🛤️HEAVY MOUNTAIN RAILROADING IN THE DESERT! Huge Trains Fighting the Hill - Great Views and Audio!

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  • Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
  • Had a great Time watching trains this weekend! Lots of great views and Audio of trains thundering up the hill! We drove about an hour East of San Timoteo Canyon to catch some trains Climbing the Backside of Beaumont hill!
    Got lucky right at the beginning, and caught a Westbound starting its climb at Garnet, while meeting a Z Train coming down the grade!
    Shortly after that, the M-TUMC shows up, rumbling up the mountain. You can really hear the DPU's on this one, down on their knees, digging into the grade as it passes Amtrak's Palm Springs, CA Station!
    We catch this big Union Pacific manifest later, about ten miles up, at a place called FINGAL.

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  • @RRTrainVideos
    @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому +1

    Part 2! ua-cam.com/video/GcXXPIfKjL0/v-deo.html
    Thanks to all the new Subscribers and Viewers here to the channel! I really appreciate it!😎

  • @cjbeyer8340
    @cjbeyer8340 Місяць тому +1

    What beautiful coverage of the UP system!! Love the Union Pacific!!!!

    • @RRTrainVideos
      @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому +1

      @cjbeyer8340 yes! Thank you very much!😎

  • @droyroy1711
    @droyroy1711 Місяць тому +4

    Congratulations on the 400 plus subscribers.. You got some really great videos there. Keep up the good Work...

  • @KCTopDawg
    @KCTopDawg Місяць тому +2

    Wow the views are absolutely amazing 👏🏿. Keep it up with this outstanding footage!

    • @RRTrainVideos
      @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому +1

      @KCTopDawg haha thanks big dog. I appreciate it 😎🙏

  • @corycampbell9811
    @corycampbell9811 Місяць тому +2

    I used to ride my dirt bikes on the road next to the tracks in the 80s.

    • @RRTrainVideos
      @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому

      @@corycampbell9811 nice 😎 I see a lot of trails out there

  • @edsrailfanning
    @edsrailfanning Місяць тому +2

    Well done awesome video

    • @RRTrainVideos
      @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому

      @@edsrailfanning thank you very much!

  • @FJDad777
    @FJDad777 Місяць тому +1

    Excellent locations. Great catches! Awesome footage. 😎🍿The safety inspection car was very cool.

    • @RRTrainVideos
      @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому +1

      @FJDad777 Thank you very much, I appreciate it! Yea, I thought that was really cool, I didn't even see it till I was editing the video.

    • @FJDad777
      @FJDad777 Місяць тому +1

      @RobRoyTrainVideos I love when I catch lil gems like that when editing.

    • @RRTrainVideos
      @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому +1

      @@FJDad777 yea pretty cool. I've noticed that when I'm flying the drone, it's a lot easier to miss things going by!

    • @FJDad777
      @FJDad777 Місяць тому +1

      @RobRoyTrainVideos lol it sure is! Watch out for powerlines! 😋

    • @RRTrainVideos
      @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому +1

      @FJDad777 haha yea, trees, poles! I try and scout out the area before and see what a safe height is where I'm above most obstacles but it's still tricky while the trains going by

  • @corycampbell9811
    @corycampbell9811 Місяць тому +1

    The scenery is so beautiful in the desert.

  • @billlong8385
    @billlong8385 Місяць тому +1

    Over 2600' climb from Indio to Beaumont in 50 miles.

  • @brianporter712
    @brianporter712 Місяць тому

    Excellent sir ..I was at that station a few years ago and got some good viodeo as well.

    • @RRTrainVideos
      @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому

      @brianporter712 yea it's a cool place. Thank you😎

  • @cagorrie
    @cagorrie Місяць тому

    Wow, great flying, great video ! Excellent !!!!!

    • @RRTrainVideos
      @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому

      @@cagorrie thank you very much, I appreciate it 🙏 😎

  • @charliebrooks2570
    @charliebrooks2570 Місяць тому

    Very cool video! Nice variety of those brute-power engines!

  • @bradleyjanes2949
    @bradleyjanes2949 Місяць тому

    Great video, ty 👍

    • @RRTrainVideos
      @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому

      @@bradleyjanes2949 thank you! 👋😎

  • @user-ku5wk1yy9x
    @user-ku5wk1yy9x Місяць тому +2

    THIS IS WHY YOU DINT PUT LOCOMOTIVES THATS GEARED FOR HIGH SPEEDS IN LONG, HEAVY DRAG FREIGHTS! WHEN YOU DO THIS, YOU CAN Have AS MANY AS EIGHT OF THESE 4400 HORSEPOWER GE LOCOMOTIVES ON THE TRAIN. IF YOU PUT THESE IN IT, YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT GETTING THE TRAIN OVER THE LONG,HEAVY GRADES ! THESE LOCOMOTIVES FROM GE MAY SOUND GOOD, BUT THEY ARE NOT GEARED FOR Slow DRAG FREIGHTS! THE HIGHER THE GEAR RATIO, THE LESS TRACTIVE EFFORT YOU WILL HAVE, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT GEARED FOR Slow, HEAVY FREIGHTS! AS A RESULT, THE TRACTION MOTORS WILL BURN UP BECAUSE, THEY ARE TURNING TOO SLOWLY TO ABSORB ALL THE ELECTRICAL Power GENERATED BY THE ENGINE /GENERATOR SET; WHICH IN MANY CASES, WILL CAUSE THE LOCOMOTIVE TO CATCH FIRE AND BURN UP! ANY LOCOMOTIVE THAT'S GEARED FOR HIGH SPEED INTERMODAL TRAINS, SHOULD NOT BE USED ON SLOW DRAG FREIGHTS! THE BEST SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM IS TO PUT THE LOWER GEARED LOCOMOTIVES ON THE TRAIN, AND LEAVE THE HIGH SPEED LOCOMOTIVES AT THE ENGINE TERMINAL! THE LOWER THE GEAR RATIO, THE BETTER CHANCES THE TRAIN WILL HAVE AS IT GOES UP THE GRADES! WHEN IT COMES TO Slow ,HEAVY TRAINS, THE BEST LOCOMOTIVES TO USE IS THOSE LOCOMOTIVES THAT ARE GEARED FOR Slow, HEAVY DRAG FREIGHTS! NOT THE HIGHSPEED ONES!

    • @RRTrainVideos
      @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому

      @@user-ku5wk1yy9x haha thanks for the info!😎

    • @84hansennr
      @84hansennr Місяць тому +1

      They seem to work fine for me....As long as there's fuel, and water in them.

    • @chipsrafferty8362
      @chipsrafferty8362 Місяць тому +1

      This is why they need to put stick shifts in the locomotives,then the clutches wouldn’t burn up,get rid of the automatic transmissions and you know the tractive effort would increase on slow drags on long heavy trains

    • @bobmellor2184
      @bobmellor2184 29 днів тому

      😂

  • @jbdbackfan
    @jbdbackfan Місяць тому +1

    Where were you shooting exactly? Beaumont Hill doesn't show on Google maps and was curious the location with all the windmills, etc. Nice video!

    • @RRTrainVideos
      @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому

      @@jbdbackfan so the beginning was at Amtrak Palm Springs Station
      Later, that was near Whitewater
      Thanks!😎

  • @antonbruce1241
    @antonbruce1241 Місяць тому

    Absolutely beautiful camera work! But I have to ask: @11:50...what is that train station on the right?

    • @RRTrainVideos
      @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому

      Thank you very much! That's Palm Springs Station

    • @antonbruce1241
      @antonbruce1241 Місяць тому +1

      @@RRTrainVideos Thank you very much for that info!!!

  • @mattanderson6336
    @mattanderson6336 Місяць тому

    How did you do the graphics?

    • @RRTrainVideos
      @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому +1

      @@mattanderson6336 did all those on canva.com
      Thanks for watching!

  • @Earnest2008
    @Earnest2008 Місяць тому

    Z-LAAI

    • @RRTrainVideos
      @RRTrainVideos  Місяць тому

      @@Earnest2008 thank you 😎 how'd you get the symbol?