Amtrak Northeast Regional #95 Full Ride From New Haven to New York Penn Station [7-31-20]

Welcome aboard Amtrak Northeast Regional Train #95 the weekday train from Boston South Station to Norfolk, Virginia! Today we will only be traveling on the Northeast Corridor section of track between New Haven, Connecticut, and New York City, New York. Our train is led by ACS-64 locomotive #669 the second-to-last ACS-64 locomotive delivered to Amtrak in June 2016. Our sole stop along the way today will be Stamford, Connecticut.

The New York to New Haven section of the Northeast Corridor dates back to 1849 when it was first completed by the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad. The entire line has been electrified since 1907 via overhead catenary. Most of the line between New York and New Haven is quadruple-tracked with occasional triple and double-track sections. Metro-North's New Haven Line runs concurrently along most of the line up until New Rochelle, NY. The section of track we will be traveling on today is the slowest of all four sections of the Northeast Corridor with a top speed of only 90 MPH for a short 3-mile section of track located in New Rochelle. This is primarily due to the aging infrastructure and frequent curvature of the line. Between New Haven and New Rochelle, our top speed is only a mere 80 MPH between the Harrison and Larchmont Metro-North Stations. The line is owned by the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) from just East of New Haven Union Station to the New York State Line. From there to the interlocking in New Rochelle where the Metro-North New Haven Line splits from the Northeast Corridor the line is owned by Metro-North. The rest of the tracks from New Rochelle to Penn Station are owned by Amtrak. This section of the Northeast Corridor is arguably the busiest section of the entire corridor especially between Stamford and New Rochelle with countless amounts of trains running during weekday peak hours. As such, the line is often plagued with delays especially to Amtrak trains due to congestion and frequent maintenance-work to aging bridges and stations.

Sit back, relax, and enjoy the sights and sounds of the journey! :)

Additional Information:
Recording Date: July 31, 2020
Editing Tool: Sony Vegas Pro 17
Leading Locomotive: Amtrak ACS-64 #669
Train Number: 95
Class I Rode In: Coach
Coach I Rode In: 1st
Departure Station: New Haven, CT Union Station
Arrival Station: New York, NY Pennsylvania Station
Departure Time: 8:38 AM EST
Arrival Time: 10:22 AM EST
Travel Time: 1 Hour 44 Minutes
Track Owners: ConnDOT, Metro-North, Amtrak
Top Speed: 90 MPH
Electrification Type: 12.5 kV at 60 Hz (New Haven-Sunnyside Yard), 12 kV at 25 Hz (Sunnyside Yard-Penn Station)

Video Table of Contents:
0:00 - Heading to the track to board our train.
2:15 - ACS-64 #669 leads our train into the station. (Sorry about the shitty filming; my hands were full)
3:25 - Boarding
4:08 - Departing New Haven Union Station
8:45 - West Haven Metro-North Station
14:50 - Milford Metro-North Station
19:04 - Racing an Acela Express Train
19:55 - Passing Devon Interlocking in Milford, CT (This is where Metro-North's Waterbury Branch Splits from the Northeast Corridor)
20:15 - Crossing the Housatonic River Bridge from Milford, CT into Stratford, CT
21:52 - Stratford Metro-North Station
23:24 - Metro-North's East Bridgeport Yard
24:08 - Proposed Barnum Metro-North Station Site (A newly planned station that was set to open in 2021, but postponed indefinitely due to financial costs.)
25:45 - Bridgeport Metro-North/Amtrak Station
29:28 - Fairfield Train Collision Site (The location of a serious, but non-fatal collision between two Metro-North trains in May 2013)
30:13 - Fairfield Metro Metro-North Station
31:44 - Fairfield Metro-North Station
33:06 - Southport Metro-North Station
34:39 - Green's Farms Metro-North Station
37:34 - Crossing the Saugatuck River Bridge
37:45 - Westport Metro-North Station
41:26 - East Norwalk Metro-North Station
43:49 - Crossing the Norwalk River Bridge
45:48 - South Norwalk Metro-North Station
48:49 - Rowayton Metro-North Station
50:06 - Darien Metro-North Station
51:27 - Noroton Heights Metro-North Station
55:20-56:12: Arriving/Departing at Stamford
58:57 - Old Greenwich Metro-North Station
1:00:33 - Riverside Metro-North Station
1:01:03 - Crossing the Cos Cob River
1:01:30 - Cos Cob Metro-North Station
1:03:07 - Greenwich Metro-North Station
1:05:30 - Crossing the Byram River Bridge into Port Chester, NY from Greenwich, CT
1:07:07 - Port Chester Metro-North Station
1:07:47 - Rye Metro-North Station
1:10:55 - Harrison Metro-North Station
1:12:24 - Mamaroneck Metro-North Station
1:13:47 - Larchmont Metro-North Station
1:17:02 - New Rochelle Metro-North/Amtrak Station
1:19:00 - All Trackage from this point onward is owned by Amtrak.
1:31:31 - Crossing the Hell Gate Bridge
1:35:20 - Harold Interlocking (The Busiest Railroad Junction in the U.S.)
1:38:09 - Entering The East River Tunnels
1:43:20 - Welcome to New York City!

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