Amtrak Northeast Corridor Run-bys: 2000-2001

[@bmp456]

You know you are obsessed with trains when you were out rail-fanning instead of partying on the eve of the millennium

[@VectorOblivion]

Someone noticed too lol

[@AugoZone]

wanted one last video before a possible Y2K

[@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45]

sometimes railfanning is the only party you'll ever need.

[@BuckeyeNationRailroader]

bmp456- Hell if I was 15 years old, and did not have Conversion Disorder, I would say fuck the Millennium Cellebration, I am headin to the tracks!!!

[@762Media42]

Mitchell DeVillers I agree with you lol

[@aquifer93]

This video proves one thing: Amtrak engineers used to be a lot more fun and less serious with the horn shows than they are now. Amazing what 15 years will do for the engineering culture

[@Liamflynnphoto]

Tyler McGillick it's because people are a bunch of pansies now and get mad when an engineer uses the horn. Not the engineers fault you decided to move into a house next to train tracks

[@DowneasterProductions]

yes I live near a crossing and I love it when a engineer lays on the horn but the pussys in cars are like oww my ears its too loud l I am going to sue Amtrak and make this a quiet zone

[@Dash7Studios]

Amtrak engineers, at least the one's I've experienced, are still really nice. Once just gave me a shave and a haircut a while back.

[@poshmalosh14]

Well he was railfanning on the brand new millennium so of course everyone's gonna be happy

[@TrinityCourtStudios]

Engineers are still quite nice and blow the horn or at least wave to folks trackside. Sadly it’s a combination of the public complaining more about noise pollution in general than ever before (trains and airports and highways), and because of newer railroad management coming in and looking for anything they can to keep workers in line; including being knit-picky on what they would describe as “excessive horn usage”. It’s such BS. But unless better management and leadership comes back into railroading it’ll continue on this….well, track.

[@ModernClassic]

Nice video. I've been taking Amtrak long-haul trains since the 70's and took a few in this area around this time. Seems like the standard config while on the NEC was an E60, a baggage car or two, heritage crew dorm, two Viewliner sleepers, heritage diner, Amfleet cafe, three or four Amfleet coaches and between zero and four "express" cars. I still remember the first time I took the Broadway Limited, and we had 16 cars (I counted), all heritage equipment, being pulled by a GG-1! Man, I'm getting old.

[@MicahtheDrumCorpsPseudoboomer]

Is that you, Modern Classic?! What a surprise to find you here!

[@ModernClassic]

@@MicahtheDrumCorpsPseudoboomer It is :)

[@willhorowitz8806]

I love the horns on the E60s. Or should I say the E60MAs. You sir, are lucky to have witnessed and captured this point in time on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. With the transition from Phases III, IV, and V, the waning years of the GE E60s, and the first runs of the Acela and HHP-8s. This deserves to become a DVD. I congratulate you and your Dad for making this possible and sharing it with railfans on KZbin. 👍

[@spenceradams2908]

Don’t forget the Acela regional paint scheme on the amfleets

[@infaredxkingz8786]

What does phase V amifleet look like?

[@ThomasELeClair]

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,I'll buy a DVD.....................

[@stevenmichael2845]

The P5s on the E60 sound great! Some really nice video here.

[@Dan-lf6bo]

That was a P01235, not a P5.

[@stevenmichael2845]

+Official Zombiekid2001 You get what I mean. Seriously.

[@luisp5036]

​@@Dan-lf6bo8:15

[@tonysamtraktrainvideos]

Man I miss the good old days.. I was 3 or 4 years old at that time. I miss the older look of the Amtrak trains style..

[@poshmalosh14]

What toasters and bricks?

[@trainboy15]

Some of the best clips I've ever seen on the NEC , I greatly enjoyed watching this video

[@RailfanDaniel1997]

This is some good stuff! I wish the E60's were in service today, if only they were designed correctly to take high speeds. I also sure do miss the P01235's. If only they were approved by FRA.

[@ploopy5235]

Southeastern Railfan Productions they should just rebuild them to be faster

[@RailfanDaniel1997]

Well, unfortunately, most of them have been scrapped, so that's a no-go.

[@geofftech]

what I remember reading was that the E60s were too heavy resulting in excessive rail wear.

[@priority6885]

Southeastern Railfan Productions Black Mesa & Lake Powell RR still uses the E60s, but sadly no p01235 horns, and they are slowly replacing them.

[@priority6885]

Southeastern Railfan Productions Black Mesa & Lake Powell RR still uses the E60s, but sadly no p01235 horns, and they are slowly replacing them.

[@hallnonsensical104]

27:58 E60 #603 is one of only 2 preserved, at the Pennsylvania Railway Museum in Lancaster County PA. It only had about a year left in service when this video was taken. So cool to see it running!

[@tibbers3755]

It feels wierd watching the sunset on a whole millenium. Glad i could see it through this, I was just short of a year old at the time of the first few clips

[@slendermanRblx]

5:07 AEM-7 946 16 years after that recording it last ran on june 18th 2016 RIP amtraks AEM-7's 1978-2016

[@TommyPicklesFan]

Yeah.

[@edylk2498]

No it's 2014 when they retired.

[@AVeryRandomPerson]

@@edylk2498 2016. The HHP-8s retired in 2014.

[@ACLTony]

Very good and enjoyable! This is why the southern part of the NEC was nicknamed "Shotgun Alley"! Thank you for uploading and sharing this. I especially enjoy seeing the E60's in action!

[@NortheastCorridorFilms]

such beautiful footage in the morning, wish i could go back in time

[@eafd270]

20:18 Man I love that power move.

[@KentuckyRailfan]

Look at all those toasters! Lol

[@ferryguy2]

Which one has my bread

[@zedaanagha6525]

@@ferryguy2 lmfao

[@ALPTrainVideos]

Very nice video. Miss those old days of Amtraks NEC.

[@bobbybrisk643]

40:18 29-1 ( Adirondack Lounge ) on 97 passing Holmesburg, A very rare catch.

[@MrBnsftrain]

I really like trains from the 90s to 2010 because there's quite a variety of equipment. You can see E60s and Acelas on the same day, Phase III alongside Phase V, mail box cars and roadrailers alongside heritage sleepers and diners, alongside other great evolutions of the railroad outside of the NEC. But the Northeast Corridor has always been the ultimate in North American railroading

[@glendenig9962]

Love the engineer that chimed, " Shave and a haircut, two bits! "

[@seltypengu5601]

Miss the E60's! Great vid!

[@josephaliberti]

A railfan video that spans two millennia

[@b3j8]

Aren't Dads the greatest! My Dad would take me out to watch the action on the old PRR. I would gawk at the trains while he stood back watching and enjoying a good cigar!

[@amtrak706]

51:17 only existing video of an RTL-III Turboliner before they were prematurely retired!

[@infaredxkingz8786]

I'm sorry, is that thing even American?

[@amtrak706]

@@infaredxkingz8786Yes. It was built by Rohr Industries in California in 1976.

[@kansasstatealerting717]

Cool you caught the Acela Prototype at 9:03!

[@JoshuaTheTransitProdigy]

**Subscriber #296** I love this video. Takes me back to when I was 7-8

[@SuperStarRendon]

awesome video! Thanks for sharing

[@TommyPicklesFan]

Now in 2017, You don't see these Kind of Trains anymore,AEM-7s and E60s on The Northeast Corridor.

[@thestarlightalchemist7333]

I heard secondhand AEM7s will be used for VIA's proposed high speed corridors

[@phoenixsmith8148]

trainz 4460 productions Wait really VIA trains pass my house all the time

[@kansasstatealerting717]

There are still a few AEM-7s on the corridor but they are upgraded of course. Edit: They are all gone :(

[@Trainmaster909]

We have the ACS-64s now. Luckily those city sprinters are a worthy successor to the AEM-7s.

[@dennisschafer4883]

schöne historische Aufnahmen. Danke. Thank You.

[@Cpr1234]

'2000-2001' shows clips from last day of 1999 and some from 2002

[@bluedoris88]

Great show thanks ,Geoff ,U.K

[@JerzeyPrince23]

@1:35 I just turned 17 years old. What a good old days.

[@jamesshanks2614]

I worked as a fireman on the new haven side when the E60's were new in service limited to 90 mph and we had an 18 car train of all new Amfleet cars approaching Rye, New York station with a road foreman and a GE engineer on board and we were all listening to the GE guy when I looked forward to discover our speed was 70 mph and fast approaching Rye station way past our first brake application spot and I yelled at the engineer who chopped the throttle to idle and immediately went to full service on the brake pipe, mind you this was when they were still using electric propagation of the brake pipe. Hence the 26 brake pipe reduction was made in less than 3 seconds. The There is a speaker west of the then 6 car high level platform that you put the engineers seat exactly side by side to get all six cars doors on the platform you had about 6 inches of leeway to get it right. After full brake and the blended braking had kicked in we figured we were going to badly blow the station spot and sat their in shock as that 18 car train smoothly braked from 70 mph to a perfect spot exactly where she would have stopped. We all looked at each other and the general consensus was " I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it myself. The E60's were great engines that needed more research to give them the ride they should have had from the beginning. One E60 had 5100 horsepower continuously, 6000 horsepower for one hour and could from a standing stop put 10'000 horsepower to the rear drawbar from a standing start. The drawbar horsepower was done with a instrumented test car hauling 18 ex Pennsylvania P70 conventional steam heated passenger cars on clocker schedules from Philly, to New York City on one hour schedules. Damn good electric locomotives screwed up by Amtrak by trying to modify a freight engine to go 100 mph plus. At speeds up to 85 mph they were fine but had design issues such as a single screw type air compressor rated at 400 cubic feet per minute with one motor driving the air compressor and the traction motor blowers instead of two or three motors for air compressor and cooling blowers for traction motors and control equipment. Most common early failure of the E60's? Loss of air compressor fluid which shut down the entire engine and killed the HEP because the cooling air came of the main cooling blower. When she shut down due to loss of oil in the air compressor that left a lot of high voltage equipment without cooling air and you better believe that did damage to the control equipment. I visited Erie, Pa. A few months later and was invited to talk to the engineers that designed the engine and talk to them as I was apparently the first engineman to talk to that actually ran the E60's. I wanted to know who made the decision to use a rotary air compressor and was informed it was what GE designed it to use to provide sufficient compressed air. I told them one motor for auxiliaries was a death knell for the locomotive as it needed three auxiliary motors and a two cylinder piston type air compressor rated at 140-160 cubic feet a minute of air. I was informed that was insufficient capacity due to the train lined main resivour line on the train. I asked if they knew what the air compressor capacity was on a GG-1? They did not and I informed them the GG-1 used a electric motor driving a crankshaft the ran a Westinghouse 2 cylinder air compressor identical to those used on steam locomotives rated at 140 cubic feet per minute hauling passenger trains of up to 30 steam heated cars. Amtrak uses the same 6 cylinder two stage air compressor on all EMD locomotive's bought new from the F40PH until they started buying GE power. A standard 254 cubic foot a minute air compressor would have been fine and used a lot less fuel.

[@priority6885]

James Shanks I

[@rodneykantorski736]

Cool story. Thanksfor that information

[@fredrick5152]

Interesting to see the Acela when it was first being run

[@rominn2184]

Beautiful mail cars and old Heritage baggages...we must bring back the unity between our national mail system and national railroad.

[@AmtrakNJTCSX_MTAfannerNYC]

4:30 Shave and a Haircut!

[@kevinjohnson8756]

As a child, I grew up admiring the Mighty GG1. E60s were not selected as the main NEC locomotive, it was one of those early life isn't fair moments. The AEM-7s were Mighty Mouse, but the were still a mouse when compared to the GG1s!!!

[@X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X8X]

Who stands ON the tracks to film?

[@zedaanagha6525]

got a few Phase iv toasters in here too, nice video.

[@trainz832]

that horn show tho at 4:23

[@curs5tproductions958]

Very nice video. Man what I would give to hear an E60 P01235.....

[@db90yearsago]

All of my favorite train horn actions 3:30 3:46 8:15

[@Eric-sn4qz]

Great vid. Gives some great modeling ideas.

[@RedCard94]

25:09 Why was a P40DC pulling on the NEC? I thought that wasn't allowed.

[@StefanWithTrains]

yes it is allowed but in NYP diesel trains aren't allowed

[@mr.conductorfromsts4204]

Amtrak 1 was P42DC

[@BlancaFierro-Duarte]

Actually if a acs-64 is out of service and all the other ones are pulling a train then you’ll see a p42

[@ExpressRailfan]

20:36 Ooh the Rainbow Clocker.

[@bluedorissmith6352]

amazing stuff. thanks. greetings., geoff UK

[@Taublix]

the train at 16:34 had a lot of types of passenger cars xD

[@ThomasELeClair]

,,,,,,,,,,,,12/ 22/24/,,,,,,,,,great captures on the corridor,,,,,,,,,,,awesome horn action showin respect to the photogs,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,thanks Amtrak and railfan......................

[@Maunico0809]

Despite their issues and them being more suited for freight service, the E60s did last until 2003 with 28 years of service!

[@christopherjohnson5236]

And they were heavy pullers, which is why they managed for so long

[@genesisrailfan1507]

Literal heavy bricks on rails, and a rough one too

[@flexmann2148]

I missed the AEM-7 (Silver toasters) & the E60 (Microwave Ovens) on the northeast corridor, same with the old GG1 (Tube radio ) locomotives as well.

[@ThomasELeClair]

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,dont miss that tug boat horn of the beautiful gg ones.................

[@docholliday5472]

Nice video. I love the early Acela.

[@ploopy5235]

at 9:03 was the the Acela Prototype which was introduced 1 year earlier

[@tacoblend3246]

ploopy523 I noticed that too, and the way you can tell is that the power car roofs are missing panels and the lettering is not in yet.

[@brianshaffer4597]

ploopy523 It was also the very first test run in the Philadelphia area. It may have been the first-ever test run but I can't say for certain.

[@tacoblend3246]

That's really cool.

[@jmream2618]

+ploopy523 the Acela never had panels on the roof

[@jmream2618]

+ploopy523 I saw a metroliner cab car at 27:48

[@GTKCF2023]

Bogey origin sounds from trainfan1055: 0:33 5:07

[@CreativeZachGaminglebestvids]

my dad used to take me to watch the Acelas at Bowie when I was a youngin

[@hoonami139]

great video, I remember this era well. I gotta ask, I keep seeing a black/dark blue 1987 cutlass supreme in these videos, was that your car at the time?

[@brianshaffer8134]

Yep! My Dad's Burgundy 1987 Cutlass Supreme Brougham

[@hoonami139]

@@brianshaffer8134 Aha! I had a feeling since it was in almost every shot. My mom had a 1985 olds Toronado around this same time and I have a 1979 Grand Prix now, great cars

[@Edzeb101]

AEM-7 at beginning of 6:03 Why I was supposed to be a E60

[@closed9446]

8:15 the same p30ch p5a horn

[@amtrakinoscale9811]

Ruth Lopena P30CHs did not have P5s, they had P01235s just like the E60s.

[@AVeryRandomPerson]

@@amtrakinoscale9811 The P30CHs had P5as, which were replaced with K5LAs later. The P01235 was unique to the E60s.

[@amtrakinoscale9811]

@@AVeryRandomPerson I heard otherwise, but I don’t have any tangible sources to back it up so I’m inclined to believe you’re correct. Thanks for the info.

[@ThomasELeClair]

@@AVeryRandomPerson ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,that po1235 was louder than the great k5la's ,,,,,,,,,stinkin feds made em quieter....................................

[@SetiPrime]

hes standing in the middle of the track in 17:41 - 17:57

[@Trainfan1055Janathan]

Kids, don't do what this guy was doing in the beginning of the video (standing on the train tracks). That's extremely dangerous! People have actually died by this method and train drivers hate it when they see you do that as it means trains may have to be routed to a different track to avoid hitting you. This may cause delays. Stay next to the track, never on it!

[@Maunico0809]

He was actually standing on an abandoned freight track if you look closely there is no centenary wires, so it was perfectly ok!

[@ploopy5235]

And that freight track is in front of a train station that at the time of the video was still open to passengers

[@anb740]

Nice grab on that first E60. I’m guessing that was the Crescent judging by the car makeup behind it.

[@Railfan124]

I wasn’t even alive back then and I kinda find this nostalgic

[@slendermanRblx]

How come the E60s got away with running with no ditch lights compared to the AEM-7s that all have ditch lights retrofitted

[@amtrak706]

They were not used north of New Haven, and therefore did not travel over any public grade crossings. Also, a few AEM-7s and F40s lasted until 2001 without ditch lights due to an FRA rule that applied to locomotives equipped with strobe lights. This also would have applied to the E60s had they needed to run over grade crossings with them.

[@sandraknutzen6064]

Holy shit that's real old-school amtrak diesel train that just past by me an my family back that's cough crazy man god.

[@nielspemberton59]

Amtrak trains making their journeys up and down the Northeast Corridor at the close of the 20th Century and the close of the 2nd Millennium. The 20th Century started with Queen Victoria Empress of India and steam railways and closed with William Clinton President of the United States of America and high-speed rail powered by electric power from the national power grid. It was also a leap from gunpoweder to the thunder of doom rising above Eniwetok, and a leap from the Wright Brothers to Man landing on the Moon in 1969.

[@KaciCooperations]

27:58 Amtrak 603 E60MA

[@waldron7281976]

Nice video. Can we call this "vintage" or is it not old enough :) I like the fact that you took shots from different locations. When I see videos from the same location (unless its different weather/seasons/time of day), i can only watch like 3 minutes before Im bored but with this I damn near watched the entire video.

[@Deltaexe190]

cant help but notice it seemed like you were standing ON the tracks

[@tramspected403]

The E60 is loud like a freight locomotive when passing by and the aem 7 is so quiet

[@meeperfive]

4:29 yes the jingle

[@keithcaito3208]

I hate the lack of variety amongst Regional trains nowadays. Every one has the same consist:business class car,coaches, cafe. All in phase IVb. I really wish I'd been around more for these days-I was only 11 then and didn't go on trains much.

[@Dan-lf6bo]

1998-2005 were Amtrak's best years in terms of coach design. Also Amtrak still used the MHCs at the time.

[@amtrakinoscale9811]

Keith Caito Phase IVb is not a real paint scheme.

[@Cpr1234]

4:30 Shave & a Haircut?

[@onecolossalrubikscube2554]

Why were the clips from 2001 have no motion blur

[@RaisedLetter]

Amazing videos indeed.

[@jmream2618]

I saw a viewliner diner

[@unclek2111]

sneakin in to 2002

[@jayydarailfaner549]

back when Amtrak used Amtrak Amfleets & Baggage Cars phases 2,3,4& 5 all at once, todays generation only 5 is used

[@silent_jeb]

And Phase 3 for some of the baggage cars.

[@jayydarailfaner549]

RockJeb TheDev and some sleepers & diners too

[@bobbybrisk643]

Phase 2 was long gone in 1994, Only Superliners that were still in the phase of overhauls still had Phase 2 wrapped on them up till 1999. When all Superliner 1s were completely overhauled in Phase IV, Phase IV lasted 23 years ending with the Baggage Cars. Phase VIb started in late 2001 with the 1700 series baggage cars, Amfleets in Phase VIb came along in April of 2002, Superliners as well.

[@jayydarailfaner549]

@@bobbybrisk643 the 90s & early to mid 2000s were better eras of Amtrak

[@bobbybrisk643]

@@jayydarailfaner549 To me it was 1985-1988, Phase 1 and 2 were still around with Superliners Baggage 10-6s and Amfleet 1s were still roaming around in Phase 2 up until 1989 once the Am 1s were starting to be overhauled for Push Pull service and starting in the 44000s numberings. I remember a lot of the 2000s up until 2008, Most Superliner were going away with Phase IV by the last time I went out west. There was more Phase VIb by the time 2010 hit with just Viewliners remaining in Phase IV, I was more of looking out for the Phase 3 Budd Cars from NYC that still lingered around as well as the Baggage cars, I remember seeing the last Phase 3 Amfleet 2 Summer 2003 on the Star, Phase IV disappeared 4 years later on the Am 2s once all the Ex Club Am2 were refurbished in which I rode in on the Lake Shore Feb 22 2008 with a Brand New Dinette/Lounge, I was used to the smoking lounge interiors that were in the Am 2s.

[@Fadhiil5112]

The E60s final years of service

[@tonysamtraktrainvideos]

Hey Brian, is it alright if I could borrow some of your video clips just in case if I could make a video for future references just incase if I have anytime around this coming spring summer time. Which I will put down "borrowed video from" in the video or in the description, something like that! Please let me know if you're ok with it. Thanks! :)

[@DynamicDuo795]

Y2K railfanning at it's finest.

[@rodneykantorski736]

I'd love to see one of those E60's run into a garbage truck at full speed. It looks like it would blow that son of a bitchen garbage truck into a million pieces

[@sargentrowell81]

It's a shame that the capstone livery wasn't around very long.

[@elizabethmoreno2329]

ah yes... the classical electric trains of usa AEM.7s no wonder why there's like metro trains but they're only take 1 to 4 coaches lol

[@CoreyKinley]

Awesome

[@mr.sir.]

48:30 sounds like he f*cking hit him

[@ExpressRailfan]

36:23 Ooh, the Acela Regional.

[@T128Productions]

Sorry to tell ya, but it’s not Acela.

[@ExpressRailfan]

@T128Productions Then what?

[@mramtrak7292]

Wait there were Acela trains in April 2000?

[@noobtheoriginal]

yeah they were testing along the NEC before its first revenue service run in December of 2000

[@MrRamon8]

What is an "over the shoulder VHS"?

[@crazygecko5385]

It's a camera that you rest on you're shoulder while shooting.

[@MattKhosrowRailfan]

Isn’t this close to where the Frankford junction wreck occurred

[@ThomasELeClair]

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,awesome,,,at video,,,,3:56 ,,,E60 gave you a salute..........

[@OffTheRailsUK]

I feel sorry for railfans in America.. Missing out on the other fun here!

[@kansasstatealerting717]

TrainLover 106 Not really, we got cool trains here but the HSTs or what ever you call them in the UK are pretty cool.

[@MicahtheDrumCorpsPseudoboomer]

Plus you guys have HS1, HS2, the Elizabeth Line, Class 87s, Class 47s, Class 37s, and Class 55s!

[@odielodie]

Wow. Is it really that old for it to heave ge e60’s?

[@voidjavelin23]

yes

[@scotthayes4135]

The trains go fast on this railway.

[@metro-northrailroadproduct5043]

at 2:07 this was filmed on my birthday

[@mramtrak7292]

Also how the heck were there Phase 5 amfleets in 1999? the first Amtrak train in this video which said December 31st 1999 had 2 Phase 5 Amfleets on it... How?? Phase 5 came in 2000 how were there phase 5 Amfleets in 1999 if Phase 5 came in 2000?

[@jasonjohnson892]

They could be just prototype livery or preparing the fleet for the service. Also, just because it was released in 2000 doesn't mean that it never existed before the date. For instance the Acela sets was release to the public in December 2000 but the units were built(aka existed) as early as 1998.

[@ThunderboltFan2000]

0:01 Y2K

[@luckyblock2444]

Isn’t this technically the oldest video

[@T128Productions]

It kinda is, considering the fact that these were filmed 24 years ago.

[@nicolewashington9693]

Where’s acs-64 amtrak go

[@voidjavelin23]

they didnt exist until AEM-7 starts to retire

[@nicolewashington9693]

@ oh

[@JalenS21]

They were put into service in 2016.

[@GamingRailfanner]

Anyone got some bread *I NEED SOME TO PUT INSIDE THE TOASTER*

[@amtrakproductions-mx9ib]

I saw acela

[@RedArrow73]

The Dark Ages...

[@jamtjay]

therr is literally nothing sexier than a Phase III AEM-7