LIRR Front View: Penn Station-Hicksville

[@Italman45]

Fantastic video. Glad they brought some M-3''s back into the picture or we'd never have video like this showing all the new construction....... I love how it went through Floral Park on the westbound Hempstead line and new 3rd track.... Great, this video shows everything even all the new stations including Elmont ! 5 STARS ! I moved away 20 years ago, but did the commuting thing for 18 years, and am a huge train fan. I have my own video's of Mineola in the 1980's on here. I wouldn't recognize the entire area anymore !

[@marioimori]

This video made me go back in time to 31 years when I first visited the US. We stayed with friends in Wantagh and got the LRR to Penn Station for sightseeing in Manhattan. It's not the same line, but even though it has brought good memories. Thanks for sharing!

[@jackchen7003]

I like seeing LIRR trains under catenary

[@AaronJrBrundidge]

From Penn Station to the Sunnyside Yard

[@gerardmoran9560]

This is a great video! I don't live on LI anymore but I'm glad the project is done. There are generous noise attenuation walls as well. Maybe the cranky NIMBYs in Floral Park and New Hyde Park will go back to bed. They fail to realize that without the railroad their town wouldn't exist. Any historians out there? After the Port Washington branch peels off to the left you can see the line was 6 tracks. Some of the rails are still there and all of the bridges are built for 6 tracks. I was told that the railroad served local communities before the subway service came to life. The 6-track infrastructure seems to end about a mile before Forest Hills. If anyone knows about this please share it. Cheers

[@joeversaggi6621]

You can't even tell where the grade-crossings were anymore. I will miss all the horn blowing through NHP and Mineola, and bouncing over the rough switches at 80MPH.

[@frogger1952]

This is terrific. We can see the entire third track project from Floral Park to Hicksville along with all the station upgrades and grade crossing eliminations. We lucked out still having some old M3s around or you would have been reduced to video recording from a side window. Thanks.

[@Steaphany]

Thank you, this brought back nice memories. My father spent his entire railroad career on the LIRR as an engineer. My father was described by his Railroad friends as having forgotten more than many would ever learn about the LIRR, my father may have even driven the train where you shot this video.

[@Nibiru420]

Ya good memories. My father was a conductor on the LIRR for 30 years! Used to take me to work with him sometimes and hide me in the cabs, and I would make believe I was driving the train

[@johnnytoobad7785]

Nothing like those mesmerizing views inside the tunnel followed up by a Holiday in Hicksville.

[@denisryan8757]

Wow! Thanks so much. I enjoyed seeing the new Elmont station and taking a tour of the new 3rd track. Seeing the grade eliminations was cool too! Much appreciated.

[@goodnyc]

Awesome job on the 3rd track!! Even took out the grade crossings too. Awesome!!

[@christopherbeers7829]

Thank you for doing this. It brings back my youth

[@musicforaarre]

29:25 Full 80mph high speed turnout !!! I just LOOOVE it !! Check out the very long switch point to allow the high speed switching ! I also saw for the first time the running though Floral Park on the new 3rd Main Line track. Aarre Peltomaa

[@OregonRailfan83]

Well done. I grew up in New Hyde Park in the 1940s early 1950s and, boy, have the stations, tracks, speed, everything in different. How many M3s are left in service? Thanks for the trip. We now live in Southern Oregon, Medford, so the nearest train-watching I have to drive about 80 miles over the Cascade Mountains to Klamath Falls for a lot of freight train watching - BNSF ands UP and the Coast Starlight . Those trips are always fun. Thanks, again.

[@chrisrailfanning1217]

Thanks for watching! Right now, there’s no M3s running but as grand central opens, they should all start running.

[@stroock6394]

@@chrisrailfanning1217 this recent thursday i had M3s for the train from port washington to penn

[@chrisrailfanning1217]

@@stroock6394 I guess I was wrong haha

[@stroock6394]

@@chrisrailfanning1217 the engineer confirmed that the M3s are more annoying to use lol... there were 2 times when the doors wouldn’t work properly, and he had to step out of the driver’s seat so a conductor could get in and manually do it

[@railsofthelirr405]

Wonderful view, epic video Chris!

[@travelingtipps]

Yes!! Glad these M3 can view videos can be made again

[@daciatravel.647]

Great video!

[@kobyschechter8163]

I saw that the last M9’s should be delivered by September 2023. The pandemic caused another delay to the completion of their delivery. Hopefully by then the LIRR can permanently retire the M3’s.

[@leecornwell5632]

Don't forget about the Metro North railroad is definitely getting the M9AS very very soon.

[@kobyschechter8163]

@@leecornwell5632 Not according to a Metro North conductor. “Train Man Paul” says for now that’s canceled.

[@ariesarethebest271]

Very nice. Love the M3s. Especially Metro-North's M3As.

[@leecornwell5632]

You know that the Metro North railroad is getting M9AS to replacing all the M3AS on the Metro North railroad.

[@zelmahenry7300]

Great video enjoyed the view

[@moonspots01]

I did this exact ride yesterday! Hicksville to NYP to Hicksville. With my bicycle 🚲

[@jamallhayden2512]

Thank You

[@iyishacummings8358]

Yay I love the Long Island railroad 🚆

[@BradThePitts]

I've been riding this exact line for over half a century. It never ceases to amaze me how much CRAP there is on the sides of the tracks, especially around Jamaica. Dirty Buckets, Gatorade bottles, old water jugs, old pieces of wood, trash, trash, and more trash. Why don't the workers pick that crap up?

[@sirpeabody6217]

Thankyou so much for the Front View videos. Hope they keep coming 🚂🚃🚃🚃

[@ronhill5118]

I wonder if they ever had to change a rail or tie in this tunnel. There is not room between the tie and concrete wall.

[@hoponpoplcstudent]

Crazy how slow it is into Jamaica. Would expect high speed turnouts there. Future opportunities I guess

[@RedArrow73]

11:26 - Bay Ridge Line?

[@ihavenoidea5277]

I believe so

[@byronchavarria4954]

The Only Branches To Any M3 Cab Ride Video Is Hempstead Port Washington And Huntington ONLY

[@matthewneuls6245]

The horn is it a cord or a button?

[@herbward5240]

More than a few double slip switches … wowsa!

[@bronxborn70]

Do motormen wave to each other when their trains pass?

[@bigjhayooh]

No hour delay? Should of gave the full LIRR expierence 😂

[@AllexoTransit]

Was this a M3?

[@chrisrailfanning1217]

Yep!

[@RedArrow73]

Are they glazing cars with Lexan again?

[@joeversaggi6621]

The south side of the M-7's can be awful. With all these newly rebuilt station loojing the same, it will be very hard to see where you are becasue you can't read the signs or get a sense of place.

[@jessenunez1460]

You should do all the lines starting from penn station!!

[@chrisrailfanning1217]

I would like to but it's hard to come across the M3s.

[@sgtjeff56]

Just not the same without all the grade crossings!!

[@AaronJrBrundidge]

the project seems almost complete

[@chrisrailfanning1217]

yes, very close to completion

[@AaronJrBrundidge]

Oct. 3, 2022, the LIRR Main Line Third Track Project is complete

[@F40PH-2CAT]

Whut....all Oyster Bay trains only run thru Mineola on the city bound track?

[@chrisrailfanning1217]

Yup… i find it very stupid

[@joeversaggi6621]

Will forvever inhibit any more Oyster Bay service, which is their hidden agenda.

[@biggreek4484]

Amazing vid! Keep it up!

[@m7express774]

Excellent video dude 👏👏👏🤝🤝🤝

[@PeteDJPJ]

What did you do to get the camera stable against the window?

[@chrisrailfanning1217]

I just pressed my phone on the glass

[@Wallydaft]

Does the LIRR from Penn always stop at Jamaica for JFK connections?

[@DolananSiMbah]

Really entertaining video. Perfect camera positioning 📸

[@nESCIO555]

The beginning looks like Dantes hell

[@Lirrfilmer2004]

Nice vid! Btw you still trying to meetup soon? Ik you said something like that but I’m still down to anytime.

[@busfannerchris]

Damn this is neat

[@kevinb8881]

This LIRR system will not be the same when the M3s go bye bye for good!!!

[@leecornwell5632]

EXACTLY 💯% RIGHT on that because the M3S on the Long Island railroad is very reliable train service and rebuilding them and overhauling them just like the M3AS on the Metro North railroad. Enjoy the M3S on the Long Island railroad while they are back in passenger service. The M3S for the Long Island railroad and the M3AS for Metro North railroad cars will be here until 2025.

[@kevinb8881]

@@leecornwell5632 I know right, and MNRR won't be the same either when their M3As set sail in the sunset by then, too!!!

[@BURRITO44]

Awesome

[@henrya.1755]

Wow, this is awesome. 👊

[@Gospodin_MURLO]

👍👽✌

[@juniorbramble7760]

👍🏿Chris.......The p.erfect VIEW....✍🏿🇻🇨

[@BVERailer]

Smokey Cat

[@임진영]

🙂👍looked good

[@nerd31415926535]

Play it back at 2X and pretend you're Europe.