Whoops, Georgia was not meant to be highlighted on the intro map! What happened was I edited Toccoa (least used in Georgia) after editing this one and changed the map for it, which is just one file; but then I had to come back and reupload this one with the credits, and my editing software had changed the map to the "updated" one with Georgia highlighted instead of Alabama! Sorry for the error, everyone.
Okay, I have the most awesome idea for the "Summer of 2024" - : pick a city (centrally located like Oklahoma City or some other city) and see how many transit fans will meet you there ❓ No cars allowed. 🥎⚽ Imagine 8, 25, or 45 transit🚃🚋🚎🚞🚊🚉 nerds meeting at a buffet🥡 all wearing plaid shirts and Amtrak hats 🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🤸🏃🚶🧍🧎👶👶👶👶🍼🍼🍼🍼
And I love Nathan for that! Like I get not liking bugs, but not all bugs are bad! Beetles for example are both decomposers and help reduce pest populations. And while roaches are often thought of being all pests, only 30 species of the 4,500 roach species out there are pests!
One thing I love about these videos is when you ride the bus systems in smaller cities/towns and they are perfectly fine and have people on them. I feel like many Americans, unless you live in a handful of cities (Bos/NYC/DC/SF/Chi?) will loudly and proudly proclaim "We're a car city, nobody rides the bus here". But then when you actually go to their location and ride the bus and it's just a regular bus with no issues whatsoever! Ride the bus, people! :D
I live right next to Anniston Al. I have no idea why this is recommended to me but its cool to finally watch a video where i am completely familiar with the area and have a family member working at Effina's
It WAS originally built with a spiral staircase, but that is no longer the case. So the chair is still the world's largest office chair, but not the world's largest chair in general. The story goes that Leonard "Sonny" Miller, the owner of Miller's Office Supply, sought to build the chair to attract attention to his furniture business. In 1982, Guinness World Records recognized it as the World's Largest Chair, but didn't recognize it as the World's Largest Office Chair. The title of World's Largest Chair was passed on in 1995 to a seven-story one in Italy, until its current record holder since 2009 in Austria, which is over 98 feet tall. The chair in Alabama is just over 33 feet tall and was made with 10 tons of steel and 15 tons of cement. Amtrak heritage unit AND the BNSF Office Car Special? Now this review was a treat! Not only do I like the "This train is bound for" part of the MARTA announcements, but also the fact that they're bilingual. I think it says a lot that MARTA has bilingual announcements on the train, but the Latino-majority Miami doesn't on their Metrorail. I appreciate MARTA for going the extra mile! Though of course, it's not Singapore's MRT and their different languages!
Kudos to the Atlanta Greyhound station for going above and beyond and offering passengers a spa treatment as they wait 😂. And what great logic, having the restaurant open at 4 in the morning, but not when the station is the busiest in the middle of the day...makes perfect sense to me. But hey, great to see Nathan again! Gotta say, this was a casual yet sophisticated review! Besides Anniston's civil rights history, Anniston was an industrial place rich in mineral resources, but said resources weren't exploited until the Civil War. The Confederacy operated an iron furnace near downtown until it was destroyed by raiding Union cavalry in early 1865. Later, cast iron for sewer systems became the focus of Anniston's industrial output. During WWI, the US Army established a training camp at Fort McClellan adjacent to Anniston. On the other side of town, the Anniston Army Depot opened during World War II as a major weapons storage and maintenance site, and to this day, the facility is still used for the repair and production of ground combat vehicles, repair, restore, and upgrade infantry weapons, and was once used until 2011 for the storage of chemical weapons.
I am from Anniston and I can tell you, it almost looks the same as it did when I was a child nearly 40 years ago. I know it doesn't look like much but it was a wonderful place to grow up.
It's always great to get a Nathan/Miles station review but this one is an instant classic. "The access is not accessible? Is that what you're saying, Miles?"
@@OkieDokieSmokie7+ billion? Serfdom was an institution specific to Europe, there weren’t 7 billion people alive by the time it was fully abolished, and many people currently live under similar or worse living conditions.
👍 Awesome least-used Amtrak station report, including local transit and Greyhound. I rode through here on the Crescent but learned a lot more about the Anniston area from your video. Looking forward to least-used stations in FL and MO.
I have taken the Crescent many times, including when it was still on Southern Railways! I went to college in NYC, and my parents took me to Clemson, SC to get the train there--unless we felt like a little excursion, then they would take me to Toccoa instead to catch it. So--I am REALLY looking forward to your Toccoa video! I am actually impressed that the Anniston area had those little mini-buses and they had passengers (not just you two). The only thing I remember in Toccoa is a beautiful waterfall.
best fckn channel in the united states.. i am a public transportation lover from eastern europe and now i am living around anniston for around a year and this channel gave me the enough info for my trip in 3 weeks. you re the goat.
as a kid my granddad and I would drive up from dothan just to ride to hattiesburg one day and back for fun. I'm glad they're keeping the station cleaned up these days
Yes!!! I've been waiting for another least used Amtrak station video. Such a good series since I get to see parts of the U.S. I would never have any reason to go to. On another topic it's crazy to me how many somewhat small american towns have public transport, even if the systems are tiny and limited. I would've never thought Anniston would have any public transport, especially since it's not even a college town. A lot like Gastonia in that sense. I can't wait to see the next least used amtrak station video and see the local transit that comes with it.
The Los Angeles has the largest chair just 7 feet taller in the L.A. Mart's parking lot. The longest light rail route as of March 16, 2023 passes by the chair. It 48.3 miles long and still expanding.
Your videos are usually lighthearted and full of jokes. In this episode, however, you discussed a serious topic. I appreciate the fact that you didn’t gloss over the dark past of the town.
If I remember correctly the Aniston station was built for the nearby Army base, which the architecture kind of evokes. I was looking at taking the train there for work but ended up not going on the trip.
can't wait until you get to the least used station in Florida - it's the closest stop to my parents' house and so wretched that we opted to just drive the extra hour and get on at Sebring instead
I was born and raised in Anniston. 3/10 is a fairly accurate rating for the entire town. Funny enough, that giant chair you walked past was constructed by Miller's furniture in 1981 to draw in customers. Mrs. Miller, the widow of the owner, used to be my next door neighbor.
The BNSF officer train is just executives and their family on board. Kinda surprised to see the back window all closed up which is rare on the final car
The last private intercity passenger train prior to the launch of Brightline was the Rio Grande Zephyr, which outlasted the Southern Crescent by four years.
Always amazes me that train ran until 1983, the streamlined coaches and E units make it look like something out of the 50s but it operated even once Amtrak mostly got rid of their old locos
I was stationed in Ft McClellan there in Anniston. They closed it, the army hospital may be still open. Took the bus to Atlanta a few times to get away from this place
FYI, if you book a Flixbus in NYC you could utilize the Moynihan lounge for your trip with the purchase of lounge pass. The windows on the SW side of the lounge face the glory that is the NYC Flixbus corral. Just saying...
Love an old station! Too bad you couldn't get inside. Nice catch of the BNSF executive train! Y'all talking about the mini bus and the small road not being able to handle an Xcelsior, made me think of how my city's transit agency used to have a D30LF, and the operators referred to it as the "baby flyer".
Next time you're in town, hit me up! You went to Effina's, but missed out on Alabama's oldest continuously open bar (formerly brothel) called The Peerless with a delicious sandwich called the big Nasty...you were a block away!
Did you try the door to the station? Many of the Crescent route stations operate on time controlled magnetic locks which may not match the posted time after the recent schedule change.
@@MilesinTransit The time locks are good for serving each departure, but they will absolutely lock your bags in the station if the train is sufficiently late.
My first Amtrak journey was 3 months ago on the crescent, TCL-NYP and back. For Anniston being the least used in Alabama, it actually seems much better than TCL, we didn’t have any sort of shade from the sun😂 Also interesting seeing the Anniston station because when we went through on the way north, it was dark out, and I don’t remember seeing it on the way south for one reason or another
According to the Amtrak website the station waiting hours are everyday from 9:30 A.M.-11:00 A.M. and from 6:00 P.M.-7:30 P.M. The train going to New Orleans stops at 10:30 A.M. everyday and the train going to NYC stops at 6:59 P.M. everyday
@@aeugenegray You don't know what they do off camera. The Pacific Northwest is filled with great spots to dump a body. Frankly it's the best thing about the area.😏
Y’all walked from Oxford to Anniston? Gotta kill time somehow I guess. Next time you’re in Anniston, hit up the Berman Musuem and eat at The Peerless! Peerless isn’t far from Effina’s and it’s the oldest continually operated bar in the state of Alabama. Great food too.
You might could get in from he street side. Any time I have had to drop off students there, the front has a door that goes to a bathroom. It may have been closed when you were there too, but it has always been open when I go there.
I be honest I was on greyhound from West Palm Beach to Conyers via Atlanta(before the merger) let's just say met some good folks pretty much someone to talk to. So I pretty much I didn't sleep for almost 24 hours til I left Orlando. And yeah I was super surprised at the Atlanta station before leaving for Conyers.
I BEEN TO THAT STATION! WELCOME TO MY TRAIN TAROTORY! YOU NS FOAMER! >:( but thank you for the possitive review :) Also there is Illinois Central locomotives at the small little yard behind you LOL
This is just insane... Thank you very much for this video. I hope to see more. I think a “least used” series would help is all understand how ill-funded and under-used Amtrak is.
@@MilesinTransit oh I've watched them! They're great. I'm just expressing how the series could help people understand the poor state Amtrak is in. I know it would be a lot of work but it would be great if you could interview the local politicians to get an idea of how they see the stations. If there's any policy changes they could push to get more funding or attention to the stations, etc. I love your videos and keep up your amazing work! Hope to see you in Colorado at some point!
3.5 seems reasonable, you can't deni the histrionic significance. If we ignore that aspect, at least if it's windy and rainy, it seems better then most just a skinny shelter roof. Rugby still rains supreme for a always open, not destroyed station, shame this is locked up, but I'm sure it's for a good reason. I like how everything is together Greyhound, Amtrak and the local bus, be a good bus system or bad bus system. Might be time to upgrade to a truck mini bus, seems busy. P.s. I had my first experience on GATRA today I rode the 16, and I loved it. It felt like a family in a way, it was a fun ride. I wish all the GATRA sections connected and took Charlie, but it was fun. Better then BAT or MBTA. If I move out of the BAT service area, I'm going to GATRA.
it's enormously frustrating to people who ride their bikes on the "Silver Comet trail" which leaves from northern Atlanta and meets with the "Chief Ladiga Trail" at the alabama border and wends it way right to Anniston that it's generally impossible to use Amtrak to make the round trip. Having so few trains and not permitting bikes means that nobody can take advantage of what should be a really enjoyable cycle/train excursion
Alabama has only 3 Amtrak stations. During the 1990s and 2000s it had many more, including Montgomery and Mobile. It also had Decatur and Dothan, served by the Chicago-Miami Floridian til that train was dropped in 1979. The last passenger train to be picked up by Amtrak was the Rio Grande Zephyr in 1983, when Amtrak shifted its Chicago-San Francisco train over the Rio Grande route. Greyhound taking over Flixbus is 1000 times worse than Deutsche Bahn picking up Flixtrain or the short lived Locomore.
I was surprised to learn that Alabama only has three stations. I've taken the Crescent before, but didn't notice that. It is especially interesting to compare it to Mississippi, a smaller state with even less urban centers, that has a dozen stations. I think sometimes, there were states that, whatever their partisan political leanings, had individual senators or representatives that were big supporters of Amtrak. And I think that is why Mississippi actually has more Amtrak service than surrounding states.
@@MilesinTransit Ah, but why does Mississippi get the City of New Orleans? I mean, obviously on one hand, there was a route there for a long time, but one of the reasons it persisted was that there was a powerful senator, Trent Lott, from Mississippi, who was a big Amtrak supporter. And who was also, in general, not a great guy for other reasons. Of course, there is more to it then that, but sometimes states had a lot of Amtrak backing because they had an influential congressperson.
It's easy to shit on Greyhound when you realize how painful regional travel is once Greyhound decides to shut down in your country. RIP Greyhound Canada.
Whoops, Georgia was not meant to be highlighted on the intro map! What happened was I edited Toccoa (least used in Georgia) after editing this one and changed the map for it, which is just one file; but then I had to come back and reupload this one with the credits, and my editing software had changed the map to the "updated" one with Georgia highlighted instead of Alabama! Sorry for the error, everyone.
You are absolved sir
File replacement/update... A helpful feature and a curse!
Can I ask the Million Dollar Question ❓❓❓ How do you pay for these Fun Trips ❓ UA-cam profits or out-of-pocket ❓
Okay, I have the most awesome idea for the "Summer of 2024" - : pick a city (centrally located like Oklahoma City or some other city) and see how many transit fans will meet you there ❓ No cars allowed. 🥎⚽ Imagine 8, 25, or 45 transit🚃🚋🚎🚞🚊🚉 nerds meeting at a buffet🥡 all wearing plaid shirts and Amtrak hats 🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢🤸🏃🚶🧍🧎👶👶👶👶🍼🍼🍼🍼
I forgive you
Come for the train station, stay for Nathan's impassioned defense of bugs.
And I love Nathan for that! Like I get not liking bugs, but not all bugs are bad! Beetles for example are both decomposers and help reduce pest populations. And while roaches are often thought of being all pests, only 30 species of the 4,500 roach species out there are pests!
I like some bugs!
Does Nathan have his own channel?
One thing I love about these videos is when you ride the bus systems in smaller cities/towns and they are perfectly fine and have people on them. I feel like many Americans, unless you live in a handful of cities (Bos/NYC/DC/SF/Chi?) will loudly and proudly proclaim "We're a car city, nobody rides the bus here".
But then when you actually go to their location and ride the bus and it's just a regular bus with no issues whatsoever! Ride the bus, people! :D
Truly! These small systems are lifelines!
Legend has it those people on the bus are still talking about you to this day.
And soon they will be repeating the holy script: Tracks are for trains, not for playing games.
I live right next to Anniston Al. I have no idea why this is recommended to me but its cool to finally watch a video where i am completely familiar with the area and have a family member working at Effina's
Yooo just wanted to say I appreciate y’all train videos and African American history y’all provide alone with each town 🖤💯👍🏿
Thanks so much!
Amen! 👊❤️👊
It WAS originally built with a spiral staircase, but that is no longer the case. So the chair is still the world's largest office chair, but not the world's largest chair in general. The story goes that Leonard "Sonny" Miller, the owner of Miller's Office Supply, sought to build the chair to attract attention to his furniture business. In 1982, Guinness World Records recognized it as the World's Largest Chair, but didn't recognize it as the World's Largest Office Chair. The title of World's Largest Chair was passed on in 1995 to a seven-story one in Italy, until its current record holder since 2009 in Austria, which is over 98 feet tall. The chair in Alabama is just over 33 feet tall and was made with 10 tons of steel and 15 tons of cement.
Amtrak heritage unit AND the BNSF Office Car Special? Now this review was a treat! Not only do I like the "This train is bound for" part of the MARTA announcements, but also the fact that they're bilingual. I think it says a lot that MARTA has bilingual announcements on the train, but the Latino-majority Miami doesn't on their Metrorail. I appreciate MARTA for going the extra mile! Though of course, it's not Singapore's MRT and their different languages!
Austria?? Man, that's a pilgrimage!
Can I guess what the Austrian chair is? XXL Lutz? They put it up as an USP. Their motto is « The one with the red chair » (Die mit dem roten Stuhl).
Kudos to the Atlanta Greyhound station for going above and beyond and offering passengers a spa treatment as they wait 😂. And what great logic, having the restaurant open at 4 in the morning, but not when the station is the busiest in the middle of the day...makes perfect sense to me. But hey, great to see Nathan again! Gotta say, this was a casual yet sophisticated review! Besides Anniston's civil rights history, Anniston was an industrial place rich in mineral resources, but said resources weren't exploited until the Civil War. The Confederacy operated an iron furnace near downtown until it was destroyed by raiding Union cavalry in early 1865. Later, cast iron for sewer systems became the focus of Anniston's industrial output.
During WWI, the US Army established a training camp at Fort McClellan adjacent to Anniston. On the other side of town, the Anniston Army Depot opened during World War II as a major weapons storage and maintenance site, and to this day, the facility is still used for the repair and production of ground combat vehicles, repair, restore, and upgrade infantry weapons, and was once used until 2011 for the storage of chemical weapons.
I am from Anniston and I can tell you, it almost looks the same as it did when I was a child nearly 40 years ago. I know it doesn't look like much but it was a wonderful place to grow up.
those small alabama towns are the epitome of “america wasn’t built for the car, it was destroyed for the car”
Truly
I was born impoverished here in Alabama. You literally must have a car or else you are doomed.
It's always great to get a Nathan/Miles station review but this one is an instant classic. "The access is not accessible? Is that what you're saying, Miles?"
Haha, thank you so much!
Fun fact: some bus and train companies refused to enforce segregation because it messed with their profits.
Rare capitalism W
@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45Capitalism has a lot of Ws, but authoritarians don't like them
That makes perfect sense, like if you allow every race in your station you’re gonna get more people which means more money
@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes457+ billion people make their way out of serfdom and it only gets Rare W’s?
@@OkieDokieSmokie7+ billion? Serfdom was an institution specific to Europe, there weren’t 7 billion people alive by the time it was fully abolished, and many people currently live under similar or worse living conditions.
👍 Awesome least-used Amtrak station report, including local transit and Greyhound. I rode through here on the Crescent but learned a lot more about the Anniston area from your video. Looking forward to least-used stations in FL and MO.
Thanks!
I have taken the Crescent many times, including when it was still on Southern Railways! I went to college in NYC, and my parents took me to Clemson, SC to get the train there--unless we felt like a little excursion, then they would take me to Toccoa instead to catch it. So--I am REALLY looking forward to your Toccoa video! I am actually impressed that the Anniston area had those little mini-buses and they had passengers (not just you two). The only thing I remember in Toccoa is a beautiful waterfall.
We weren't able to go to the waterfall in Toccoa, unfortunately! They close it at 4 PM!
Nathan's impassioned defense of bugs was well worth the price of admission!
Always good to have Nathan appear
In a lot of rural towns, the "sketchy" part of town has little or no benches, to avoid people "congregating" and loitering.
thats sad
That's really sad...
I believe that "office car special" was coming from the masters golf open.
Great railfanning footage! A BNSF OCS and a heritage unit leading in the same video!
watching this on an amtrak train is such a vibe
best fckn channel in the united states.. i am a public transportation lover from eastern europe and now i am living around anniston for around a year and this channel gave me the enough info for my trip in 3 weeks. you re the goat.
Thank you so much! I'm glad this could help plan out your stay!
as a kid my granddad and I would drive up from dothan just to ride to hattiesburg one day and back for fun. I'm glad they're keeping the station cleaned up these days
also the foamers did appreciate the OCS thnx
Nathan is my favorite! Such a knowledgeable and calm guy.
"Guns sold here; No profanity"
Good thing they're protecting the public from those dangerous words!
ah the south
It’s a perfect summary of the south
Sweet home Alabama eh
The algo is showing some love. Happy for you brother.
Thank you so much!
Very good coverage of the history of freedom riders 👍
Yes!!! I've been waiting for another least used Amtrak station video. Such a good series since I get to see parts of the U.S. I would never have any reason to go to. On another topic it's crazy to me how many somewhat small american towns have public transport, even if the systems are tiny and limited. I would've never thought Anniston would have any public transport, especially since it's not even a college town. A lot like Gastonia in that sense. I can't wait to see the next least used amtrak station video and see the local transit that comes with it.
Nathan is definitely my favorite M-I-T cocreator
THANK YOU MILES! THANK YOU FOR MORE LEAST USED CONTENT! PLEASE CONTINUE TO MAKE THIS!
I plan on getting every state eventually!!
@@MilesinTransit Please do!
Loved the foamers shot, the big chair, and the history bit, a shame station was closed, but the restaurant looked very decent.
The Los Angeles has the largest chair just 7 feet taller in the L.A. Mart's parking lot. The longest light rail route as of March 16, 2023 passes by the chair. It 48.3 miles long and still expanding.
Can confirm, am foamer and did appreciate the uncut footage. Thanks!
Omg I've never been this early lol‼️💪🏾💯 Superfan here and such a transit junkie. Missed u when u came through my town. Godspeed my friend‼️
Your videos are usually lighthearted and full of jokes. In this episode, however, you discussed a serious topic. I appreciate the fact that you didn’t gloss over the dark past of the town.
If I remember correctly the Aniston station was built for the nearby Army base, which the architecture kind of evokes. I was looking at taking the train there for work but ended up not going on the trip.
You know it's a good day when miles uploads.😊
Love the Least Used Amtrak Station vids Miles Can’t wait to see more hopefully you do one in New York or Florida some time soon
can't wait until you get to the least used station in Florida - it's the closest stop to my parents' house and so wretched that we opted to just drive the extra hour and get on at Sebring instead
Lol I was thinking Sebring might be the station, but makes sense as Okeechobee is even more remote and a smaller country town
I was born and raised in Anniston. 3/10 is a fairly accurate rating for the entire town. Funny enough, that giant chair you walked past was constructed by Miller's furniture in 1981 to draw in customers. Mrs. Miller, the widow of the owner, used to be my next door neighbor.
Wow I just really want to say thank you for showing that executive train that was really cool and I'm not a total Foamer.
The BNSF officer train is just executives and their family on board. Kinda surprised to see the back window all closed up which is rare on the final car
2:25
hey I teach music theory for a living but watch your videos to not think about that
how dare you make me think about WORK when I want to RELAX
Sorryyyy
The end credjt score was a bop and I could dance to it. 9/10. Would recommend end credit score.
Props to Jackson for writing it!
I was stationed at Ft McClellan long time ago. Since the fort closed, Anniston has really gone downhill
The last private intercity passenger train prior to the launch of Brightline was the Rio Grande Zephyr, which outlasted the Southern Crescent by four years.
Always amazes me that train ran until 1983, the streamlined coaches and E units make it look like something out of the 50s but it operated even once Amtrak mostly got rid of their old locos
Ah, noted - thanks for the clarification!
We want medium frequent fast trains not single long slow trains.
I was stationed in Ft McClellan there in Anniston. They closed it, the army hospital may be still open. Took the bus to Atlanta a few times to get away from this place
Comment of appreciation for showing the entire BNSF executive train.
I grew up in Anniston. Enjoyed seeing this video.
Thank you!
The credits music made me realize how much I need a Miles in Transit third wave ska intro theme.
13:33 Foamer shot, foamer shot, right now you're looking at the foamer shot
shout out to the kids doing the griddy in the background at 15:11
Ayy, didn't expect to see the BNSF OCS running on NS!
FYI, if you book a Flixbus in NYC you could utilize the Moynihan lounge for your trip with the purchase of lounge pass. The windows on the SW side of the lounge face the glory that is the NYC Flixbus corral. Just saying...
Is it possible to buy a Moynihan lounge pass without a same day Amtrak ticket?
Love an old station! Too bad you couldn't get inside. Nice catch of the BNSF executive train! Y'all talking about the mini bus and the small road not being able to handle an Xcelsior, made me think of how my city's transit agency used to have a D30LF, and the operators referred to it as the "baby flyer".
the best part of this video, calling Eastern Standard Time "real life"
your videos & 'guests' are so full of joy, on top of being interesting&entertaining
🚂keep transiting!!
Thank you!
thanks for that post credits scene miles just got approved for the amtrak credit card
Next time you're in town, hit me up! You went to Effina's, but missed out on Alabama's oldest continuously open bar (formerly brothel) called The Peerless with a delicious sandwich called the big Nasty...you were a block away!
Damn, I had no idea! Thanks for the tipoff!
Great video🔥💙
Thanks!
Did you try the door to the station? Many of the Crescent route stations operate on time controlled magnetic locks which may not match the posted time after the recent schedule change.
Yeah, it was locked :(
@@MilesinTransit The time locks are good for serving each departure, but they will absolutely lock your bags in the station if the train is sufficiently late.
My first Amtrak journey was 3 months ago on the crescent, TCL-NYP and back. For Anniston being the least used in Alabama, it actually seems much better than TCL, we didn’t have any sort of shade from the sun😂
Also interesting seeing the Anniston station because when we went through on the way north, it was dark out, and I don’t remember seeing it on the way south for one reason or another
According to the Amtrak website the station waiting hours are everyday from 9:30 A.M.-11:00 A.M. and from 6:00 P.M.-7:30 P.M. The train going to New Orleans stops at 10:30 A.M. everyday and the train going to NYC stops at 6:59 P.M. everyday
The wheelchair lift is triple locked like that so that it can be unlocked with any one of the three keys.
The Anniston New Flyer plant is currently building the T’s 3200 series Xcelsiors
I really love the station architecture, it's a shame you couldn't explore the inside.
P.s are we getting any Miles+Aleena adventures soon?
They have killer chemistry. Going to be fun to see the adventures. Edit: Not like murderers, but excellent chemistry.
@@aeugenegray You don't know what they do off camera. The Pacific Northwest is filled with great spots to dump a body. Frankly it's the best thing about the area.😏
I think that sometimes they just want to go on dates and do things besides railfanning.
@@Leonard_Wilson it's a good team building exercise. If you can handle that, you can handle almost anything
I'm visiting her in Pittsburgh in a couple weeks and we'll probably film a video or two there!
Y’all walked from Oxford to Anniston? Gotta kill time somehow I guess. Next time you’re in Anniston, hit up the Berman Musuem and eat at The Peerless! Peerless isn’t far from Effina’s and it’s the oldest continually operated bar in the state of Alabama. Great food too.
You might could get in from he street side. Any time I have had to drop off students there, the front has a door that goes to a bathroom. It may have been closed when you were there too, but it has always been open when I go there.
Ah, I'm not sure if we tried that!
Lafayette, IN has the Amtrak Served Community signs. On a road sign in town, kind of in a random spot!
Bro I love the vibe so much
"Miles gets Pasta, Nathen gets Pizza-let's see which Italianos they diggin' the post on Miles in Transit [Least Used Amtrak Stations]"
Anniston Alabama is also where NABI buses were built it. That factory is where they currently make NewFlyer transit buses.
Secondary Dominants...Perfect past time for riding on Greyhound. 😂
Yo I was on a train that passed through Anniston when this released!
I be honest I was on greyhound from West Palm Beach to Conyers via Atlanta(before the merger) let's just say met some good folks pretty much someone to talk to. So I pretty much I didn't sleep for almost 24 hours til I left Orlando. And yeah I was super surprised at the Atlanta station before leaving for Conyers.
I BEEN TO THAT STATION!
WELCOME TO MY TRAIN TAROTORY!
YOU NS FOAMER!
>:(
but thank you for the possitive review :)
Also there is Illinois Central locomotives at the small little yard behind you LOL
This is just insane... Thank you very much for this video. I hope to see more. I think a “least used” series would help is all understand how ill-funded and under-used Amtrak is.
Search the channel, I've done 12 other least used stations so far!
@@MilesinTransit oh I've watched them! They're great. I'm just expressing how the series could help people understand the poor state Amtrak is in.
I know it would be a lot of work but it would be great if you could interview the local politicians to get an idea of how they see the stations. If there's any policy changes they could push to get more funding or attention to the stations, etc.
I love your videos and keep up your amazing work! Hope to see you in Colorado at some point!
I haven't seen a train interior that dated since this Tuesday, when I rode the Norristown High Speed Line 🤯
glad to see NATHAN back in another video! also, is that an mbta logo tshirt? i can't really tell haha
It's the MBTA map, yeah!
@@MilesinTransit nice!
Please play cocnut mall in the background of Norfolk Southern derailments and fires. I'd watch that any day ❤
shoutout to the kid hitting the griddy at 15:09
Boy you brave as hell for getting off the train at Garnett
Lol it’s fine in broad daylight. Only sketch at night.
3.5 seems reasonable, you can't deni the histrionic significance. If we ignore that aspect, at least if it's windy and rainy, it seems better then most just a skinny shelter roof. Rugby still rains supreme for a always open, not destroyed station, shame this is locked up, but I'm sure it's for a good reason. I like how everything is together Greyhound, Amtrak and the local bus, be a good bus system or bad bus system. Might be time to upgrade to a truck mini bus, seems busy.
P.s. I had my first experience on GATRA today I rode the 16, and I loved it. It felt like a family in a way, it was a fun ride. I wish all the GATRA sections connected and took Charlie, but it was fun. Better then BAT or MBTA. If I move out of the BAT service area, I'm going to GATRA.
But I don't give .5's!
@@MilesinTransit start lol
it's enormously frustrating to people who ride their bikes on the "Silver Comet trail" which leaves from northern Atlanta and meets with the "Chief Ladiga Trail" at the alabama border and wends it way right to Anniston that it's generally impossible to use Amtrak to make the round trip. Having so few trains and not permitting bikes means that nobody can take advantage of what should be a really enjoyable cycle/train excursion
Alabama has only 3 Amtrak stations. During the 1990s and 2000s it had many more, including Montgomery and Mobile. It also had Decatur and Dothan, served by the Chicago-Miami Floridian til that train was dropped in 1979.
The last passenger train to be picked up by Amtrak was the Rio Grande Zephyr in 1983, when Amtrak shifted its Chicago-San Francisco train over the Rio Grande route.
Greyhound taking over Flixbus is 1000 times worse than Deutsche Bahn picking up Flixtrain or the short lived Locomore.
Just FYI -- Flixbus took over Greyhound.
i apreciate the foamer shot
I was surprised to learn that Alabama only has three stations. I've taken the Crescent before, but didn't notice that. It is especially interesting to compare it to Mississippi, a smaller state with even less urban centers, that has a dozen stations. I think sometimes, there were states that, whatever their partisan political leanings, had individual senators or representatives that were big supporters of Amtrak. And I think that is why Mississippi actually has more Amtrak service than surrounding states.
It's also a routing thing - Mississippi gets the City of New Orleans along with the Crescent, while Alabama just has the Crescent!
@@MilesinTransit Ah, but why does Mississippi get the City of New Orleans? I mean, obviously on one hand, there was a route there for a long time, but one of the reasons it persisted was that there was a powerful senator, Trent Lott, from Mississippi, who was a big Amtrak supporter.
And who was also, in general, not a great guy for other reasons.
Of course, there is more to it then that, but sometimes states had a lot of Amtrak backing because they had an influential congressperson.
Alabama is a prime example of let behind, and quite frankly it should be.
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It's funny how anniston's transit system doesn't use new flyers, especially given that new flyer (formerly NABI) has a big facility down there.
I missed having him in a video…
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Looking forward to TCA^2!
Same!
You guys are so lucky. You have no idea.
It's easy to shit on Greyhound when you realize how painful regional travel is once Greyhound decides to shut down in your country. RIP Greyhound Canada.
ohhh… I took a trip from the Sauga south station to Niagara Falls back in 2018 little known that that it will the last one.
If you make out to Missouri, Independence is currently the least used station. Home of Harry S. Truman, it's ten miles east of Kansas City.
Looks like Arcadia is the least used!
You're the first people I've ever seen use that station.
The Oxford Alabama feature interesting.
What's with all these Amtrak stations and having their station building closed in the middle of the day?
Come down to the Greenville SC STATION. CRAPPY ARRIVALS FOR THE CRESCENT BUT YOU LL BE VERY CLOSE TO OUR FABULOUS DOWNTOWN. I LL BE YOUR TOUR GUIDE
16:20 "Wanna go for a drive?"
Tsubasa Kira, 2015
Ah, you caught the BNSF masters train. Missed it up here in Georgia.
13:45, foamer approved ‼️