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What a cool video, great job and thanks for sharing!

Great video, I couldn't get my wife to drive in 100 degree heat to Reno to see a train. She doesn't understand how much Union Pacific paid to get the 4014 running again and all the hard working UP crews. Sell video to UP for their advertising.

4014 was at the LA county fairgrounds for years. I climbed all over it as a kid . Feel close to this machine

Excellent work, the PIP and sound from the ground level segments are AWESOME! thanks for sharing.

Douglas! This is excellent stuff I was looking forward to your post with great anticipation!

I particularly like the final scene where you get close to the drivers of the 4014. Great use of picture within a picture. Magnificent chase!

Excellent <<Air to Surface>> videography,thanks a lot!!! 🚂

Wow, just wow! This is superb videography and editing. The drone shots are fantastic! It really is close to railfanning, which in reality is not all TQBRS (thanks to Steve for that acronym!) so the expansive overhead shots mixed with trackside shots is just fabulous. Thanks for the time you put into this so we can enjoy 4014 and the wonderful Nevada landscapes.

Awesome Doug I'm glad you posted what you got!

Will we see one from the Ireland trip?❤

Out here on the East Coast, all the cars are covered in graffiti. Amazing to see so many cars as clean as they came from the manufacturer.

Very nice. You were able to catch the full length of the train on the curve. Thanks.

Great spot!

She’s a bigg’un!!!

Nicely done!

Splendid!

SP207 got a full overhaul in 2012. Its now powered by the 12 cylinder diesel that came in the, at the time, modern Gevo locos.

I'll be there soon, also with drones. Nice to see what to expect. 👍🏻

Fascinating!

Fantastic video. I’ve gone past on the auto bridge hundreds of times over the past 60 years and twice over the rail bridge. This was a real treat to see the bridge’s operation!

I lived in Calpine for 20 years. When there was a lookout (an older woman) she would call in a “smoke” every morning when they started the old diesel water truck at Holstrom’s mill. I worked for the USFS then. Eventually, the pollution from the Central Valley made it hard to see anything from the lookouts. We went to helitack patrols after thunderstorms or when smokes were sighted. Thanks for this crystal clear drone video. I’m assuming that you are playing the piano. Also very nice.

That guy has probably got the coolest office on the whole SP at this time

FYI, UP's Big Boy 4014 is making its way to Roseville CA this summer. Westbound via Feather River departs Cheyenne June 30. Eastbound return end of July via Donner Pass. Will be there to see it!!!

Good one, . . . .

That’s a nice trip back in time, I used to do the I-680 commute across the bridge during the 90’s before most of the ships were scrapped. It was a nice view while stuck in traffic waiting to get through the tool booth.

Yes I miss the SP to they sold out to my least favorite railroad.😢

What an experience! Great video.

Today u have the Starlight,Zephyr and over a dozen Capitol Corridor trains in each direction crossing and a handfull of UP Freights,even Stack trains heading east/_west

Cool but death defying actually walking out on the bridge like that!

Loved it!! Long live the ESPEE snowfighters and 2nd generation Tunnel motors

Very very cool. Thanks to All of us that will never see this kind of ops in person!!

Wow!

Back when I680/780 was just the one bridge. I don't miss the weekend traffic out of the bay on that. Also back when the Mothball fleet still existed (although maybe there are still 2 left? pretty sure last I looked it was all gone and a relic of my childhood.)

So glad you captured that, definitely rare footage. Dolph Pierce used to run the bridge in the mid-80s, no idea either who the guy is in your video. I took 14 to work one morning from MTZ to Emeryville and it just happened to be the day when six tugs grabbed onto the Glomar Explorer to begin its slow journey to Texas, first top was Hunters Point in SF iirc. Bill Cotton was the conductor that day, was so neat to see a big boat leave and not immediately be cut up for scrap.

Simply awesome! 👍🏼👍🏼😊

Poor quality video

Nice!

Luck and Fate were with you that day. Awesome.

🎹 🎉❤

Not Northern California, i was born in Sacramento and it’s in the center of the State, Redding, Mt. Shasta and Eureka are north, lol. I remember when Suisun Bay mothball fleet was full,of ships in the up’s, just amazing.

USS Halsey was scrapped in 2003.

My father worked for Southern Pacific and would run in front of the trains opening 3 trestles. The biggest one across coos bay in Oregon spun and did not lift .It had a glass floor in one spot that you could stand on and watch the trains go under you .I also ride lots of engines and cabooses from the depot to Florence or ride with my father out to Florence so he could escort the train back to the depot .I see the machinery and can almost smell.that place .

Fantastic video, that is a once in a lifetime event! I grew up near Benicia, so saw that bridge a bunch, and even crossed the railroad bridge a bunch commuting to work on the Capitol Corridor after college. Enjoyed the look back at the 'good old days'.

Great video. Thanks for sharing this classic, once in a lifetime experience!!!!

No Burning Man yet? ;-) Seriously, great stuff. Loved it.

I remember working as a switchman in Ozol talking to the guy on the bridge. We'd go out to Avon or do the Shell job, and I always thought it was odd we were getting track lists and information from the bridge lol What a fun time looking back. Except for Avon, that place was full of spiders.

Great video. I live in Benicia and have spent countless hours in traffic on the old bridge watching that thing going up and down. I'd forgotten just how many ships use to be moored in the mothball fleet. Today they are (thankfully) all gone.

Excellent video! You said it "once in a life time'

Many thanks to “Mr Bridge operator” ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙂

I am old enough to recall that area while the ferries still operated. I still visit my family who still live in Martinez. I worked as a Firefighter for several years at Station 14 in downtown in the 1970s. Great memories and recording of places never seen before. Thanks Doug.