A gorgeous Hudson Line trip from NYC to Poughkeepsie. Stunning weather and scenery. 5/18/23
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2023
- You couldn’t ask for a better day to travel on the highly scenic Metro North line.  It’s no wonder passengers and employees alike love this line above all others on MN. You can’t get a more scenic train ride just a short distance out of New York City. All passing trains and interlocking control points are identified. If you haven’t ridden on the scenic Hudson line yet, what are you waiting for?????
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Your videos are so entertaining to watch! Thank you for giving so much detailed information on everything and having great commentary. This line is beautiful, it looks even better at sunset, with lights coming from small towns on the banks of the Hudson, with the sunset in the background
The boat ride on the Hudson River Day Line was such a wonderful trip. Metro North brings it back, and at a faster speed. The Day Liner left around 9 a.m., turned around at Poughkeepsie at maybe 2:30 p.m., and was back in New York at, say, 6:30. Cold Spring and the rail trail bridge at Poughkeepsie keep luring me back to Metro North. You pointed out all the great spots. Great video. Should do it again at the height of the fall colors.
Day Line trips were virtually every weekend (not sure about the winter), but were later scaled back to Memorial Day and Labor Day. And then disappeared. Not sure when. The boat left from West 42nd St. and the Hudson in Manhattan, making stops at Bear Mountain and West Point. I almost always stayed on all the way to Poughkeepsie. And was in the minority in doing so. Bear Mountain was the big picnic spot.
Gorgeous scenery and great commentary. 👍
Beautiful view and content as always. One day I’ll take a ride on metro north to Peekskill and enjoy the view. I’ve been on the LIRR and NYC subways but never ride on the metro north. God bless you Tim
Appreciate that. It’s a great ride and the park on Peekskill is quite panoramic
@@3985uprr love it 💪🏾. You’ll excuse me for a moment I’m going to watch your video again ☺️☺️☺️.
Gonna be taking this line up to beacon when I visit NYC next week and this video has me SO excited for the spectacular views.
Great Video. I was partially inspired by your older Hudson line videos last year and rode up to Poughkeepsie and grabbed an Uber to the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park. Great day of trains, scenery, and history.
Thanks Tim for another great ride!
Gorgeous scenery and good commentary. I've ridden this line from Peekskill to Grand Central and remember the beautiful scenery. Thanks Tim for a nice ride💚✋
Another video I always enjoy plus your great narration that is strange how the Hudson River is just 3 ft from the tracks
I know it'll never happen, but you never know what the future brings, however can you imagine if the hudson line expands from Poughkeepsie to Buffalo or maybe Syracuse?
Maybe start with going to Albany.
Well i heard on the Hudson Line of Metro North will be adding 2 more stations in New York City which is both on the west side of Manhattan. Those 2 new stations are on 62nd Street and 125th Street Manhattanville during phase 2 of Penn Station Access project for MTA Metro North. Also if it did expand the Hudson Line farther north than Poughkeepsie that means there would be more train stops to transfer to Amtrak on the Hudson Line.
There's no need for it.
@@deanchapman1824 why not? Just curious.
It has to stop at Albany
The day liner on the Hudson. I think it's gone fine paddle boat
great presentation as always. i rode the line from albany to gct back in 2000, i wanted a wingow set, so i had to go to the last coach, i was the only one riding in it, i'm not sure if the conductor didn't trust me, or wanted some solitude. we passed a cove with 9 bald eagles gathered in the trees, i jump to get a better view, and sked how fast we ere going, he said about 75 mph, i said the railroad i was weekend warrior on only went 20 mph., after that, i was golden with him ,keep up the great work. john
This was scenic and quite engaging 👀🚆🍿🍿🍿🍿. I haven't been to Poughkeepsie yet! Thanks so much 👍👍
Right at that curve at 13:41, approaching the Hudson, I think was the place that MetroNorth train driver fell asleep a few years ago and crashed. Terrible disaster.
That's what happens when you call him a driver. PTC these days would prevent a wreck like that.
My favorite narrator doing easily my favorite route in the NYC area. The morning sun angles over the mountains are just amazing! Wish there was some Combo NJT-MN ticket and a convenient way to get to Grand Central, which is why I prefer taking Amtrak over the route since it leaves from Penn Station. Would love to see you do the Hudson line all the way up to Albany at some point, the engineers can really move through the upper part of the line. Up to 110 mph next to the Hudson in some places.
You can’t railfan in Albany station, can you??
I did a return journey also on the left-hand side getting the passing trains, but I haven’t downloaded it yet
@@3985uprr yeah you can't railfan the station itself, but there are spots outside the station like the adjacent parking lot that you can catch trains from
@@nathanjiang100 probably can’t see them to clearly
@@3985uprr yeah I suppose. seems to be fenced off as well. Amtrak's bigger stations are usually not railfan-friendly, although Albany only has one concourse to the tracks which is heavily guarded compared to other stations like New York where you can easily make it onto the platforms from the LIRR concourse.
What a gorgeous day for this trip!
I have often wondered what that set of stairs @14:45 leading down towards the water was for. I'm sure it's nothing dramatic, but I'm curious...:)
Your videos are great. Just the right amount of narration.
"I like it as much as liver and onions mixed with cinnamon" -- best descriptive feeling about the Cross Bronx Expressway I've ever heard to date. Otherwise known as the Cross Hell Expressway. LOL.
I remember the ACMU 1100s!!!
Good to see the urban cleanup and improvements in the neighborhoods surrounding the Park Avenue viaduct to 125. The Bronx? Meh, but a little better. GREAT Video, though, Tim, with terrific narration on points of interest and infrastructure. A taste of home.
Great video, much better than your last Poughkeepsie video. Not very many routes in the east are scenic - Amtrak's Cardinal is one - but this is about as good as it gets. Maybe someday you can take an Empire Service train and show us the rest of the route from Poughkeepsie to Albany. P. S. You're right about Philly to Chester!
My last ride was a nice Xpress run, but the sun angles weren’t too good
Great vlog wonderful views and a train ride into the bargain I have subscribed and like many thanks
That is one heckuva grade those pickup trucks are parked on at 53:48!
Beautiful ride. Great, knowledgeable narration, as always.
Bravo Tim! Another great one. Just one correction; in your commentary you said the ACMUs were made by Budd and Pullman Standard. The 100 4500 series ACMUs of 1950 were made by St. Louis and the 87 4600 and 4700 series cars made in 1962 and 1965 were the Pullman Standards.
My bad
Thanks for video. As a Mid Hudson Valley resident for over 15 years, that used this scenic and beautiful rail line to /from Manhattan every few months(more before start of COVID in early 2020)I did not know many of the info and other tidbits ie station history info, etc. Thus great job.👍🚂
NJ Transit has more than dirty windows. It seems the whole outside of the train is discussing dirty. On the NEC
love this route i only never make it as far as beacon once to new hamburg forgot to get of at beacon had to backtrack on next train guess i was busy taking in the views
Easy to do
So you want bacon on your hamburger.
@@Jeff-uj8xi haha
Tim wait I don't have to live on LI to work for the LIRR and vice versa??
Any chance of doing a full Montauk trip this summer?
We shall see
The combo ticket isn't so wonderful when the conductor lifts it by mistake. Did you ever ask the conductor to give back your combo ticket? How did you get on your LIRR train to get home?
The Hudson Line is the rare exception where side window views are actually great. It reminds me of the movie North by Northwest. I love that movie and never get tired of watching it. When Cary Grant boards the 20th Century Limited in Grand Central, if you listen closely you can hear the air-compressors pumping on the New York Central electric MU cars on adjacent tracks. I loved those old MU cars with rattan seats and the open windows in hot weather. Those cars certainly made the right traction motor and gear noise at speed along the river, enroute to Croton-Harmon. Why couldn't they have saved a train of them.
Yes. I grabbed him and told him to return the ticket. They are probably not used to combo tickets.
You didn’t mention that you could take a ferry from Beacon to Newburgh and grab some food in the old Newburgh station. The ferry slip is nearby
Can’t think of everything
That train goes so far dang💀💀💀💀
that crossing just before Poughkeepsie was the pirates canoe club
Metro North train to Poughkeepsie needs to have Power Slots in every seat. Lot of Cellular Dead Zones on this route
Why Monkeys can't do their own thing.
How many whorehouses and brothels were there Servicing during the Vanar Festival
Tim, do you have any RFW posts going into GCT along the Hudson (or NHV or Harlem)? I've seen plenty others but with your articulation of what we see, it would be very enlightening.
I have not been successful at doing that thus far
Would you agree that 40 polls is a mile we deal in kilometres up here not that it necessarily matters. However, I’ve been told by various people on the railway that 40 poles is a mile. I don’t know how much truth is holds…. Keep up the great videos.
Couldn’t tell you. I rely too much on British measurements. Trying to figure metrics gives me a headache.
What is the steel truss structure at 49:35?
Used to be a road over the tracks
@@3985uprrThank you! I thought it might be an old coal dump siding.
Did you ever think that gm trains are designed to start off slow. I believe its more of a safety issue to compensate for the power it's getting from the engineer.
Just like automobiles when they went to front wheel drive. They took the fun out of the muscles cars. No more smoking the rear tires. No more positive rears. 😢😢😢
So i have a quick question for you about the MTA's Metro North's Hudson Line. I know the Metro North's Hudson Line will expand into Penn Station which will be part of the Penn Station project during Phase 2. So my question is if Metro North's Hudson Line expands farther up the Hudson River (which is farther than Poughkeepsie New York) will it happen and which other train stations to transfer to Amtrak on the Hudson Line?
Not sure about northward expansion. Maybe Rhinecliff? Not sure
@3985uprr maybe Hyde Park, but I doubt it.
You mentioned General Electric Locomotives not being reliable. Also Consumer Reports ratees owner satisfaction of GE Appliances as poor.
Hello I love your videos. I’m in Toronto I don’t see the variety of trains that you guys see……..up here anymore!!!! There used to be many varieties and configurations in the downtown area however, the 36 track wide yards. We’re all eliminated in the beginning to make way for initially what was called sky dome and now is Roger centre for the Blue Jays. The CN tower was there before everythinwould ride my bike and spend hours watching Canadian national Canadian Pacific and the occasional offshoot including even some steamers back in the 70s do used to be. I think it was 6030 a big massive steam engine manufactured in Montreal mock Montreal locomotive Works and they were doing occasional tourist trips to Niagara Falls from Toronto are used to live just off of Dufferin Street and I would ride down to the bridge and the steam engine would come through and just throw the steam up. I also had many opportunities on the East Coast of Canada but they weren’t actually working trains. They were tourist, kind of stuff.
I failed to ask you my question would you agree that 40 polls equals a mile in the US we deal in kilometres however, out of curiosity????
I know Toronto from the 70’s. Rode Northland up to Moosonee. Spend many a night in dayniters abs riding Rapidos and Turbos
@@3985uprr 😀 the north land trains are always so mysterious to me as they were initially from Europe they didn’t appear like anything else on the tracks. They appeared like they had their own personality. And yes, I did ride one from Toronto to Sudbury, but not as far as moose and he, not at that time anyway and up to Cochran but I had to take other routes, including ViaRail which came in in the later 70s as you know…. It’s phenomenal and if you remember downtown Toronto when there was nothing, you could’ve bought a property for dirt cheap at Canyon John Street basically just north of the CN tower for next to nothing. They were boarded up commercial properties. Unfortunately I was too young to realize all of that, but go down there and watch the switchers. I don’t know if you ever heard of the empress of AginCourt for whatever reason CNN decided to paint it red and put their CN logo on it. It was an RS 13 I believe I could be wrong with that, but it was an RS but I think manufactured by Montreal locomotive works which I believe had the rights to bill them on this side of the border, but there was only ever one as far as I believe one red see in a high hood and he was mysterious. He would only show up here and there I would wait for hours and he wouldn’t show up and then you see all the smoke show at the turntable which is now the round house or steam whistle brewery and plus the railway museum which is a bit pathetic but I knew when I saw the smoke I mean it could’ve been an FP as well, but it was a big smoke shop and I saw I’m just starting to rattle around box cars and back-and-forth and I was in all of that engine for whatever reason
@@3985uprr
Also, it was fascinating in 1976. We were actually coming back from Sydney Nova Scotia after the summer or towards the end of the summer of the Olympics we’re just finishing in Montreal. There was nothing special scheduled however, we went down into the dirt, dingy tunnels of the sea, and at the time of the sea and hotel, which was the train station and all I saw, was this big gray Rocket, and for one reason or another various trains had been cancelled or they needed to repair so they threw a turbo on the line at the same price for my mother and I I came down I was fascinated it was like I was getting into an airplane. The engineers allowed me to go up into the cockpit. There was actually a bar behind them it was one of my most depressive moments and then there was a second time where I rode the turbo were they turned yellow with a red nose when it became a CN/via I was so enthralled but realistically something that happened towards Brockville just east of Toronto in the train. I don’t think you did more than 70 km an hour so I was somewhat disappointed. I wish that JOHNSON didn’t create the highway act in the US because as you know you guys sneeze and we get a full blown cold up here in Canada and of course we just follow your lead. The reality was the retraction of real. I actually saw firm in northern Ontario about a month ago, and this guy made his own hole real system around his farm and he’s got a tractor which he modified. He built all the rail basically just out of 2 inch metal L track on ballast. And he’s got this whole set up around his farm. He’s got the tractor and he’s got about five cars basically just wooden cars he machine the wheels he welded all of the rail together he’s got switches which are all manual of course but he can take all his straw for bedding down and then dump off those cars and people are unloading that for the fresh bedding and then he’s got a side track puts those cars over brings in a couple of more cars for straw and food for the other animals and he doesn’t have to carry it around and I was so delighted. I felt like I was seven years old riding this tractor a long, 2 inch steel L track with machine and wheels, I don’t believe I actually took some litmus paper and rode one of the carts over top of it and the contact was not even 3/8 of an inch. It was amazing it was like having your own real way that was actually functioning and necessary and provided a service.
Why would anyone move to Florida when you have all this beautiful scenic at your door step
I honestly don’t know why people would want to move there. I prefer California.
And Florida has a jackass Governor !!
Or Texas.
Vintage footage from 1935
Those railcars are so old when are they ever getting rid of that junk?
Good for you to not accepting the Cleveland Guardians new name.
the dump of Poughkeepsie use to be nice ,
I agree on the Cleveland Indians this cancel culture is ridiculous