Nashville's Commuter Train - Starring the WeGo Star! 

I liked that idea of reviving the section of the old Tennessee Central mainline. I think that’s something that could work eventually.

Interesting but for rail to really work, there needs to a regional component. I-40 between Memphis and Nashville is a nightmare. The cities are too close for air travel and traffic grows worse on the corridor every year. A rail line with a few stops, maybe Dickson and Jackson, makes a lot of sense IMO.

As someone who grew up in Nashville this was a joy to watch, thanks a ton.

As I live in tennessee, i truly miss seeing the locomotives in the Music City Star scheme with the one locomotive still in amtrak paint,

At least you have one commuter rail system. Here in Atlanta, we have nothing!

Excellent video!

I'm from near Louisville, KY and this video made me think that I would love to see your take on any of the many interesting topics regarding the Louisville and Nashville Railroad

I wish we spent funds on the additional routes to Clarksville and Ashland City so we could get to Nashville easier. I wish the southern states had better train commutes in general

Great video Brian!

I liked to learn how my favorite train started up and grew. Nice video!

It would be great if they would come down to Clarksville, it would make travelers feel better when commuting to work and then back home.

Excellent video, Brian, look forward to more..........

Amazing vid man! This might be a second favorite commuter railroad besides NJT

Interesting documentary

Very good video! Great job on interviewing someone from WeGo themselves to cover one of the most underrated commuter railroads in the U.S.! I don't think the first transit oriented development is along the Music City Star line though, since many similar developments have been built near other Train stations, such as Wyandanch, NY for the LIRR. Regardless, great video! My grandfather lived in Nashville for a certain amount of time, so it's heritage is part of my own as well.

I never knew so many cities had commuter rail

We need the Star to keep growing! Kudos for Nashville

Nashville could’ve had a LRT. Sad to think about

Awesome video! I support commuter railroads. My local commuter railroad, VRE has helped Northern Virginia grow.

Can you do a review of the Austin Metro Rail in the future? I live in apartment that is kind of like this. And Austin has a major traffic problem as well.

There are reasons why you don't have off year elections for big packages. Or maybe the state should nut up and do something about it.

You should do the Milwaukee Road railroad and why they closed

If this were proposed now it would 100% pass with the current growth of the city. Can't wait for a proper rail in Music City - she deserves it! While we're here... Amtrak anyone? That's gotta happen!

I need this in HO scale. Love the livery.

If you're in the area, and would like to ride the train, this video explains how to catch it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sVss5Ylr3uM.html

The "new" galleries are actually older than the Music City Star branded cars. They are just more reliable so we use them now

Are you planning on making videos on other smaller commuter rail lines such as Shoreline East

Lol. Hamilton station is not the first TOD. Lol 😂 that was funny Af

As someone who grew up in a community near Nashville and drove delivery around the metro area of Nashville for several years, the town would be best described as "too big for it's britches" now. Nashville's rapid growth in the last 5 years is something many of the older residents have come to resent and often see many modenrization plans as counter to the "small big city" feel they grew up with. An important thing to remember, many of the locals have not really been to other cities to experience even bad public transit much less good public transit. The outling coummunites of Nashville are now numbering more in population that the actual City limits; but no one in those outling communites wants to give their tax moeny to the city as they do not identify as being "from Nasvhille." Its unfortunatly something you'll have to drag them into kicking and screaming despite so many people complaining about I-40, I-65 and I-440 traffic.

all day, high frequency is the only way to run a service!

When I first saw the WeGo. I thought it was a Metra and someone either edited the paint or someone graffitied the train. Then I realized the WeGo writing.

I love your videos, keep up the great work!

oh its the sounder yeah that train that stopped at the stadium

This was a great video--I'm really hopefully that additional train routes will be added in the future!

PLEASE add a lavatory!

We got a study being conducted currently to connect Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville and results will be posted no later than july 2023 by the TACIR

I feel like they built this commuter railway along the wrong corridor. Would have made much more sense to build it from Columbia via Spring Hill, Franklin, Brentwood and Downtown Nashville up to Goodlettsville. That would have gotten better ridership since those parts of the Nashville Metro Area are more populated.

I have a question. I grew up in Hendersonville, and wondered why the train service couldn’t include a stop in Hendersonville. Someone that works at CSX told me that CSX owns the railroad tracks and it would cost a million dollars per track mile to make this happen and that no one wants to pay that. Is the above true? What I was told?

Nice video. I loved taking this train into downtown when I was visiting family in TN. Where did you find the footage for the opening ceremony and the videos of the rail line before the opening? Thanks!

i saw a wego engine going back to nashville through the csx henderson subdivision

I love how they say they bought new cars to replace the old…. Both were built at the same time in 50-51 the “old cars” are Pullman Standard built fir the Chicago North western, the new ones were built for the Chicago Burlington and Quincy the same time. The first cab cars 790-795 arrived in 54-55

I am working on making soon on the A2TC project that will bring commuter rail to Northern Michigan.

Who knew those metra by level cars are still surviving

this was a great video! 👍

The 2018 referendum failure was one of the largest disasters for American transit in the 21 century. Nashville could have had multiple light rail lines and so much more😢

I live near mt. Juliet station and every time I go to my school at 8:15 I hear the train and I love it and I heard the train for more than 6 years of being near that station. idk if this comment satisfied you.

Decent update remake Still miss the old though

Should check out GO Transit in Toronto

Brian:it’s 5 a clock Me:ummmmmm no it’s 6:14 PM

You live in Nashville? That’s cool I live in Knoxville

Nice Video

I’ve lived my entire life in the NYC region, mostly on the New Jersey side, so I take getting around by train for granted. More recently I’ve been completely fascinated by some of the smaller, more obscure commuter rail systems around the country and really rooting for them to succeed. Not sure you can really make a case for that being the first transit oriented development in the country, considering even the town I live in grew up around its train station, which opened in 1839, but at any rate it’s good to see that kind of growth happening in regions that have been almost completely car-oriented for decades.

You should do one on tri rail

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We they got a new branding

Nice dude

DMUs!

OUTSTANDING. ! WELL DONE. 🇺🇸

More dense development is needed. Continuously expanding the suburbs with sprawl won't make a transit-friendly city. It will result in more traffic.

Man I do so want passenger rail here in Louisville.