A cab ride without music added to "improve" it, with full original sound, and full length real time without someone cutting out "the boring bits". Finally someone gets it. THANK YOU! Perfect!
Sorry to be off topic but does anyone know a tool to get back into an Instagram account?? I was dumb forgot my account password. I would love any assistance you can offer me.
@Jay Bruce thanks so much for your reply. I got to the site thru google and Im trying it out atm. Seems to take a while so I will reply here later with my results.
I like how they designed the train to run between the highways, so that when its backed up like in LA , you see exactly what your paying for. I also love the speed...in NYC we don't have that, we got other shyt!!!!
There aren't that many median tracks in DC, mostly the ones you see in this video (Orange and Silver lines west of Ballston-MU). On the other side of the Potomac you don't really have expressways radiating out from the city. The Blue and Yellow Lines below Reagan Airport (except the portion of the Yellow Line from King St to Huntington) follow the CSX tracks, so they can be above ground. Most of the above ground portions on the MD/DC side also follow CSX tracks, such as the Red Line from Union Station to Silver Spring and from Twinbrook to Shady Grove, the Green and Yellow Lines from College Park to Greenbelt, and the Orange Line from Minnesota Ave to New Carrolton. Obviously there are exceptions, such as some of the farthest out portions of the Blue and Silver to Largo and the Green to Branch Ave, and a few elevated tracks in dense urban areas if there is a big highway underneath to build it over.
Sometimes I find a train where the conductor is at the back. The door to the cab has two positions, one of which gives you access to two more passenger seats adjacent to the cab. A few times I've been able to sit there at the front of the train and enjoy the view (though you do have to sit awkwardly to make it work).
@Zachary Potter If you have to open a door to get there I'd say no but the times I've sat there the door was in the position where you could just walk over and sit down. The door still seals off the control area, just opens up the seat adjacent to it.
@@Rhacman You actually saw the conductor at the back? I know most (or all) trains have a conductor's cab at both ends so they can switch directions without rotating the train, but I've never actually seen the conductor in the back cab. I think they have to be able to see in front
@@victort.4798 It's been a while so perhaps I was mistaken but I seem to recall I could see into the area where they would have been and didn't see anyone. Odd they'd have the door in the position where I could sit up front if they were in there. Perhaps I was sitting next to them and staring right at them without realizing it lol!
Interesting to see the difference in trackage when the newer tracks of the Silver Line merge with the older tracks of the Orange Line as you approach E. Falls Church.
I would love to see more videos like these even if it's underground. DC's Metro is a crown jewel. That ride out to Dulles and beyond in the nearer future is gonna be quite long. It may require a trip to the bathroom before riding!
Friggin awesome to watch. I was born in DC and i took a ride from Benning RD to wherever my cousin took me the day it opened. Now i live in NE and regularly deliver steel to the Kawasaki plant where they are building your new cars. Incredible plant and operation.
@@benjaminbrown3939 Yes, but it makes sense considering it opened in 1986. I actually think the metro rehabilitation project for that area in the last year or so involved new rail ties, but don't quote me on that
I love to watch POV cab ride with this new silver line from Wiehle to Ballston. I hope to watch that POV video until Largo (end of silver line). I had watched many POV cab ride videos on NYC subway system and CSX railways.
Too bad you are under Republican rule. The don't believe in developing Mass Transit. Keep lobbying for it. We finally started working on it in the early 70's. DC was a mess before it. If Metro has to shut down, the Streets here in DC are a mess. I just wish we had done the extension lines in the 70's as well. This has been a God send.
+ThoseCoolVids I don't think it was the metro's headlights. And +jayo1212 I dont think it was actually a tunnel at 9 minutes if that's what you mean. I think it was just a little thing dug in right under a building...well...a tunnel but not like the rest of them lol
There was talk of a stop at Wolf Trap, using the event parking lots during the day for commuter parking, but obviously that would be fraught with huge logistical problems. What if everyone decides to work late one day and there's a concert that night. Do you tow their cars or something?
Salmagundiii That is a problem, but how many times a year are there concerts? There would be a bigger benefit in using it the lots for commuters year-round, and just banning them on event days, I guess? It would be hard to enforce, but I trust that people would do the right thing in most cases. People would just have to find alternatives.
Since this was filmed, the entire Silver Line is now in operation from Reston to Lanham. The Silver Line shares track with the Orange Line from East Falls Church to Armory - Audi Field, and with the Blue Line from there to Lanham.
In New York City they have someone who closes the doors plus the operator and that saves time. It kind of drives me nuts that there’s a delay between the time the doors close and the time the train moves and a delay between the time the train stops and the train doors open. in New York City it happens immediately. I guess it saves on labor costs but it can slow the ride a bit over time. Well the Metro Trains travel at a higher speed than the New York subway so I guess it balances out.
What was with that siren sound as the train left Greensboro station? Was that a sound from Metro (like a fire alarm test or something), or is it from elsewhere?
Reminds me of my home town Chicago max out at 55mph on the 95th Dan Ryan Red line , Eisehower and Kennedy Expwy Blue line Forest pk to O'Hare and Southwest corridor the Midway Orange line
Interesting to discover the DC metro system. To me, as a European, it looks more like a commuter rail similar to the Paris RER. More an more European commuter rail networks are connected with tunnels through the city centers... combining speed with connectivity.
That is because this video is showing the metro going out to the suburbs. The metro from Ballston (Arlington) into DC is much more like a traditional subway system.
In the inner portions, this very much acts a bit more like a subway system, much like the RER or S-Bahn type systems. That is very much what this system is, in essence.
We need a video on how to recognize the elevator building you just parked in. The levels have the same numbering Gn n 1 to 8 or 1 to 6, I forget. #Wiehle
I did know that the Silver Line metro is extending and coming to Dulles Airport as well as Loudoun through Reston and Herndon area, but the problem as well as my concern is that it's very long and slow. The speed, etc with the Metro trains is slow. In my opinion, the Silver Line Metro coming to DC from Loudoun area is too much time and it's too slow.
Is this taken from a 7000 series train? I like these Ride Alongs MetroForward ! I'd like to see you do one of the rest of the trip to Largo, and maybe one of the Yellow Line, too!
khroe It still seems like a bizarre engineering decision. The lack of a crossover will require all trains to offload at the platform to reverse. A pocket track is designed to allow trains to short turn (i.e. Red line). Since Wiehle will be a terminal, a crossover should've been designed on the inbound side. Perhaps it was due to budget costs.
PhillyFan20 Well it is a temporary terminal at most so I guess they felt like the the pocket track is fine which generally it is since at least the hope is the line will extend pass this stop some point within our lifetimes.
PhillyFan20 If you think about it, the pocket track on the opposite side allows space for four trains to wait at the end of the line, and is a crossover, all in one - while remaining useful after Wiehle is no longer a terminus. It does require trains to take a bit more time to reverse, but that's not unheard of - take, for example, the Ashmont terminus of the Red Line in Boston. I think it's pretty well-designed, personally.
@@dreamyyx_3762 The entire system is under ATC, of which ATO is a subsystem; and, currently, there are no lines on the DC Metro system that are utilizing ATO. It's also doubtful that the Silver Line Phase 2 will run ATO, because even if it's working, there are hundreds of operators with no experience with ATO. Training must come first.
Limited to 59mph every where except parts of the green line where speeds are 65mph. But speed commands lower all the time depending on what’s going on.
I am all in support of public transit, but this video doesn’t sell the concept very well. The relatively little traffic (that there is) is going a lot faster than the train. Why would anybody need this extension line? It seems the money would have been better spent in a more populated corridor where mobility is virtually at a standstill on the surface.
Hahah, no, BART doesn't go 80 MPH. It's limited to 70 MPH because they designed the braking system incorrectly. Washington Metro goes up to 75 MPH. This Silver Line train goes up to 65 MPH when I measured it yesterday.
Metro is full of BS, first you say you don't have the money to fix up the system, but you have money to run ads for the Silver Line. If I took over Metro, I'd cut the radio/tv/print ads and use it to fix up there rest of the system.
Why do most American cities look so desolate? Yet another example here of how ghostly American roadways and transit stops more often appear around that country..oh well.
trainrover cities like Tysons Corner show the most traffic during the morning and evening commutes. True they appear desolate, but by no means are they ghostly.
I lived in Reston and Tysons this video looks like it was taking on an early Sunday morning! During the week and later in the day on the weekend is busy! DC is a very populated city and this is more or less outskirts in Virginia
+lazamair come let me take you on a ride up Dulles toll road to 66 to the Capital Belt way thru the Springfield mixing bowl up 395 in to DC this Monday morning!!lol
I will never ride DC metrorail again. The service sucks, security is insufficient, attendants are rude and the trains are disgusting. Crackheads even do and deal illegal drugs in the trains and on the platforms.
