Hi. I’m Sam, a railfan based out of Eastern Massachusetts. I film trains from all around the world and make narrated videos explaining how the railroad works. Thanks for watching and I’ll see you out on the mainline!
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0:00 – Intro
0:32 – May News
2:28 – CSX takes over Pan Am Railways
2:57 – Brightline receives federal grant
3:17 – Brightline to start Orlando service by Christmas
3:34 – ATSF 5704 makes a trip west
3:54 – Texas Central gains approval to claim eminent domain
4:15 – Amtrak returns to Canada
4:34 – Disney cuts ties with Brightline
4:58 – CSX to rebuild SD40-2s to GEVOs
5:43 – Chicago Transit Authority unveils heritage unit
5:55 – California High-Speed Rail Central Valley line funded
6:26 – Outro
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What about Hyperloop news? Also do u have update on purple line extension from Wilshire/western to Westwood or you only cover larger interstate rails
The Walt Disney Company would have been crazy to allow the project to proceed with the alignment that is being proposed.
My expectation is that Brightline ultimately eschews the third station in the Orlando area and reverts to a two-station configuration.
There is more to the Disney Brightline story than has been reported. It has been rumoured that this is a consequence of the Disney Corporation's political differences with the Florida Government.
You forgot KCS 4721 bicentennial
Given Canada is our largest trading partner, there ought to be high speed rail between NY and Montreal & Toronto
you should do a video about the south coast rail project if you haven't already
Good note, I still can't belive they are wasting money in California, building a high speed train to nowhere.
Wait the Tempe streetcar is running now? I live like a couple miles away and I didn’t even know, guess they didn’t announce it very well
And locomotives.
Do you know when ALC42 locomotives will start pulling Coast Starlight trains? I caught train 11 yesterday in Salinas and it was lead by a pair of P42s.
Good updates! And very glad to hear that CA High Speed Rail released the funding it deserved to release the rest of the funds to complete the Central Valley portion.
Thats another 4.2 billion of taxpayers money wasted on a train between two cities that hardly anybody will use, and will probably never be built. Its a crime led by our government which our children and grandchildren will suffer to pay for.
California High Speed Rail is a boondoggle to make money for prominent politicians. More corruption…
I'd like to see Hi-Speed Rail in california, but that is so far behind schedule and 65 Billion over budget, maybe my grandkids……….
Amtrak's Silver Meteor still has yet to return to service from what one of my friends told me and Amtrak has been doing bus service from Philly to Reading and they are still waiting approval to do passenger service from Philly to Reading
thought id share that with ya
"Missed opportunity from Disney"
Disney has no Room for a Station. It's just not possible to fit a Rail Station in that big of a Park.
Calif. High-Speed Rail from L.A. to S.F.: a total boondoggle from the very beginning! However, a great deal for Merced to Bakersfield patrons!
It would be great if Amtrak let people know what it is doing. I drove to Canada because the Maple Leaf was not running past the border and was not expected to start again until late fall. When I returned, I found that service had resumed the day before I left. There was absolutely no information about this when I tried to make an online reservation a week before.
The Brightline grant is to help pay for dealing with the government bureaucracy trying to stop it, not to build the railroad. That seems fair.
CAHSR always had that $4.2 billion. That's bond money. How and where to spend it within the CAHSR corridor was held up in the state legislature while politicians in southern California maneuvered, trying to get it spent in the L.A. basin. Those aren't new funds.
I was finally able to watch this episode of TMOTRR. While I had heard of some of this news, it’s nice to get these recaps and all the news I didn’t hear. Looking forward to the next episode. Nice work.
we all know why Disney lost that station …
You didn’t mention anything about how that funding for the California High Speed Rail go towards constructing new train sets, electrifying the link, and setting tracks down as soon as 2023. This was a huge step for us it WILL get complete, and is full steam ahead. California is the only state in America building a true high speed rail from SCRATCH. Not using existing infrastructure that is beat up by cargo trains. This will allow trains to travel 220 mph, with the possibility of top speeds reaching 242 mph. It’s in the environmental impact report. I’m surprised so much information was left out on a good portion of your videos about CAHSR.
Wow. The ET23C is literally the next generation of the RS3m.
Hey great video man, I see you used my Acela Express video at Princeton Junction in the video! Awesome I just saw it in my recommended!
3:29 Will Brightline do Electrifications next?
Why are SEPTA's AEM-7s #2301–#2307 & ALP-44 #2308 going to be scrapped?
[..csx..] ET23DCMs #1715–#1729.
Amtrak is working on improving the infrastructure mostly in the northeast corridor
Finnally!! Good freaken job California!
[..csx..] ET23DCMs #1713–#1727.
“start by Christmas” Nothing could go wrong!