Railfanning Hamilton, NJ. Amtrak, NJT, and Martian reminders. 4/4/24

Acelas are doing 135mph past Hamilton, between Hamilton and Princeton Junction the northbound trains will enter the 150mph zone and will usually be up to 150mph by Princeton as the Acelas live up to their name and accelerate very quickly for a high speed train.

Always loved how the Grounds for Sculpture artworks are integrated into Hamilton station.

Nice station love your videos.

The problems with Hamilton are: 1. The lack of a big sign on nearby I 295 that Sloan Avenue is the exit for the station and 2. There are no direct access ramps from I 295 to the station parking lot like the Woodcrest interchange 40 miles south on 295 in Cherry Hill to the PATCO parking lot.

At Hamilton you can see the trains coming far away down the tracks.

Great place to railfan!! Trains, trains, buses and sculpture. 💚💚👌👌

Great video! Those arrows can accelerate nauseatingly quickly and some engineers will definitely give you the feeling that you're flying 🪽

Nice video, as always.The NEC is indeed a nice place to see trains flying low (I think top speed in that location is 135 Mph for Acelas, and 125 for conventional trains, this last limit being imposed by rolling stock type). I've noticed that some NJT trains seem to have cars with lots of flat wheels. It doesen't seems to be sonethig generalised, but in some cases seems to be quute promounced. So that maens a need for a truing session. The cause for the uneven 'flat wheel pjonomena'i might be to much pressure being applied to the wheels. That needs to be adressed. Those Commuter trains are kmown to be quute fast, and judjing by the way they enter platforms, break applicstions are quite strong but don't seem to be excessive. These might cause the odd flat spot, but not só pronuncend as some heard on some of these trains cars. By the way, you used to do some combined train & plane spotting videos, or just the plane thing. It would be nice to see one of those again. ;)

4:45 I caught that NJT at Princeton Junction and we met 184 with the 642 at Trenton which I was able to get a video from the back of train 85 of! I posted it

come swing by to West Haven, CT sometime, i live around there

Took a trip from Milford,CT to the Yankee game yesterday. haven't been on a train in a long time, the M8's are a pretty nice MU. The conductor told us that there was an 4.8 magnitude earthquake.

Great vid man, gotta change the video to 4/4/24 cuz 4/5 is today which is today the earthquake in NJ struck, 173 doesn’t stop in Trenton, i first visited Hamilton & Princeton Junction in March/April 2012 loved my visits

Sounds like NJT needs to build a better wheel shop, holy flat spots everywhere

Nice catch of the ALP46A in Classic NJT "Disco" Livery @ 20:53

I’m in Long Beach and things were shaking pretty good over here.

A couple of my co-workers in the northeast felt the quake this morning (one in eastern PA and one on Long Island). If you ever wanted the experience of driving trains on this route without getting hired on an engineer, it is in Train Sim World, NYP to Trenton, and you can drive 3 different trains, the ACS-64 and amfleets, the ALP-46 and multi-levels and the Acela. I've heard MARC has some trains that run to 125mph with their HHP-8s and Chargers, and SEPTA has some 125mph trains led by their own ACS-64s, and the Silverliner 5s run at up to 110mph. Also did you know that Denver has it's own mini-SEPTA, RTD commuter rail runs a fleet of Silverliner 5s though they're a newer version than the SEPTA ones and only go 80mph.

Another GREAT video. When are you taking us on an Acela cab ride?

You caught me!!! I was on Train 85 headed back home to Richmond 😃

I remember when the non-Metroliners in this area were limited to 110, now the Northeast Regionals do 125, just like the Metroliners used to go! Do the long-distance trains like the Silver Meteor and the Crescent do 125 in the high-speed zone as well?

In all my trips down to Philly from NY, I never understood why trains slow down so much after passing the Hamilton station. There's still a ways to go until you hit Trenton, but I guess there must be a good reason?