Amtrak Northeast Regional #95 Full Ride From New Haven to New York Penn Station [7-31-20]

Welcome aboard Amtrak Northeast Regional Train the weekday train from Boston South Station to Norfolk, Virginia! Today we will only be traveling on the Northeast Corridor section of track between New Haven, Connecticut, and New York City, New York. Our train is led by ACS-64 locomotive the second-to-last ACS-64 locomotive delivered to Amtrak in June 2016. 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...