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@@AmtrakNerd42 I’m currently out of town at the moment. I heard about the holdup on #14 last night. I appreciate the heads up though

@ I’m enjoying the trains up here. These are amazing

@ it’s a really nice place to railfan.

@ too bad I live a couple hundred miles away. I would be here every day if I could.

@@ScottKew-g8r Thank you! You’re right, it’s good to see younger folks interested in trains and models.

@@AmtrakNerd42 From what I’ve observed, there’s usually 10-20 freight trains a day. Tucson or Yuma are good spots since they are crew change points and trains seem to build up there during high traffic periods.

@ I was driving on I10 just north west of Tucson. I just must have missed everything.

@@Pacifac_surfliner2424 I imagine it was so it could be moved to LA for maintenance or something along those lines.

@@AmtrakNerd42 The thumbnail photo was taken about halfway between Keene and Woodford

@@West_Coast_Trains yeah. When I went there, that’s were I sat down for lunch.

@@AmtrakNerd42 Sorry, I didn’t see this comment. From what I’ve heard 301 was on the Coast Starlight last week, passed through the Bay Area southbound yesterday. Assuming it wasn’t reassigned, 301 should be heading north out of LA today on A14

@@West_Coast_Trains yeah I’ve heard. Still haven’t seen it but last week, I did see 203 on 11 and 90225 on 761/794.

@@AmtrakNerd42 very cool! I’m waiting on A11 right now with 301 trailing

@@West_Coast_Trains yah. The train is too late for me so I’m not going to see it.

@@Pacifac_surfliner2424 they only run during weekday rush hour 4x south in the morning and 4x north in the afternoon.

​@@West_Coast_Trains I JUST SAW IT YESTERDAY

@@Pacifac_surfliner2424 very cool!!

@@AmtrakNerd42 You’re right, that should be Amtrak #14 Northbound. Just a heads up, Amtrak 203 is on the Coast Starlight today going south, and P42 192 is leading going north out of SLO

@@West_Coast_Trains I can’t make it there until Saturday but I was told 509 is on 761/794.

That would be pretty cool to see a style similar to the Northeast Corridor with electric engines and standard passenger equipment. AEM7s would be neat.

@@West_Coast_Trains Agreed. That's what we need instead of Stadler EMUs

@@West_Coast_Trains unfortunately 20 min ago or longer the last gallery train is operating in the peninsula. It just left from SF

@@MarcusHayes-ku2op Just saw some of the last earlier this evening, thanks for the heads up.

They get pretty long nowadays. Just about everything has 3 or four units up front and a DPU on any grade.

I can't remember the exact location but it was somewhere in Soledad, California

@@West_Coast_Trains looks like a great shot.

Thanks!

@@West_Coast_Trains he’s gone now. It’s possible he todays 14 but I don’t know.

It is very impressive! Thanks for commenting

Looks like it, thanks for pointing it out. Should say 316 and 305 instead of 315

@@West_Coast_Trains no problem.

I don’t think it would look all to bad. Just think of coasters SC-44s and replace the light blue with red. Then replace the dark blue and dark gray with white. Have a red stripe on the bottom to line up with the Bombardier coaches and put the CalTrain logo on the side.

@@AmtrakNerd42 I think it'd be an interesting look. I doubt it would happen anytime soon since Caltrain is going electric in about one month and their older diesels will probably be stored and cut up. The only diesels they are keeping on are the 6 MPI MP36s and those are still only 20 ish years old. They most likely wouldn't need newer diesel power for at least the next 5 years but if they ordered some it could very well be more Chargers

@@West_Coast_Trains yeah. I would still look interesting

@@AmtrakNerd42 It’s pretty nice. It’s always nice to come back to something closer to home though

@@West_Coast_Trains One day I’ll get to travel. Maybe take the starlight up to Seattle or somewhere.

@@AmtrakNerd42 same here. They can still be found on the Southwest Chief, Sunset Limited, and California Zephyr. Occasionally there will be one trailing on the Coast Starlight, but that’s about it in California

@@West_Coast_Trains I do know today we have full P42 power on 11, but I can’t get to the tracks today.

@@AmtrakNerd42 Good to know. Perhaps I'll get out to see it.

@@West_Coast_Trains He is running a bit late.

@@West_Coast_Trains I might be wrong about the P42s today. It’s possible they came through yesterday.

It's a really nice place. Sounds like a very cool railroad you have too

The layout is by far the most impressive one I've seen, and as someone who's been to Tehachapi multiple times, it's fun to see the same locations where I've photographed trains on a smaller scale.

The clip at 0:38 was filmed just north of Paso Robles at San Miguel, and the clip at 1:40 was filmed at the Amtrak station in Paso Robles

There were also some clips from Bradley and San Luis Obispo so in the same general area

@@West_Coast_Trains I thought so. I was looking at it and it looked quite familiar.

Yes it was filmed in October. Unfortunately I can only edit and upload videos so fast 😅. The meet at the end was filmed at Creekside Ranch Rd. in Templeton

@@West_Coast_Trains oh that’s interesting. We rarely get meets at Templeton. I when I first rode the starlight back in March, we had to wait in the Santa Margarita siding for more than 20 minutes because we couldn’t meet in Templeton.

@@AmtrakNerd42 very interesting. It could have been because the Santa Margarita siding is controlled by the dispatcher, while the Templeton siding is hand operated. Might have saved the crew a lot of time and walking.

@@West_Coast_Trains yeah that is true.

It was on Track 2 because #14 had been on track 1

@@West_Coast_Trains usually 14 and 11 meet up just passed the horse shoe curve or in Santa Margarita.

@@AmtrakNerd42 I really appreciate that comment! The Coast is by far one of my favorite places to film trains. It isn’t as busy as SoCal or the Bay Area, but it’s nice to show all the locations in between. I can’t say when I will be able to make another video on the Coast Line, but I can’t wait to do so.

@@West_Coast_Trains sounds good. Thanks.

@@railtechadventurer The 11th was also the last time I’ve seen this engine as well. From what I’ve seen, 816 took some pretty serious damage in the Denver accident. I’d be surprised if it is repaired and returned to service. Hope the crew has a fast recovery

Thank you

Thanks!

This was on September 7, 2023 in the afternoon

Yes it was! A bit less than 5 miles northwest of Soledad

I know that area. It's near Gonzales on 101 around milepost 309 on that freeway

I haven’t caught any of the new paint P42s yet! I wasn’t aware Amtrak was repainting them into the new scheme.

@@West_Coast_Trains From what I read I believe 12 of these will get the new paint scheme. 69 happened to come out now wearing it earlier this week.

Thanks for the correction.

@@West_Coast_Trains I love rs3l u can tell bc it drops and picks up

Yea my favorite horns

The 8:15 AM train usually has 11 cars, the 9:00 train usually has 15. The wye turnaround in Silverton can only accommodate 15 cars. Both go to Silverton. The 8:15 train is twin diesel powered, and because diesels are less expensive to operate, passengers are given a $10. discount per passenger. For a family of 4 (husband, wife and two kids) it is a savings of $40. The 9:45 train normally has 9-10 cars, and is a shorter trip, to Cascade Canyon. The shorter trip is for families who want the steam train experience but at a shorter time period. The D&S was totally steam-powered, coal fired until 2019, when the railroad bought 4 used narrow gauge diesels from the White Pass and Yukon railroad. They were originally purchased for yard work, and for miscellaneous purposes, but the engineering and sales people noticed they were much cheaper to operate, so a deal was worked out whereby one train per day would be diesel, with a discount. Eleven cars worth of people at $10 discount each amounts to a lot of savings for them, and the railroad has made it work to everybody's satisfaction. Starting in 2019, the D&S started converting over to waste oil for fuel, and now all but 2 of their 8 steamers run on oil. As mentioned, the road has 8 operating steamers, making it one of the largest (by number) operators of steamers in the U.S. All are of 2-8-2 configuration. There are 3 ALCOs, K28s, from 1923. There are 4 Baldwins, K36s, from 1925. One Baldwin was originally a standard gauge K50, from about 1906, but which was rebuilt into a narrow gauge K37 in the 1920s. All the engines other than the K37 have been in continuous operation all this time, 100 years for the K28s and 98 years for the K36s. The K37 was in storage for some years before being brought back on line. So, there are about 35-36 passenger cars on the move for any given day. A few other cars are always in the shop for some sort of maintenance, and a few others are kept "ready-to-go" but in reserve. Nearly every enclosed car dates from 1881 or 1882; they have been continuously updated, with air brakes, other modern features. One business car, the Nomad, was the very first passenger car in the U.S. to have an enclosed vestibule in its front, as modified by the D&RGW, and was displayed at some national fairs and railroad open houses in its early years.

Thanks for the detailed explanation! 😊