The Adirondack Returns: Riding Amtrak's Most Scenic Route in the East!
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2023
- If you asked anyone what Amtrak's most scenic route east of the Mississippi is, chances are they would answer the Adirondack. Our local northern New York communities have been waiting over three years for the Adirondack to return, and I'm taking a trip on the train from Westport to Plattsburgh to celebrate the April 3rd return.
Along the way we see the Bouquet River, breathtaking "Red Rocks" at Willsboro Bay, Lake Champlain, and multiple sidings/Bluff Yard.
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I just did this trip the other day. Scenery is nice but so many improvements can be made. Put a scenery car with big panoramic windows . have other classes besides coach. serve upgraded food. For Gods sake you are on this train for 11 hours! With improvements this could really be premier
I absolutely agree. The Rocky Mountaineer has fantastic equipment that isn’t obnoxiously high like the Superliners. We could use some here.
how dare you! it (honestly) appears 5MPH faster alongside Champlain there than it did 40 years ago..!
@@trainrover Many parts of the CP are indeed faster than in the past. Unfortunately that doesn’t help the overall trip time.
ahh, all right...I was just teasing ;)
The welded rail is nice, but it goes right back to jointed rail on the Canadian side.
Excellent video. So glad it's back, on one trip they had the dome car, with volunteer guides explaining the history along the way.
I wish they still had that Dome car, but Amtrak retired it in 2019 and sold it off sadly
I got to ride in at once, from Indianapolis to Chicago
Hallelujah…Yeah..My ride to Montreal is back!
Went to Montreal in mid-1980s. It was so late in the day that it was pitch black outside, couldn't see a thing! Is nice to actually see what we missed!
Great video. I live here, and it is great you folks like it!! We do.
This line has always been leisurely, even in D & H days
I use to travel to Plattsburg, NY when I was younger to visit an elderly older couple who has since passed away. Watching your video make me a bit nostalgic.
Awesome ride along video and footage captured. Enjoyed watching and thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful rest of your evening.(Steve)
Last note: I had taken a movie of the Return of the Adirondacker at Schenectady, New York at 12:10 3 Apr 2023. Mayor McCarthy of Schenectady greeted the Adirondacker arrival at the Schenectady Railroad Station. A good report was made at Rensselaer Railroad Station. Thank you for making the time to take this ride and the movie.🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃😀
Great to see the return of this route. Excellent Video!
Great video. Thanks for taking us along.
At 24:22 you were wondering why the last coach was empty - it's because they need the extra space to accommodate "commute" passengers that board in New York and Montreal, who don't ride for long distances. It's easier to seat them in 1 car to minimize boarding and departure times at the platform. Then once those passengers have disembarked it saves the crew time and energy because they have one less coach to walk through to serve the needs of the rest of the train's riders.
Great video 📹 ❤😊. I most definitely will ride the Adirondack 😊🚆🍿. Thank you very much 👍👍
Good news! Thanks for shooting and sharing!
amazing video Harrison im glad amtrak is back in The ADKs!!
Another great video North Country trains.
Great video. My wife & I will be going northbound next fall on the first rail leg of our trip through Canada.
Thanks for the guided tour!
great video what a collection of talent on the Plattsburgh platform lol
Nice video. I rode in the cab through here in Winter '85 with thick fresh snow covering everything. Maybe I shot a few slides that day.
Yea nice catch and ride on this train with this heritage unit
Great video. Being a upstate NY'er I am very partial. Live on the central Cal coast now. Your video has made me want to hit a train trip again. :)
Great to see another train enthusiast 🚂
This is one of my favorite routes along side the Vermonter, both are very scenic.
still ever missing those handily overnighters The Montrealer and The Washingtonian 🍸🍸
Excellent Video , I've rode it several times NYP- PLB, a trip worth taking, Bald Eagles along the Hudson and near Ft Ticonderoga and the scenery along Lake Champlain are great, glad it's back( rode it this wknd to ALB)
Fort Ti-Whitehall is definitely spectacular and I should give that section a try sometime!
@@NorthCountryTrains w o a doubt you won't be disappointed, and you gained a subscriber
My grandmother lived in Westport near the tracks back in the early 90s, and I can remember watching all sorts of Amtrak and freight trains go by her house. And IIRC Amtrak had a locomotive on each end of the train, and the color scheme was a little different than what it is now.
Nice video! I felt like I was back on one of my many road trips over the territory I dispatched for 43 years!!
@@NorthCountryTrains There's days like the last couple I wish I was still there in control! Now it's up to you young guys!!
It would be nice if they could run the superliner coaches along that route. Nice video. I've rode both trains. 50,51,68 and 69. They both have nice sceneries.
Superliners can't fit in Penn Station New York and the tunnels. However, the Viewliners do.
This channel is just amazing
I see that you got a movie picture at mile mark 144 of an American Bald Eagle hunting a long the Lake Champlain. Great small movie of the eagle.
Awesome video!
Fantastic and finally!!! 🥂🙏🏼
Wow, the scenery sort of reminds of the California Zephyr going through the rugged terrain of the Rocky Mountains. Who knew NY state has such rugged terrain
Toying to go the south direction from Montreal Gare Centrale to New York next year...
Nice to see Amfleet II's on the route
Fantastic video
The background guitar music is really appropriate
I think this would be really pretty in the fall
It is! It’s too bad the dome car isn’t still around.
108 led the first maple leaf back when it started up. Then just his morning its back up here in the Toronto area on the maple leaf
Before the pandemic, I got to ride this route from Albany to Montreal.
Great video. Next time make your trip just a bit longer and get on in Ticonderoga. Some great views between there and Westport.
I definitely want to take the entire line sometime!
I think what you called rock land is port Douglas. Port Douglas was the former sight of a fuel tank farm for the former Plattsburgh AFB. Barges or trains could unload fuel there for the base.
Yes, it is Port Douglas. The railroad calls the siding located there Rockland.
Greetings from Clinton county NY thank you for the video
22:04 didnt know there were still searchlights governing an interlocking this far north!
I’ll be heading down to 150 to shoot them from the ground just as soon as I can. The reason the Rockland signals have lasted this long is because that siding was only put in a couple decades ago.
Interesting to see the level at which the telephone are today. It would appear that the tracks were at a lower level is the past.
Great video
nice footage! the Cardinal still has better scenery through West Virginia and the new river gorge imo but I'm still excited to ride this one someday. Also all the Amfleets are Amfleet IIs except the Cafe car that's an Amfleet I. I just took the Maple Leaf out to Rochester from NYC last weekend and the scenery west of Albany I thought was equally as impressive as the Hudson Line. New York sure has some underrated views (wish I could say the same about my home Amtrak line, the Northeast Corridor through NJ).
Cardinal is the probably close to one of the worst trains
@@tylerrose5232 in terms of service, absolutely, but it sure is scenic.
@@nathanjiang100 for a small portion of the trip it’s nice then the rest of it is in the dark
merely a bygone marketing campaign that appears to have stuck, don't bother making it personal...the glut of holidaymakers churned by the monied classes around its southern catchment must've become mightily lucratuve, no ;)
passenger service had already been absent for decades by Summer '79 when our 900 mile-detoured westbound trans-continental happened to journey along L Superior's busy dual-tracked north shore, and its STUNNING scenery champions the Adirondack's for a distance much exceeding its own route length...thereafter, Nipponese travel agents had successfully marketed charter passenger trains thereabouts summertime for their overseas homeland market during the '80s and '90s, I've no idea how those deals and arrangements must've been brokered ;)
Thanks. I’ve always wanted to take the Adirondack up to Montreal for a couple of days but I’m debating where to take it from.. I’m a downstater (actually Long Island) but the last thing I want to do is take it out of NYP and I really don’t want to do the same trip both ways so I have to think about it.
After you see how scenic the ride is you may change your opinion about riding it both ways. There is so much to see especially as your train runs along the lake it is worth ridding both ways. If you really don’t want to ride the same route back I would recommend riding between Montreal and Toronto and then coming back south on the Maple Leaf that runs between Toronto and New York Penn Station. If you do ride between Montreal and Toronto you may get to ride on VIA’S new Simmons trains so this would add another new train to your trip. Enjoy and thanks for wanting to support the resumed service.
I took that train to Montreal last June and they didn’t have that cool blue and red locomotive, just a standard blue and gray/silver.
love the genesis loco in phase 2 paint scheme . wish amtrak would do all of their locos like that.
It’s phase 6…
I am glad to see the service return. I only road this route one time from Montreal to Albany. It was when it first returned and still used the old D&H equipment. It did not have the dome car at that time but it did have the larger windows than the Amfleet cars. Hopefully the newer Simmons cars that are coming will have bigger windows so you can see those nice views better. Good luck and I hope the local residents use the train so we will have it for years to come.
I cannot describe how much I hate the amfleet windows!!
You must know that the Adirondack is resuming Sept 11th to Montreal after a 3 month suspension due to CN track issues the train seems well used, too bad the run can't be in a more practical 5 hours
The train can’t run super fast in a lot of areas near Lake Champlain. But it fucking books on the straightaway between Schenectady and Albany (That’s also the ugliest part of the route north of Albany, so it makes perfect sense to speed right through it).
Thanks for the video. But, no one ever misses a speech!lol
That’s a fair point 😂
That looks like a beautiful ride! It's too bad there is no Business Class on the Adirondack, though. I couldn't imagine spending close to twelve hours in a coach.
The Adirondack is the only Amtrak train I’ve ever been on, I never knew they had anything other than coach.
I took the train in october and realized halfway past albany that the cafe car is definitely the place to be. On the way back i spent probably 9 out of the 11 hours in the cafe car haha, it was pretty nice
The lady you see near the end is Rep. Elise Stefanik... That is her congressional district.
Can’t stand her…
Awesome
The last passenger car is for our Canadians going to Canada for the border patrol passports check. That is what is was in the pass when I was ride Amtrak for the New York Naval Militia Operations in Rousse Point.
Amfleet 2 has curtains in the windows
Looks like they washed the trainset. Wish they would try to wash all the equipment more often/consistently.
They don't appear to care about the customers.
It's difficult to hear the narration over wind noise-please use an appropriate noise mitigation covering for the mic!
Beautiful scenery; congrats on videography! Why so slow, given good track?
Many curves. Many, many, many of them.
What antenna do you use I have some questions about the antenna. 1. Is it a UHF (Ultra High Frequency) 2. How many miles can you get with it? 3. What is it called?
This is the antenna: www.smileyantenna.com/product-p/16020.htm
I can pick up about a 10 mile radius, more or less depending on elevation and signal strength.
@@NorthCountryTrains ok thanks
Didn't the Addie operate with a Dome car AND run all the way to Montreal? What happened?
The dome car was sold due to high maintenance costs. I was fortunate to ride it twice before that happened before it was taken out of service in 2018
@@NorthCountryTrains Why don't they buy a new one?
@@ednorton47 The fact that it took them three years to restore service tells me they’re struggling to provide basic service. I don’t think doing something cool like that has crossed their minds 😂
161.1 from CPO-1 to Canada
The last time I took the Adirondack from Schenectady to P'burgh was in 2012. There were a ton of slow orders all the way to P'burgh.
Last week I saw the Adirondack coming into Schenectady from the north with power on both ends. Can they not turn the power around in Montreal anymore?
Likely what you saw was the Ethan Allen which runs with a unit on each end to allow it to continue to Burlington.
@@NorthCountryTrains I would agree, but it was the wrong time of day for the Ethan Allen.
I'm assuming they switch locos since P42s can't run into Penn, so where do they swap?
They typically swap them at Albany-Rensselaer in both directions. That's a short stopover for most trains that go through there, partially for that reason. The other is that it's a wildly popular stop for those going into New York City. There's a reason why there's something like 10-12 trains a day (between 4-5 different lines) into New York City from Rensselaer.
Pre Pandemic operation used a Superdome btw Albany and Montreal in the Fall during Leaf Peeping season. That was a sweet ride but that car was eventually put into storage or donated to a RR museum as it was the last remaining survivor of the type. Great Northern / BN had 6 built and used them on the Empire Builder btw Chicago and Seattle.
I rode the dome on the Adirondack around 2014 or so and filmed it up until it’s last run. Sad that it had to go
I was looking for a video of this route..
was just wondering...kept hearing that guy talking in the background ...we're you in a Cafe car filming or in coach when you could hear this guy talking all the time. I'm afraid I would be stuck sitting next to somebody who was really annoying. I like to just ride and enjoy the view unless I'm in the cafe car and wanna talk or listen to folk's stories.
The coaches are “quiet zones” from my experience, and the gentlemen in the cafe car were officials riding the first run, and had some VERY entertaining stories! Although I didn’t get involved I enjoyed listening to them- but if you want a quiet ride, coaches offer that.
Are there 2 Westports?
Is there only coach seats for this route?
At the time, yes
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Very scenic. Taken it many times and plan to again. BUT they'll never draw any numbers if they can't raise the speed. 10 hours to New York is no good. Where exactly is that Bluff Yard at 34.20 ?
Exactly the point I ended with in my written story- it’s just too slow. Bluff Yard is located just south of Plattsburgh between the Barracks and Bluff Point golf courses.
@@NorthCountryTrains Thanks, that'll be one of my stops next trip.
Awesome. How often does it run ? Daily m?
Daily in both directions!
Loved your video & enthusiasm! Thank you for sharing! Tyler from Syracuse & Old Forge NY
Nice video! I have taken it many times Montreal/New York and back in the past and I love the journey. But 10-11 hours is just too long - when you get into NYC late at night it’s very difficult to get onward connections into NJ or elsewhere. I don’t understand why it can’t leave Montreal earlier as most people don’t think twice about getting a flight early in the morning. And the US border crossing procedure could surely be done in Montreal for the southbound route.
Both good points, if only Amtrak felt the same way…
The US government has wanted to post customs officers in a pre clearance facility at Gare Centrale in Montreal for over a decade now but the Canadian government doesn’t seem to really want it.
Is his knee okay?
no owen miller 2246 crossing in video sad
lol
what is there to do in Plattsburgh ?
Good question. Nearby the train station, there are restaurants, a bike path, some waterfront, and a couple of memorial monuments.
So no one had problems getting their mail during "Lockdowns" ... did that ever even happen I've already forgotten.
Please do something about the wind noise. Otherwise, nice video.
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be nice if some maps were used where the hell is Westport? not very informative. pleasant scenery. nothing about the train, history, top speed
I’ve been trying to get into mapmaking, but this video was very time sensitive- Westport is on Lake Champlain, between Plattsburgh and Ticonderoga.
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Do they play music on the train ? NO !! So why add the stupid music ? A train ride is quiet with just ambient sound. FAIL..
Unfortunately I didn’t feel right posting the raw sound from the video, which included a conversation from the table behind me. Sorry!
I have Plattsburgh roots I'm partially from there cause my mom is so yea I was 3 years old back in 87 when we lived there that's a long time
Proud to be a Dual Citizen 😂
So face mask is no longer required then eh
Nope!
Awesome video!