It’s been nearly 10 years on this video and the goat canyon now lies defeated. There’s now 3 GP38-2s sitting in coyote siding with their windows and doors welded shut. It would be awesome for this line to possibly come back one day. Good video 😁
Not sure how this got in my recommended list but looked like a good day at work. I’d like to have this gig if riding through the country seeing the past.
I have Muscular Dystrophy and 35 years ago when I could walk, a small group of us hiked in from the east to the Goat trestle bridge. Watching this brought back so many memories. Thank you.
That is really great news. I was a track worker for CZRY from 2000 to 2003 and a Conductor from 2002 to 2004 and worked on both Tunnel 8 and Tunnel 16. When I heard that they had quit operations I was sad that all of the work we did was being wasted.
I have read so many articles about and seen so many pictures of this rail line and of the trestle - seeing this video is just pure gold! Thank goodness for UA-cam. Almost as good as being there
This line needs a lot of repairs now days. Partially collapsed tunnel, rocks on tracks, and so on. Hopefully someone will do the repairs and keep it open. This line has so much history it would be a shame to see it go.
Great video Locomotive450. I always wondered if the tressle could actually withstand the weight of a train after all these years. It would be nice to see this railway open for tourism. There is a train that runs from Durango CO to Silverton CO for tourism and it would be nice to see something like that from Jacumba to Plaster City or to at lease the bottom of the hill. I'd be a regular if that was to happen.
After we finished reopening Tunnel 8 and Tunnel 16 in 2001, we loaded 100 ton hoppers with sand from Silica and took 25 car trains from Dos Cabezas to Campo every night/day for a little over a year. 2500 tons of sand filled hoppers plus 2 locomotives didn't bother the Goat Canyon Trestle at all. I did several bridge inspections on it when I was the section foreman and saw no signs of failure, even though there was a fire around 1989 or 1990 and CDF cut some sections out of the vertical poles to keep it from burning down. A bridge inspector from a San Diego engineering firm told me that it was common for structures to be way overbuilt in the first half of the 20th century. His opinion was that the heaviest train that we could get up there would not put enough strain on that trestle to damage it. Eventually, weather, fire or an earthquake might bring it down, but not trains.
That has to be the coolest diesel train cab ride video man!!! It's really awesome and rare! Total respect to these guys and thanks to the camera man too!
I can t believe I found this video, I hiked this back in the early 90's when I was in the Marine Corps, we had a blast taking photos, but its in a hell of a lot better shape in this video since then. Wow, this made my day, thanks for the videos!
It's content like this that makes You Tube shine! This is one of the best rail videos I have seen on YT. Kudos for you excellent videos, I have gotten addicted to them! These continuous cab and observation car rides (like your Tioga Pass vids) are absolutely flipping unbeatable.
Check out my folding Rail Kart ua-cam.com/video/Igj_rAV8WJM/v-deo.html. This was filmed in Anza Borrego. Watch the second trial run through the tunnels
I'm glad to hear that you enjoy my videos; it makes their continued production seem much more worthwhile! I have much more video from this trip in Carrizo Gorge which I'll be posting soon.
JohnsKeith 0 seconds ago Thanks for sharing your information. I have made 4 trips through the Carrizo Gorge since then on bicycle. 2 times all the way through from Jacumba and I-8 to Ocotillo. Most recently in 2005. All of the tunnels were open and it was an incredible experience. It was a long ride even on high scale mtn. bikes. We usually did not arrive into Ocotillo until 9:00 pm. The scenery was fantastic and we even had a freight revenue train pass us on our last trip about 2005 going from Campo to Ocotillo to inter change with the UP Railroad in Plaster City. Thanks so much for sharing. Keith Johns
I was a young rail fan living in Chula Vista and wound up making friends with the SD&AE crews, especially Tom Brady, running over to El Centro. They had offered to let me ride with them but my parents would not let me go, as I was too young. Years later when in college, I tried to hike into Goat Canyon but was turned back by a track walker. Finally, as a San Diego Sheriff's Deputy (Reserve), I got the assignment to patrol the rails from Jacumba to Dos Cabezas on a hand cart with the track walker. I made this run twice before the tracks were washed out by Tropical Storm Kathleen around '76 or '77. Good times.
Check out my folding Rail Kart ua-cam.com/video/Igj_rAV8WJM/v-deo.html. This was filmed in Anza Borrego. Watch the second trial run through the tunnels
So glad someone recreated this route on Trainz Simulator. It’s so realistic and close to the actual line, it’s kind of harrowing driving a train through the gorge and over the huge trestles.
There is a video/ documentary on the construction of this railroad. Don’t remember the name but pretty sure it is on UA-cam. It’s a incredible story of all the setbacks that were experienced on the long construction. I believe there was multiple owners that tried and failed until the last owner finally succeeded. Anyone interested in rail history would enjoy it.
Im from the uk nothing like this here, what a fantastic line to operate tourist trains Im sure they would be packed out , viewing the fantastic mountains and lunar landscape brilliant film.
One of the most interesting videos of all time in my humble opinion. At least from a sound prospective. Thank you it was very enjoyable and an all time favorite. Liked it so much I had to come back for another time. Excellent sound capture !
That is without doubt THE BEST video I have ever seen on youtube TX for posting this as I live in England and only last week found out about goat canyon I NEVER thought a train would ever cross that bridge again. Again many thanks.
A new railroad, called the Pacific Imperial Railroad, has supposedly replaced the Carrizo Gorge Railway as the SD&AE Desert Line's operator. The hope is that they will reopen and partially repair the line to an extent that will allow freight operations to resume, with the eventual goal being a complete repair and upgrade/modernization. So to answer your question, the railroad may very well be reopened within a couple years.
What ever happens with this rail road if some of it or all of it can be opened up and kept active with the right marketing this would be a fantastic tourist operation , spectacular scenery and incredible engineering
I lived in Jacumba forty-five years ago. I had close friends who worked for the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railroad. I could tell you one or two stories, you betcha! But we never called the big trestle the Goat Canyon trestle. It was the big wooden bridge. And at that time, its claim to fame was that it was (and maybe still is) the tallest wooden trestle made out of wood AND build upon a curve. (Be sure to pay attention to the logical "AND") All and all, I remain grateful to view your video. Well done! It is spectacular, but only insofar that your video doesn't really capture the real magnificence. I don't know who could, but then, I ain't no videographer. During World War II, the trestles and the tunnels were guarded by the United States Army. That must have been tough duty in the summertime. =====END=====
With a tight heart and pain in my soul, I watched how this splendor, this railway built with so much effort and sacrifice, stands abandoned instead of being valued for tourist purposes. It is a pity that such an investment is left prey to the vicissitudes of nature and will soon become just a memory...I think about what it looks like now, so many years after filming and if anything can still be done to preserve it.
Love this video. I can relate to it having ridden behind the F7 on the Spirit of Washington Dinner Train a couple of times. I also have two videos posted on my YT channel that were shot back in April, 2000, at the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in Campo. One shows the former SP 4-6-0 #2353 pulling an excursion to Miller Creek. The other is of SP GP9 #3873 running between the border and Campo. Thanks again for the great footage.
Cool video, thanks for sharing the journey. I bet that Goat Canyon trestle has been in a couple movies. Our country needs to re invest in Rail, for commercial, and passenger. The Airline industry has become untenable with the cost of fuel, and labor shortages. For the sake of the environment, Rail is the answer! Great work here .
Great Video! Seeing the kids reminded me of when my Brother and I lived next to the tracks in FLA when younger. I also loved the landscape and now I know where the Black Mesa Complex is located.
Congrats! You have done a very good presentation, free of the usual annoying errors on a lot of rail videos. I thank you for posting this fine subject....
Thanks very much for the feed back about this spectacular landscape and railroad, sure hope the new owners get their boarder clearance and reopen this line. Am wondering if any consideration has been given to promoting a scenic tourist train on this route if it reopens for freight and general use by new owners. It would be a disaster to see this line die, As a retired earth moving contractor it would appear to me that much off the through way could be improved without to much cost. Just wish I was living somewhere close by instead of here in New Zealand
Very Cool... I want to reiterate what 48firefox said earlier... what a fantastic line to operate tourist trains!! I've been on a few tourist trains... but saw nothing like this!
Holly Carrizo! What a stinking goat path. If they want to re-open this line they better get busy with the maintenance or the cost will be prohibitive. Nice video with some great scenery. Thanks 450.
An amazing line. It looks a totally unstable location to build a railroad so full credit to those surveyors and engineers who built it! One day those kids will look back at this video and realize they were part of an historic trip.
It was a hugely complex line to build. They wanted to keep it all in the US but ended up having to build a large part of it in Mexico. If you drive Interstate 8 between San Diego and Arizona you'll see why. Basically at the time San Diego and Los Angeles were vying to be the main Southern California deep water port, but when the line that eventually became the modern BNSF Southern Transcon was built, LA pretty much won that battle, and this line became less and less useful and was subject to recurring financial problems. Although part of it in San Diego County eventually became part of the San Diego Trolley system.
@@ericjamieson and thats also when San Diegos local industry and economy started going down hill, so now San Diegos only source of income is tourism, which sucks for the locals because that just means living here is far more expensive with nothing but minimum wage costumer service jobs here that dont pay enough for the price of living. We would have been far better off keeping this industry strong in San Diego
Some string trimmer work and a bit of Roundup might make this look a wee bit better............ looks like a fine rail to run a speeder on, pick off some Chucker or Quail & enjoy the Great Outdoors................. NICE RIDE & Great VIEW !
I find this work to be more appealing than sitting in an office all day, even for twice or three times the money. A drone following you would provide some nice highlights of the scenery.
Thank you so much! I am a huge rail fan, I live next to the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, and I hope one day I can see this railroad in person!
+William Christian i would love to run that on homemade rail cart v twin gas powered beast and camp there for the night by one of them tunnels just to have a feel for the place who has done that are you scared yet it could be scary dont know
The railroad from San Diego to El Centro was built between 1914 and 1919. I believe that the trackage through the gorge was the final segment of the railroad to be built, so they are from the 1918-19 timeframe.
Cool video,i watched the whole thing!Now i need to take a nap(LOL).Very interesting i must admit.cool seeing those old Southern pacific Boxcars.Thanks for uploading.
I agree with some of the other people here on UA-cam it’ll be a great tourist line to open up for passengers can’t believe somebody hasn’t done that yet. Anyway thank you for sharing.
Thanks. That's a great video. It is a different environment from mine. You have to deal with rockslides, caves and cave-ins. Down here in South Louisiana we have to float track roadbeds over mud.
You really do have to 'tip your hat' to the guys who built this railroad, I do not mean just the guy who financed it or the guy who designed it, but those toiled to make it happen. They are seldom mentioned in the history books, if they are it is usually only briefly. They deserve a whole volume of their own. Fascinating video. I especially like the semaphore signal idea at Goat Canyon Trestle - any old photographs of them been in situ been published anywhere?
Last news article mentioned rock slides, fire in tunnel resulted in a collapse, age of trestle, lack of any modern safety gear, etc. PS - looking at existing infrastructure, doubt they could run a modern freight train over most of the route plus tunnels would not support double stacked containers.
Loved that oasis at 44:40, was hoping you were going to do a close up shot of it. Those are real stand out things to see out in the middle of the desert high country. So far I've yet to see a video done of this area where they went down to the oasis.
I really enjoyed this trip, and I had to share it. Honnestly, it's a question of if, not when they'll reopen it. Somebody needs to front some major bucks (on the order of tens of millions) to reopen collapsed tunnel 3 and repair the degrading trackage and bridges (some sections are downright embarrasing).
Actually, if this line were to be reopened, the gorge would see strictly freight traffic. The Pacific Southwest Railway Museum, which operates trains farther west on the line at Campo, would likely be the first contender to run passenger trains through the gorge if it were to be made available for passenger use.
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It’s been nearly 10 years on this video and the goat canyon now lies defeated. There’s now 3 GP38-2s sitting in coyote siding with their windows and doors welded shut. It would be awesome for this line to possibly come back one day. Good video 😁
The kids riding along in the skid steer are the best! 12 years ago, and I bet they remember it like it was yesterday!!
Not sure how this got in my recommended list but looked like a good day at work. I’d like to have this gig if riding through the country seeing the past.
I have Muscular Dystrophy and 35 years ago when I could walk, a small group of us hiked in from the east to the Goat trestle bridge. Watching this brought back so many memories. Thank you.
That is really great news. I was a track worker for CZRY from 2000 to 2003 and a Conductor from 2002 to 2004 and worked on both Tunnel 8 and Tunnel 16. When I heard that they had quit operations I was sad that all of the work we did was being wasted.
I have read so many articles about and seen so many pictures of this rail line and of the trestle - seeing this video is just pure gold! Thank goodness for UA-cam. Almost as good as being there
This line needs a lot of repairs now days. Partially collapsed tunnel, rocks on tracks, and so on. Hopefully someone will do the repairs and keep it open. This line has so much history it would be a shame to see it go.
What tunnel is it? Last time I went I didn't recall a collapsed tunnel, but it was a while ago
@@Matt-wl3jo The one just down from the big bridge. Happen during an earthquake years back. You can still walk through it.
Tunnel 16.
Great video Locomotive450. I always wondered if the tressle could actually withstand the weight of a train after all these years. It would be nice to see this railway open for tourism. There is a train that runs from Durango CO to Silverton CO for tourism and it would be nice to see something like that from Jacumba to Plaster City or to at lease the bottom of the hill. I'd be a regular if that was to happen.
After we finished reopening Tunnel 8 and Tunnel 16 in 2001, we loaded 100 ton hoppers with sand from Silica and took 25 car trains from Dos Cabezas to Campo every night/day for a little over a year. 2500 tons of sand filled hoppers plus 2 locomotives didn't bother the Goat Canyon Trestle at all. I did several bridge inspections on it when I was the section foreman and saw no signs of failure, even though there was a fire around 1989 or 1990 and CDF cut some sections out of the vertical poles to keep it from burning down. A bridge inspector from a San Diego engineering firm told me that it was common for structures to be way overbuilt in the first half of the 20th century. His opinion was that the heaviest train that we could get up there would not put enough strain on that trestle to damage it. Eventually, weather, fire or an earthquake might bring it down, but not trains.
@@allenra530 I feel like an arsonist might get it at some point, hopefully some railroad actually manages to make this work before that happens.
One of the great engineering feet's of the last century. Thanks for the video.
That has to be the coolest diesel train cab ride video man!!! It's really awesome and rare! Total respect to these guys and thanks to the camera man too!
I can t believe I found this video, I hiked this back in the early 90's when I was in the Marine Corps, we had a blast taking photos, but its in a hell of a lot better shape in this video since then. Wow, this made my day, thanks for the videos!
Great to read from 1 like you. But back in your time of being here: those ultra-power poles were not existing, here.
It's content like this that makes You Tube shine! This is one of the best rail videos I have seen on YT. Kudos for you excellent videos, I have gotten addicted to them! These continuous cab and observation car rides (like your Tioga Pass vids) are absolutely flipping unbeatable.
Wow Goat canyon trestle was amazing 🤩 incredible views thanks 🙏
And this is why I love UA-cam!
So cool that the kids got to come along, they'll remember that day for a long time...
Parabens pelo belo vídeo. Lugares lindos. Esse deserto
I have never been on a train but have always wanted to. this is the best train video i have seen. great job!
I've never seen a video like this before and I enjoyed it from beginning to end. Beautiful scenery!
Check out my folding Rail Kart ua-cam.com/video/Igj_rAV8WJM/v-deo.html. This was filmed in Anza Borrego. Watch the second trial run through the tunnels
I'm glad to hear that you enjoy my videos; it makes their continued production seem much more worthwhile! I have much more video from this trip in Carrizo Gorge which I'll be posting soon.
Thanks 🙏. Haven’t been to the desert 🌵 in years. Thank y’all
Thank you so much for this video. It was incredible. I only wish they would put another train excursion on the track again like you did this time/
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Thanks for sharing your information. I have made 4 trips through the Carrizo Gorge since then on bicycle. 2 times all the way through from Jacumba and I-8 to Ocotillo. Most recently in 2005. All of the tunnels were open and it was an incredible experience. It was a long ride even on high scale mtn. bikes. We usually did not arrive into Ocotillo until 9:00 pm. The scenery was fantastic and we even had a freight revenue train pass us on our last trip about 2005 going from Campo to Ocotillo to inter change with the UP Railroad in Plaster City. Thanks so much for sharing. Keith Johns
Such Beautiful views and vintage EMD locomotives
I was a young rail fan living in Chula Vista and wound up making friends with the SD&AE crews, especially Tom Brady, running over to El Centro. They had offered to let me ride with them but my parents would not let me go, as I was too young. Years later when in college, I tried to hike into Goat Canyon but was turned back by a track walker. Finally, as a San Diego Sheriff's Deputy (Reserve), I got the assignment to patrol the rails from Jacumba to Dos Cabezas on a hand cart with the track walker. I made this run twice before the tracks were washed out by Tropical Storm Kathleen around '76 or '77. Good times.
Great to read of a viewer like you. Too bad you're not a SD native.~
Check out my folding Rail Kart ua-cam.com/video/Igj_rAV8WJM/v-deo.html. This was filmed in Anza Borrego. Watch the second trial run through the tunnels
Wow...that Goat Canyon trestle is STILL a fantastic sight to see!!!!
So glad someone recreated this route on Trainz Simulator.
It’s so realistic and close to the actual line, it’s kind of harrowing driving a train through the gorge and over the huge trestles.
There is a video/ documentary on the construction of this railroad. Don’t remember the name but pretty sure it is on UA-cam. It’s a incredible story of all the setbacks that were experienced on the long construction. I believe there was multiple owners that tried and failed until the last owner finally succeeded. Anyone interested in rail history would enjoy it.
Acho um grande desperdício. Abandonarem um ferrovia. Que deve ter sido construída com muito esforço humano.
Im from the uk nothing like this here, what a fantastic line to operate tourist trains Im sure they would be packed out , viewing the fantastic mountains and lunar landscape brilliant film.
One of the most interesting videos of all time in my humble opinion. At least from a sound prospective. Thank you it was very enjoyable and an all time favorite. Liked it so much I had to come back for another time. Excellent sound capture !
I am very glad to see steam locomotive than. diesel .
That is without doubt THE BEST video I have ever seen on youtube TX for posting this as I live in England and only last week found out about goat canyon I NEVER thought a train would ever cross that bridge again. Again many thanks.
Thank You from La Pine Oregon We road out on the rails on a VW rail years ago when we lived in Alpine
A new railroad, called the Pacific Imperial Railroad, has supposedly replaced the Carrizo Gorge Railway as the SD&AE Desert Line's operator. The hope is that they will reopen and partially repair the line to an extent that will allow freight operations to resume, with the eventual goal being a complete repair and upgrade/modernization. So to answer your question, the railroad may very well be reopened within a couple years.
I'd love to take that ride. The scenery is awesome!
What ever happens with this rail road if some of it or all of it can be opened up and kept active with the right marketing this would be a fantastic tourist operation , spectacular scenery and incredible engineering
I lived in Jacumba forty-five years ago. I had close friends who worked for the San Diego and Arizona Eastern Railroad.
I could tell you one or two stories, you betcha! But we never called the big trestle the Goat Canyon trestle. It was the big wooden bridge.
And at that time, its claim to fame was that it was (and maybe still is) the tallest wooden trestle made out of wood AND build upon a curve. (Be sure to pay attention to the logical "AND")
All and all, I remain grateful to view your video. Well done!
It is spectacular, but only insofar that your video doesn't really capture the real magnificence.
I don't know who could, but then, I ain't no videographer.
During World War II, the trestles and the tunnels were guarded by the United States Army. That must have been tough duty in the summertime.
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Don’t meet many fellow former x-dessert dwellers. I’m from Hinkly CA
With a tight heart and pain in my soul, I watched how this splendor, this railway built with so much effort and sacrifice, stands abandoned instead of being valued for tourist purposes. It is a pity that such an investment is left prey to the vicissitudes of nature and will soon become just a memory...I think about what it looks like now, so many years after filming and if anything can still be done to preserve it.
Very interesting to watch - and what a spectacular landscape!
Love this video. I can relate to it having ridden behind the F7 on the Spirit of Washington Dinner Train a couple of times. I also have two videos posted on my YT channel that were shot back in April, 2000, at the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in Campo. One shows the former SP 4-6-0 #2353 pulling an excursion to Miller Creek. The other is of SP GP9 #3873 running between the border and Campo. Thanks again for the great footage.
Cool video, thanks for sharing the journey. I bet that Goat Canyon trestle has been in a couple movies.
Our country needs to re invest in Rail, for commercial, and passenger. The Airline industry has become untenable with the cost of fuel, and labor shortages. For the sake of the environment, Rail is the answer!
Great work here .
Great presentation Haley, I learned something I never knew, and I always have loved trains and it's history. . Thank you!!
Fantastic landscape! A great train ride. Thank you!
the F - Units were and still are the backbone of all the old rails if they stop the old rails stop please keep up the good work!
Really great video. Thanks so much for taking me there! I look forward to more escapes..
I wish this line were still in service. I'd love to ride it.
Great Video! Seeing the kids reminded me of when my Brother and I lived next to the tracks in FLA when younger. I also loved the landscape and now I know where the Black Mesa Complex is located.
Congrats! You have done a very good presentation, free of the usual annoying errors on a lot of rail videos. I thank you for posting this fine subject....
Thanks very much for the feed back about this spectacular landscape and railroad, sure hope the new owners get their boarder clearance and reopen this line. Am wondering if any consideration has been given to promoting a scenic tourist train on this route if it reopens for freight and general use by new owners. It would be a disaster to see this line die, As a retired earth moving contractor it would appear to me that much off the through way could be improved without to much cost. Just wish I was living somewhere close by instead of here in New Zealand
This is the coolest cab ride ever!
Very Cool... I want to reiterate what 48firefox said earlier... what a fantastic line to operate tourist trains!! I've been on a few tourist trains... but saw nothing like this!
I had no idea this line was still in operation! Absolutely incredible!
It's not this video is old
Those are some lucky kids riding in the skid loader!
Holly Carrizo! What a stinking goat path. If they want to re-open this line they better get busy with the maintenance or the cost will be prohibitive. Nice video with some great scenery. Thanks 450.
An amazing line. It looks a totally unstable location to build a railroad so full credit to those surveyors and engineers who built it! One day those kids will look back at this video and realize they were part of an historic trip.
It was a hugely complex line to build. They wanted to keep it all in the US but ended up having to build a large part of it in Mexico. If you drive Interstate 8 between San Diego and Arizona you'll see why. Basically at the time San Diego and Los Angeles were vying to be the main Southern California deep water port, but when the line that eventually became the modern BNSF Southern Transcon was built, LA pretty much won that battle, and this line became less and less useful and was subject to recurring financial problems. Although part of it in San Diego County eventually became part of the San Diego Trolley system.
@@ericjamieson and thats also when San Diegos local industry and economy started going down hill, so now San Diegos only source of income is tourism, which sucks for the locals because that just means living here is far more expensive with nothing but minimum wage costumer service jobs here that dont pay enough for the price of living. We would have been far better off keeping this industry strong in San Diego
Thank you. Fantastic video. I'm glad I found it.
Oh what a great ride!!! Nice job on camera. I saw so many great places to dig for Gold.
Some string trimmer work and a bit of Roundup might make this look a wee bit better............ looks like a fine rail to run a speeder on, pick off some Chucker or Quail & enjoy the Great Outdoors................. NICE RIDE & Great VIEW !
Late 60's or early 70's, I remember the San Diego phone book had that giant trestle on the front cover!
I find this work to be more appealing than sitting in an office all day, even for twice or three times the money. A drone following you would provide some nice highlights of the scenery.
The old F7 makes some fine sounds.
Tunnel 16 is now collapsed as far as i remember. It looked great 10 years ago.
I really enjoyed watching him work first loading then unloading and then the Canyon Wow Wow
Great video, I've always wanted to see a through ride on this railroad 👌✌
Thanks for sharing, great train trip. Thanks 👍👍👍👍👍
great video and there is nothing like the old EMD covered wagon glad to see one running
Oh, i will love to see some more material of that trip. Thanks for this one.
Regards.
Thank you so much! I am a huge rail fan, I live next to the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, and I hope one day I can see this railroad in person!
I've just been watching loads of uk steam stuff but I have to come back to this because WOW
Very interesting ride, landscape and rolling stock!
Einfach nur FANTASTISCH!!! So etwas muß erhalten werden!! WAHNSINN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wonderful, creepy, frightening. I really enjoyed the trip
+William Christian i would love to run that on homemade rail cart v twin gas powered beast and camp there for the night by one of them tunnels just to have a feel for the place who has done that are you scared yet it could be scary dont know
Oh my God, very good !!! Congratulations !!!
good operator of that equipment. I have a feeling things will be running smooth.
The railroad from San Diego to El Centro was built between 1914 and 1919. I believe that the trackage through the gorge was the final segment of the railroad to be built, so they are from the 1918-19 timeframe.
Que buen video!!!! El territorio genial....
Cool video,i watched the whole thing!Now i need to take a nap(LOL).Very interesting i must admit.cool seeing those old Southern pacific Boxcars.Thanks for uploading.
Sensacional guerreiros!! Daqui Do Rio Grande do Norte - Brasil.
Good morning from St John Parish, Louisiana 15 Jan 21.
Fantastic scenery . One of the best videos I've seen
its kind of amazing how after we came out of the first tunnel in the beautiful mountain landscape and then went into the desert plains
I agree with some of the other people here on UA-cam it’ll be a great tourist line to open up for passengers can’t believe somebody hasn’t done that yet. Anyway thank you for sharing.
Thanks. That's a great video.
It is a different environment from mine. You have to deal with rockslides, caves and cave-ins. Down here in South Louisiana we have to float track roadbeds over mud.
it was nice looking at the view from the cab
Excellent footage!
Fantástica essa obra do passado e hoje no abandono,,lamentavel
You really do have to 'tip your hat' to the guys who built this railroad, I do not mean just the guy who financed it or the guy who designed it, but those toiled to make it happen. They are seldom mentioned in the history books, if they are it is usually only briefly. They deserve a whole volume of their own.
Fascinating video. I especially like the semaphore signal idea at Goat Canyon Trestle - any old photographs of them been in situ been published anywhere?
Great journey. Excellent video!!
This made me cry!
Good! Congratulations.
Totally awesome vid! Thanks for posting it!!
Thanks for the ride again ,great job !
Good film. Strange train, but good film!
Pretty surprised to see at 20 minutes some of the cars I used to ride to go to work nearly 20 years ago…
That was fascinating!
I love this video. Anything going on with it now.... I would love to see it.
Very cool. The kid in the skid steer must have been having the time of his life!!
Amazing footage,camber of rails on some corners made me think the excavator would slide off the car? Brilliant work,thank you
I saw a documentary that this line was closed, due to the fact that the ground was unstable, but nice to see it was wrong :-)
Last news article mentioned rock slides, fire in tunnel resulted in a collapse, age of trestle, lack of any modern safety gear, etc.
PS - looking at existing infrastructure, doubt they could run a modern freight train over most of the route plus tunnels would not support double stacked containers.
@@williamlloyd3769 I thought so also, This video is probably waaay outdated
Loved that oasis at 44:40, was hoping you were going to do a close up shot of it. Those are real stand out things to see out in the middle of the desert high country. So far I've yet to see a video done of this area where they went down to the oasis.
Excellent video bro 😍😍😍😍
Never hike on the line, but always ride on the flatbed?
I really enjoyed this trip, and I had to share it. Honnestly, it's a question of if, not when they'll reopen it. Somebody needs to front some major bucks (on the order of tens of millions) to reopen collapsed tunnel 3 and repair the degrading trackage and bridges (some sections are downright embarrasing).
Interesting video, nice work !
Greetings from Spain.
Actually, if this line were to be reopened, the gorge would see strictly freight traffic. The Pacific Southwest Railway Museum, which operates trains farther west on the line at Campo, would likely be the first contender to run passenger trains through the gorge if it were to be made available for passenger use.