Amtrak Northeast Regional #94 Full Ride From New York Penn Station to New Haven [7-31-20]

Welcome aboard Amtrak Northeast Regional Train #94 the weekday train from Norfolk, Virginia to Boston South Station! Today we will only be traveling on the Northeast Corridor section of track between New York City, New York, and New Haven, Connecticut. Our train is lead by a Siemens ACS-64 locomotive. Our sole stop along the way today will be Stamford, Connecticut.

The New York to New Haven section of the Northeast Corridor dates back to 1849 when it was first completed by the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad. The entire line has been electrified since 1907 via overhead-catenary. Most of the line between New York and New Haven is quadruple-tracked with occasional triple and double-track sections. Metro-North's New Haven Line runs concurrently along most of the line up until New Rochelle, NY. The section of track we will be traveling on today is the slowest of all four sections of the Northeast Corridor with a top speed of only 90 MPH for a short 3-mile section of track located in New Rochelle. This is primarily due to the aging infrastructure and frequent curvature of the line. Between New Haven and New Rochelle, our top speed is only a mere 80 MPH between the Harrison and Larchmont Metro-North Stations. The line is owned by the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT) from just East of New Haven Union Station to the New York State-Line. From there to the interlocking in New Rochelle where the Metro-North New Haven Line splits from the Northeast Corridor the line is owned by Metro-North. The rest of the tracks from New Rochelle to Penn Station are owned by Amtrak. This section of the Northeast Corridor is arguably the busiest section of the entire corridor especially between Stamford and New Rochelle with countless amounts of trains running during weekday peak-hours. As such, the line is often plagued with delays especially to Amtrak trains due to congestion and frequent maintenance-work to aging-bridges and stations.

Sit back, relax, and enjoy the sights and sounds of the journey! :)

Additional Information:
Recording Date: July 31, 2020
Editing Tool: Sony Vegas Pro 17
Leading Locomotive: Amtrak ACS-64 #6??
Train Number: 94
Class I Rode In: Coach
Coach I Rode In: 1st
Departure Station: New York, NY Pennsylvania Station
Arrival Station: New Haven, CT Union Station
Departure Time: 5:38 PM EST
Arrival Time: 7:21 PM EST
Travel Time: 1 Hour 43 Minutes
Track Owners: ConnDOT, Metro-North, Amtrak
Top Speed: 90 MPH
Electrification Type: 12.5 kV at 60 Hz (New Haven-Sunnyside Yard), 12 kV at 25 Hz (Sunnyside Yard-Penn Station)

Video Table of Contents:
0:00 - Heading to the track to board our train.
3:46 - Departing Penn Station
6:10 - Entering the East River Tunnels
10:15 - Harold Interlocking - The busiest interlocking in the United States!
14:56 - Amazing view of Manhattan and the 1 World Trade Center
15:07 - Crossing the Hell Gate Bridge
28:07 - All tracks from this point onward are owned by Metro-North until the NY-CT State Line
28:25 - Joining Metro-North's New Haven Line
29:10 - New Rochelle Metro-North/Amtrak Station
32:08 - Larchmont Metro-North Station
33:42 - Mamaroneck Metro-North Station
35:31 - Harrison Metro-North Station
38:11 - Rye Metro-North Station
40:09 - Port Chester Metro-North Station
40:50 - Crossing the Byram River from Port Chester, NY into Greenwich, CT
43:05 - Greenwich Metro-North Station
45:13 - Cos Cob Metro-North Station
45:35 - Crossing the Cos Cob River
46:11 - Riverside Metro-North Station
47:36 - Old Greenwich Metro-North Station
52:27-53:17 - Arriving/Departing Stamford, CT
55:58 - Junction where Metro-North's New Canaan Branch splits from the Northeast Corridor
57:08 - Noroton Heights Metro-North Station
59:09 - Darien Metro-North Station
1:00:44 - Rowayton Metro-North Station
1:02:38 - South Norwalk Metro-North Station
1:03:23 - Junction where Metro-North's Danbury Branch splits from the Northeast Corridor
1:03:40 - Crossing the Norwalk River
1:04:42 - East Norwalk Metro-North Station
1:07:52 - Westport Metro-North Station
1:08:09 - Crossing the Saugatuck River
1:10:54 - Green's Farms Metro-North Station
1:12:11 - Southport Metro-North Station
1:13:50 - Fairfield Metro-North Station
1:15:19 - Fairfield Metro Metro-North Station
1:17:30 - Fairfield Train Collision Accident Site ( A serious, but a non-fatal collision between two Metro-North Trains in May 2013)
1:19:35 - Bridgeport Metro-North/Amtrak Station
1:23:53 - Stratford Metro-North Station
1:25:40 - Crossing the Housatonic River
1:26:03 - Devon Interlocking, where Metro-North's Waterbury Branch splits from the Northeast Corridor
1:28:54 - Milford Metro-North Station
1:34:20 - West Haven Metro-North Station
1:38:50 - Arriving at New Haven Union Station
1:41:35 - Welcome to New Haven!