An hour at Tehachapi Loop - 3 freight trains.
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2022
- Why is it a loop and not straight?
It's the grade, or how much the train gains elevation for a given distance. For example, say the train had to go up 100 meters of elevation. Now assume a 1km long rail that goes in a straight line to go up the 100m. The grade is 100m/1000m or 10% grade. Now if you take the same elevation gain (100m), and put a loop in the rail, that will lengthen the rail to say 2km. The grade is now 100m/2000m or 5%. You can see with the loop, the grade is less than if it were straight, 5% vs 10%, and the lower grade means it is not as steep for very long and heavy trains to not only go up but to go down. Saves on fuel, the need for more power and general wear and tear.
I visited the Tehachapi loop a year prior to this video and maintenance was being done on the tracks. I waited two hours and no trains passed by. This time, as soon as I pulled up, there was a train staged at the loop going down grade. I thought I would miss him as I just passed him coming down as I was driving down the highway. Luckily he stopped. As soon as I got to the overlook, a train was starting to come up grade. The result is in the video. It's like poetry in motion. It's worth mentioning the beautiful scenery just driving to the overlook and beyond, truly enjoyable. The audio was taken from another freight train that I recorded. That train was going much faster than the trains in this video, as you might be able to tell, but it works well enough for my liking. Hope you enjoy.
It will never cease to amaze me how the dynamics of a train allow it to snake through all those curves and stay together … and I have been a Railroader for 35 years. Retired 10 years now!
GR they used to use greasers on the outside rail to keep the track wear down. One time the loop ranch horses got out and headed for the tunnel and we headed off the horeses before a train came!
I thought for sure there's at least a locomotive pushing from behind. Was surprised when there wasn't one.
@@Oo-IIII-oO the pulling force remains constant so it doesnt need a pushing for that would do the same thing or even fuck it up.That and there is about a 5 degree slope facing into the curse so the rotaion force doesnt throw the cars to the outside
@@Oo-IIII-oO what the train is moving also contributes alot, like the cars that were used to slow the train on the downhill
@@Oo-IIII-oO But there ARE two at the back of both trains here?
Having multiple locomotives spread throughout the length of the train (Distributed Power Units) is pretty common nowadays. There is only so much power you can put on the front of a train without potentially snapping the couplers so if you have a heavy train and you need more power to get the train over the territory you put the additional locomotives somewhere else in the trains. For trains less than 8400ft in length you put the additional locomotives at the end of the train. If your train is longer than 8400ft you can put the extra locomotives mid-train using a formula to tell you how much tonnage to put in front of and behind the entrained locomotives, and if you need even more power after putting locomotives mid-train you can put more on the back of the train as well. This also helps longer trains go around curves without tipping over (known as stringling). But yes, the extra locomotives do have the added benefit of adding additional braking power and can help charge the brake line faster. Remember that this is hilly territory and trains not only need help up the grade but down the grade as well.
Been waiting on an explanation for the rear engines. Stringling, new word to me. Every time I see the train go around the loop, I feel it should be stringling and tying itself in a bow. Thank you for the info.
DPU's are also good for controlling the slack that can otherwise occur in long trains, but you may have been implying this when you mention helping to prevent the snapping of the couplers. . .
@@wallyman292 slack, If not handled properly, can be a coupler killer, as you imply.
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Well done for the extensive knowledge on the subject! ♥ ️👍
I never knew such a set of tracks existed. This is definitely my top 3 train videos to watch. The train looping under its self then snakes through the valley is fantastic and the timing of trains to let them pass each other is crazy. Great video and thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it. I didn't know about it until a few years ago myself. It is cool to watch it all work.
Tehachapi Loop is not the only one
When the climb gets too steep engineers step in to help
What are you other two favorite videos?
@@AtomicAerials the Big Boy steam locomotive going through Wyoming in 2020 and then there's the one with an old steam Locomotive in China. Its dark and foggy as the train is coming up the valley and sparks are shooting out through the stack like a dragon. Very cool.
@@eligebrown8998Would you please be kind and post links? I couldn’t find them.
Must be amazing for the train driver seeing his own train passing below the bridge.
It's like checking out your ass in the mirror.
The drone footage turns it into a beautiful work of art..
The Tehachapi Loop was built in the 1870s. Truly a magnificent example of architectural design in railroading! Back in the late 80s I had the good fortune to watch an SP train go over the Loop, from the car I was riding in on Highway 58. Very impressive!
Very cool!
What is the purpose of the loop when the train had no choice but to go back where it came from?
@@mrBDeye read the description. It says exactly why the loop is there
@@lalakerspro Yeah, but my point is the train had to go back the same way it came from, so it really doesn’t make sense.
@@mrBDeye there's no other option. A straight line would be a very steep grade
This is a fantastic video, thanks for posting. Drones have opened up so many new boundaries in video making.
I agree with the new vistas that drones have opened in the field of RR Videos. Awesom
I love how this video is shot.
In the past you’d need a financial backer to charter a helicopter with a nose mounted gimbal camera😳
From someone who only had a toy train when I was kid, these videos are awesome and so relaxing to watch🔥🔥
Glad you enjoyed.
This has to be the best video i have ever seen of the Tehachapi Loop. Most of what i have seen in the past has been taken from a fixed point. Excellent video well done
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great photography . . . Drones have really raised the bar as far as stuff like this goes! Thank you
First thought this was a simulation until I looked up the actual place and realized it was real. I would not want to drive that train..wow. Awesome video.
Something really mind-blowing about seeing a train snake back over itself. Thanks.
What a tremendous video with drone shooting and wonderful skill for shooting for a distance of about 7 to 10 KMS and amazing engineering elevated loop construction engineering👏👏👏👏👏
That loop is insane, thanks for the awesome footage.
What beautiful country. I can't tell you how relaxing it was to watch this. Excellent drone work.
Thank you very much!
excellent video one of the best drone videos that I have seen of the Loop! thanks
Thanks for the comment. Glad you enjoyed.
Beautiful. Thanks. Love the drone perspective.
Thanks 👍
Good weather, good scenery; fantastic trains.
Best ever footage of Tehachapi Loop. Awesome.
Outstanding drone footage of the iconic loop from all angles. Well done.
Many thanks!
Amazing video! Thank you for sharing!
I can't believe you caught so many trains here. Very awesome.
Amazing and as a former drone pilot I appreciate the way you covered the event.
Much appreciated!
Operator, pilots are inside the craft...
@@drivingmylifeaway7149 if you wanna be particular, at least get it right. Operators own/rent the drones, pilots fly them. At least according to a cursory google search backed up across multiple sources.
@@LethalLuggage I spent 6 years as a 15W UAV operator. We are not “pilots” as per the name, we are operators. Hence why we didn’t wear pilot wings, only aviation wings. No such thing as a drone “pilot”.
@@worlds_okayest_pilot sounds like an opinion. OP had the opposite experience
Oh wow, that was awesome! Great video and such beautiful scenery. Many thanks-stay well:-)
Thanks, you too!
truly poetry in motion, what amazing timing!
Nice video. I've never seen drone coverage of this stretch of tracks before. Really shows me why this loop is so famous. Thanks for sharing the video.
This is Breathing, if i were younger I would have chosen this as a career 😃
Back in the 1970's I hopped a freight train to Bakersfield in Mohave since I was stuck hitchhiking and I was amazed at this place. Now, almost 50 years later, I live about 20 miles west of the loop, just outside of Bakersfield in a wide spot in the road called Edison. The tracks pass right past my house. When I'm laying in bed I can feel the rumble as the trains pass by.
incredible,stunning,amazing,awesome,the best loop i ever seen. thank u.
Thanks Benny.
Thank you very much for sharing this video, I thoroughly enjoyed every minute, I just can't believe the size of these things
Wonderful!
Thanks for sharing the video and information about it.
This video is amazing, and very beautifully done! Absolutely stunning! My mouth was nearly hanging open through many scenes. Bravo!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed.
Very well done drone footage with representative audio. Thank you for sharing this.
That was an amazing video! Very well done, and I love how you incorporated the sound with the drone video.
Awesome, thank you!
Absolutely unbelievable! Thanks for sharing something I otherwise would never have seen!
I love to wonder about my first time anything.
Thankyou..
How beautiful! Perfect drone shot!
Great video. I’ve spent time at overlook/parking area at the top of the loop. An amazing place.
Very unique landscape up there. Thanks for the comment.
Excellent video. It's so awesome that such sceneries are not easy to come by. Highly recommended.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You did a WONDERFUL job with this video. I really enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Outstanding! Someday I hope to see that in person. As the son and grandson of railroad engineers I guess train tracks are in my dna even though I didn't follow in their footsteps.
Wasn't going to watch, other videos of the loop have been so disappointing. Glad I watched anyway, this was great!! Shared! Edit: loved that you explained the soundtrack in the description, too.
Awesome, thank you!
I never in my life saw such a never ending worm. It was a brilliant, fantastic and absolut beautiful experience for me. Thanks for the video.
Glad you enjoyed it
A spectacular panoramic train journey.❤Just pull it.
I never seen a such thing . amazing this trains transportation. thank you. good thing you just patiently have done this video.
I love watching this over and over it just so awesome
Amazing footage ,gives a true picture of the hills,thanks
Truly beautiful hills. Love the drive there on the winding roads. Thank you.
@@WhatISee1 I'm from England and we have nothing like it,thanks for sharing God's green earth
Greetings from new Zealand. Good to see this monster taking so many trucks off the road.
Beautiful country. Hope you are well. Thanks for watching.
Great piece of filming.❤ In Africa, this type of transportation has been done away with all together.
Slow, long and high drone-views are one the best ways to see the world! 🚂
Phenomenal! Great video, thanks a lot.
Fascinating stuff!! Great video.
Many thanks!
Mesmerizing……hypnotic……fantastic video; well done.
Many thanks!
EXCELLENT! Thank you for posting this...pretty cool
Thanks!
Best Tehachapi loop Video I’ve seen yet, good job, Thanks
Thanks George, much appreciated.
Probably the best footage I've seen from "The Loop". Well done.
Much appreciated.
That is such a cool section of railway! I gotta wonder just how many model train enthusiasts have this duplicated in their basements!
Certainly, if you saw this geometry on a layout you would be tempted to question its realism.
Why this gives me joy to watch I will never know. I love trains..
This video is great fun. I've lived in Northern California in the Bay area all my life and I've never been over this pass. We always use the 5. Thanks for sharing. 🇺🇲👏👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thoroughly enjoyed your video from start to where you hand catch the drone at the end👍🏼👍🏼. Thanks for sharing😄
Glad you enjoyed it. If you get a chance to visit, you should be able to see a train within an hours time. I got lucky and saw three of them.
@@WhatISee1 reading through the comments, seems I’m not the only one that’s appreciative of your drone videography. I’d like to be able to capture the Tehachapi action with my drone some day. When that day comes I’ll remember this video as the inspiration👍👍😄.
Side note: can’t help noticing that quite a number of your viewers don’t seem to appreciate the clever engineering that went into the construction of the ‘Loop’😏
This track line is just awesome! Best regards from Austria, Europe
Grüß Gott
WOW I dont know this exited!!!Very nice video ,great work!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍😍😍😍
Thank you 🤗
Great aerial photography !!
Well done! That was a first for me to have two trains at the loop. Really a wonderful job with the drone. First rate job buddy!
Thanks Rod, much appreciated. Glad you enjoyed.
Great shots 👏👏👏
Enjoy??
YOU BET!!
I try to get down there a couple times a year but seeing your drone footage was a real treat.
The family was here with me.
That drone footage is EPIC! Outstanding work!
Glad you liked it!!
very good treat for me.... the best i ever watched, and the engineering too.
thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the comments.
At the end, I love the way you showed the shadow of the drone landing in your hand! Nice touch!
Thanks! 👍
That‘s Impressive! Thank you for this video! 👍😁
Thank you too!
This is the best, most amazingly well done drone footage I’ve ever seen. American commerce on the move.
Much appreciated Gary.
Thank you for this wonderful train snake shot. Mountainous greetings from Austria. 👏
Thank you, all my best from the U.S.
Luxusní záběry z dronu. Moc dobrá práce. 👍👍👍👍
ďakujem za milé slová.
That's a solid gold video, well done
Much appreciated.
Your drone use is exquisite. I have never seen Tehachapi that way before. Thank you.
Thanks for watching
Fantastic! Thanks for posting this video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very interesting. Thanks for your effort
Wow. I've watched more than my fair share of videos of the loop, this is one of the best.
Your video came up on my suggestion list. Glad it did.
Keep up the quality.
Thanks and a new subscriber.
Bob
Thank you Bob. Appreciate the comments.
Well done, nicely recorded and enjoyed the whole film.
Many thanks!
Great Video,thank you👍🏾
awesome location and great drone footage!
Best train video I have ever seen! WOW! Great job! WOW!
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you! I still watch it every other day so it must be good because I get bored quick.
There must be some kind of award for this filming. So cool!
Very much appreciated!
Wow... !!! My best friend, It's always great. Your video is excellent quality. We liked and enjoyed to the end. Thanks
Tremendous feat of survey and grading. Hats off boss for the show. Adios
amazing thanks for posting!!!
Been here many times, always fun to see these monster trains snake up and down the mountains
It looks like this would be a huge chokepoint for trains. I would think that with the modern big horsepower engines, this could be straightened. Fantastic video seeing it from above.
Simply stunning.
Fantastic vid, thank you very much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a beautiful drone shot you captured. Almost want to build a house there until I realized chemical trains run on those tracks.
Amazing. Just amazing !!!!
Wow! That is amazing!
wow.. awesome !
Завораживающие кадры, показывающие мощь ЧЕЛОВЕКА!!!
да нет , это мощь природы, а человек, только все испаганил.
You’re both mistaken. . . 😘
This is powerful AMERICAN 🫡
Great! It brings back many memories.
I've never been skunked but have never seen it that good, awesome footage
Thanks 👍
Pretty realistic model train! Nice job! ;)
Absolutely gorgeous footage.
just beautiful!
It's really cool to see such a heavy train on a loop.
There are other scenic loops in the world, Bernina loop in Switzerland and another one on a line from Tirano (Italy) to St.Moritz. Or look up Šarganska osmica (number 8) in Serbia.
These are the same loop - the Brusio Spiral Viaduct. It is on the Tirano-Poschiavo section of the Bernina Express. I rode it in 2016 and relatives worked on the Rhaetian Railway around the time it was built.