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This looks like it could be an intercity rail. I know you are busy but I hope you get a chance to do some LD Amtrak soon.

What are the other remote train lines in every state?

Port Jervis used to have lines on both sides of the Delaware River running on the NY side and the PA side. In the 70s and 80s I watched trains every day on both sides. In addition to the 2 lines, there was a massive yard in Port Jervis and across the bridge in Milford PA and in NJ, there was a yard in the town that was right across the bridge in NJ. The Port Jervis area is actually 3 towns in 3 states Milford PA, Port Jervis NY and the town in NJ I can't remember. Tracks ran out of this area in every direction. Lines ran up through the Suffern area and up through the lower Catskills, and up to Newburgh and Kingston and west through NY to Schoharie Valley. And there was passenger service every day. It is hard to imagine what America used to be like in the 1950s Butt for instance let's say you lived in round Lake New York which is west of Mechanicville and south of Saratoga springs you could catch the DNH passenger train service that ran multiple times a day and take that train to Mechanicville and from there you could go east to Massachusetts or you could continue South into Albany New York and from there you could take the D&H throughout New York State and down through Binghamton and into Pennsylvania all the way down to Bethlehem or Allentown In Allentown at Emmaus junction you could take the reading on the perkiomen branch and that Branch ran all the way down into Philadelphia but it also serviced all of the little towns between Allentown and Philadelphia So if you wanted to take a trip and visit someone and let's say you lived in the little town of round Lake New York you could take your suitcase and walk a couple hundred feet to the train station and take the D&H to the MOH yard end through Binghamton to Allentown and take the reading on the perkiomen branch and if you were going to East Greenville to visit someone you could get off a few blocks from their house The entire country was like this that you could go almost from any town to any other town by passenger rail In the Albany New York rail station you had the Delaware & Hudson, the New York Central, the Penn Central, and once in awhile you would have another railroad that would run through there like the Troy Schenectady or the hoosic valley And in Allentown at the rail station you had Penn Central New York Central the Delaware and Hudson the reading railroad the Lehigh Valley railroad and several other Short line Railroads, all providing passenger rail service every day In the town that I live right now the train tracks end in the town but back in the 70s the tracks were still double track and in town they were four tracks and the passenger rail service ran every day multiple times and the trains would constantly be going back and forth with one track dedicated for northbound and the other track dedicated for southbound There were not highways like there are now In the 70s and even now if you travel the back roads like if you travel route 7 from Schenectady to Binghamton that used to be the only way to get from the Capital District area of New York to Binghamton and that road was 30 mph and it took 8 hours to drive that road that now i-88 replaces and you can get to Binghamton in less than 3 hours but every 30 me there would be a motel and the reason why was because it took an hour to drive that 30 miles and people would be traveling and you would get tired and you would find a motel that had a vacancy and you stopped and most of the time these motels had a restaurant and a bar that was built into them so it was a One-Stop place that you could rest sleep eat and relax at the bar and not have to go looking for anything else and some of these places even had a little store we're not just a soda machine and a bag of chips but they had actual little stores in the office where you could buy dry goods and ready-made food So when you left in the morning after you had breakfast at the restaurant you would have a piece of fruit and maybe some cookies and maybe even a sandwich that you bought at the restaurant that you could be traveling and not have to stop and eat as you were driving and there wasn't GPS I remember so many years of having maps not just the big maps of the state with the main roads but having the giant books of the counties with every single Street where each page you would fold out and it would have every street and there would be an index with the street names and then a letter and a number to allow you to find that street and what page was on It was a big deal to travel and AAA and travel agencies there used to be companies actual businesses that were travel agencies that when you needed to travel somewhere you would go in and they would book a motel room for you and they would get train tickets for you and plane tickets and they would make all the reservations and they would have the maps and they would highlight the routes and they would have turned by turn directions One of my best friends her life went to hell because of the internet and her whole life was being a travel agent and she would plan people's trips and when the internet came around in the mid-90s there was no need for her business any longer Other people that I knew that worked for the phone company I remember the strike of 1995 there used to be operators hundreds of people in each town in the central offices that you would call information to find somebody's name and their phone number and their address and hundreds of thousands of operators when the internet came out the phone company knew that people weren't going to pay to call information anymore and the phone company wanted to get rid of all of the people and they were Union employees and they had their contract up for renewal and the phone company said we're taking away all your benefits and we're cutting your pay to minimum wage and the phone company employees went on strike and they were on strike for a year and the phone company never wanted any of them back Technology is great but it destroys so many industries All of those little motels where people invested their lives and people relied on them for decades and once the highways were built those businesses went out of business Interstate 88 is a very interesting highway in that no one really ever uses it The reason that it exists is that the senator that was from Binghamton was so angry that it would take him 8 hours or moreat the Capitol to his home in Binghamton And he pushed so hard and he did so many things to force the state to build interstate 88 and it was a massive undertaking to build that highway I remember when they were building the Schoharie Valley portion they brought in thousands of trucks every week with giant boulders and just kept dumping them in to fill in the giant spaces to bring the level up to where they could actually put a road Route 7 followed the creek right next to it all the way down to Binghamton basically on the flood plain because there isn't anywhere to put a road But I remember before i-88 was planned and then when it was planned and surveyed and I remember it being built the whole thing from start to finish

Will you make any septa videos?

slow down just a little when you monologue, otherwise great shots and vid

It would be really helpful if you could show a map of where you're going in your video's.

thank you for these videos and keep at it!

As soon as I saw the title, I knew where you were going! Though it's been a few year's since I've done it, that line out of Middletown was my primary way to get in and out of the city. Brought back some memories, thanks!

Nice video. If you get the opportunity, I'd like to hear more about the NJT/MTA deal.

Wowz you jumped across the big pond and back again! Very nice information. You mentioned Dunkirk. I was there 3 years watching trains! Really loved the long tressle you got to see! Keep on riding!

So many memories of that trestle bridge off Schunemunk mountain. Please forgive this one, i was kid, I finished my pee before the first drop hit the ground. Another time our mutt was standing in the middle of the tracks as a freight was flying in. My mom and I were both begging her from either side of the tracks. She ambled to one side or the other with seconds to spare. Spoiler, lived at least a dozen more years.

I will definitely need to do this run one day.. a great ride with beautiful scenery Great video as usual

That viaduct is a monument of engineering

I like that young kids are interested in trains. You might want to work on more steady camera work

I've done that ride a million times , I live near Middletown

On Friday I was supposed to go on Amtrak use last to go to Portland Maine but they canceled the morning train? I don’t know if there is a different train at that time

The stuttering I just can’t

...I am wondering if you are going to visit Mornington Crescent in one of these videos?

I had no idea that the London Underground had sections where it went overground, through fields. I mean, just that basic idea is new to me.

Good to see that you get around one day I will visit the London underground

Roding Valley is the least used Tube station. But I used it as the start of a walking tour I gave my team at work of Woodford!

Thoroughly enjoyed it.

London doesn’t have subway lines.

why can't he talk right? (not being rude just asking)

Your accent is weird.

Certain stations on the Tube originally belonged to the "Mainline" railways, particularly the extremities of the Central (both East and west), and parts of the Northern Line. And one could argue, the Metropolitan (which was designed as a mainline railway that just happened to go underground) I think there are a few New York City subway stations originally like that, ditto some stations on the outer branches of Boston's green "T" line. With the ex-Great Eastern stops on the Central line, some of them (including Epping) did still share with "mainline" trains (by 1948, British Rail) at the start and stop of service, that is, a handful of commuter trains that shared tracks and platforms with the Underground (but branched off) , a couple of trains from Epping and Loughton ran to Stratford (Liverpool Street on Sundays) until 1970. And freight did last into the 60s. While the Central line extension was stalled because of World War 2, the "tunnel" part of the loop had its tubes done by this point, so part of it was used as an underground factory for aircraft parts! There was an even weirder part of the Central line. In a way, like part of Boston's red line, this part of London's red line was only part of the Central Line because they said so. Between Epping and Ongar, in 1949, there was a steam train shuttle that had the trains and staff provided by British Rail, but it was officially "part" of the Underground. In 1957 that part was electrified, but they did it on the cheap. Because of their "light" power plant, they ran half-length trains, just one or two, and seldom would trains from the rest of the line go there (exception: one Saturday a year, a half-length train ran the rest of the line to connect to North Weald, because there was a Royal Air Force airshow around there. Until 1981, North Weald had the last semaphore signal on the London Underground (was a passing loop, in 1981 it was removed and the line became a strict single track shuttle) And while no Tube service has passed Epping since 1994, Ongar is considered "point Zero" on the entire network, distance (in kilometres) is either distance from Ongar on the Central line, or "transferred" distance (using a common station or something similar as the "transfer point") on other lines. Generally when the British mention "depot", it means "yard" in North American usage. The term is used regardless whether it's outside (like many of them are), or has "sheds" or "garages" of some sort (such as the sheds on the Bakerloo line, the "North Sheds" north of Queen's Park are passed through by all trains, because of the layout of third and fourth rail due to the switches, the motors, lighting, and ventilation will go on and off), or even entirely underground (White City on the Central Line and Waterloo depot on the Waterloo and City Line are the only such depots)

1:06 what is that weird tube stock? its lamps look like the '83 stock but it's very different

It should be noted that there are a couple of trains per day that use the loop and then continue into Central London. Great vid tho!

young sir, The weirdest Tube line has to be the Waterloo and City Line only two stations and the Depot is underground and that is t the Waterloo end

Really great information and that looks so neat there! I noticed you were the only one in around when you were walking those stations. Were you the only one on the train? Looking forward to seeing more!

The Central Line is my favourite underground line

its not the weirdest subway line because its not a fucking subway. sbway either means a place that sells sandwiches, or a foot tunnel, the undergeound in which, is neither

Before 2007 the shuttle used to end early in the day at 8pm but after '07 they increased service until midnight and during peak hours only (Mondon-Friday) special through services run directly to Central London

Are there trolley pCC cars in London or is that jut MBTA

I love this video! Are you staying in London for a while?

Building over road or rail just hits different

Nothing new here, this has been covered many times before.

Less jaunty cMera would be welcome. All the pNning makes me dizzy.

tomdnyc just did an excellent episode all about Brighton Beach. I'm too computer dumb to link it here but if you love this channel like I do, you would also dig Tom's NYC history vids.

Fantastic video! The Brighton Line is a very cool line indeed! Believe it or not, I was at Coney Island with my mom and my brother a few weeks ago, only we took the D Train both ways between there and Atlantic Avenue, which uses the West End Line. We also live on Long Island, so we had to take the LIRR to Atlantic Terminal.

My fav train line

I love this line too.

Never thought i'd see the European symbol for Pharmacy in the US, but Brighton Beach proves me wrong

Great video and information. The old BRT is a fairly interesting line.

Excellent Video! Thank you! Cheers from Nürnberg, Germany.

I love nyc subway trains!! What do you like better, MBTA, or, MTA?

I have used this line since my far distant youth when the trains were London Transport (pre-1938) Standard tube stock, and later 1938 tube stock. I later used it after the British Rail takeover to get from New Southgate to Moorgate on the dual voltage class 313 trains. I would like to point out that it IS a tube line, having been built with cast iron segments lining the tunnels, albeit to a larger diameter than the rest of the London tube network. The use of the word "Tube" to describe the entire London underground system is incorrect and should only be applied to the deep level Northern, Piccadilly, Central, Waterloo & City, Bakerloo, Jubilee and Victoria lines. The Metropolitan, Circle, District and the Hammersmith & City lines are sub-surface lines. London Transport have published books that clearly distinguished the trains as Tube or Surface.

It’s not secret.

Amazing video

Top tip The Elizabeth Line station at Liverpool Street is so big it connects to Moorgate so you can interchange from to and from this service to and from the Lizzy Line too without dealing with the busy mess that is Liverpool Street above.