I Spent Over 12 Hours on an Amtrak Train (on purpose)

Want to support this channel? Sign up to Nebula! https://go.nebula.tv/notjustbikes Watch this video ad-free and sponsor-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-i-spent-over-12-hours-on-an-amtrak-train Mastodon: @[email protected] NJB Live (my live-streaming channel): @NJB Live The speedometer app I use is Blue Square Speedometer: https://github.com/nhirokinet/bluesquarespeedometer -- More Traintastic Content I Rode the Craziest Trains in Japan https://youtu.be/hTPIs370dPM I Visited the World's Busiest Train Station https://youtu.be/6dKiEY0UOtA DINOSAURS AND TRAINS!!!!! (with TierZoo) https://youtu.be/6FwQp0xnFEE This Train Station Has No Business Being This Good https://youtu.be/HACaRm2KP6Q Why Swiss Trains are the Best in Europe https://youtu.be/muPcHs-E4qc The Trains that Killed an Airline - Italian HSR https://youtu.be/IbFGG4T3_Yo The Trains that Subsidize Suburbia - GO Transit Commuter Rail https://youtu.be/vxWjtpzCIfA Why Passenger Trains Suck in Canada - VIA Rail https://youtu.be/n1G0Lyh3uik America Always Gets This Wrong (when building transit) https://youtu.be/MnyeRlMsTgI More Lanes are (Still) a Bad Thing https://youtu.be/CHZwOAIect4 --- References & Further Reading Which form of transport has the smallest carbon footprint? https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint https://assets.nationalrail.co.uk/e8xgegruud3g/2190fKUEtatQoCjOJLPFMR/fa2b40bc94b7bf4504b8f9555772844a/Campaign_for_Better_Transport_Emissions_Comparison_Project_Methodology.pdf Looking east at the widest segment of Highway 401 By Clashmaker - Cropped version of File:Highway 401.png, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100929861 High-Speed Railways: Present Situation and Future Prospects https://www.scirp.org/html/4-3500117_31817.htm Mission Impossible 7 filming in Stoney Middleton Richard Bowring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01ryzBWDpYY An eastbound VIA Rail Canada train passing through Port Credit GO Station in Mississauga (Port Credit), Ontario By Milan Suvajac - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=123144142 Northbound Northeast Regional #94 arriving at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in March 2019 By Mark Levisay from Ruckersville, VA, USA - D7K_5938-1, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=150986157 Amtrak train #156, The northbound Northeast Regional, is led today by GE P42 #158. By Mark Levisay - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mlevisay/52757845161/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=144610905 The overwhelming majority of this video was filmed on location by Not Just Bikes, though a few scenes use stock footage from Getty Images No generative AI or AI voices were used in the making of this video --- Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:24 Leaving New York 3:04 On the train 4:03 The views 4:38 Freight trains & delays 5:37 The train is so much more comfortable 7:09 The border crossing 8:17 The Canadian side 9:24 Should you take this train? 10:20 Comparisons to Europe & Japan 11:20 We need more high-speed rail 12:02 VIA Rail is bad ... and getting worse 12:58 VIA Rail is expensive! 14:11 The new VIA Rail baggage policy 🤦‍♂️ 15:49 Better train service is important! 17:14 Concluding thoughts