Capitol Limited eastbound at Pittsburgh - 2007-05-18 AM

[locomotiveconductor]

does the Capitol always back in Pitt?

[wis465]

@locomotiveconductor - I only took the Capitol just that one time, so I don't know if this backing up is the normal practice at Pittsburgh.

[r35killa]

lol ive ridden on this train once every year for the past 6 years and its always running late around 7 am

[jfsa380]

can't they just leave the 29 on the mainline for the 5 minutes they are there? there are places to cross the tracks

[howardkevinm]

@jfsa380 theres no platform on the track hes on so he has to come back once the other traffic gets out of the way.

[jfsa380]

must be running 1 1/2 hours late

[MungoPoPo]

Amtrak rocks and is destined to be the best rail travel in the USA. T.C. 4-18-2010

[EMTDON158]

Nice job!

[rchgck]

Great video!

Wish there more more like this from all approaches.

rchgck

[cforssi]

Nice to see what the Pittsburgh station looks like at track level. Not as pathetic as most of Amtraks stations but well underserved.+

[jfsa380]

@cforssi yeah, only four trains a day, Capital limited 30 at 5:20 AM; Pennsylvanian 42 at 7:20 (except sun) (to nyc); Pennsylvanian 44 at 1:20 (sun) (to nyc); Pennsylvanian 43 at 8:05 pm (from nyc) and Capital Limited 29 at 44:48 (was-chi) so, not many trains, not much traffic, and only two ticket agents. so, yeah, could be nicer, but thanks, i like it too.

[redbeast2]

Cool!

[ebt12]

At first I was wondering why the Capitol Limited came in in Track 2 and had to back onto Track 1, then I remembered that at the time the video was made some work was being done on the North Side at Federal Street.