Acela Express train ride from Washington DC to New York (FULL)
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2014
- With stops: Washington Union Station, Baltimore Penn Station, Wilmington, Philadelphia 30th Street, Newark Penn Station and New York Penn Station.
0:04 Departing Washington, DC
19:00 Arriving BWI Airport
34:12 Arriving Baltimore Penn Station
1:17:39 Arriving Wilmington
1:35:15 Arriving Philadelphia
2:24:20 Arriving Newark
2:34:50 Arriving New York
(thanks to Max Buskirk) - Auta a dopravní prostředky
If anyone cares, the curve that Amtrak train No. 188 derailed on starts at 1:45:08. It is noticeable that the train slows from 30 sec before to the curve and that there is additional noise as it goes around the curve. However, as his speedometer shows, the Acela is traveling at 95kph (60mph) which is slightly higher than the 50mph speed limit listed in the news. That is understandable given the Acela's tilting mechanism.
ElectronNeutrino Damn. I know the conductor of that City Sprinter was drug tested.
@@unitedstates4590 94mph wouldn't be a reasonable speed for that turn at all
I know
United States u r dumd
in my opinion, that curve should've been built for 110 mph speeds at least instead of 40/50 mph idk why was it even built like that
5 min outa DC , And hes up to full speed....rockin...
Can’t wait to get away from the place
0:04 Departing Washington, DC
19:00 Arriving BWI Airport
34:12 Arriving Baltimore Penn Station
1:17:39 Arriving Wilmington
1:35:15 Arriving Philadelphia
2:24:20 Arriving Newark
2:34:50 Arriving New York
Lysol because in China and Japan, they run trains at terminal velocity
Unfortunately, the train can't do that because of intermittent stops. Maybe if New York was the only stop, the train could run at that speed.
cyndie26 Chinese HST Beijing - Shanghai 1318 km 4h28min max speed 217 mph(on 95% of the track), avg. speed 190 mph 2 stops.
Amtrak New York - Boston 369 km 3h38min max speed 150 mph(on 50 km of the track), avg. speed 63 mph 2 stops. Can you see the difference ?
Thanks.
The trains in the US also share tracks with freight railroads, and unfottunately are not exclusively designed for high speed rail. The US needs to do a major overhaul of its rail networks in order to have trains like Europe and China. The US' priorities are a bit backwards...
The ongoing saga of Mr Michaelson's ticket :).
thank you for posting this, I've only travelled on the Regional Amtrak on that line.
Man the Amtrak Acela express train is accelerating the speed pretty fast.
Thanks so much for this video. Felt like I was right there riding too. Looking forward to more videos like this
What an excellent video; thanks for sharing! Especially love the approach to 30th st station, with the University City towers
I know it deserves an Oscar
The horn from the inside is just music to my ears 🤩🤩🔊🎶
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for posting this!!
AMAZING! My dream is to ride the Acela Express someday.
You will....
That’s your dream? Lmfao
TheBoeingRailroader i went this exact way to NY, 4 days ago
Don't be surprised when it becomes your reality. 😊
Better hurry.... It's going away in a year or two
2:52 beautiful
This video is awesome! Upload more Acela Express full train ride videos!
I lived in the northeast corridor in the 60's. The best train then was the Congressional on this run. Real luxury-six coaches and ten parlor cars, with one all drawing room, and a parlor observation on the rear. Best timekeeping however was 3 hours, 45 minutes. That trains are now making the same 226 mile run in 2 1/2 hours is impressive. The ride on any train, Acela or northeast regional south of New York City is really rough. The ride on the old New Haven is wonderful for smoothness, and the 160 mph for the last 30 minute before Providence is like glass. Great ride.
Instead of jumping ahead, you can click on the wheel (settings) at the bottom right of your screen and change the speed to double. You'll see it in half the time and can slow it down again when you find a spot you want to see in real time.
The run time between Philadelphia and Newark is very close chronologically to the time it takes to convene one semester_hour of a college course. Great video. Thx 4 letting us tag along. 😊
What a great way to travel and not have to deal with Reagan National and LaGuardia. You would think the world's greatest nation (for now) could at least build ONE high speed/maglev line between its national capital and largest city.
+johnlouisville not possible
+johnlouisville If you did that - then everybody would want one - then where are the senators and congressmen going to steal money from???? I would bet the farm that there is OVER $1 TRILLION stuffed into illegal bank accounts world wide - and that is just from the senators and congressmen stealing money!!!!
johnlouisville Elon Musk might take care of that.
FFM4ME yet, india is full of s***. Pakistan is better haha!
Archit Garg At least we have clean water.
Love this trip but the dude during the first few minutes out of Union Station harrumphing and hawking would be getting death stares this last year. :)
We really need this kind of service in the Midwest: Chicago-Detroit, Chicago-St Louis, Chicago-Minneapolis.
Stl to Chi would be awesome. Spokes to KC from stl that can blast across KS to Denver
I'm sure the dems won't mind jacking up your tax rate for that!
@@earlwright9715 or maybe they could make it worth while for people in the Midwest and put catenary wiring and bring the tracks up to code so the Midwest COULD have High speed rail. But go off making this about dems and repubs
@@Cubbie410 okay, I think I will! Their all crooks
@@earlwright9715 meanwhile it was the republicans in office that blocked getting rail infrastructure taken care of but keep being small minded blaming it all on democrats
Nice work !! Hello from Baltimore
Wow, that is exciting! I've flown airplanes that couldn't go that fast. I think I'll have to put this on my "bucket list."
I've rode it twice and will be a thrid time in a few weeks. Its quite comfortable compared to a plane.
The one time I boarded an Acela train, taking the same trip shown in the video, the train broke down in the Maryland suburbs right after exiting the Washington DC boundaries, this left me with a bad taste in my mouth when dealing with Amtrak only exacerbated by the fact we we're all herded on to a normal Amtrak train that was already full after this incident. I'm beginning to think I'm cursed because the next time I took Amtrak from New York bound for Plattsburgh someone committed suicide by jumping in front of our train in colonie right outside of Albany. Acela seemed like it was as good as it got for traveling the Northeast corridor w Amtrak if everything went as planned though!
Thank you John for posting this and I'm glad I didn't take the Acela and after watching this lame boring video now i know why! Somebody from Amtrak needs to take a trip to both Europe and Japan and study their high speed rail! I was on vacation to NYC and then off to DC by rental car. Newark airport to DC took just 3 and a half hours! After that I flew home! Our rail system is so outdated!
A great video of the Amtrak.
Com'in into New York is always the grandest. Look at all the switches and the platforms as you arrive into the Mecca of the country. It's the biggest station along the route. I may be a bit biased cause I'm a native New Yorker. Great video & trip! Cloudy all the way.
I enjoy watching the videos
As AMTRAK says, "It's the civilized way to travel"
Ityur
Travel from a more civilized age. Before the dark times. Before the interstate.
Great video
Great camera angle of the window pane and seats make really feel your on an Amtrak train
Hellavua Nice Graffiti Somebody Sprayed On The Parking Deck Especially The Penguins 🐧 Cute Whoever Did It
Nice video !! Your Acela look like our french TGV !!!!😉😉
The Acela is basically a TGV modified for American tracks and standards, if that helps. In fact, both of them were built by Alstom
11:02 I was there, but not at the time. That is Bowie Maryland. If you sat on the other side of the train, you would see the train museum
Thanks, Sergei!
12:05 I like Fridays too!
This looks extremely fun
Back in the late 1970s, I rode the Metroliner from DC to NY, but it wasn't as fast as this train.
This train looks like it goes at least 125 mph in many places.
I think the PHL-NY leg is the best part for me. All of the interlockings, ZOO interlocking after 30th St is just a maze and gigantic...then the speed the whole ride up and scenery.
Ah shame the video cut off at around 10:20... maybe just by a few seconds hopefully? ... because I was hoping it actually only took 19 minutes to get to BWI from DC...
AWESOME WAY TO TRAVEL I LOVE RIDING AMTRAK ME AND MY MOM TOOK A TRIP FROM NEW ORLEANS TO SEATTLE IN 1990 GREAT MEMORIES 😊❤️👍🙌👍
I wish Accela Express was a true bullet train. A high speed train that has awesome luxury and a separate line to stretch it's legs and blast through country like any other bullet train.
Daniel K it is, this goes 125-150 MPH
TimePro no, this is not. it has average speed of 70 mph, when hst in Europe have average speed of 150-170 mph.
Research about the Acela plz!
Robert- yes research it, I rode the Accela and it was doing over 100 mph and hit 150 mph.
Always someone bitching about the speeds. I have watched hundreds of videos of trains in Europe and most of them don't even approach this speed.
The whole train must be doin blow cause all I here is snuff snuff snuff every 30 sec
they probably have pneumonia--I caught the worst case I've ever had in my life on an Acela train...103 degree fever and the whole 9 yards--lungs full of concrete.
The driver is he’s flat out the whole way
This is Magnificent
I've always wanted to ride a train across states
This is amazing! I will ride this train someday. I have never been on a high speed train before.
Michael Guthrie I rode the Eurostar from London to Paris at 186 mph that ride was really amazing!!
That's awesome!!! I should ride that train too!!!
Michael Guthrie Just try Paris - Bordeaux 560km in 2h4min max. speed 320km/h(200 mph).
This is a very interesting trip to take. You get to meet a lot of celebs, news makers, reporters, TV commentators, bureaucrats, and other interesting people who've taken those hats off and now are just fellow riders. It's amazing what I've learned from these folks and how they know days or months early about what's going to happen next. You also learn how to spot the ones who are completely full of shit.
The Acela whizzing by at 1:31:04 blocked the view of Cobbs Creek, the border between Delaware County and Philly... :(
lmao DELCO....
34:32 That locomotive is the MARC (Maryland Area Regional Commuter) Locomotive is the GP39PH-3C.
Man O Man I’ve Always Wanted To Go To Newark,NJ More Than Anything In This World Especially When Whitney Elizabeth Houston Was Still Living I Definitely Wanted To Go See Her So Despairitly But Unfortunately For Me I Can’t But I Can Still Go See Her Big Mansion
11:02 That the parking lot I love watching the acela go past :D
Great video. No loss of quality at high speeds. Wich editor do you use?
I sat through the whole ridealong, cause as someone from Toronto who has a metro problem, the idea of fast travel via rail fascinates me.
2:51 I love that Amtrak Acela Express k5la horn 😁📯📯🔊
Did U Enjoy 😊 UR Long Amtrak Train Ride & Do U Plan On Taking Anymore Amtrak Train Ride’s In The Future
Beautiful man.
I am surprised that this train shortens the time traveled by only one hour.
+Bighorn Transit I think it's because unlike most of Europe and China, there is no dedicated highspeed train line in the US. The Acela has to share the tracks with commuter and freight trains, forcing it to slow down many times along the route
Did you know the announcement chime on the Acela sounds like the San Joaquin and Pacific Surfliner's?
Signed, Abby, Angela, and 20 others.
Nice video, puts me to sleep.
As I heard the new Avelia Liberty will run in 300 km/h which makes a new high speed system between those cities.
260 km/h according to the Trenton Nj Northeast corridor upgrades.
6:31 i bet many are really jealous on that highway
Someone doesn't have a ticket to ride the train. Ooh
uh oh...that's not good...
Socialists believe in a free ride, courtesy of people who earn their money...
@@josephchristianson3001 bruh what the fuck
Joseph Christianson ok boomer
@@josephchristianson3001 sir this is a wendies
I like watching these vids but always have to move ahead to get past the people who are on board coughing and snorting and sounding like they're drawing their last breath and someone else is in an extreme battle with what sounds to be a potato chip bag.
werksdesign
3:53 scared the shit outta me lmaoooo
werksdesign. Yeah, god damn annoying to listen to the coughing, sniffing and snortingman....
I blame "Spencer Levy"
It's springtime from the looks of it, so I'm guessing a lot of that is due to seasonal allergies, possibly?
The Amtrak Acela express train is still our favorite USA bullet train 😛✌🇺🇸 🚅
The view outside the window, the tracks and the speed is similar to Indian railway. I expected it to be a lot better.
US doesn’t give a fuck about railways
What about doing Amtrak rides to Washington DC from Florida or Chicago Illinois
I've noticed that the dining cars on the Acela Express trains don't seem as welcoming as they do on other local Amtrak trains. Why is this?
Probably stupid question, I know hardly anything about American trains, but does it tilt? The Swedish X2 takes very sharp curves at 200 km/h
The Acela was the best thing about living in Baltimore and working in DC--you're there in half an hour and it's express.
Thank you for this great video from Germany. As someone who is very interested in politics, especially in U.S. politics it was cool to see the train route Joe Biden (some call him Amtrak Joe 😉) travelled on from Washington, D.C. to Wilmington, Delaware in his 36 years serving as a U.S. Senator for the state of Delaware in which he had an average of 217 commutes a year. And even though this comment might be unpopular I hope that he will become the 46th President of the United States at noon on January 20, 2021.
Fingers crossed!
Yes cant wait for wall street shill number 44 out of 46 presidents
Acela express was the fast in the world
This comment did not hold up well in the slightest. Sorry him or our grand oll america aren't doing so hot 😔
He is now the president
Nice! Do you have any train connectivity b/w NYC and LA?
NYC -> Chicago (Lake Shore Limited)
Chicago -> LA (Southwest Chief)
4 days?
It has been a long time since I rode on the Amtrak Acela from D.C./Washington Union Station to Boston/Boston South Station, not since February 13th. I would have rode on it a bit more, but because of this stupid Covid 19 I cannot. I hope that sometime this year I can ride on the Acela from Washington Union Station to Boston South Station, even if it is just for an hour that I have to stay in Boston before heading back to D.C. I want to ride on Amtrak once again before this year ends.
Sergei when did you ACTUAL;LY FILM THIS ? I assume sometime before the published date of Sept. 7, 2014.
I’m Just Curious What Other Cell Phone Device U Use To Film This Video Cause UR Not Using UR Cellphone That’s Showing How Fast 💨 Amtrak Train Is Going @ Time’s
I am doing this trip March16 th leaving New York leaving at 3. Am for Washington DC returning to New York the following day for a Guyanese I consider the price for the four tickets of course Miss Jean will be there I consider the price Exorbitant but what the hell. I am 82 years old have worked all my life so I need to experience the rush of adrenaline as the Acela acrelates
how did you get on the acela it doesn't have stare
I'm a rail fan too like hearing the horn
OOI what camera and is all this on one chip?
I wonder when this was shot it looks like it was after a really good rain that makes it look really good, the bad part of Acela no Coach seat first and busnes it would be good if they had coach and law weekend c fares like Washington Baltimore ten dollars only
what time did you leave Washington?
Early morning, one of the first Acela Express trains.
No ticket... Oopsie poopsie!!
Lol 🤣
last time i took the acela from philly to dc, the conductor didnt even bother scanning my eticket probably because the assigned seating in fc already lets them know lol but idk...
David McCafferty the conductors on MBTA’s look like cops lol
I really want to ride the Acela Express from Boston to New York in a few months, but tickets are so freaking expensive. The Northeast Regional seems like a very slow train.
Northeast regional is NOT slow by any means. Acela saves marginal time and the NE Regional is the second fastest train in the US.
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Either the train is really quiet, your mic is really good, or that guy is REALLY loud......or all of the above LOL!!!
It's a shame this country does not have the service like the European & Japanese bullet trains 160-200 MPH!
but they will sometime in 2035.
That's because the republican party does not like High Speed Rail.
Whats not to like? Jobs!
Don G. The US is a lot largger. Acela runs around 125-150 mph where as the British HST runs 125 mph on old rail lines which were built more than a hundred and fifty years ago. To go much faster the trains would have to run on newly laid rail lines. As it is both HST and Acela attain their speed with tilting technology. Acela takes 6 hours to get to Boston MA from Washington DC. A person could fly that distance and catch a cab downtown to downtown in less than 3 hours. It takes Amtrak 3 days to cross the county coast to coast averaging less than 50 mph. Even if we tripled the speed it would take a day. The British spent billion pounds to build a new high speed rail link to the Channel Tunnel for 5.8 billion pounds for 69 miles. The Channel Tunnel cost 4.8 billion pounds. A British pound is worth off hand around 1.5 US dollars. The distance from Washington DC to Boston MA is 439 miles using I-95, slightly more than 6 times as far as the new Channel Link rail line. The distance using I-80 from Chicago to New York City is 790 miles, almost 11 times as far as the new Channel Link rail line. The distance using I-44 and I-40, the old US Hwy 66 route, is 2121 miles. is more than 30 times as far as the new Channel Link rail line. You do the math figuring each 69 miles runs in US dollars around 9 billion. Offhand, 99 billion to Chicago from New York City, and another 270 billion to Los Angeles from Chicago. Currently Amtrak's annual budget is less than 2 billion per year, FY 2014 is 1.6 billion. Simply put, the US will never spend so much for a cross country high speed train when flying is faster.
SeaToby11 The British are studying HS2, building new high speed rail lines to Birmingham with two branches one to Manchester and the other to Leeds from Birmingham. Some 340 miles total, for around 43 billion pounds. Another report claims it will cost 80 billion pounds. About five times as far as HS1, the Channel Tunnel Link. Much ess than half the distance to Chicago from New York City.The British can consider this as the bulk of British passengers from the north could reach London using this route. But one cannot say the same with one cross country US high speed rail line.
Generally wearisome landscape: single-story, commercial sprawl and scrub forests. Most of the impracticality of passenger rail service in the U.S. derives from the lack of density of its so-called cities. Motor fuel prices are kept artificially low, and airlines and airports have been heavily subsidized since WWII.
Laptops have aided with appealing to business travelers since it's easier to work over the 2.5 hours which lapse. Also, there's a sense of less pressure..... Sleep is even possible....?
Just curious... When was this video actually taken? At the 2:09:57 - 2:10:09 point, the train crosses the Raritan River with significant flooding of the Rt. 18 northbound lanes just outside of New Brunswick.
As far as I remember I filmed it at start of may 2014.
hahahaha! Funny stuff
I live at the 58:35 mark. never seen that view before.
Very smooth ride, no? :)
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This would have been so much better if the camera looked out at a ninety degree angle so you could see the scenery; at the angle it was at, it was just a blur and 50% just showed the tracks. But thanks.
1:59:45 hey i think i found my station. Also this is a thing i do where i go on these videos and find specific things like the trenton makes the world takes bridge and then find hamilton station. My good old hometome of hamilton, where im writing this from. Also fun tidbit before the trenton bridge we pass through morrisville, my friend is the mayor. Cool guy and an electrician
Where do you catch this train at and how much does it cost to go to NYC from DC?
about $170-$175 for business class and over $300 for first class. both one way
Also pay close attention to your date and time of departure. The price can vary dramatically. If you know when you're traveling, get at least a 14_day advance purchase.
1:17:44 Baltimore station
sergei i thought i was subbed to you. evidently not. well i am now again. i rode the carolinian philly south. at times up to 127
what speed of the whole composition?
oliviru100 top speed is 150 mph average is between 75-85
Was that an old Metroliner AEM loco @ 20:55?
Yes but this was taken in 2014 before they were retired.
I've been playing a lot of Railway Empire.
Thunder Across the Prairie where you start from Washington and connect to New York.
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1:39:00 there's that parking garage that's crazy tagged out.
2:07:18 Construction of Costco Wholesale in North Brunswick NJ!!
At 1:45:27 was that 94 mph or kmph? Although that curve us cleared for 115 i don't think acelas are allowed past 60mph around those 2 curves
InactiveAir It is kmph.
Ah. Fun fact, an Acela can actually go 115mph around those 2 curves
InactiveAir Right there is where the crash of Amtrak 188 happened, apparently the speed limit is 50 (for northeast regional, at least). Thats why I found this video, I wanted to see the crash scene from the train. I was shocked when he panned down to his phone and it was showing 94 MPH.
ACS-64 locomotives show no mercy after notch 3. Its brutal power from that point. Guy was going 120 then hit the brakes got down to 108 before he derailed.
Jimgeoguy Ebae According to the poster of the video, the speed was in kmph. Converted to mph, the train was going 58.41 mph in the curve.
Film the train ride from New York to California
what was all that about not having a ticket ? :)
The Did Have A Ticket Its Just That His Other Round Trip Ticket Wasn’t Showing Up In The Screen The Conductor Scanned It