The Light Rail in Dallas, Texas 2022 (DART)

[@roberthuron9160]

Dallas,has got the third generation PCC'S on Steroids,in operation! Nice equipment,well maintained,and a good timetable,no one is kept waiting forever!! Great photography,and really nice open shade shots,well ✔️ done!! Small item,needed a map,for system extent,but otherwise excellent 👏!! Tim,you've got an awesome eye,and you pick sight lines,very well!! Thanks again for diligence and tenacity!! Thank you for your time!! 🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋

[@timosha21]

The map will appear in another video if I remember correctly

[@romario-997]

They really look like a bidirectional PCCs overwhelmed with some kinda metal-plastic panels in from and on the roof connected with modern low floor part. The Philly modernized PCCs with "hydrocephalus" were my first association seeing those in the movie :)

[@roberthuron9160]

@@romario-997 You have to back in history,but your comments were spot on! The center section,is right out of Boston,two rooms,and a bath[1900's],and the control ends,take after the Pittsburgh home built PCC'S,as uprated during the 1980's! Man,you've got a good eye!! Thanks for your attention ☺️!

[@traindude70]

@@romario-997 They share quite a few similarities with PCC cars. Even some parts directly designed by Westinghouse

[@Trains_n_stuff08]

And a lot of homeless people on them too

[@timindahouse2195]

Just started working for dart in august I’ll hopefully be certified train operator in November! I love working for dart so far. Great rail system

[@nixcails]

This is the kind of Community Rail that more US cities and urban areas could come up with. Looks like a comprehensive system and an airport link to DFW. Love the fact it's integrated with the buses like German (S) and U-Bahn pity that there's a need for extra fares for other commuter rail. Surely a German zonal system would have been better.

[@cadenadam6358]

You can actually buy local tickets or a regional pass which is like a dollar more and works across DART, Trinity Metro and DCTA

[@csmlyly5736]

All DART passes work for all commute types and some of its regional partners too. There is a zone change when you cross the airport to the other side of the Metroplex.

[@thebootielover]

This needs to be revisited in 2023 and 2024. Dart has added the Golink system and in 2024 will have the Silver line. Dart's early failures were trying to get commuters off the expressway, which didn't happen. Dart should have focused on already dense neighborhoods. But density has now come to DART's many rail stations hopefully as time passes ridership will grow.

[@orthrus4490]

​@@thebootielovera big problem dart had early on was that it was cash strapped and couldn't use much debt to finance construction, forcing it to reuse abandoned cargo lines.

[@scottyerkes1867]

Awesone system!! Dallas is well served by its light rail. Thanks Tim.😀💚

[@thebootielover]

This needs to be revisited in 2023 and 2024. Dart has added the Golink system and in 2024 will have the Silver line. Dart's earlier failures were trying to get commuters off the expressway, which didn't happen. Dart should have focused on already dense neighborhoods. But density has now come to DART's many rail stations hopefully as time passes ridership will grow.

[@scottyerkes1867]

@@thebootielover Agreed. Many times politics and money interfere with a proper addition or extension. Thanks for your input

[@evanrox1]

Comes in great handy for -Stars Games -Mavericks Games -State Fair

[@harrisonofcolorado8886]

For a rail system located in one of if not THE most conservative states in the USA, it's actually a really cool looking system. I hope for the best for DART.

[@alexc9638]

We are also about to have the nation’s first bullet train. Don’t know what any of this has to do with being a conservative state.

[@cabebishop]

Luckily we aren't the most conservative, rather pretty purple of a state. Now Oklahoma, that's a very conservative state. In Texas, for the most part the cities are very liberal.

[@BenriBea]

Texas isn't THAT conservative Honestly states like Florida and Ohio are becoming more conservative at this point

[@MrDariolett]

I just can’t figure out what being a conservative state has to do with having a good transit system. Does anybody know if conservatives don’t ride trains? By the way all the major cities in Texas are liberal for good or not. Not into politics myself.

[@dane1317]

@@MrDariolett Public transit systems often benefit those at the bottom of our society, as well as city centers which tend to be poorer and contain larger immigrant populations, as such Conservative politicians tend to be in favor of appealing to people in suburbia who are often against public transit projects.

[@georgegong6813]

Excellent video of Dallas's light rail system. Been to Dallas twice in the past. Majority of the time transferring from plane to plane. Still been to Dallas for a few conventions & rode the light rail train. Never knew there were so many nice spots to take video or pictures of it. Great job. Thanks for posting this.

[@liveindallastexas5826]

This is really neat I'm from Portland Oregon born and raised but I live here now in Dallas Texas and this is great

[@dfwrailvideos]

Great video Tim! You did a good job capturing DART. They do a good job with their services and deserve to be recognized.

[@k3tgang483]

We have the best whistles on the train !!! Hands down and a horn to go

[@matthewconley7381]

That horn can wake the dead!

[@joyview]

Nicely captured. Thank you for sharing

[@matthewconley7381]

Love how you got video of Northwest Junction, it is an amazing sight to see!

[@Spark844]

Im kinda happy because I was one of the first people commenting on this vid. Also I didn’t expect this to happen

[@Thomas1980]

H_E_L_L_O Fantastic capture! Super thumbs up! Best greetings

[@cabebishop]

Would love to see some underground footage of DART at City Place Station.

[@nmgt1048]

When I was in Dallas (1998, 2005, 2015), I never saw shrink wrapping on DART. It ruins the view from the cars you're riding in. Tucson and Phoenix have that (2019). I photographed and filmed DART, too.

[@Theofficalmetrochannel]

Do they run three car trains? like minneapolis, denver co, and salt lake city? if not do they have plans to?

[@manumirani806]

Nice train video.

[@jediskunk67]

I’ve heard UT Dallas is getting a DART station.

[@jerrydavis3548]

Do anyone know about the D2 subway in Dallas have work on that start yet if anyone know let me know now

[@jerrydavis3548]

@@riley8280 Do you know when they gone start on it this year

[@mrxman581]

Unfortunately, D2 expansion has been cancelled.

[@ilmikawish]

Good 💗

[@dallasrailfanner3870]

dart cool because i railfan it

[@TheOnlyOneStanding8079]

I feel like move in to Dallas now

[@parker49531]

light rail using a whistle? neato

[@ijlalahmadahmad5636]

Nice colour of train

[@dallasrailfanner3870]

wave at the drivers or do the horn pump and its 98% you get a horn show

[@allyreneepenny9447]

Awesome trains 👌👍 And i know the DART System in Dublin but this is not an lightrail system.It is an commnuter Railway ❗

[@edgebartholomew4231]

Love it Because This Looks Awesomely 👌 👏 👍 😍

[@TheSpritz0]

I just visited Dallas for 5 days, and WANTED to travel by these instead of other means but COULD NOT find any store which sells the passes!! Anyone know???

[@MatthewBanks100]

You can download them as an app on your phone now

[@henrystock7083]

I live off Preston in Colin County . Can I travel to Dallas City. When and from where ? Is there a route map.

[@henrystock7083]

Henry Stock didn’t post the travel to Dallas City, question. However no harm done. 🥴

[@ryan3052]

Imagine P2000's operating on DART that would be cool ngl

[@benjaminingram4857]

They still have yet to build commuter line to cowboys new stadium in Arlington from Dallas.

[@bazis98]

Arlington needs to be a member city of DART or Trinity Metro in order to have rail service.

[@timosha21]

@@bazis98 Arlington now relies on Via - fun fact (I think) they may be the largest city in the country without any public transit service...

[@MrDariolett]

Arlington Texas spends all of its money in stadiums and other entertainment and therefore they don’t have money for transit systems.

[@thebootielover]

This needs to be revisited in 2023 and 2024. Dart has added the Golink system and in 2024 will have the Silver line. Dart's early failures were trying to get commuters off the expressway, which didn't happen. Dart should have focused on already dense neighborhoods. But density has now come to DART's many rail stations hopefully as time passes ridership will grow.

[@TheLookOf]

What is the gauge?

[@saxmanb777]

Standard

[@tmigmart]

More slowiness, really I can start to undrestand why americans hate public transport. All ligthrail or commuter transit systems proceed at a very slow pace.

[@jamesparson]

The United States was very prosperous in the 1950s. That is when the Interstate system was built. The Interstates changed the structure of both urban and rural places grew. Having a car became a part the cultural fabric.

[@bazis98]

This particular stretch of the DART system is running through Downtown Dallas, hence the low speed. There are other areas on the network where the trains scoot along.

[@MrDariolett]

When the trains are heading out of downtown and towards the airport they go over 70 miles an hour. I don’t think that’s slow at all.

[@tankman_tv9332]

Curves, track switches, and downtown areas: WASSUP BITCH no really, this comment is stupid as hell, the main reason why light rails go slow is because of downtown areas, and mostly because of the constant curves and track switches, just ask the MUNI metro, slow overground, speedy underground

[@BeavKsam]

👍👍

[@AnnaS-bi4ut]

it has a similar sound to the ttc t1

[@PAnon-sama]

Looks kind of European. Like more German than any train design I would have expected from the US.

[@BirbarianHomeGuard]

They are Japanese trains

[@PAnon-sama]

@@BirbarianHomeGuard Oh, nice.

[@quavionthomas8802]

Kinkysharyo slrv

[@pgchase4578043026]

Sounds like a lot of wheels with flat spots.

[@GoingNutsinTX]

Nice cinematography. Although you did leave out the beggars at the stations, people sleeping on benches, traffic backed up at a crossing during rush hour.

[@mdennis9496]

It is Said that light rail is not that popular in the US, this system shows a BIG reason why. Seems systems lack a key component……..SPEED!! Living in Germany the focus is on distance and speed

[@matthewconley7381]

In the downtown area, trains can only go 20 mph but, out in the open the go 65 mph.

[@MrDariolett]

Don’t be silly M Dennis. All the footage shown here was in the downtown area of Dallas, Texas. Once outside of downtown like going to the two major airports they travel over 70 miles an hour. How can you imagine a train going through the center of the city at 70 or 40 miles an hour?✌️

[@garyhersemeyer2642]

The trams are very European looking.

[@xavierstanton9224]

They're Japanese built. Kinkisharyo to be exact

[@quavionthomas8802]

Built in Japan

[@williamfoster6814]

Bro I live in Dallas dart is trash. Buses and trains just don’t show up they will stop running a route in the middle of the day because they don’t have drivers. They changed all routes in the middle of a pandemic and driver shortage. They added at least half an hour onto every trip. I was spending $100 a week on Uber cuz buses just wouldn’t show up. I was saving my money and just bought a car. Fuck dart

[@alrightagain4605]

Same DART is unreliable as work commute.

[@alexc9638]

And then 95% of the riders outside of rush hour are the homeless.

[@MrDariolett]

As usual sarcasm is rampant in KZbin.