The Downeaster: Amtrak's Train from Boston to Maine!

Hello and welcome to Boston’s North Station. Today we are going to be heading up north on Amtrak’s Downeaster from Boston to Haverhill, Massachusetts.
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- Train Information -
Train Number: Amtrak Downeaster 681
Train Consist: 2 GE P42DCs, 4 Amfleet 1 Coach Cars, 1 Cafe Car
Departure Time: 8:50am
Scheduled Arrival Time: 9:38
Journey Time: 0 hr 48 min
Top Speed: 80 mph
Price: $12.00
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- Chapters -
0:00 Intro
0:35 Boston North Station
1:34 The North Concourse
2:13 Heading out to Track 6 for Boarding
2:34 Boarding
2:52 Our Route up to Haverhill
3:16 Departure from Boston North Station
3:35 Seating Onboard
4:42 Stats for Nerds!
6:05 Subscribe!
6:29 Bathrooms on Amfleets
7:24 The Café Car (That Wasn't Open)
8:18 F40PH "Cabbage" Cars: The Icons of the Downeaster
8:53 The Future: Siemens Venture Train Sets
9:56 Approach into Haverhill
10:03 Forced Departure from the Café Car
10:11 Disembark into Haverhill
10:19 Southbound Downeaster Departure
10:29 Downeaster 681 Continues Northward to Brunswick
10:49 Next Week: The Virginia Railway Express
11:15 Thanks for Watching!
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[@joycetaylor2564]

Let’s see the Maine train please

[@joshuafajardo5697]

Downeaster splits from from the Lowell Line to the Haverhill Line @ Wilmington

[@heathcarignan1010]

Real shame about the cafe car. It’s weird that it didn’t open until Haverhill, it normally opens after all tickets have been collected/Business Class passengers have been attended to. That normally happens by Anderson/Woburn at the latest. The menu is different than the rest of the Amtrak system and in my opinion is better at both value and quality.

[@LonestarTrips]

I thought it opened around there too, but I guess not. As for the menu, the options are great, and with the new changes Amtrak's has made, I'm sure it's even better.

[@jackwtat]

@@LonestarTrips The Downeaster is actually insulated from the new menu changes because of Amtrak's contract with NNEPRA. It has a unique menu with New England cuisine, local craft beers, and Pepsi products. The food is so much better and so much cheaper than on other Amtrak trains. I'm not sure why your trip had the typical Amtrak menu.

[@chancoolguy]

Awesome video! Keep up the awesome work!

[@LonestarTrips]

Thanks! I'm so glad you enjoyed!

[@petercole8798]

Excellent job great narrator. Very informative. A+. ENJOY THE RIDE.

[@LonestarTrips]

Thanks for the support! It really makes my day to hear that people enjoy the content.

[@petercole8798]

@@LonestarTrips try BUSSINESS class next time.

[@LonestarTrips]

@@petercole8798 Business class is coming soon! I took multiple rides in business class while traveling in the northeast, so it's only a matter of time before I get those out.

[@josephj.6478]

Nice video! Did you take the commuter rail back to Boston from Haverhill, or did you wait for the next south bound Amtrak?🤔

[@LonestarTrips]

Thanks! I took the commuter rail back down south, which of course there will be a video on.

[@josephj.6478]

@@LonestarTrips cant wait!

[@johnburke1317]

Nice video

[@LonestarTrips]

Thanks!

[@SonjaBrannen]

our performance record is awesome

[@simonsv9449]

Idea: Making the Downeaster run to Halifax via Auburn, Waterville, Bangor, St. John and Moncton instead of going to Brunswick.

[@SonjaBrannen]

its not gonna happen for a while?

[@bradfordtownley9363]

Congratulations on pronouncing Haverhill like a native!😉

[@LonestarTrips]

Haha thanks! Although I'll be completely honest, I got told off about pronouncing it wrong in the teaser from the previous video, so I made sure to get it right here.

[@PhantomThiefOfSports]

I hope in the future they can connect both North and South stations

[@JoeyLovesTrains]

That was supposed to happen during the big dig. But here we are just like Philadelphia prior to the center city tunnel.

[@simonsv9449]

You’ll have to take the orange line from Back Bay.

[@broyofroyo1207]

Nice video I wish the F40PH was still running, when will awesome content come you said it would came in the next few months and that is what it is

[@LonestarTrips]

We've got a ride on a Thalys high speed train from Rotterdam to Amsterdam, a 2 Day trip on the Texas Eagle, some puddle jumping across the Serengeti in Tanzania, and I just booked tickets for TWO journeys on the Caledonian Sleeper! The issue is that all of the really cool videos take a lot of time to edit, time I currently don't have, so I'm forced to push them back until I can find the time to get it all put together.

[@broyofroyo1207]

@@LonestarTrips okay can you please do a face reveal

[@christophercancel934]

Have you done one for the Silver Service?

[@LonestarTrips]

I haven't made a video on it yet, but I took the Silver Star from NYC to Miami in December, so expect a video on it coming soon!

[@majy1735]

10:08, "Down the train we goed". I see... You excellent Mr. English speak, don't you?

[@LonestarTrips]

Me am engineer, me am not do english good.

[@LonestarTrips]

Ah, actually you misheard me. I said "Down the train we go" but the intonation made it sound like "goed."

[@timbacchus]

How do you pay for meals on the train. Charge card or just cash?

[@LonestarTrips]

Meals can be bought using cash or card.

[@EM-fw4dr]

I was hoping to see what the train ride is like from Boston to Maine, not Boston to Haverhill.

[@LonestarTrips]

Unfortunately the scheduling of riding all the way to Maine didn’t work out. I was running a tight ship while in the northeast, and in order to make my connection heading back south out of Boston, I had to end the journey in Haverhill.

[@josephj.6478]

If you are interested I found a video of someone riding the train to Brunswick: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qH7Ui2aweJqHb7c

[@HumanLieDetector]

Same, I live in Maine and have never been on a train or to Boston. Trying to get an idea on price range, which option for me and my spouse of 25 years this June. Were about to be empty nesters and havent had a childfree vacation since we had kids. Sooo I'd love to see Salam and the aquarium!

[@SonjaBrannen]

train ride is goodI qork on it

[@Robbi496]

Doesn't it stop at Woburn anymore?

[@LonestarTrips]

It does, I just forgot it did as I didn't have it in the footage that we stopped there, and the sign in Boston didn't have it listed, so I assumed we weren't going to stop there.

[@joefitz531]

I think Woburn NB is pick up only and SB is drop off only. It’s a T stop and I don’t think they want to compete.

[@joshuafajardo5697]

Airo should be on the Palmetto because the Palmetto should be considered a long-distance 🚆

[@beckiverson1531]

>train called "down"easter >look inside >up

[@SonjaBrannen]

part of Maine is called the down east

[@SonjaBrannen]

my train

[@robertmcglinchey3347]

The voice over blew off the Anderson/Woburn stop .... twice! For food service NextDine of Massachusetts is contracted by the Maine owner of the trains. Amtrak operates. Inbound, the cafe was opened until Anderson Woburn. The Ventura seats have been reviewed last year on the Chicago to St. Louis where there in use.

[@LonestarTrips]

Regarding Anderson/Woburn, I was going based on what I had in my footage, and the fact that the sign in Boston made no mention of Woburn as a station stop. In hind sight I think we did stop there, but it wasn't in the footage anywhere, so I just forgot about it.

[@robertmcglinchey3347]

@@LonestarTrips - I no on the Texas Eagle / Sunset Limited and we’re 6. 1/2 hours late.

[@samtrak1204]

Amtrak's version of Siemen's Venture coaches lack the pizzazz of similar coaches on Brightline trains. Amtrak interiors are sterile and unattractive and look more like commuter cars. The "Palmetto" once had roomy Amfleet II coaches with leg rests, but I guess it will be downgraded to the new and un-improved Ventures. Actually its hard for me to get excited about anything to do with Amtrak because I just returned from Germany where I was in Railroad Heaven less than a month ago.

[@micwell2247]

Can't get over how fat everyone is

[@mybigfatpolishlife]

So you were talking about new amtrak rolling stock but showed a Canadian VIA train

[@LonestarTrips]

I mean the video itself is about an Amtrak route, so it didn't really make sense to talk about VIA rail. Yeah, it's the same rolling stock, but still.