Tioga Pass Trip : Ride from Los Angeles to Fullerton HD
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Watch in High Definition! Here's the first part of the ride on the Tioga Pass Private Rail car coupled to Train 572. For those who haven't seen the preview or forgot, here's a refresher: The Tioga Pass is a Private Rail Car based out of Los Angeles and owned by Norm Orfall, who runs the car on Amtrak trains (particularly to San Diego) multiple times a month. On this particular trip, Bill, the owner of another private rail car, the Overland Trail, had a chartered party riding from Santa Ana and San Juan Capistrano to San Diego and back. Bill is quite a character and wears a full conductor's uniform on all of his charters. The Overland Trail is a lounge car and has a large open seating area, a bar, and a barber shop. However, the Overland Trail does not have a vestibule and side doors. Since it is a single level car, it also can't be reached from the bi-level Surfliner cars. So, in order to board the car, it needs another car that has a vestibule and side doors to accompany it. Bill asked Norm if the Tioga Pass could be used as a companion car on that trip to San Diego and back. Norm agreed, and because Bill was giving him compensation for the cost of the trip, he decided to make the Tioga Pass available for passengers on that particular trip for a lower than usual price. The Tioga Pass is a business car built by Canadian National in 1959. It includes a kitchen, 4 bedrooms, a dining area, a toilet and shower room, a smaller toilet room, the large observation and lounge room, and the open air vestibule and platform on the rear. The car can either receive power from a coupled train's HEP, a diesel generator on the car, or a backup battery. Norm runs the car on several scheduled trips each month and you can buy tickets for them, or charter the car for yourself at www.ridemytrain....
My dad, our friend Dave (who also knows Norm and has ridden his car many times) and I rode up to Los Angeles the previous day, slept over on the Tioga Pass in Amtrak's 8th Street Yards, and rode it from Los Angeles to San Diego while coupled to the Overland Trail and Southbound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner Train 572. Several more people boarded at Union Station and the car had about 15 people on it for the trip. The private party for the overland trail did not board until Santa Ana, so I took some video inside of it, which will be included in a later segment. This video is of the first segment of the ride between Los Angeles Union Station and Fullerton Station. It was shot straight out the back of the car on the rear platform giving an unhindered, uninterrupted view of the tracks behind the train as we wiz along at up to 75 MPH! Future segments were not filmed in their entirety, but I did on this particular segment because there is so much to see for the first 30 minutes of the ride. This is a sort of reverse "at the throttle" (Pentrex) style video. I know that some of the footage is the camera moving around, but I didn't want to make lots of cuts in the video. Please keep in mind that I had to hold onto a handhold with one hand and cradle the camera with the other hand to avoid being thrown off. I added a few captions when we passed points of interest such at 8th Street Yard, the Redondo Flyover, San Pedro Junction and Hobart Tower, Hobart Yard, Commerce, DT Junction, Los Nietos, Norwalk, Buena Park, and Fullerton. Apologies also for the near constant commentary by me and everybody else, but the rear platform can accommodate up to 15 people and everybody in the car took advantage of that. You can hear the BNSF Detector at Milepost 144.45 report no defects as the train passes over the diamond at Hobart.
Along the way, we saw the following trains:
Train 1: Our Train, Southbound Amtrak Pacific Surfliner Train 572. F59PHI 454, cabcar 6951, and the Overland Trail, and Tioga Pass.
Train 2: A Surfliner trainset sits in Union Station.
Train 3: Southbound Metrolink Antelope Valley Line Train 262 arrives in Union Station with an all Rotem Car trainset. Hyundai Rotem cabcar 642 leads and F59PH 873 trails.
Train 4: A Westbound BNSF Stack train passes just past Basta. BNSF ES44DC 7500 leads. BNSF C44-9W 4317, and ES44C4s 6611 and 6899 trail.
Stay tuned for the remainder of the trip to San Diego!
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Enjoy!
Sit back and enjoy the ride. And don't forget the popped corn. Thank you for these videos.
Thank you for your feedback. I didn't have a tripod because I was sharing a 20 foot square space with up to 15 other people. I panned towards points of interest because they wouldn't have been as visible if they were only in the camera's peripheral vision as we passed them at 90 MPH.
Good video passed through the streets that I live near
I've actually went over the Tioga Pass just north of Yosemite National Park. If you've never been over that pass, you're missing out on something extremely beautiful. Plus you get a view of Yosemite that most tourists never see. Awesome!
+Juan Dia Oh, there's no railroad that goes over that pass, as info. I believe it's the highest automobile pass in the State of California at over 10,000 feet.
Thank you for the video. I USED to ride in Heavyweights on the Seaboard Airline Railroad. I miss riding in the old cars. Our Museum in Northwest Florida has a few of them but it would take a fortune to restore them.
Awesome Video
If EVERY congested diamond could have a flyover:):)
Thats kinda what I was thinking, thank you for responding
It is a common safey feature on railroads all over the world. In the event of a derailment it stops the passenger car hitting the the bridge pier and either damaging the bridge or minimising casualties on the train. On railroad over bridges it is usual to see two rails to prevent the cars from toppling off the bridge.
Fantastic video.!
Did anybody else notice the work they're doing on the Slauson overpass (at DT junction)? They're replacing the bridge supports to make room for a third track!
I'm glad he tried to show intesresting things before they appeared in the distance too small to see. Not like we don't have enough of just looking out straight down the track.
Sorry that the steam locomotive was not there.
Years ago,when I rode in the locomotive, we hit a spot at the bottom of the overpass, 11:32, where the locomotive suddenly jerked left. Thought it was enough to derail it or at least throw someone walking in a car to the floor.
Does not appear on my 8 mmm video.
Enjoyed. Neat looking out from the observation platform. Will wait for the rest of the trip.
great vid,
The railroad across the river is actually part of the same subdivision as the tracks that I was on. It's all part of the Metrolink River Subdivision.
Yes
I believe that is SDRX 901. To this day SDRX 901 has a P2 horn leftover from metrolink.
At Los Nietos Jct (21:00) there was once an interchange track built in the mid-1980s at great expense to anticipate the SPSF merger that didn't happen. Anyone know where there are photos of this?
.....At 11:54 what are the vertical tanks by the oil cars?
Loco 450, I could't quite catch the O.J. joke, can you recall it an relate to me....while I watch the rest of your trip.
How was the ride?
Yes, they get sent to LA for servicing.
I wonder why the Santa Fe abandoned its original route through Pomona.
luv it make one of la to santa ana plese
can someone answer me why there is extra rail under the overpasses
great clear video.interesting seeing the lineside buildings.tedbagnall
Very interesting. I've seen a similar view to this, from the back of a train, but it's useful to have the points of interested pointed out so you don't have to keep referring to Google Earth to find out where you are.
Los Angeles Union station is a bit of a disappointment, at track level at any rate, isn't it. I like the sign on the stop blocks though; "End of Block". Yup, no doubt about that.
Pretty cool. I ride these lines a lot and I had no idea they even had a turnstile @10:20. But I admit, the shaking at the beginning was kinda annoying. Had to skip it.
5:28 13:14 18:56 20:12 23:19 25:28
Take a good look. There will no longer be any private cars on Amtrak anymore.
Was that a Sound Transit train I saw o.O!
~from Seattle~
Unfortunately, I don't quite remember the upshot of the joke either. Hope you enjoyed the video.
at 18-49 is former control point Serapis
If you want to offer criticism, it is possible to do it politely, you know.
Is there by any chance a "Google" maps for railroads? I like to watch these videos and have a Google map open to see where the route goes. I am retired and would be interested in this rail fanning.
+TheDustysix It just so happens that I personally hand-traced this railway line in Google Earth for a project. If you are interested, send me a private message with your email and I can email you the file with instructions on how to import it and what to look for.
Where is the bar car??
Around this time there was an incident in a Denny's back east where several black customers were ignored by a white waitress. The upshot of the joke was a combination of racist sentiments in which O.J. couldn't have been the killer because he was being ignored in a Denny's at the time.
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some curves are realy extreme. What is is not used here in european railroads. and of corse that 90 degree crossovers. .
How fast do those trains go?
90 mph
I wonder if it really helps portray the presenters motives as sincere when he/she introduces so much vagary as to mislead the viewers
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