4K/60p: LIRR M3 Front Window Ronkonkoma to Penn Station (Featuring the FULL 3rd Track)

Is Ronkonkoma the far east end of 3rd rail electrification?

cool jouney

At 49.34 you can spot the spaceship between Floral Park and New Hyde Park on the north side of the ROW. It's been there for years. An old amusement park ride, I guess.

Amazing!

MrMaster, your video are always beautiful. Congrat !!!

hi from the UK. awesome video - ill be coming over soon - how do you find out which trains are running as an m3 ? cheers !

I moved off LI in 1988 and remember the steam trains of the Ronkonkoma line coming through Merrick a few times a day. Even living a few miles from the station, you could hear them come through. How cool to see the line electrified.

I enjoy these as a transplanted NYer now living in Texas. I commuted on the LIRR and then Metro North for years into Manhattan and boy do I have stories. One of the best was years ago I took the LIRR from Flatbush Avenue to Hicksville on the morning a blizzard was ramping up. Stupid decision but I had an appt and needed to keep it. By the time I got back to the Hicksville station a foot of snow had fallen and we were trapped at a little bar under the station where a stranger kept buying rounds for anyone stuck there. It was such an amazing moment. Finally had to go to my parents house in Queens by way of LIRR diesel! Couldnt get back to Brooklyn for 2 days! but what a memory

I like this with the rain. Not always have great weather, plus who doesn’t like a train ride with the sound of rain? Greetings from way down south in Argentina 🇦🇷

Do the bells in the background let you know you can leave a station?

Great video, reminds me of doing this same ride back in 2005 on M1s, same rainy kind of day.

Why don't the platforms have protection from the weather? The poor passengers waiting in the rain.

Ok I’m finally going to ask,
What’s with that alarm ringing?

Having not been back to the east coast since leaving in 1965 (now live in Nevada) this is very interesting because it lets me see that everything is very much the same as it was all those years ago. Out here in the west everything is so much more wide open. Thanks for sharing.

My LIRR line for two years! Used to take the 7:21 am express into Penn and 5:55 pm return. All my LIRR rides were full of excitement: Heading for work in the morning, fresh new day, sometimes trying to nap my ride away. I always took the same seat at Ronkonkoma. Same neighbors in front, back and side seats. Sitting dead on the afternoon train, but happy to be heading home back after a great day at work in Manhattan.

I notice a lot of overhead catenary, how often is it used?

What a disgusting, rainy day it was on this day!! Yuck!☁️🌧️☔ It ruined a nice video that's for sure. It would've been amazing if it was a beautiful sunny day.

Obviously Penn Station is the last stop, but I was always curious about the tracks that go beyond that, what does it look like there?

Great video ‼️

I believe the "little house" between D.P. and Wyandanch, referred to earlier, is the old Deer Park RR Station , not Republic. It is just before Deer Park Avenue. There was one in Wyandance which looked similar, when Wyandanch was called West Deer Park.

Why did this LIRR train use Line 2 of East River Tunnel? Most LIRR trains use Line 4 of East River Tunnel to access Penn Station.

Hey! Western Nassau water plant 57/57A at 50 minutes ! I did the controls design for that place

what do you use to get the perfect shot of this without the camera moving

I appreciate the video, the rain effect is really soothing and its good to see the perspective of the rail engineer! Do you work multiple lines?

Thank you friend for the enjoyable video. Just curious in your username with the numbers 767, is this because you are a fan of Boeing 767 aircraft?

Just curious, will you be able to do any videos on the Easr Side Access when it opens ( front window, of course )?

This is now a historic record of this train route. Wish there was some film of the first train to travel along the newly-built railroads of the earlier 1800s.

Is the little house on the north side of the tracks between Deer Park & Wyandanch an abandoned station?

One day we can possibly see Amtrak trains running up and down the main!

You made a truly great video. I really enjoyed this. Keep up the good work.

They using a new signalling system?

it makes my brain happy to see concrete ties and moveable point switches. Makes for a very comfortable ride!

What kind of horn is that? Sounds similar to what we have on SEPTA.

Thanks for the video!

The Ronkonkoma line is going to become what the Babylon Line used to be. Ground level railroading with grade crossings and a half hourly service

Very enjoyable trip. It's great that while M3's have been pressed back into temporary service because of M9 delivery delays you are still documenting front end rail fan window views. Once M3's ultimately disappear from the scene, your M3 videos will become classics for the ages. Keep up the great work.
Unfortunately, M3's will not see any temporary Grand Central East Side Access service. A Road Foreman told me last summer this is because M3's cannot handle the 3% grades associated with East Side Access tunnel use.

Ride occurred on my birthday, and if I still lived in Amityville or Wantagh, it would have been dreary.

I notice most of the LIRR expansion projects are meant to benefit the Ronkonkoma Branch. I could see the ridership of this Branch matching the levels as those on the Babylon Branch the upcoming years.