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Thank you!

@@norcalrailfan101 You're Welcome!

thank you, appreciate the comment!

as of now no, so far its only for the San Joaquins

Yep, it’s mainline testing on the San Joaquins on May 28th

the cabcars have not been delivered yet so they have not started testing

One of the locomotives is actually an NPCU which is just an old locomotive with just cab controls. The inside is gutted out. The NPCU controls the locomotive on the other side remotely to push the train “backwards.”

ill try and head down there over the weekend if i can

@@norcalrailfan101 Thatd be great thank you! Awesome catches btw 👍

@@MrMarshmallow26 hello, went over there and didnt see anything new other then just amtrak ALC-42s

@@norcalrailfan101 Aww, sorry there wasn't much to see, but thanks so much for checking out what's at the facility! Wish I could do it but I'm way on the other side of the states lol

@@MrMarshmallow26 no worries, I like going out there to see if there's anything new anyway. I'll upload if I see something new there

Because Amtrak is trying to create a full train set instead of using old equipment as cab cars now, that way the cab car matches the rest of the train. These cab cars also offer extra seating not just enabling push pull operations.

If there’s any non-intercity lines they run on they’ll probably stay on those. Airo is only taking over intercity services.

@@MrMarshmallow26 OK I gotcha

The Keystone will receive Airo sets in Phase VII paint instead of San Joaquins paint. The cab car will be based off of the ALC-42 design instead of the SC-44 design.

when its ready idk

Yeah they do

Before gta 6

@@lainetuason1732 exactly!

You too

They also need to be on the Amtrak Surfliner and Amtrak Capitol Corridor, while the Amtrak Cascades is in the D Airo sets

That would look VERY confusing. Would it be IDTX or CDTX? I feel it looks fine but I respect your opinion.

@@MassRailfan124 I see your point, but I just think they could be been much more creative than just an instant change of color from the blue to the silver.

Why reuse the paint? It gives CalTrans a chance to make San Joaquins stand out from other routes. Paint also takes less effort than actually building the rolling stock. That’s the same reason why IDTX/Midwest uses that dot scheme instead of normal Amtrak paint. It makes the state-supported routes unique. Same with Cascades.

@@MrMarshmallow26 I think it'd _actually_ stand out if the paint design included a little more than a straight line from the car to the cab. Left the impression that whoever designed this wanted to make the SJ more unique through lazy design, unless that paint's not final.

@@videomaker133 You don’t want to overdo the design either. Personally it looks fine the way it is, I like the alternating blue and yellow along the bottom. The only thing I dislike is that the blue at the cab itself was supposed to curve more in the original design like the locomotive, wonder what happened there.

what the hell are you talking about

😂😂😂😂

They're in service now!

@@TohaBgood2 Yup, got to ride on them two weeks ago for the first time! I really enjoyed the experience.

Yeah, I wish that they went with the new ALC-42 look instead of the SC-44. But this is an old order that predates the ALC-42 look. Hopefully any future California Chargers and cab cars will switch to the ALC-42 face. It's much nicer looking than the Vectron-derived "European truck" look of the SC-44.

Probably because it’s not an Airo set specifically, I’m thinking this is part of a separate order and just because CalTrans has SC-44s already.

Why? These things are awesome! Everyone loves them on Brightline and Railjet in Europe! They're good premium trains.

@@TohaBgood2 its the end of the npcus and a lot of us really like it. these things are ugly

@@CalifornianRailfan Come on, dude! The new Siemens trains are gorgeous! Siemens is one of the oldest and best rolling stock manufacturers in the world. They know what they're doing! Just look at them! They're beasts!

AWW HELL NAW

Same

Same day it was uploaded, august 5th

Dang not to take away from Caltrans’ new cab car but I see more via rail cars behind it and we JUST got one train set just arrived in Canada yesterday the 5th. Anyway I wish I could make a trip down there to see the facility myself. Most of North America’s new passenger fleet is coming out of this place including VIA Rail who runs through my hometown. I hope your local services start getting these soon. I hate for us Canadians to get all the good stuff before you guys.