FYI to other confused viewers: This is the trainset being towed from it's assembly point at Salt Lake City to the Bay, not under its own power but from a Diesel engine. There's no electrified lines from Utah to Cal yet.
Sadly most railways did and its still a superior technology... Perhaps the government should create an electrification matching fund to get these projects done! @@IndustrialParrot2816
I saw these trains when I was passing by SLC early this year. It was right by the south side of I80. When I saw them I was thinking these trains looks familiar, but then realized, what the heck, Caltrain's new EMU?
I always want Caltrain Electrifications and California High-Speed Rail in California and I always love Caltrain Electrifications and California High-Speed Rail in California.😮
Caltrain, can you share the deets on the setup? Our wee little railroad is purchasing a couple cars out soon and it would be a hoot to document the trip like this!
We placed a GoPro Max in the trailing cab car and had it set to take images every 5s in timelapse mode. The camera had an external battery plugged in to keep it powered during the multiple day journey. The images were reframed and compiled in After Effects. Hope that helps!
9:33 Huh, I never knew that there was a street-running section of track in Oakland. Probably because I've ever only taken Capitol Corridor to Emeryville and taken the bus to SF. Maybe next time I'll take CC to Oakland and take the ferry across the Bay.
This is an amazing video which shows you even in its small way the spectacular scenery this railway passes through! I just wish it was double-tracked, electrified and higher speed! 125 mph/200 kmh all the way! I dream of an inter-connected North American higher speed railway network one day! Electrified and double-tracked from state to state, province to province!
Next time try positioning the camera so it looks straight down the tracks, which would make for a much more interesting watchable video … the side view makes the image & location continuity quite poor at this particular frame rate. Despite that, it appears the route shown in this delivery is via UP’s Feather River Canyon route and not Donner Pass. Also, the video cuts off very shortly after passing under the Warm Springs BART station pedestrian overpass. Why not edit out any excessively long pauses and show the complete trip over to the Caltrain line or to CEMOF?
It wouldn't really make sense; you'd have to retrofit them to somehow fit all the power and motive equipment into already existing railcars, which are also already about 20 years old (some older). Given the design of the bombardier cars, you'd probably lose some seating space and/or make maintenance much more difficult and expensive. And then of course given the age, they'd be retired sooner than these new trains will. So while theoretically possible, there's a lot of reasons (including others I didn't mention for the sake of brevity) that it's genuinely better and likely cheaper long term to buy new, purpose built EMUs rather than try to retrofit the existing equipment. Not to mention that Caltrain just doesn't have enough Bombardier bi-levels anyways for the level of service they provide.
ua-cam.com/video/SKHo3fItsTM/v-deo.htmlsi=2fFk_QTiUw7kGU62 here is video from the Stadler train arriving and departing in Switzerland. Caltrain will have the same train (more or less, but the basic things are the same) 👍
@@lalakerspro actually, I took a closer look at the video by slowing down the playback speed - they did travel over the CZ’s route between SLC and Winnemucca, then again between Roseville and Emeryville/Oakland, but between Winnemucca and Roseville, they used the former Western Pacific line via Feather River Canyon. It was the route of the original CZ prior to Amtrak, but today, Amtrak uses the former Southern Pacific line between Oakland and Winnemucca (the ex-WP is used between Elko and SLC, but between Winnemucca and Elko, Amtrak uses two sets of UP tracks that are physically distanced apart from each other and used to be separately owned by both SP and WP. The ex-SP is for westbound trains and the ex-WP for eastbound trains, both are now UP owned)
lofi trains to relax/study to
Please release a real, normal speed cab ride/view video of the entire electrified route with the new trains, in both directions.
Theres a few UA-camrs that have done so on the diesel units (includes the electric infrastructure)
FYI to other confused viewers: This is the trainset being towed from it's assembly point at Salt Lake City to the Bay, not under its own power but from a Diesel engine. There's no electrified lines from Utah to Cal yet.
The Southern Pacific had plans to Electrify everything from San Francisco to Salt lake City back in 1912 including what would become Caltrain
"yet"? Trust me: Union Pacific has NO plans WHATSOEVER of electrifying the Overland Route.
"yet"? Trust me: Union Pacific has NO plans WHATSOEVER of electrifying the Overland Route.
Sadly most railways did and its still a superior technology... Perhaps the government should create an electrification matching fund to get these projects done! @@IndustrialParrot2816
WAS just about to comment this question, THANKS for answering ❤
I saw these trains when I was passing by SLC early this year. It was right by the south side of I80.
When I saw them I was thinking these trains looks familiar, but then realized, what the heck, Caltrain's new EMU?
I always want Caltrain Electrifications and California High-Speed Rail in California and I always love Caltrain Electrifications and California High-Speed Rail in California.😮
Caltrain, can you share the deets on the setup? Our wee little railroad is purchasing a couple cars out soon and it would be a hoot to document the trip like this!
We placed a GoPro Max in the trailing cab car and had it set to take images every 5s in timelapse mode. The camera had an external battery plugged in to keep it powered during the multiple day journey. The images were reframed and compiled in After Effects. Hope that helps!
@@caltrain thanks a ton! I'll be sure to tag you in it when we do the move 😁
9:33 Huh, I never knew that there was a street-running section of track in Oakland. Probably because I've ever only taken Capitol Corridor to Emeryville and taken the bus to SF. Maybe next time I'll take CC to Oakland and take the ferry across the Bay.
This is an amazing video which shows you even in its small way the spectacular scenery this railway passes through! I just wish it was double-tracked, electrified and higher speed! 125 mph/200 kmh all the way! I dream of an inter-connected North American higher speed railway network one day! Electrified and double-tracked from state to state, province to province!
you must be very confused. these are electric train cars being delivered to the sf bay area. they will never run in this area.
Would be cool to see it with a small map overlay showing the route and progress.
Yes and yeah of course Caltrain Electrifications and California High-Speed Rail in California.😮
Next time try positioning the camera so it looks straight down the tracks, which would make for a much more interesting watchable video … the side view makes the image & location continuity quite poor at this particular frame rate. Despite that, it appears the route shown in this delivery is via UP’s Feather River Canyon route and not Donner Pass. Also, the video cuts off very shortly after passing under the Warm Springs BART station pedestrian overpass. Why not edit out any excessively long pauses and show the complete trip over to the Caltrain line or to CEMOF?
I would have thought they would use the coast line to SJ and not the warm springs sub
12:54 saint gregory church 😷
cvs has your california contract please return it😷
hay stupid idea, but could we just have the bombardier coaches with pantographs and run them as emus?
It wouldn't really make sense; you'd have to retrofit them to somehow fit all the power and motive equipment into already existing railcars, which are also already about 20 years old (some older). Given the design of the bombardier cars, you'd probably lose some seating space and/or make maintenance much more difficult and expensive. And then of course given the age, they'd be retired sooner than these new trains will. So while theoretically possible, there's a lot of reasons (including others I didn't mention for the sake of brevity) that it's genuinely better and likely cheaper long term to buy new, purpose built EMUs rather than try to retrofit the existing equipment. Not to mention that Caltrain just doesn't have enough Bombardier bi-levels anyways for the level of service they provide.
We could have a mid life refurbishment
can we get a video of it arriving and departing a station?
It's not running under its own power its being towed
@@IndustrialParrot2816 when it gets up and running…?
that was kinda implied
@@railsand oh there are plenty of videos of them testing the trains are the energized sections
ua-cam.com/video/SKHo3fItsTM/v-deo.htmlsi=2fFk_QTiUw7kGU62 here is video from the Stadler train arriving and departing in Switzerland. Caltrain will have the same train (more or less, but the basic things are the same) 👍
Same route as the Amtrak California Zephyr!!
Maybe, we dont know for sure since it was a timelapse
@@lalakerspro actually, I took a closer look at the video by slowing down the playback speed - they did travel over the CZ’s route between SLC and Winnemucca, then again between Roseville and Emeryville/Oakland, but between Winnemucca and Roseville, they used the former Western Pacific line via Feather River Canyon. It was the route of the original CZ prior to Amtrak, but today, Amtrak uses the former Southern Pacific line between Oakland and Winnemucca (the ex-WP is used between Elko and SLC, but between Winnemucca and Elko, Amtrak uses two sets of UP tracks that are physically distanced apart from each other and used to be separately owned by both SP and WP. The ex-SP is for westbound trains and the ex-WP for eastbound trains, both are now UP owned)
Seems like after emeryville (where CZ ends), they used the niles and warm springs sub to get to san jose@@coleallen3895
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when will the aem 7 go to service
Never, aem was only meant for testing, but they arent going to use it anymore
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@@lalakersprowhat are they going to do to it
@@kl6361Probably use it as a maintenance vehicle or something.
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