tracks to enter Sunnyside Yard.
I prefer the Philly to New York portion being locomotive first. I feel more at ease being pulled at 125 miles an hour than being pushed
@@mattb1270 ,,,,,,,,,,traveling around the loop track to EXIT sunnyside yard and enter the east river tube......
Hello Retired Railfan Horn Guy.... I'm from California. I'll be visiting NY in a few weeks. Plann on rail fanning one day at Princeton Jct. Can you give me a suggestion as to what time of day I'll be able to see the most Amtrak trains? Thanks!!
In the bonus video at the end of the recording, we see the NY&A freight. What are they hauling in the oversize, high side gondolas right behind the power?
I thought that train ran with all empties but I could see the loads in the back
How fast are those running? 150mph?
Close to it
Does the catenary height etc permit operation of double stack container freights, at least in theory?
No it doesn’t.
I had no idea they upgraded some of the tracks to 150 MPH in NJ.. that's awesome! This was 135 MPH previously, right?
Correct. Actually the tracks can support higher speeds (160 mph) which will be the top speed when the new train sets comes into service
Is it the tracks or the wheels that make these trains glide along? My hat's off to the MOW crews and the car maintenance folks that keep these trains humming.
Do they ever have an electric and a diesel in the same consist?
I may have years ago
Philadelphia
Retired Railfan Horn Guy I just subscribed to your channel,I must say Those Acela Passenger trains Sure do fly at 150 mph Wow,You do one amazing job at catching all these different trains Amtak,N.J transit and others I am just finishing watching this video and will continue to make comments on your astounding video's..I also have a channel It's Henry Lewis check it out when you have a chance..stay safe 👍👍👍👍👍
Cool
is it still safety when the train speed up about 30 more MPH, it would be about the same ave speed of European train.
that would be good
Can Amtrak accommodate superliners on the NEC or are they too high to clear bridges and overpasses along the route?
They won’t clear in the Corridor
Wait a minute. I thought the old Acelas would be replaced by now.
Delayed til 2023
Not the Acela but the other cars on the NE corrider
Great show. Where do the southbound trains switch to diesel? Thanks RRF
Washington DC
Are the regionals allowed to travel faster through there, too?
i believe the ACS is limited to 125.
ACS64's are limited to 125 mph
@@mattheww2797 they can go 135mph but the amfleets can't
Why does Amtrak only have one person driving the train? Shouldn't there be two in the cab for safety reasons? What would happen if the engineer had a medical emergency? How would the train stop?
On its own. If the engineer doesn't do anything within a set amount of time, an alarm goes off and he has to acknowledge it or the brakes apply automatically. This technology has been around for 40 years now.
How much of the total Acela route do they run at 150? And how fast were the other Amtrak trains going in this video? i thought they were limited to 110, but some looked like they were going faster. (I rode the Crescent from PHL to WAS in September, and the speedometer app on my phone indicated we were going close to 110.)amt
150 around Princeton Jct. About 15 miles in RI and 10 miles in Mass.
@@3985uprr And how fast are the non-Acela trains running? Apart from the Crescent, they all seemed to be going pretty fast.
@@jimpern 125 MPH
Can you still get the Dinky to Princteton from here?
Yes
I’m curious why do they call you retired railfan? 😭
It is because I am retired and I am a railfan
@@3985uprr 😂😂 ahhh I should’ve known but good videos I love your channel keep it up 😎
Are the regional trains capable of 150 MPH?
No.
They top at 125 I believe
@@squirrelbazooka8033Yes I think Amfleet cars are only qualified for 125mph
No way this is 150 MPH, may be 150 kmph.
I don’t think it’s that slow. 😀😀
NJT is looking to replace the dinky. Maybe with bus service.
Did you say umid? what is a umid?
Who would want to go to Boston ? Some of the rudest people I have ever encountered were in Boston.
Humid weather I guess
american locomotives little bit smaller than Indians Locomotives maybe coz of cars length i think.. indian Locomotives pull 16 to 23 cars at same time but USA locomotives only pull 8 to 10 cars only
Nice video, thanks.
Those Acelas are going nowhere near 150mph tho IMO.
I know there’s some in the 140s
@@3985uprr We should all chip in and buy a radar gun for the channel. :)
@@Ken_in_Wisconsin It would be kind of hard to take video and hold a radar gun at the same time
Not 150 mph, ~80 mph
150 mph? That's it? Cant waite to go to Japan next year to experience real highspeed bullet train technology which the so called mighty United States of America should of had decades ago. Sorry but compared to the trains of the far more advanced countries of the far east and Europe, 150 mph is a craw. They are working on Maglev super train technology. Trains that can reach speeds of up to 375 mph.