Burlington's First Passenger Train Since 1953: Kicking off Amtrak's Ethan Allen Express Expansion

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Burlington, Vermont has been without an intercity passenger train for 69 years, when the Rutland Railroad pulled out in 1953. That changed on July 29th, 2022 with the Inauguration of the Amtrak Ethan Allen Express from Burlington to New York Penn, with stops in Vergennes, Middlebury, Rutland, and points south.
After quickly looking at the history, planning, and preliminary work, we head to Burlington to see the historic, groundbreaking first run of the Ethan Allen. We also hear what some notable and instrumental men have to say about the new service including Bernie Sanders (Senator, VT), Stephen Gardner (CEO, Amtrak), and Selden Houghton (President, VRS).
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@JonBrooks105 2 года назад

Burlington Union is becoming a busy place with Amtrak and the VTR Dinner Trains... which are AMAZING.

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

It’s great to see!

@beingheardmedia6339 2 года назад

This was hella cool - thanks for recording! I'm from Philly and grew up taking Amtrak to NY and DC. Amtrak is like the air here, just everywhere. So it's hard to imagine - and distressing - to think there are parts of the country where Amtrak doesn't go. So YAY!!! Very glad they are expanding to Burlington. Let 's hope it keeps going (and it sounds like it will). Go Amtrak!!!

@louislamonte334 2 года назад

Fantastic news! Great video! Let's hope we see more passenger trains in New England. Let's hope we'll see extensions of service to Augusta and more locations in Maine!! Let's hope we see a lot more rail freight service in New England too!!

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

Augusta and Bangor next!

@trainsupporter9088 2 года назад

I was looking forward to this video! And - it was excellent. Here's hoping for other new services in New England and beyond!

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

Yes!!

@peters1127 2 года назад

Thank you for the excellent coverage on the Ethan Allen Express

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

Couldn’t miss it for the world!

@adamm2837 2 года назад

Too bad this train wasn't in operation at this time last year - I took the Vermonter to Essex Junction to attend a concert up there (actually the concert was in Essex Junction as well but we stayed in Burlington and spent time downtown during the day. The closest station to me is Pittsfield, MA and I kind of live smack dab in between Greenfield, MA and Albany-Rensselaer , NY so both the new Ethan Allen and Vermonter both serve me pretty well for getting up there. Burlington really is a beautiful city and the whole region really is a gem. My local stop, Pittsfield, also got new Amtrak service this summer - the Berkshire Flyer. I saw the Berkshire Flyer leave Pittsfield for NYC last Sunday and the consist was practically identical to the Ethan Allen's in this video. Great video! The speeches at the beginning were very interesting. Thanks for posting.

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

Thank YOU for watching!

@stephenwagner3584 2 года назад

Just finished watching this video, in three different stretches. Excellent, Harrison! Thanks! Steve Wagner

@believer5497 2 года назад

Wow..so much criticism . This is amazing to watch. A new rail service to to someplace that didn't have any. I use to drive to this town from Albany because there wasn't any other "comfortable way" to get there. I appreciate all the efforts..and will be using the services. Thanks Vermont!

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

Thank you for your positive words! And honestly, I don’t mind the criticism in the comments because it helps the video reach more people (engagement reasons)

@fhowland Год назад

SO great to have Amtrak service back. Any idea How has ridership been so far?

@torikicklighter1191 2 года назад

So happy for Burlington community & so glad to see expansion to cities across America…now if we can get passenger rail in Ohio, Georgia and a direct southern route from Detroit to Atlanta!!!

@caltrain_acefoamer907 2 года назад

It’s cool to find out that this train inaugurated the day I was flying over to New York from San Francisco

@wayneantoniazzi2706 2 года назад

Great report Harrison, and it looks like you had a fun day!

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

A good time was had by all- except we were DONE with Burlington traffic by 1 PM

@wayneantoniazzi2706 2 года назад

@@NorthCountryTrains Ah, the "Dark Side" of Burlington!

@skiparkcityut 2 года назад

I took it just to vergennes today. Big launch, fun ride

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

Awesome! Sold out by the time I tried to get tickets ☹️

@jacoblaw2044 2 года назад

I was actually on the first train south. Fun trip.

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

Awesome!

@RailBrothersProductions 2 года назад

Awesome history lesson

@Hahninator 2 года назад

Great video - super informative and really great footage!

@jamallhayden2512 2 года назад

Thanks for the video!

@brianholmes1812 2 года назад

Ive been planning a move to Burlington, and now here I have much better rail connections to the rest of thr country. A closer and quicker route to New York, and one where I can perhaps connect upstate to the lakeshore limited, making it so much easier for me to visit my family by Lake Eire. Definitely a great thing

@MetroNorth203Productions 2 года назад

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@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

They’re all the same to me but the paint scheme is nice to shoot.

@douglasalan5783 2 года назад

Nice to know! I could see taking Amtrak to Burlington from NYC - a one way ticket! I’m guessing this train stops at Springfield, Hartford and Nee Haven before NYP. Yes?

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

The train that runs via the Conn River line and those mentioned cities is the Vermonter out of Essex Junction. But personally, I think taking the Ethan Allen is much better as it’s a very direct route and faster.

@SamSitar 2 года назад

@@NorthCountryTrains you could ride the vermonter one way and the ethan allan the other way.

@mirzaahmed6589 2 года назад

No, it goes via Albany, NY. The Vermonter stops in Springfield, Hartford, and New Haven.

@northpennvalleysteamrailroad 2 года назад

Awesome video friend

@Brian_rock_railfan 2 года назад

Awesome 🚄🚃🚃

@unconventionalideas5683 4 месяца назад

When you realize a random town in Vermont has several times the Amtrak service that your own city triple the size has...

@birbeyboop 2 года назад

Seeing Bernie actually made me squeal a bit, love him. Not too many senators would bother speaking at a "silly little train party" like this.

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

I can’t say much about what any of the politicians said but he was probably the funniest

@fhowland Год назад

He’s a nutty old communist but good for him for getting train service back to his state and actually accomplishing something unlike our senators here in Mass

@happyvalleyhobbies6070 2 года назад

Nice video. Plus, the extra lights on the crossing gates have been answered on the last video you took of the place. White plus flashing white. I wonder what aspect those suppose to mean. I'm used to white meaning to take the siding, but it looks single track at that point.

@brianfalzon6739 Год назад

That is awesome news!

@StormySkyRailProductions 2 года назад

Very cool!

@chromebomb 2 года назад

Omg i've been on Loco 715 "Rensselaer" from NYP to ALB ! cool!

@ThatOneExoRailfan 2 года назад

Amazing

@shawiniganterminal7061 Год назад

My wife and son will take that train from Montreal , hope someday a connection with the Adirondak at Essex !

@NorthCountryTrains Год назад

Vermonter runs through Essex Jct, or do you mean the Essex, NY ferry?

@gerardgerard5681 Год назад

Harrison there is a sunken train in Lake Champlain near Ft Ticonderoga, there was a floating bridge that failed. Take the boat tour to see it.

@OrechTV 2 года назад

it supports development and really you should allow developers to make dense housing and business district raise up there ... at any station. Plus city can pay the the maintenance by rent of the land and business part of the station itself . You have money + density = more efficient and cheaper per person transport that even earns money :D

@apl175 2 года назад

will also help students at UVM and Champlain college get home to/from NYC

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

Yes!

@nomanejane5766 2 года назад

Wait, so the Vertmontner hasn't gone to Burlington since 1953?! That's like insane

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

The Vermonter has run to Essex Junction since the 90s. The Rutland ceased passenger service in Burlington in 53.

@ElPasoTexasRailfan639 2 года назад

Sorry bro my battery went dead while I was watching your premiere

@thewhippet7346 2 года назад

"Burlington's First Passenger Train Since 1953". Except for the Champlain Valley Dinner Train; The Champlain Valley Flyer tourist train; the Champlain Flyer commuter trains; the Sugarbush Vermont Express; the Ethan Allen Connection (an intercity train in 1999); steam excursion service back in the 1960s; annual Christmas, Halloween, Memorial Day and Independence Day trains; and AAPRCO conventions.

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

Title length limits did not allow me to elaborate- this is the first intercity, regular train since that date.

@SamSitar 2 года назад

good that they have a train route now. their next step should be an amtrak bus both ways between Burlington and Essex Junction OR make the those two interchangeable.

@appalachianenthusiast9499 Год назад

Honestly it would make sense for the Ethan Allen to leave the back three cars in Burlington and have the front two continue north. Amtrak could upgrade Essex Junction to allow for baggage service and layovers, letting Vermonter riders have a 90 minute layover in Essex Junction while they wait for the Ethan Allen. The Ethan Allen would continue through St. Albans and toward Montreal.

@JermaniBurroughs 10 месяцев назад

& there’s also a track that connect it too it so it should be easy.

@gerardgerard5681 Год назад

Can't wait to see the Adirondack back

@interstellarphred 2 года назад

Want to go to VT, ASAP, spend money, love ya Bernie.

@chromebomb 2 года назад

Congratulations Vermont!

@devilscreed1332 Год назад

69 years? They knew what they were doing.😂

@rd3ster 2 года назад

Yes, good to see that, at long last, Americans or at least some Americans can get out of their cars and take the train. Bravo. The on screen narrator of this clip is adorable. Sweet face and cherry cheeks. Sweet speaking voice. Delightful. Well done, sweet lad.

@lars7935 Год назад

It's a bit sad to see the state of railways in the US but at least something is happening.

@felixtv272 Год назад

Weird that they didn't extend it just a bit more to Essex Junction, would be a great interchange station, but I guess America never heard of the network effect.

@NorthCountryTrains Год назад

I agree, American certainly struggles to have a network. We have state-sponsored corridors and hub-and-spoke trains, but they just don’t get the importance of connecting the dots 🤷‍♂️

@unconventionalideas5683 4 месяца назад

Better to have a train that perhaps connects sub-optimally than no train. Perhaps it will happen as a separate project, as is the connection of Spain's High Speed Rail lines to one another in central Madrid (for awhile they all stopped at different points a few miles out because that was better than not having High Speed Rail in Spain, because that would have delayed the project massively and doubled the initial cost).

@allanegleston4931 Год назад

was the engine setting off track torpedoes?

@hirampriggott1689 Год назад

Sure would be nice if it continued to Montreal.

@NorthCountryTrains Год назад

There are proposals!

@snoopyloopy 2 года назад

What was up with the crossing gates not coming down in time?

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

A new system where the crew calls in to lower them

@ViLLagE-BiCycle269 2 года назад

I was down there on my bike stoned AF

@vzwodb17 Год назад

Choo choo 😊

@perrybelcourt5441 Год назад

Why do you text senator Bernie Sanders I'm a Canadian historian and Vermont is one of the cleanest safest best states in America Vermont is like a Scandinavia style state in America and North Vermont is one of the best places in Vermont

@perrybelcourt5441 Год назад

Text him at his Burlington office because most of the senators don't want to hear from anyone so text home office because I have alot of Hispanic in Mexico and I told them he would listen but text his Burlington office

@fluffnose3386 2 года назад

I’m sure it was a bumpy ride with all the coins I’m sure people put on the track 🤣

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

LOL

@mrsvoyage 2 года назад

Come to montreal

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

My video on why Amtrak killed the Adirondack should be out next week!

@locomotiveproductions 2 года назад

If it was high speed it wouldn't be a 7 hour ride to NYC from Burlington . Plane seems like the best bet unfortunately

@nomanejane5766 2 года назад

7hrs?!

@locomotiveproductions 2 года назад

@@nomanejane5766 yep

@akgupta94 2 года назад

Unlike a plane, a train isn't about connecting two points far from each other. It's about connecting smaller points in-between, and coincidentally connecting 2 points across a longer distance

@locomotiveproductions 2 года назад

@@akgupta94 Yea I know that lol. But 7 hours for that distance? TGV in France can go from Paris to Montpelier which is further in just 4.5 hours. I was just saying that HSR would be way quicker than 7.5 hours so taking the plane doesn't seem like a bad option (assuming you're riding the whole line), in the circumstance that you have to get off in between then I can't really say anything about it. hopefully one day a bunch of HSR lines will be built

@lars7935 Год назад

@@akgupta94 Trains can do both. If you have the infrastructure you can have trains serving all stops, limited stop services and direct express services. It's nit that hard to figure out but you do need the infrastructure.

@perrybelcourt5441 2 года назад

I'm a Canadian historian and senator Bernie Sanders is more popular and respected all over the world thank you Vermont

@winstonsmith2902 2 года назад

I am sure Bernie takes the train down to DC

@perrybelcourt5441 Год назад

No because he going to Britain and France and Germany and Arizona and a part of Florida and a part of Texas where the democratic can't win but his pick did and the national Dnc doesn't like senator Bernie Sanders that why Obama Clinton Pelosi Clyburn told everyone to drop out and back Biden in the primary and Joe Rogan endorsed senator Bernie Sanders but independents not allowed to vote in some democratic states and uncle Joe is going to destroyed America I'm watching this in 2023 and uncle Joe is a war monger uncle Joe like genocide in Gaza hailed Hitler from corrupt corporate media outlets in America blocked the truth to the world like Hitler did in nazi Germany

@darthmaul216 Год назад

If only it was electrified

@ChamplainDivision 2 года назад

New Amtrak or not, Burlington sucks without the Ferry. Reinstate The Adirondack!!!

@NorthCountryTrains 2 года назад

Yes! I would take the ferry to railfan on my bike! The Charlotte ferry sucks as it is!

@kevinhoward9593 2 года назад

I dont understand when they extend a train. so they extended it to Burlington, is it really worth the Millions it cost just to get a about 50-100 extra passengers? Funny thing is that even those 100 people the train will never make any money and have to front the bill to taxpayers. Come to think of it, i dont even know why Amtrak charges us money when 90% of the trains revenue is from State Funds. Without help the train would be a money pit.