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Wallingford - Least Used Amtrak Station in Connecticut

Miles in Transit

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Is it all downhill from here? (also we somehow made it through this whole video without mentioning Ned Lamont; I'm immensely disappointed in myself)
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0:00 - Vermonter to New Haven
3:20 - Exploring New Haven
5:38 - Hartford Line and Wallingford Review
12:58 - Exploring Wallingford
15:08 - Back in New Haven

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20 Comments

@davidsp5936 3 years ago

It would be hilarious if you went to Washington Union Station just so that you can say that you went to the least used Amtrak station in DC.

@OntarioTrafficMan 4 years ago

8:55 It's 3:41PM and the board is informing you that the 5:14PM train will be 2 minutes late. I think the board overestimates its own precision.

@catherinesvideos156 3 years ago

Those CT rail cars look so nice! When they first started CT Rail service in about 2018, the train cars weren't produced in time so they borrow decommissioned MBTA commuter rail cars which was a weird deja vu on my first ride as they had cleaned and painted the outside but changed nothing on the inside so it was like being back in the train cars of my very young childhood.

@asamyers4572 4 years ago (edited)

New Haven getting the shoutout it (mostly) deserves. Fun fact about that park: it’s built on an old cemetery and one time a tree fell over in a storm and the roots exposed some nice corpses

@connorblack99 3 years ago

Lmao, I’m from the “not New England” part of CT technically, but our town was pretty rural so it reminds people of Massachusetts suburbia! Personally, I feel trapped between both identities and belonging to neither like some strange awful curse

@deew_knird_reeb_ekomS 3 years ago

"In the middle of nowhere and a long walk to downtown" cracked me up as someone that lives in New Haven lmao

@paulriv 4 years ago

As a NYer, I've purposefully taken Metro-North from Fordham to New Haven to get on a bus to go to Boston (rip Boltbus) just to experience the pure awesomeness of New Haven Union Station. *Much* better than the Port Authority or Penn Station, and the OTP of Metro-North is superior than the OTP of the subway.

@thefareplayer2254 4 years ago

15:57 that’s the best description of New Haven I’ve ever heard.

@hitheremynameis-xd8os 9 months ago

As a New Havenite that 1 minute ride from Union Station to State Street is fantastic. First off, it's free. Secondly, as the video shows, Union Station is very remote while State Street is right downtown and within walking distance from my apartment. Sometimes I get off metro north and there's a CT rail set to leave a minute or two after I get to Union Station and I can just hop on the CT rail for a minute and get a free ride downtown.

@Booger414 2 years ago

There is a free shuttle bus between New Haven Union Station and the New Haven Green.

The CT Rail Hartford Line is operated under contract from CTDOT by Transit America, which makes their joint ticketing with Amtrak interesting because the CT Rail Shoreline East is run under similar contract by Amtrak but does not have joint ticketing.

The rolling stock for the Hartford line (which some now call the Springfield line) has always been a mix of cars that used to serve elsewhere, some MNRR, SLE, MBTA (MA) and VADOT cars. The same goes for the engines which come from MNRR & Amtrak.