Amtrak Train 95 Cab Ride: Richmond to Newport News (2003) 

Glad I came across this video! Very nice to see a full, unedited cab ride on a US rail carrier. Plenty of them from Europe and other places, but seems hard to find similar for mainline US. Appreciated that there was no commentary, no music, no edits; just the ride. So thank you! And hopefully more will come out!

The conversation in the cab is - by far - the most interesting part of this trip

Awesome video. Love seeing those C&O signals especially.

I really enjoyed that. In my Navy days I lived in Newport News and took this train many times. Brings back old memories, thanks

Thanks for posting this video....It brought back some great memories for me being a conductor on this route...We would start out In acca yard and end up yarding the train in newport news yard...Thank you again for posting it.

Thanks for posting these vids man they are awesome I’ve gotten stuck watching like 3 full ones today

I always wanted to bid on this route.

We rode this same train in Aug of 2006. I really enjoyed watching, & it really joggled some memories of the ride from Richmond to Newport News.

Awesome video ! This video shows all of the old C&O cantilevers, signal bridges, signals before the dreaded darth vadar hooded signals.

Beautiful trip. Thank you to notice the interlockings.

Brings back some old memories of when I rode the C&O Fast Flying Virginian from Ashland, KY to Norfolk, VA back around 1955. We had to take a C&O ferry boat from Newport News to Norfolk. Thanks again for posting this.

living in the newpot news williamsburg area this video really shows alot. thanks for sharing

Truly enjoyed watching the video. :)

Nice seeing the run-up to Williamsburg (my fave vacation spot) from the cab rather than the passenger seat.

This shows Norge station where it was before being moved next to the library near the bridge overpass nearby. It's now a museum with a caboose off of Croaker Rd.

I RODE THIS TRAIN WAY BACK IN 1992 AND WE SURE WENT A LOT FASTER THAN THIS THROUGH THE RICHMOND TERMINAL AREA.

Please, if you have any more cab ride footage, please share it.

very cool. awesome video.

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Very cool video to watch.

Thanks for posting this, I've been staying in the Hampton Roads area for 2 years now and its interesting to watch the NEC from here and its curious to watch the line. Especially that far back I still think 2003 is not that long ago, but its 14 years! I was looking at the scenery in Williamsburg and everything is still there except 1:22:26 the cantilever has been replaced by modern signal posts, 1:23:05 the grade crossing across HWY 143 is gone and so are the buildings along HWY 60 on the other side. 1:23:12 the shack off to the right is now a 7 eleven store and the motel block further up is gone and replaced by Riverside Hospital tucked way in the back. The signals at LEE hall have been upgraded to modern posts and rearranged but its still a signal hub.

Great video.

Great video amazing footage..

My god it took 26 min to get from Staples Mill to Main Street Station. LOL

Very cool and entertaining. I've never been on the Amtrak, but live close to Newport News. Lee Hall and the Newport News station are two of my favorite train watching places. I've never realised how much of the Newport News area is single track. I'm very surprised that no westbound coal trains met you on that run. Looking forward to seeing more of your footage.

Hello, here is a good way to discover your country. I am French and I love your trains. Thank you for sharing.Tranlator made with Google Translate.

I like those white New Century sw/stands in the beginning shots.

Good video, but how sad looking at all the area where double track used to be.

Geez, how utterly depressing. 25 minutes to get from Staples Mill Road station to Main Street station? When I rode it back in 1967 it was a double-track Main Line all the way from Hampton Roads to Richmond. Now the former Hampton Roads station is the Newport News station, the Newport News station doesn't have tracks running to it any more, and Lee Hall isn't even a station stop any more.

I rode this train in the 90s from Newark Penn to Staples Mill Road.

i live right down that bridge on staples mill. parham rd.

Rail Videos and Hoagies the guy does it all

This video is hypnotizing

1:23:25 I drive by those tracks some times I even stayed in the hotel by them and it's so cool seeing my city from a train

Nice footage, but geez, all that time to get out of Richmond. Wow!

Wish they could’ve done the wrong trip from Boston to Newport News. That would be awesome!

Thanks for posting, brought back some memories. I was a qualified T&E employee from Baltimore to Richmond on CSX in that era. I had to go to Fulton yard a few times to get a coal train (yard at the end of the James River Viaduct), but was never officially qualified past South AY, always got a pilot. So I never saw the railroad east of the Fulton yard office area. Not very scenic is it? Really sad it takes over 30 minutes to get from Greendale station to past Fulton Yard, but for one train a day each way not really worth the money to upgrade and bypass a lot of the yard stuff. Was Doug Ridell the engineer? He's a great guy if it was him.

The train rides slowly but surely.

This trip takes 1 hour 28 minutes according to Amtrak schedule. Distance is approximately 70 miles.

Interesting video, one of these days I'm gonna take a cross country trip on the train, guess I'd better bring a good book it'll take a while! Still, it's something few Americans experience.

Dankeschön

i like your videos

Nice!

❤ it ! I live in Richmond. Saw "crossings" that I stop for on a weekly basis! Nice video, but who the heck was that talking so much ??? Have they ever heard of the word - HUSH ?! 😊

1:28:40 Lee Hall Station has been moved to other side of tracks, and is being restored to be a museum.

Jersey Mike, you've got the moniker, now we need to teach you how to ride freight. :)

lol. We used to party under that bridge. Hillard Rd Bridge @Glenside Drive and Staples Mill Rd.

Good video. Good Sandwiches😄

thank you detail ride on train show diff things long line in real railroad today

Not sure why the stretch from Richmond Stable Mills to Main Street is so slow, but at least it picks up speed later

Putt, putt the Peter popper. Oh wow we got up to 40 mph. This run is wild fast. 1940s tech.

Saw old telegraph posts!!

This video was very good I enjoy it so much, do another one.

FYI...at 1:32:30...it's Oriana...not Orina. Not trying to be a jerk or minutia freak...just thought I'd point that out. But that doesn't take anything away from this being a great video. I'm glad you posted it Mike.

This is a cab-ride in an Amtrak passenger train. Starting a passenger train is always gradual for the comfort of patrons who may be walking in the train car aisles. Note that the first signal bridge is YELLOW which signifies a maximum speed of 40 miles-per-hour prepared to stop short of the next signal, and that the next signal is a red-over-yellow signifying crossing-over to another main track at the prescribed speed being prepared to stop short of the next signal, which is "all red" (red over red over red). Pay attention to that signal when the bottom signal changes and goes red-over-red-over-yellow! I do not like the way they re-built the tracks due to railroad mergers and I definitely do not like their signal system. I also do not like the air horn habits of this engineer but modern train operations have changed greatly from when I was a locomotive engineer! Also notice the great speed handicap that Amtrak has today which did NOT exist during the days of steam and pre-Amtrak! This is not railroading at its best!

The interlocking you called AY is actually NA. The one you called South AY is actually AY. Hermitage Road (the first time you called one Hermitage Road) is actually South AY... the second one you called Hermitage Road actually was Hermitage Road. The intermediate they went by after Hermitage is called Dog Pound. Most of those signals at Fulton are gone now. Heading the way they were now it's just Coney Island -> R Cabin (with no cabin anymore) -> Darbytown.

ONCE WE CLEARED FULTON YARD WE REALLY STARTED MOVING ALL THE WAY TO NN.

Wow the unit you were in had a K5H Horn.

Our rail infrastructure is in a terrible state of disrepair!

The bug hit the window and messed up the shoot.

What happen to Ashland, VA? When I took the train, twice, to Williams Berg we went through Ashland, that was in the last part of the 80's.

wow, somewhat crusty trackage near Richmond - fun to see though

40:45 what did the windshield say to the bug? Bet you don’t have the guts to do that again!

Wonder what engine number is the P42DC

Perfect cab ride asmr, 👌 what is that blot on the windshield? Birdstrike

Wonder what OSHA would say about the noise levels in the cab.

Makes you wonder why at 17:23 they do not restore the track to the left

Nice bug smash at 40:30.... Diano is actually Toano. At 1:05:45

Can you make another video just like this?

My son takes this train…

You’ve got to remember! This is somebody else’s R R. M A C

1:26:45 Dow-Badasche cut off. Now abandoned..

What engine are u driving a heritage unit or original

Enjoying the video. It was disturbing how slow the train was going. Does it usually travel that slowly?

You be going by my old place when you get into providence forge area of new Kent county

I've seen freights do faster over the road. This engineer was certainty not in a hurry. Never seen one that drug his feet quite so much. I notices a track speed sign of sixty five and the engineer kept it a 35 or 40. Remind me never to ride this train. It's a wonder why Amtrak trains are late most of the time with timid engineers such as this one. I don't think he ever reached sixty!

Slightly surprised that there seemed to be no Platform starter at Richmond..

I love the sound of the motors what is the type of that locomotive? a GM?

How did you get a cab ride ?? It appears as though something disappeared at Hermitage rd

Whats the normal consist on there, Mike? Seven or eight cars, more or less?

If they have this route in Train Sim, please tell me!

like to see dc to new port news

So they use the WYE loop down the tracks to turn around and then where do they sit overnight? I don't see a layover yard

I love watching American cab rides after watching British and European cab rides. Obviously, those 'across the pond' do not understand that passenger service should be limited to 35 mph or that American passenger trains travel as far side-to-side as they do forward on any given day.

#95 is running so slow. They wonder why the ridership is low

40:20 Splat!

Thanks, bird. lol

American high speed rail at it's best, thanks for the video! That is a joke by the way!

They are doing quite a bit of work from Staples Mill to Main Street to raise the speed limit to 40 mph

Possibly a stupid question, but why every so often does the locomotive make a "thud...thud...thud...thud" noise almost like an unbalanced washing machine? It happens several times throughout the trip, is it the air compressor or something? Or just a phenomenon that occurs when the diesel is at a certain RPM?

nishioka.com/trainmap/fm8_qz7wrhk.html is a page i wrote which shows the current position of this train on Google Maps. It also shows speed and elevation.

That track is pretty rough.

Gee I hope this line has been improved! So slow!

1:17:32 wait that crossing had no side walk gates! i live next to here and now they have sidewalk gates

I'm confused about something. the ACL line toward Richmond cuts off way North of Broad Street Station. So did their trains have to back track every day? Seems like a stupid place to put a station then.

Missed a horn blow at 1:34:50

What kind of locomotive where you driving?

This train is slower than the "Slow Boat to China" route. I am out after 13 mins.

Naval Weapons stationspur 1:26:24

Did any chessie system engiens come here