Lived in the bay area for 60 years than retired and left due to very high taxes and everything else the place has turned into one big cash cow. P.S miss the trains we used to ride them as kids to San Francisco when it was a safe place and very clean.
I hope that when the new Siemens SC42-DM's arrive on the LIRR that that will use the electric 3rd rail to the farthest extent they can, then switch over to diesel when there is no more 3rd rail. Would save a lot on fuel costs for the railroad.
Station Timestamps: SAN JOSE 0:00 San Jose Diridon 3:31 College Park SKIPPED SANTA CLARA 5:10 Santa Clara SUNNYVALE 9:27 Lawrence SKIPPED 11:20 Sunnyvale MOUNTAIN VIEW 15:30 Mountain View 18:28 San Antonio SKIPPED PALO ALTO 20:18 California Ave SKIPPPED 21:10 Stanford SKIPPED 21:51 Palo Alto MENLO PARK 24:21 Menlo Park SKIPPED REDWOOD CITY 27:37 Redwood City SAN CARLOS 31:15 San Carlos BELMONT Belmont out of the video SKIPPED SAN MATEO 32:00 Hillsdale SKIPPED 32:42 Hayward Park SKIPPED 34:03 San Mateo BURLINGAME 35:47 Burlingame 37:57 Broadway Weekends Only SKIPPED MILLBRAE 39:40 Millbrae Transit Center SAN BRUNO 43:32 San Bruno SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO 46:25 South San Francisco SKIPPED BRISBANE 49:43 Bayshore SKIPPED SAN FRANCISCO 53:00 22nd St. 57:25 San Francisco 4th & King
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.
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
One has to chuckle at the folly of the State of California. It cannot produce enough electricity to power air conditioners during the Summer, while restricting new power sources, and while adding electrical loads like EVs and the electrified peninsula tracks. Remember: California will continue in its folly until it no longer can. The last one to leave will not have to turn the lights out.
From 1977 to 1979' I took this train to the City to see many Concerts Yes, ELP, Rush, Kansas, Genesis, Kiss, Thin Lizzy, Queen, Black Sabbath and many more. Also Hockey and Basketball of course and Just NYC with the GF it was a fun two years in Port Washington but $$$$$$ expensive Lol Always remember the Manhasset Viaduct !! And when I got there in LI Son of Sam was still running around in 1977' !!!
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?
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.
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
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
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 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
