2014 Coast to Coast -Capitol Limited / Empire Builder Uncut 1080P

[@JakinElwood77]

Thanks for allowing me along on the train trip while I recover from coronavirus complications.

[@RodBourne]

Glad you liked... Wish you a speedy recovery..

[@mnahi-zn6qh]

Rod bourne , congratulations for this excellent video!!! the images are clear and it gives a sensation of being there. Besides thank you very much for showing us the US landscapes such as city and rural ones.

[@boxy351]

Had my KZbin playing on Autoplay and stumbled across this video. Really enjoyed watching it and seeing the beautiful scenery of the USA. Also spotted a few Muscle cars 😄 Well done.

[@TedNewkirk]

Looks awesome. Going to actually sit and watch it on my big screen TV this week!

[@dwkcamman611]

Very cool! I shot a similar video while onboard the Empire Builder from Chicago to Essex, Montana back in 2000.

[@igormatveev6075]

Thank you Rod. Calmly, pleasant, and qualitatively.

[@00griffis00]

6:55 Dat face doh lol....great video btw

[@gopher1471]

Great video, realy enjoyed seeing more off the USA, greetings from UK. Realy sharp video and good sound too, must be your Sony. :)

[@kennethmccann6402]

I've travelled on Amtrak train (even former private RR Company before Amtrak merged) for 50 years. So, I go once (sometime twice) a year in any part of USA as I love it and no matter if on time or delays.

[@floridakel]

Can't wait to watch. Your new camera is incredible!

[@RodBourne]

Camera is a Sony for AX-100 4k model....

[@leochen887]

I was really pleased with the video quality of your Sony FDR AX100. Their latest iteration is the FDR AX53 -- which is less capable than your AX100 -- that I'm ordering for myself. It beats my Samsung Note4. 4K is the way to go -- until 8K comes along in a couple of years. But for my purposes, 4K resolution is plenty good enough. Thanks for posting this on KZbin.

[@CDLClassA]

At 1:19:45 You were in my home city, Spokane WA! I know that city, that's awesome that you went through there!

[@modurhead]

+Carlos Phill i thought i saw the old steam plant

[@rosariogomez3194]

modurhead42sz bh6eepeldls? Sols. x

[@gladfan1989]

And in daylight, to boot.

[@ryanridder4576]

Woah, what a trip!

[@RodBourne]

thanks!

[@Liamflynnphoto]

Rail travel has become so much more popular with the American public because it's cheaper more relaxing and more comfortable. When taking cross country trains you get beautiful scenery and bustling cities. Also you don't have to worry about delays for weather and things like that as much

[@Trainlover1995]

Don't forget the fact Amtrak doesn't subject you to security screenings. I went to the Emeryville station, and there was practically no TSA presence. Oh, and Amtrak has more legroom than coach class airline seating, which favors capacity over comfort.

[@Mylitla]

BNSF1995 Amtrak coach seating (at least on the Superliners) has more leg room, wider seats and flatter reclines than any first class seating the airlines have to offer. Though, sleeper accommodations are the way to travel. It's nice to arrive at your destination rested, freshly showered and well fed.

[@dvferyance]

The TSA has made flying a nightmare.

[@gladfan1989]

+dvferyance Them AND the airlines.

[@macdunlap6257]

did lake limited from boston to chicago then empire as part of 5 train trip. great video

[@theblessedtraveler7477]

I am currently watching this video. Looking forward to my journey March 2022.

[@RodBourne]

Have fun!

[@leroynorville4129]

I wish you would have shown where you were and what stop you was at. Other than that a fine video

[@bobreuter2705]

Larry, if you see my comment, you will see how I understand what you mean. However, when travelling long distances sitting relatively motionless it is not unusual to doze off and miss whole stops giving the experience you described (that is, where am I?). If he editor had that in mind it was a creative enhancement to just cutting and pasting segments together. Waking up in Pittsburgh after stops in Colorado (is there a Pittsburgh in the west like the one in PA?) gave me the same feeling I had on the one Broadway Limited trip I took returning from Chicago on a business trip when I did wake up in Pittsburgh. I hope you enjoy other videos by this producer if watched in the way I just happened to be partly asleep for in this one. Regards, Bob Reuter.

[@nossta5242]

@@bobreuter2705 what

[@emerydarwin1077]

a trick: you can watch series at Flixzone. Been using it for watching all kinds of movies recently.

[@xzavierbridger7693]

@Emery Darwin Yea, have been using flixzone} for months myself :)

[@LSM_Lover]

Cool video!!!

[@frinxy2167]

The Philadelphia station is huge

[@danahc4851]

It's 2 stations in one, really. There are the suburban commuter trains aka SEPTA Regional Rail and then the Amtrak half of the station.

[@Liamflynnphoto]

Also when you get the slight rocking and bumps on a train most of the time it's relaxes you while flying it scares you

[@bobreuter2705]

Hi. I found the trip vey restful. I watched a six-minute clip about a New York Central 0-6-0 and stayed for another couple of shorts until falling asleep with my head phones on and, I think, making one full round trip to the West Coast and back (that is, stops in Colorado came before seeing platform signs saying Pittsburgh). Nothing much happened in Pittsburgh and I woke up again looking at some nice suburban developments in what I figured was western or central Pennsylvania en-route to Philadelphia (or, was I again going the other way?). I completely awakened after that segment and decided it was time to look for something to do on my feet. The continuing items of interest were the low, rumble of the rails and her occasional snaps, crackles and pops usually encountered when all that weight of metal is moving around 50-80 mph on a just slightly less than a set of always perfectly flat rails (crossings, switches, movable bridges, and so on). Ahhhhhhh/Stretch, I think I may check out the diner to see if there is sill time for a bite to eat before we get to our last stop. Hmmmmm. I guess I really overslept; as, I think my third leg of this odyssey was the trip to Seattle. I guess I'll be a little late for dinner in Connecticut.

[@rock4u197335]

loved the video but if you post a cleaned up version can you please put the stations you stopped at and passed on the video

[@brucesumter4327]

wow that was so cool RR :)

[@gaylenemorley916]

Its june 7 2019 now next week i go on Amtrak to la area. I looking forward to it

[@georgemcdowell8302]

I've been trying to find the "Cool Jazz" version of this video and can't. I showed it to my wife last year and she loved it with the music. Maybe there were copyright issues and you have deleted them.

[@RodBourne]

It got blocked worldwide by a copyright claim..... let me see if I can dropbox it and I will let you know here...

[@georgemcdowell8302]

@@RodBourne Ok great. Thanks.

[@frinxy2167]

I’ve been to Philadelphia 30 th street station is huge

[@kngilbert]

What the hell is the alien architecture at 39:24? I must live there!

[@Trainlover1995]

The George M. Pullman sleeper? That was the absolute last car built by Pullman Standard.

[@RodBourne]

Didn't know that...Cool

[@jynxjynx3068]

I inherited a Hasselblad H6D -100C. It will take 4K videos. Do you think it would be too bulky to use aboard an Amtrak sleeper or lounge car? I am scheduled to take the Sunset Limited from Los Angeles to Houston in March 2018 (deluxe bedroom).

[@RodBourne]

Not familiar with that camera... I used a Sony HDR ax100

[@zwillliamse]

wait what? wow i did not know NJT had genesis locos!

[@bruce92106]

Well, at least you warn all there's music thru it. I dont want to hear music thru a train ride video either. I want to hear the natural train sounds and see the sights etc. People actually use these to go to sleep to. Nite!

[@RodBourne]

them don't watch!

[@RDONNM]

Is there an app or website to be able to hear all the train traffic radio, like a police scanner?

[@RodBourne]

There are sites you can google but the scanners are in fixed locations.. You need a scanner on board to monitor your trains radio traffic.

[@Khariman44445]

This was really cool, do you take these trips often?

[@RodBourne]

no, but wish I could... Hoping for an opportunity to do DC-CHI-DAL sometime in the future..

[@Khariman44445]

Cool

[@thetravelingrailroadist]

Rod great videos, have you though about going PHL-NYP-CHI--->. The videos are great but they all are PHL-WAS-CHI. Which isn't a bad thing, i was just curious as to why you haven't opted for that path.

[@RodBourne]

Prefer Superlliner accommodations

[@thetravelingrailroadist]

Fair enough!

[@filipinainaforeignland3552]

Some narration would be nice

[@sanjayvijayasundaram2813]

i wish i was comming on this train

[@faustobrindisi5745]

Dear friend: In the next month of June, I will travel through the United States, start in Chicago with the Empire Builder in Seattle, from there I will take the Coast Starlight to Los Angeles and return from San Francisco in the California Zephir to Chicago. Any comments about it, information, videos, blogs, etc., will be very beneficial for my trip. From already thank you very much. Sincerely, Fausto Brindisi, from Rosario, Argentina.

[@mariacornwallis1602]

At 1:35:58 when somebody said "Engines" I misheard it and I started to look for Indians. lol

[@nossta5242]

What

[@glennpaull903]

Great video - cool pic of engineer waving at you. Did you take your wife?

[@RodBourne]

No, I went alone....

[@jarhead4God]

where does this train originate?

[@RodBourne]

Four Trains here.... The NJT train in Egg Harbor City NJ, the first Amtrak with the AEM7 in Philadelphia the second Amtrak is the Capitol Limited originating in Washington DC and the last is the Empire Builder originating in chicago...

[@airtonzachariaszacharias597]

As locomotivas são bem silenciosas.

[@ronhazlett5923]

why is the newest Amtrak video from 2014? How about some updated videos?

[@RodBourne]

Probably won't be doing Train stuff for awhile... next vacation will be a South Pacific Cruise video to Australia in October

[@adarshguptak]

I think you have to blurr those faces before uploading. You have no right to share their faces on public video. As I said, I think.

[@RodBourne]

Not really...

[@michaelglass4701]

coool

[@RodBourne]

Glad you liked.. Will probably be posting a cleaned up version in December when I get my new Computer...

[@paulaajohnson2597]

Rod Bourne's itineraries aren't for the average person. Take what he does with a grain of salt. He's a wealthy retiree from the FAA or one of the federal transportation agencies.

[@RodBourne]

And your point is what?

[@ncsr111]

. . . and for $1,600.00+ you can own one too!

[@RodBourne]

+ncsr111 missing something here.... Own What for 1600.00 ?

[@ncsr111]

+Rod Camera is a Sony FDR AX100.

[@RodBourne]

+ncsr111 yup

[@maurosantos7218]

What is amtrak

[@RodBourne]

Americas Quasi Federal Passenger Railroad System...

[@reynaldogarza109]

Hey Mauro Santos, r u from Laredo, Tx. ?

[@frankphilipp8476]

Not a pretty sight, the Aest Coast. Travel by train in Norway and you'ii see the difference

[@jerrymiller3320]

Frank Philipp Most people in America drive...or fly. Train travel in America will never be what it is in Europe. I like the the slower speeds to actually see the beauty of this great country. In a hurry..get on a plane

[@filipinainaforeignland3552]

Who cares?

[@RenaissancePeopleNYC]

a wonderful trip! But they make the UGLIEST engines these days!

[@rosariogomez3194]

es xxc

[@romantoth8228]

looks slow

[@RodBourne]

in this day and age... slow is good.... relaxing ...refreshing,...with time to smell the roses... used to travel by air a lot...got old quickly..