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🇨🇦🇺🇸What’s it like to Take 13hrs Amtrak Train from Toronto to New York? || The Maple Leaf



◆VIA Rail & AmtrakThe Maple Leaf, Coach Class (Toronto Union Station→New York Penn Station)

◆I’m a Japanese train enthusiast and stayed in the US🇺🇸 and Canada🇨🇦 for a month.

✔︎🇺🇸US and 🇨🇦Canada in 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v34h-6AzuHU&list=PLHn2qT4xUcrzXvwSEW3hJlE-PdUbRSJ3e

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40 Comments

  1. Patte

    In North America, train travel is very slow, because most of the tracks are owned by freight companies, which let passenger trains travel on them, for a fee. Freight trains take priority, so passenger trains have to wait for them to go by.

  3. Patte

    The green & white trains at Union Station are GO Trains, the local passenger trains. GO is short for "Government of Ontario", which started the service in 1967.

    If you come back to Toronto, you can visit the Roundhouse Museum (which has one of the original single-level GO Trains), and the Halton Radial Railway Museum (which has many old transit vehicles) in Halton.

  4. Patte

    Several years ago, there were plans for passengers to be able to go through U.S. Customs & Immigration at Union Station, instead of at the border. However, the plans were cancelled when the pandemic hit.

  5. Garfunkel's Funky Uncle

    Unfortunately, the coach on Amtrak is bad, that's why I always heard people saying you should get a sleeper car, they're quieter and you have an amazing view out your window.

  6. Mike Aveling

    Wow! I can drive from Toronto to New York city in 8 hours
    Or I can drive to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in 13 hours
    12 hours seems pretty long. I'd rather drive

  9. Гарри Силаев

    13 hours in a chair? Are your legs numb? I couldn't stand itI also see that you got out of the wagon at every station. Aren't you afraid that the train will accidentally forget you and leave?

  10. Keith MacDonald

    Welcome to North America, where you get treated like garbage & pay for the privilege. I apologize for the crappy experience you had. And I agree: a plane would have been a better choice.

  11. eottoe2001

    A slow Shinkansen could cover the distance in 2 hours. LOL (BTW, when I was a kid all you needed to cross the border was a driver's license, and failing that they would ask your name,, where you were born, and where you lived. Mom usually brought our birth certificates; they were never needed. PS No barbed wire border spots either.)

  12. Helene L

    You're probably back in Japan, so posting this is surely too late, but if you took the Silver Meteor or the Silver Star, my town is on the route of those trains. I would meet you, and bring you a quick lunch!

  15. Steve Gattuso

    It looks like what you had for your second meal was a ham & cheese submarine sandwich (depending on regional preferences, they can also be called a grinder/hoagie/etc), and $19 is typical for travel food in the US. You'll likely get a better meal out of that hot dog cart you can see at the end of your video.

    Not sure how long you spend in NYC, but I hope you got to go to at least one good restaurant while there, preferably a proper pizzeria or other Italian location. (There's other excellent restaurants as well, I'm just partisan for my ancestor's cuisine. 👩‍🍳)

  16. mizu the floatzel

    When you do pick to fly in the u.s. and Canada try porter airlines it flies at Newark international airport terminal B the planes they use are small for the Newark to Toronto route and feel like you're being pushed around . Oh as for how Amtrak is well just say that train car your in as be refurbished multiple times over the last say couple years. Most of the rolling stock on the Northeast region of Amtrak date back to the possibly 80s. I believe they've been trying to get new rolling stock for the Northeast region for years but that's a different story

  21. Bivolari

    So sorry about Amtrak. It's the stepchild of American travel. By the way, your route map is incorrect. The train travels along the mohawk River to Albany and then down the Hudson. You hav e it going through Pennsylvania . I do not believe that route is operational anymore.

  22. Mikeylodeon

    soooo much difference when riding public transportation in the US versus in Japan. people are obnoxious, disrespectful and inconsiderate. watch out getting robbed when you arrive in new york.

  23. Rogerio Monteiro

    134 USD in a coach car, in my opinion is expensive, it is also possible to reduce the travel time in about 3 hours making a better border control. In Europe, even befere the Schengen agreement, they were allready made in the train, avoiding the annoing waiting at the border. In fact 42 miles per hour is in actual standards ridiculous. Even in my country (Portugal) we make better times (62 miles per hour).

  26. metropod

    The locomotive change in Albany is the result of New York law prohibiting diesel powered trains in Penn Station and Grand Central.

    The new locomotive was a GE P32-ACDM, which can take power from the third rails used by the MTA commuter trains.

    The State and Amtrak and looking to replace them with new dual mode versions of the Siemens “Charger” type locomotives.

  27. FelineStorm

    Ok so when I guessed the Maple Leaf was next, I was just off by one video, ha ha.

    I really hope you got to see Niagara Falls on the trip!

    If you ever come back to the states, I would suggest you look at the Grand Canyon railroad from Williams AZ up to the canyon, it is…quite the experience.

    Thanks as always for a great and relaxing video! Keep it up! 🙂

  32. WaldoVonErich3

    Thanks for the video I enjoyed it. I did this trip twice in the 1990s to go and see the ball drop on New Year’s Eve in Times Square. On my first trip we didn’t get there early enough so could not get close to the ball drop, second trip went well, got a good spot except we had to stand for four hours!! Back then we were allowed to stay in our seats on the train while the customs agents came aboard and checked everyone. Can you tell me please the name of the hotel where you stayed in New York should I ever go back.

  34. Internet Person

    At 10:50 you are just passing New Hamburg station, my local place for catching a train to NYC most of my life. It's cool to see you somewhere so close to me after being subscribed to this channel for years.

    Also, people are very obnoxious on the trains here. No consideration for others. I hate that too.

  36. Hekate Cobos

    I live in Toronto and many times I visited NYC, I have a brother who lives there, but I've never take the train, just plane and bus. However now that I watched your video I really want to give it a try. I also hope to visit your country one day. Greetings!

  39. Steve E

    In the US and Canada, you are hoping for "the" Best, not hoping for "My" Best. Lost in translation…

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