Why You Can Pay $1.00 to Ride Amtrak for 2 Minutes.
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- Hello and welcome to New Haven, where for just $1.00, you can ride Amtrak for 2 minutes. This is Amtrak's Shortest Ride.
Trip Information
Train Number: Amtrak Northeast Regional 147
Locomotive: Midnight Blue P42DC 100
Consist: 8 Amfleet 1 Coaches (6 Coach, 1 Business, 1 Cafe)
Departure Time: 9:54am
Arrival Time: 9:56am
Journey Time: 0 hr 2 min
Ticket Price: $1.00
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- Chapters -
0:00 Welcome to New Haven, Home of Amtrak's Shortest Journey
0:35 New Haven's Union Station
1:06 Tickets Between Union and State Street
2:09 Why State Street Exists
2:58 State Street Station: Main Level
3:57 Track Level and the Station Layout
4:36 Platform 1 Amenities and Features
5:02 Close Proximity, but No Line of Sight
5:15 Our Train is Delayed!
5:40 The Hilariously Short Route
6:16 Amtrak 147 Arrives, Led by 50th Anniversary P42DC Number 100
6:42 Boarding and Departure
7:08 Seat Review Any% Speedrun
8:04 Arrival at Union Station
8:47 Disconnecting Our Diesel P42DC
9:35 ACS-64 648 Takes the Lead Down to DC
9:57 Midnight Blue Pulls Around the Loop
10:15 Metro North New Haven Departure
10:29 Train 147 Departs with UNREAL ACS-64 Sounds!
11:02 One of Only a Few Trains that see TWO Loco Swaps
11:32 Bringing Amtrak's Shortest Journey to a Close
11:51 Subscribe! And a HUGE Thank You To my Patrons and Members!
12:20 Thanks for Watching!
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I realized I didn't mention it, but next week's video will feature Amtrak's Piedmont service between Greensboro and Raleigh, NC!
Jeb Brooks would be proud 😎
@@Keither754 😀
That’s my line! I live on the piedmont
Nice, I just rode that a couple months ago!
If they started a shutte from newhaven to state street it would be a bus
Once upon a time, Amtrak award 2 Amtrak Guest Rewards points per $1 spent, with at least 100 points minimum awarded per trip regardless of price. So riding this trip for 200 times, you will qualify for Select Executive status and may be enough points for a bedroom ride going from NYC to Chicago. They get rid of the 100 point minimum now :(
Damn, the infinite money glitch got patched. Still super funny that it even existed.
I miss those days and especially the zones we used to travel across the country! It was easy to take long inexpensive (as far as points) trips. 😡
I think this is the only trip review I've watched that's longer than the trip it was reviewing
Before learning about this, I thought the shortest possible Amtrak journey was between Boston Back Bay and South Station or Newark Penn and Newark Liberty, but this surely takes the cake! Something else that's mind blogging is that at New Haven Union Station, two services that stop there have the SAME name, Amtrak's Hartford Line (which used to be called the New Haven-Springfield Shuttle until 2019) and CTRail's Hartford Line. Both of these begin at New Haven Union and end at Springfield Union in Massachusetts. Even more mind boggling that CTRail tickets are actually ACCEPTED on the Amtrak service between these two stations, as it's a component of CTDOT's Hartford Line commuter rail program along with CTDOT's own trains.
Newark Penn to Newark Liberty tickets would cost a lot more, because a ride on the AirTrain is included.
it’s actually free. Amtrak just puts $1 because I think that’s their lowest amount that they allow on the website but yeah both Amtrak Hartford Line and CTrail/SLE trains are actually supposed to be a “free shuttle” to downtown New Haven for those that don’t want to walk.
I think he mentions that it is “technically free” at 1:21 😅
@@Keither754 Yep! He made the comment well before the video went live, so never actually heard that I mentioned it.
Amtrak will actually charge $0.50 to book it on their website, mainly to offset credit card fees.
Funny enough, metro north charges $2.75 for a zone 21 to 21 intermediate fare, but because it’s a zoned fare it’s valid for between all metro north zone 21 stations, still a really interesting trip report, I wonder if the mta conductors would even care about that short of a trip lol
@@mirzaahmed6589 ... ?? But if they didn't charge anything... there would be no credit card fees...
"Seat Review Any% Speedrun" is the greatest chapter name you have ever written haha
Well done on this video! Definitely a unique sort of trip for sure
Haha I'm glad someone picked up on that!🤣And I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
I discovered your channel soon after the start of this year and I've been binging your videos pretty much ever since. I love trains and you do a great job of describing your experience riding them :)
@@courtemanche437 Your support is greatly appreciated. I always love hearing that people truly enjoy my content, and it's comments like yours that really help push me to make more awesome videos like this one. 😊
Of course! Keep up the good work.
I can just imagine the ticket agent's face if you went to a person and asked for this route. Looking at you like "Why?" That had to be priceless :P
This would be my reaction -> 😐
A cheap Amtrak ticket I’ve bought was from Ft Worth to Dallas for $9 on a Saturday when I took a vacation flying from Pitt to Dallas, I just wanted to get an experience to try Amtrak for the first time and it was great
In addition to Amtrak between Dallas and Ft. Worth, one can make a triangle with TRE, TEXRail, and DART with DFW airport as the third point.
Extensive information, complete video coverage, plus a bonus engine swap. I think you have made the definitive report on this unique Amtrak trip!
I'm glad you think so! I did my best to cover everything relating to this strange journey, while still keeping it entertaining and well paced.
I lived in New Haven for 13 years thru the 1970s and early 1980s and went to and from New York using Union Station often, as well as to Boston and Washington Have not been there since Union Station was remodeled or the State St station built. Loved then seeing this.
Of course the one time you're NOT on a long Amtrak journey, you get a special locomotive...that's rough, buddy. Here's some New Haven Union history: The current building is the third such station in the city of New Haven, preceded by both an 1848 station in a different location, and an 1879 station near the current station's location. Designed by Cass Gilbert, the present beaux-arts Union Station was completed in 1920 after the previous Union Station (once near the site of the current Union Station parking garage) was destroyed by fire.
The New Haven Railroad who once owned it went bankrupt in 1961, and the station was transferred to Penn Central in 1969 before they too went bankrupt the next year! It closed in 1973 and was almost demolished before the Northeast Corridor Improvement project saved it in 1979. After extensive renovations, it reopened in 1985.
Thank you for the information, oh great leader Kim Jong-Un.
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It was also almost demolished and replaced in 1954 by a new station designed by World Trade Center architect Minoru Yamasaki, who only ended up designing an enclosed kiosk and station platform which has now been demolished. The current tunnel concourse went in around 74 to bypass the vacant station, and was remodeled by local architect Herb Newman in 88 to attain its current silver space age look. Newman also did the refurbishing of the Gilbert building.
@@kyledriebeek3831 Hey! You must also acknowledge the dear leader!
Thanks for a great video. To celebrate my half century (50th birthday), we flew from London England to New York, to ride the AMTRAK Vermonter to St Albans, Vermont. It was great fun watching the loco changeover at New Haven, in both directions. I am a fan of both the P42DC and the Amfleet 1 coaches. The route is very scenic, and the P42DC gets up to her 110 mph top speed. I cannot think of a nicer way to celebrate such a milestone birthday. My wife and I also spent her 50th birthday riding AMTRAK. Only she chose to fly to Toronto, and catch the AMTRAK Maple Leaf to New York. That had a P42DC to Albany, and a P32AC-DM + P42DC + P42DC (triple headed - that is 11,700 hp on 5 coaches !) to New York. I think that a ride behind a P42DC for just a dollar is good value for money. Best regards from London, England.
This is great. Editing, content, everything.
Also cool that u caught 100 on your shortest trip lol, on 2/26/23 I saw it on Vermonter 57 headed for DC, saw it at New Haven with the engine change and everything.
Watching that power change at the end is really cool. Nice work on this video.
Hi, real glad the YT algorithm decided I should watch this video. Cool stuff! You said put a comment below if we wanted more weird Amtrak routes, so consider this the comment. :)
This was a good speedrun and nice quick seat review lol
Loved the video about my home stations of New Haven!
Always wondered if this was possible. Glad to see that it is!
Yeah, it's one of those weird technicalities that exist within the network, like Boston South Station to Back Bay!
@@LonestarTripsbut the thing with that is that while Boston has subway lines that go to both stations, there is no direct subway line that goes from back bay to south station, that said the orange line connects back bay and north station together
It's kind of funny, that I thought of State Street Station and New Haven Union Station even before looking up the video! All of the NE Corridor trains I have taken stopped at State Street Station. On another note, you are right; New Haven Union Station is a nice station and has some attractive decorations. I've heard that it is getting a major upgrade, but am not sure why.
Well, you beat me in the short-ride derby. In December 1966, I rode a B&O commuter train from Silver Spring to Kensington, Maryland. It was 3.5 miles, with an intermediate stop at Forest Glen. The fare was 27 cents. The equipment was either two or three Budd RDCs.
Working near Union Station, I used to ride from there to Silver Spring all the time. 6.9 miles for 40 cents.
Good training!
Most small trips like this i find quite stupid, such as riding North Philadelphia to 30th Street which costs 8 bucks on keystone. But the fact u can make
This trip for free adds actual value. I would definitely do this next time I visit New Haven!
For my first Amtrak ride, I rode one hour from Ft Worth to Dallas for $9 coach seat. Lowest it could be is $6
Reminds me of Hamburg Dammtor to Hamburg Main Station.
When trains were first introduced in Hamburg, multiple companies build numerous terminal stations at the city edge, which often would just service a single line to another terminal station in a nearby town or city. The companies later merged and extended their tracks to the city center to the new Main Station. Which made most of the terminal stations obsolete for long distance trains, but Dammtor station happened to still be very useful for urban commuter trains. The city has grown massively since then, and what used to be the old city limits is now pretty much the city center, and so you have a ridiculously big and fancy urban rail stop that still has a couple of high speed long distance trains coming through it on the way to the Main Station.
And for some reason they still stop there. IF you wanted to, nothing would stop you from getting a ticket to board an ICE at Dammtor and get off at Main Station three minutes later.
Viewing the New Haven station waiting room you can see the leading citizens of New Haven on the benches resting between begging for money from long distant passengers. Thanks Joe!
Once those Airo train sets arrive in service on this line the switch of locomotives will be history.
That was surprisingly enjoyable. I'm glad that you included the loco swap, but the whole video was very interesting including your high speed seat review.
Great video! This was super interesting!
Thanks! I know it's not a flight report, but I'm glad you still stopped by!
@@LonestarTrips I am usually not as interested in trains as compared to aviation, but when I saw the title I knew I had to watch. Very good job, I really enjoyed it!
@@CenTexAviation Well I'm glad you stopped by, regardless.
Great video again! Loved the super in depth review of the stations and the footage of the power changing.
Nice video. Cool channel
Very similar situation to many regional train around the Milan area in italy, with some stops being 2/5 min apart
Strange that the information board says that 147 terminates in lynchburg, VA because that service has been expanded to Roanoke, VA in 2017
100 is a beautiful locomotive!
100 is gorgeous. By far one of my favorite Amtrak liveries,
@@LonestarTrips I liked the scheme so much I pre-ordered models of both that unit and the blue '50th Anniversary' #108. They're gonna cost me a cool $1100 (!) when they arrive though, since I'm into O-gauge.
Another great video, and interesting about the power change. Whenwill The Acela be extended to VA and NC? Hopefully one day.
Glad you enjoyed. Not sure about the Acela extension, though. I don't think Amtrak plans on extending the route anytime soon, plus with the required infrastructure upgrades, it will likely cost way more than it will be worth in the long run.
@@LonestarTrips One can dream. I'm in the UK atm, are you coming back here anytime? I owe you at least a drink for all the entertaining videos you've made.
Not Acela but the terrible kink from PTB to Raleigh has a greenfield solution fully planned at 110mph max, diesel. It comes after the second of two major bridge projects, or at least after the first, Long Bridge. No catenary planned south of WAS. Power changes will fade away with dual mode Chargers about 2028??
Another weird route you should try is between both Richmond, VA stations
From Main St to Staples Mill 😂
@@YoshiAmakusa I mean it would work lok
@@anthonystrains1672 Yeah if you wanted to dodge Broad St or I-64 😂. It stops there I believe 3 x's a week.
Haha it’s really funny that you uploaded this video when you did, I was at Union Station to check out the Metro-North New Haven Line for the first time on February 19th! Did you get a chance to have any pizza while you were visiting? It’s the best style of pizza bar-none 😊
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to try any of pizza while I was there. I had a super tight schedule thanks to my train into New Haven being delayed, so it was all business once I got there.
@@LonestarTrips There’s always a next time lol
Nice video 👋
Thanks!
The ride between Milwaukee Downtown and Milwaukee Airport is the shortest one I can think of. You would need to ride a county transit bus for the return on that one.
Very nice video
Really funny to see the ACS-64 forget the bell 😂
septa style (they rarely use the bells on them)
I photographed Midnight Blue engine 100 in Haverhill Ma on May 10th.
Hopefully you’re referencing either the Valley Flyer or Hartford Line as your next ride out of New Haven! Those routes have a rather interesting schedule and background, and there aren’t really any good videos about them.
In Serbia, you could take 35 minute 200km/h ride for 80km, for just $3 (360 dinar).
Cool
Thanks!
I am now pondering if I'd be able to do this if I ever wanted to try riding all of Metro-North's EoH lines in a single day - and hit State Street when I ride the New Haven Line... or if I should skip State Street (and if that'd still count as riding all 3 EoH lines)...
that midnight blue engine is the shizzle
watching the engine switch was worth viewing
Agreed. Midnight Blue 100 is a gorgeous locomotive.
I thought OLT to SAN was the shortest trip but New Haven got us beat!
Great video. Enjoyed every second of it. I bet your ride cost Amtrak thousands of dollars in productivity. 🙂How so? Some bean counter going over ridership reports will see the lone ticket sale on a spreadsheet. This person then escalates this curiosity to their manager. That in turn triggers all sorts of complex cost calculations alerting more bean counters. Once it determined these two pairs generate a loss, dozens of people will be pulled into countless meetings to discuss the route. I can only imagine all the heads exploding, gnashing teeth, and angst trying to explain this single $1 ticket sale. Bravo!
In Septermber, I took a fairly short Amtrak ride, from Seattle to Edmonds, WA on the Empire Builder. This took 32 minutes and cost $11! (A day later I reboarded the Builder and took it the rest of the way to Chicago.) I thought that was pretty short, but your trip takes the cake! (Reminds me of a 727 flight one could once take from San Francisco to Oakland.)
the entrance of state st station kind of reminds me of the entrance to a sports stadium
The power change is longer than the journey!
😂😂I really liked am..30..pitts to Connellsville pa....the operators are very professional 1
For a moment, I thought the tray table fell off, lol.
Me casually clicking a video about a 2 minute train ride to then noticr that the video is six times of that.
Ah, the things in life you learn if you live long enough! :) With this ridiculously low fare and mileage, do members of Amtrak's Guest Rewards program get any credit? If the cafe car isn't busy, theoretically one could get a coffee and snack while the engine change-out is going on. Loving the 'NH' tiles on the stairway going to street level
Actually, he is lucky that they don't perform the power change-over in State Street (it is also electrified). Years ago, ALL Amtrak trains got repowered in New Haven.
In Folkestone.Kent.England Folkestone has 2 stations, Folkestone central and Folkestone West. every train stops at both stations and it only takes a mere 40 seconds, not to sure about ticket prices but because its the UK, probably about £3 or about $3.50
For comparison, any train trip across the entire city of Moscow (rail+subway) costs less than $1 and takes anywhere from 3 minutes to 1.5 hours. The trains *are* subsidized, but they are most definitely worth it.
Thank you for saying "New Haven" like a local, with emphasis on "New." (Contrast to pronounciation of New York and New Jersey)
You should have posted this video on April 1.
Ha, now that I think about it, it would've made for a great April Fools video.
One of a very select trip reports longer than the trip lol
I wonder if you can do the same from Boston Back Bay to Boston South Station. 🤔🤔🤔🤔 Never thought about that 😂😂😂
It used to be that you could not board any Amtrak heading to South Station at Back Bay (not sure these days). It also used to be cost prohibitive to ride to Back Bay from South Station where you had a minimum ticket to Canton/128 (Boston metro T is much cheaper and usually faster).
This was the first and the best SPEEDRUN review you've ever done.
Great video
Yes please more odd or strange routes
I definitely want to do more routes like this one, and I have a few in mind that I want to check out in the future.
@@LonestarTrips RVR-RVM must be the slowest. An upgrade is fully planned but not yet funded. It would expand the famed triple crossing.
That’s really interesting that the fare is so low. On the Surfliner for example, there’s a “base fare” that’s just for booking your ticket, and then your fare is based on distance. Similar to Metrolink’s fare structure.
If I'm correct Amtrak is contracted by the LOSSAN agency that's responsible for the rail corridor the Pacific Surfliner and Metrolink trains travel on, which may be the reason for the similarity in fare structure between Metrolink and the Pacific Surfliner
You should’ve bought a business class ticket for $18!
New Havens union Station is nice to look at but uncomfortable to sit at, bring a pillow if you plan to layover there.
I always wondered why the P40 isn't going on the Deadhead with the ACS to DC. Cut the ACS in DC and let the diesel continue the balance of the trip in VA.. Power shortage most likely.
You can also ride Amtrak for free between Boston South Station and Boston Back Bay but it’s like 5 minutes
Can you please make a video about train to Springfield ma
Can you record the staten island railway when you go back to the northeast?
Not very dissimilar from many similar situations in the UK, e.g. Cardiff Central, Cardiff Queen Street, Cardiff Bay and Cathays, or Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Victoria, Manchester Oxford Road and Deansgate, or the Merseyrail loop (James Street, Moorfields, Lime Street, Central).
Can you imagine..someone purchasing a business class ticket...Ha I mean, the option was there.
that was my thought exactly 😀
With Amtrak 100 The Midnight Blue 50th Anniversary Unit
Yessir! I was a little annoyed that this was the one journey where I actually had this locomotive, but it was somehow very fitting for such a strange and unique ride.
See you next week I have a doctor 👩⚕️ near new haven union station
The most premium $1 ride you can probably ever get lmao
In addition to Amtrak's shortest ride, New Haven has the most delicious (a)pizza.
That's cheaper than the train portion of my commute to work, which costs me £3, so $3.67. I'm on the train for about 5 minutes, so it'd be $1.23 for 2
What about Boston’s Back Bay and South Station
That one's a little bit longer at around 5 minutes and 1.3 miles.
So this is one of those services that will be led by hybrid locomotives in the future?
Imagine getting off at Union, hopping on an electric/bike scooter, beating the train to State Street, then getting back on.
Oh imagine if you were sharing a row with someone, made sure you struck up conversation so they would recognize you, got off at Union, raced the train to State Street, got back on, and then asked if the seat next to them was taken.
If the train has to wait out an engine change, it's conceivable one could _walk_ to State Street and still make it. (it'd be a rather brisk walk maybe)
How long ago was this made? 147 has terminated in Roanoke, VA since 2017. Just a little surprised the sign still says Lynchburg.
This was filmed February 25th, 2023.
Hey Lyh is where I live 😂
The City of Koblenz in Germany can both match and beat that one.
First the match: Station Koblenz Lützel and Koblenz City Centre are 0.63 Miles, apart.
However the trip from Koblenz City Centre to Koblenz Main Station is only 0.5 miles.
It´s worth mentioning that the Station Koblenz City Centre was added much later for reasons nobody really understands, but it ended up being popular with locals commuting by regional train and people visiting the city anyway. To my knowledge only regional trains will stop at all 3 of them, with some of them skipping the City Centre station. Inter City and Inter City Express Trains AFAIK only stop at the Main Station.
I frequently take the Hartford Line for college so I definitely enjoyed this! I’ll have to try that route sometime
This is so dumb
I love it and want to do it myself
When would they change to steam?
What is the next week video about?
See the pinned comment about it!
here in indonesia you can ride for a few miles for less than a dollar
This video is itself six times the ride
Seems a lot simpler to build a platform the length between the stations and slow down so people could step on and off where needed (it's a joke, I know about liability, safety, and kickbacks).
Ha I would love that. Sounds a lot like the really long platform on the Blue line in downtown Chicago.
are short train rides rare in America? 0.3 miles from where I live there is a route 0.45 miles long
Genuine question, because I don't have trains in my area. Is it just the honor system for when you get off? I know you didn't show it all, but I didn't see anyone checking your ticket and/or forcing you off at the stop. Could you have stayed on indefinitely, or at least until someone noticed?
For station stops that are close together, Amtrak staff usually don't check tickets, which is why I never showed mine to anyone. Had I stayed on, however, the staff would have come through to check tickets, and at that point, I would be trapped.
$1 amtrak ride wow in 2023 for 2 mins can't make this stuff up lol
Was there time for them to scan your ticket?
Haha no. I don't think they check tickets between State Street and Union, much like how they often don't check tickets between Back Bay and South Station in Boston.
Is it just me, I assumed they would be closer? Lol That would be an actual walk, my app says it’s a 13 minute walk. If you had luggage or older people that could be just too far
I dont understand why American railroads, particularly Amtrak, dont use double-ended locomotives (as is the rule in Europe). Its got to be waaaay easier to simply end-around your train than find a loop. And it cant possibly cost much to have an additional cab, otherwise there would be "B" unit versions of ACs or SDs all over the place.
The weirdest thing about the trip report is how European this all feels. A decent station building, electric trains, eight lines running from the station, platforms in good shape, location close to downtown/business district. Even the displays seem of a type that I commonly see here.
The schedule, however, feels quite French - trains run when they run. Regular intervals seem to be too innovative (unless I am missing something).
Great video, anyway.
Hey, I miss the old 'flapper' display boards!
Trains in Italy circa 1980 ran on time UNLESS the engineer got upset for some reason and went on Strike. Real thing - I waited for 2 hours on a Naples to Rome trip because the engineer got pissed at the conductor. He would not restart the train until the conductor had walked enough ahead of the train so he could not possibly hop on as we passed him. I ran into another strike situation on a train from Rome heading to the port that has a ferry over to Sardinia but never found out why.
Is there wheelchair access at State Street station?
Yes, there are elevators to the platforms.
NYP to NWK $5 Northeast Regional
Why from new haven state street station to new haven union station is One dollar 1:56