My dad used to work the Santa Barbara route when he was working for the SP back in the 60s and 70s. used to see the SP engines pull the Amtrak passenger cars in the early 70s until Amtrak finally broke down and bought some dedicated engines to pull there cars.
zarniwoop42 Thank you ! 507 is personally my favorite B32-8WH. It’s actually the locomotive in my channel cover photo. I was pretty happy to catch it again to say the least ! :)
Max Buskirk Hmm, interesting. Amtrak 14 was actually already running 20 minutes late into Santa Barbara, but it is very intriguing to hear it was 4 hours behind schedule by the time it reached Klamath Falls. The horizon cars are part of an equipment reposition, likely to and from Los Angeles for routine maintenance.
BrentNguyen46 It got into Klamath Falls about 50 mins late, but it had to wait until 11am to leave because of construction (said to be a tie replacement project by UP) and it just got later as it went north. On the good side, it was fun eating lunch as we descended down through the Cascades Mtns to Eugene. There was a pretty steep drop on one side for a good 10-20 mins of the ride.
That would be pretty cool. Unfortunately, due to the SC-44 replacement it is quite unlikely. However, the SC-44 that has been painted into Surfliner colors does look pretty nice.
Metrolink4824 Yeah man, I was actually thinking the same thing, haha. I would like to assume that it is a temporary holdover while the F59PHIs are being sent over to Metra until all the SC-44s enter revenue service on the Surfline.
Parker McCormack Not necessarily. Compared to BNSF and the rail traffic to and from San Diego, the UP freights running on the Coast Line are either through freights to/from Northern California or solely local trains serving central coast industries; whereas BNSF runs bigger daily freight trains serving major customers based out of San Diego.
CaliRAIL Are you certain it is every weekday ? The LOF66 / LOF67 runs on a Tuesday/Friday and Monday/Thursday schedule. I do not believe it is a daily weekday train.
BrentNguyen46 I have seen locals on weekdays on Friday, Wednesday, Monday its Guadalupe to van nuys. Tuesday and Thursday it’s a one back to Guadalupe. I live in SB and sometimes you will see an auto rack. I don’t know much about those. In general I don’t know much about locals I have just seen them on those days
Beautiful
Thank you !
Always enjoy a video from Santa B! Great location to watch trains!
AmtrakCal462 Thanks Chris, your comment is greatly appreciated ! It sure is a great place !
Nice Video! Good ol' 6951's K5LA is still fantastic as ever! Great catch on 782, I haven't seen an all Surfliner consist in years!!
Average_ Joe Thank you ! Yeah man, #6951 still sounding nice ! Good engineer on the horn as well getting some quill action in there too !
Awesome Video:) It's like an all day railfanning at Santa Barbara.
Copper Cruz Thank you ! It sure was an all out day ! Haha !
7:03 Wow! Meet with surfliner and superliner!
I been to Santa Barbara back in 2003 with My grandfather.
I actually live in Santa Barbara it’s really hard to actually see a train and this took time
My dad used to work the Santa Barbara route when he was working for the SP back in the 60s and 70s. used to see the SP engines pull the Amtrak passenger cars in the early 70s until Amtrak finally broke down and bought some dedicated engines to pull there cars.
Excellent video!
NorCalRailfan Thank you !
Sounds excellent with Amtrak
Railyard Films It sure does !
I think I was on the coast starlight that day!
Excellent video, Brent!
Yard Limit Thank you !
Another great vid. Is it me or does the P42DC look like a Tolian from Star Trek. 507 sure looked good for her age.
zarniwoop42 Thank you ! 507 is personally my favorite B32-8WH. It’s actually the locomotive in my channel cover photo. I was pretty happy to catch it again to say the least ! :)
Awesome video!!
TrainSF Thanks !
I got on that northbound Starlight at Klamath Falls (and got to Seattle 4 hours late!) I wonder why they have the two horizon coaches in front.
Max Buskirk Hmm, interesting. Amtrak 14 was actually already running 20 minutes late into Santa Barbara, but it is very intriguing to hear it was 4 hours behind schedule by the time it reached Klamath Falls. The horizon cars are part of an equipment reposition, likely to and from Los Angeles for routine maintenance.
BrentNguyen46 It got into Klamath Falls about 50 mins late, but it had to wait until 11am to leave because of construction (said to be a tie replacement project by UP) and it just got later as it went north. On the good side, it was fun eating lunch as we descended down through the Cascades Mtns to Eugene. There was a pretty steep drop on one side for a good 10-20 mins of the ride.
28:20 that scared that people off
Evening. Amtrak
Oh cool this was filmed on my birthday
Raymond McFinnigan Nice ! Happy belated birthday !
BrentNguyen46 thanks dude!
Raymond McFinnigan No problem. Hope you had a good one !
30:00 freight train best part of the video!
Great video!!!
philipphilip Thank you !
Nice Video!
Rhett Ross Albert Thanks !
I live a 2 minute walk from this place (on Bath St.)
I would love see Amtrak paint a P42 into the surf liner scheme
That would be pretty cool. Unfortunately, due to the SC-44 replacement it is quite unlikely. However, the SC-44 that has been painted into Surfliner colors does look pretty nice.
Jmream2 Jmream Yes, that would certainly be nice to see. Personally, I think that would be a better trade off than the SC-44, haha.
This is where l railfaned UP 4971
I caught the same thing
Exactly why are p42's taking over the f59phi?
Metrolink4824 Yeah man, I was actually thinking the same thing, haha. I would like to assume that it is a temporary holdover while the F59PHIs are being sent over to Metra until all the SC-44s enter revenue service on the Surfline.
Its a shame the the f59s looked better anyway
Was Union Pacific trying to copy BNSF 's Shrimpy Day go Manifest
Parker McCormack Not necessarily. Compared to BNSF and the rail traffic to and from San Diego, the UP freights running on the Coast Line are either through freights to/from Northern California or solely local trains serving central coast industries; whereas BNSF runs bigger daily freight trains serving major customers based out of San Diego.
There is Guadalupe local from Guadalupe, CA to Van Nuys, CA every week day
CaliRAIL Are you certain it is every weekday ? The LOF66 / LOF67 runs on a Tuesday/Friday and Monday/Thursday schedule. I do not believe it is a daily weekday train.
BrentNguyen46 I have seen locals on weekdays on Friday, Wednesday, Monday its Guadalupe to van nuys. Tuesday and Thursday it’s a one back to Guadalupe. I live in SB and sometimes you will see an auto rack. I don’t know much about those. In general I don’t know much about locals I have just seen them on those days
BrentNguyen46 BTW subbed great channel👍