Amtrak’s NEWEST Train: The Borealis! 

No Amtrak train will EVER compare to the majestic and beautiful Milwaukee Road's Olympian Hiawatha that used to go through Hastings.

Thank you for this superb video ! The locations were outstanding, and I must say the P42 locomotives look stunning in the Phase VII livery !

Kinda reminds me of the North Woods Hiawatha from years back!

Great paint scheme for that Genesis locomotive

A lot of nice shots in this! I rode the Borealis down to Winona and back on Saturday. Like the one in your video, my return 1333 got stuck behind a freight between Hastings and St. Paul, though it had already been late in Winona. I hope the planned track improvements in La Crosse, La Crescent, and Winona will help it get to the Cottage Grove area on time as much as possible. Maybe some of the ideas that had been investigated as part of Red Rock corridor planning might get implemented to improve that area too. Like the test train, the first westbound on May 21st only had a single locomotive. I haven't heard how that turned around. It's interesting seeing all the other Borealis trips running with locos on each end -- I'm not sure if Amtrak has another service quite like it. I can only think of routes that have non-powered cabs and, well, the Acela. I'll be curious to see how often the cafe/business car is on the end of the train closest to St. Paul vs. the Chicago end. I was surprised it was on the trailing end for both of my rides on Saturday.

And of course the engines are all in the P42 Phase VII scheme.

Great video, well done!

Great coverage of this new train. I hope ridership is good so it keeps running.

Great video shots of this train!

75 must be a very recent repaint, believe that brings the number to 6 repainted P42s? It's always nice to see a brand new service. The Downeaster up here is getting it's Amfleets replaced with Horizon cars so I guess those will be something I'll get to see now as well!

I have a ticket for later this summer, can't wait to give it a try!

Excellent video. Great shots and pleasant narration.

Great Video !

Don’t know if I’m a fan of how the color pattern is arranged (I prefer the original chrome and stripes patterned on the sides myself), but the engine certainly looks prettier than it has been this past decade what with the dull, muted color scheme that made it look like a giant grey brick on wheels.

Rode the Borealis Sunday from La Crosse and the Empire Builder back on Monday. Also got stuck near St Paul. Listening to the scanner it sounded like the dispatchers aren't aware of the new train yet. Side note, those amfleet cars have got to be the most ugly rail cars ever made! Looks like the wheels could fall off at any point! So glad there is only one of them!

the borealis needs to be extended to duluth eventually.

May any greed in some railroaders' hearts be transformed by this beautiful video. Go Pete Buttigieg!

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0:14 You can see the train drivers there operating the P42DC.

Interesting how they are using the newly repainted P42s and not the new chargers. Any reason for this?

Ugly paint scheme.