I Spent Over 12 Hours on an Amtrak Train (on purpose)

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References & Further Reading

Which form of transport has the smallest carbon footprint?
https://ourworldindata.org/travel-car...

https://assets.nationalrail.co.uk/e8x...

Looking east at the widest segment of Highway 401
By Clashmaker - Cropped version of File:Highway 401.png, CC BY-SA 2.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

High-Speed Railways: Present Situation and Future Prospects
https://www.scirp.org/html/4-3500117_...

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An eastbound VIA Rail Canada train passing through Port Credit GO Station in Mississauga (Port Credit), Ontario
By Milan Suvajac - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Northbound Northeast Regional #94 arriving at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in March 2019
By Mark Levisay from Ruckersville, VA, USA - D7K_5938-1, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Amtrak train #156, The northbound Northeast Regional, is led today by GE P42 #158.
By Mark Levisay - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mlevisa..., CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

The overwhelming majority of this video was filmed on location by Not Just Bikes, though a few scenes use stock footage from Getty Images

No generative AI or AI voices were used in the making of this video

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:24 Leaving New York
3:04 On the train
4:03 The views
4:38 Freight trains & delays
5:37 The train is so much more comfortable
7:09 The border crossing
8:17 The Canadian side
9:24 Should you take this train?
10:20 Comparisons to Europe & Japan
11:20 We need more high-speed rail
12:02 VIA Rail is bad ... and getting worse
12:58 VIA Rail is expensive!
14:11 The new VIA Rail baggage policy 🤦‍♂️
15:49 Better train service is important!
17:14 Concluding thoughts