Amtrak Pacific Surfliner Time-Lapse from San Diego to Los Angeles
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- The Amtrak Pacific Surfliner travels 351 miles throughout Southern California, serving San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Los Angeles, Orange, and San Diego Counties. Watch this time-lapse video and experience the 128-mile trip from San Diego to Los Angeles in four minutes. Enjoy beautiful views of coastal bluffs and beaches from the unique perspective of the train engineer. Learn more about the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner at pacificsurfliner.com. Check out the time-lapse for the northern portion of the route here: • Amtrak Pacific Surflin...
Learn more about the Pacific Surfliner: www.pacificsur...
Amtrak (i.e. the Federal gov't) needs to make this line viable by double-tracking it and upgrading it to facilitate high speeds. The views are gorgeous and it would greatly facilitate tourism in this region. I'm in SoCal and frankly driving can get exhausting and it would be nice to just kick back and enjoy the view out my window.
While Amtrak operates the line, they do so under contract to a Joint Power Authority (LOSSAN), formed by the counties served by the line. LOSSAN owns the tracks, OCTA does the day to day management, and Amtrak operates the trains. There are plans to double track a lot of the line where it’s not, mostly in San Diego county…but funding is, as always for non-car projects, lacking.
I mean it's double-tracked more so than some of the other lines out there but yeah it would be nice to have more frequency for sure. They're having enough problems with the ocean water getting too close to the current tracks.
oh yeah! I'd love to see here Maglev or at least highspeed Monorail to cover DTLA DTSD space in around 60 mins! That'd be a game changer not only for touring but for business trips logistics. That'd boost the economic interconnection of the region for sure.
Exactly! This is barely excusable, since they have high frequencies and room for a second track.
Not speed, but more frequent trains for sure. That there's barely 4 a day is criminal misuse of public transit. They should be every 5 minutes 24/7 like other developed nations rail services. This is barely being used as a tourist trap.
The amtrak surfliner is my favorite train
Same
How much
@@yotiep.1072 San Diego to Los Angeles or( vice versa )coach is $36 or $55 business class one way.
@@deerene ohh ok..thanks
Honestly, I would watch this from beginning to end in normal speed. No timelapse needed.
When I was younger, I never knew that trains could be so fast. Then I saw the Pacific Surfliner along the I-5. Now I ride the Surfliner along the I-5.
Finally, "high speed rail" in California. :/
@Plaines_LV yep, that and Tustin. They FLY through that area 2:50
Given that the LA-San Diego passenger rail corridor is one of the busiest in the country, 2nd only to the Northeast Corridor, it is in desperate need of electrification in order to increase train speed and frequency as well as reduce noise and pollution. The train should already be faster than driving, even without traffic, but currently isn't. Double tracking definitely helps, and electrification should be the next logical step.
Exactly! Let's make voices aloud then :)
And 5-10 minute spacing 24/7. It's ridiculous that this even needs to be said.
@@haydentravis3348 that’s a bit overkill, but there should minimum be trains every hour running between 6am and midnight, and every 15-30 minutes during peak hours.
Was on this train just a couple of days ago and it was amazing. What a beautiful time spent on rails. I highly recommend it.
Hello, were their any homeless on board? 😬 I’m asking because I’m hoping this could be my sons transport from school to home?
I hear there are a lot of mentally Ill homeless around the train station and I’m afraid of allowing my son to take the train if that is true. 😬
@@beecee7488 Not all homeless people are dangerous and we should always harbor compassion to others. Regardless, the stations are clean and safe.
I have done this trip several times and never tire of it. I hope to come back in a few months. The service is always friendly and the snacks are to die for! Thank you for your wonderful service.
Greetings from Australia.
More Amtrak routes need something similar to this! Would love to see a similar video for the San Joaquins and Capitol Corridor! ^_^
Exactly and they should do caltrain too
I came from Austria to do this trip some days ago. Really great!!!
0:09 - San Diego - SF Depot
0:15 - San Diego - Old Town
1:02 - Solana Beach
1:31 - Oceanside
2:08 - San Clemente Pier
2:32 - San Juan Capistrano
2:51 - Irvine
3:04 - Santa Ana
3:15 - Anaheim
3:26 - Fullerton
4:09 - LA - Union Station
*Other trains/trams at each station*
San Diego - SF Depot: Coaster, MTS
San Diego - Old Town: Coaster, MTS
Solana Beach: Coaster
Oceanside: Coaster, Sprinter, Metrolink (Orange County, IEOC)
San Clemente Pier - Santa Ana: Metrolink (Orange County, IEOC)
Anaheim: Metrolink (Orange County)
Fullerton: Metrolink (Orange County, Perris Valley), Amtrak (Southwest Chief)
LA - Union Station: Metrolink (Orange County, Perris Valley, Riverside Line, San Bernardino Line, Ventura County, Antelope Valley), Amtrak (Southwest Chief, Sunset Limited/Texas Eagle, Coast Starlight), Metro
A few, but not all ( as of 2024) Amtrak Pacific Surfliners make stops at San Clemente Pier.
@@deerene yeah i believe its weekends only
Oh my gosh this is so cool😆😆😆😆😆😆. I always will love trains over airplanes.
Me too
Planes are boring fuel eating junk
spectacular......great music too
Nice👍👍👍I was on this train last month
Nice time lapse video! This is the part of the Surfliner route I travel most on.
Me too.
I also travel the Pacific Surfliner route between San Diego, Los Angeles & Oxnard when I’m home in the San Diego area for visits up to a week. I alternate my visits between Los Angeles & Oxnard every other visit home to the San Diego area. The Pacific Surfliner/Coast Starlight/Capital Corridor route between San Diego & Sacramento is my most favorite Amtrak route.
Me to!
It's videos like this i wish never had an end to them.
It just pisses me off seeing some sections of this route still single-tracked.
Chow Chow me too, I live along the one track area between Oceanside and Dana Point, one train every 30 minutes to an hour, and no BNSF, except for ONE at 9:30 and another at 11:30 (both at PM), I have to take an our train ride to Fullerton just to see BNSF all day and have really nice Railfanning videos
though if San Clemente was double tracked, it would suck
Same here. It’s just increasing risk of delays and/or collision. They should try and build second tracks. Maybe even convert it into a high speed rail line
Amtrak Productions if the entire line was double tracked I think BNSF would come through in the day
TotalBoogeymenH2Oplus that might make it worse
This is My Favorite Part of The Surfliner Route.
Hey, it’s a metrolink cab car! 4:03
I SAW MY OLD HOUSE :D Great vid
Awesome video . Happily July 2023
Thank you for putting the station names
I take the surfliner more times than the Coast Starlight to Seattle washington and honestly the Surfliner rly is a beautiful train and a good view alongside the pacific coast
My favorite part of the trip is the ocean views of near the Solana Beach station and the San Clemente Piers.
Thanks for posting - it was very enjoyable.
2:32 San Juan Capistrano
3:15 Anaheim
4:07 LA
1:01 Solana Beach
1:30 Oceanside!
Good video to watch while medicated!
Rode this train so many times
If you saw any coast starlight trains I was on 1 of them at this time
I hooe to one day see a time-lapse video like this for a daily Amtrak route from Los Angeles to the Coachella Valley/Imperial County among others!!
Wow !!!!
3:55 is the now gone Hobart tower right at bottom of Los Angeles..I many times hopped across the 4 tracks here at night right next to the diamonds and climbed up to the balcony of it ! We're looking north and single track crossing is the LAJunction RR coming in off Downey Rd. at bottom of huge BNSF Inter-modal yard..They've since changed everything down there. Tower is gone and little place left to park now to watch the action..RR cops come by quickly now and tell you to move on..My hang there is now finito (+-) !! But I got a bunch others anyway...
3:57 is the 'flyover' they installed to make passenger travel faster in/out L.A.
4:06 is LA Union Sta. tower at throat of terminal..
MDem
riding ur guy's train this summer cant wait
“… a hundred and two… “
The magic number if you’re riding a train.
3:58, on the far left is one of the Phase III heritage units!
Central California Rail Productions I see..
I Love ❤️ Trains I Love The Capitol Corridor And Pacific Surfliner
Beats LA traffic anyday IMO
virtual railfan viewers watching this mustev liked it because in san juan capistro is a sight for a railcam
Amtrak is moving fast for once lol
After that vid I would never ride on the Japanese bullet train.
Incredible video, thank you for uploading.
2x speed looking aweasome 👌👌👌👌👌
I'd like to see a Lake Shore Limited time lapse from Chicago to Boston. That's how far I traveled alone to see a friend from college.
Would love to see a real time (non time-lapse) version of this.
Me too. They should do a Real Time Roundtrip from Los Angeles to San Diego/San Luis Obispo.
TommyPickles Fan1992 yes! Sam Luis Obispo!
Play at 0.25 speed for a better experience.
And play at 2x speed for a totally mind blowing experience.!
Bravo! Loved this video!
Es mi viaje soñado, ojalá pueda realizarlo si Dios quiere. Saludos desde España.
How could you even have the thought of disliking this
Nice video!
That's nice, Peter Panda!
3:13 THATS MY CITY OH MY
I would like to see a recent time-lapse of the entire trip from SLO to San Diego.
i wish we had the auto train on California
4:02 if you do this in slow motion on the left side you will see a metrolink yard and the f125 Having the old cab cars
forreal doe 3:48 hits diffrent!!!!
Still in the beach
Great Video!
0:34 reminds me of the Tehachapi pass.
If like ocean views allows sit on the west side of the train...right side going south,left side going north...if you really like the ocean air try the coaster train
Damn I didn't know it was so fast
This was taken on train 777 which is my favorite Surfliner number
AWESOME
any one else got a vibe check at 3:48 😂😂😂
san clemente 😊
We need a train that crosses California. It’s a mess to travel now you need to change to a bus . Crazy. Get it done.
Huh? But The Amtrak Coast Starlight , San Joaquins , Southwest Chief, Sunset Limited, California Zephyr , Capital Corridor, and Pacific Surfliner all cross through the state of California . 🤨
The Concorde of trains.
BRO at 0:49 IM ALWAYS ON THE TRACK ON THE OTHER SIDE ON THE LEFT😭😭😭 of the mountain
RIP sorrentino valley,and the other coaster/san clementine that one metrolink stop
I ran over the route to Oceanside in Roblox surfliner project by surfliner studios in Amtrak and NCTD trains I like the stretches of Encinitas and Carlsbad village. Also does the surfliner have any f59phis left or are they all been replaced with sc-44s?
Love it 😍
2:50 Wait.. is that a GO Transit F59PH on the other platform?
Nope its a Hyndai Rotem
Yes. Although, it was a leaser unit.
And I have this whole route on my train simulator
Trainboy 073 which one?.
@@samgerchick964 train simulator 14 i believe its the 2013 add on :)
The west coast equivalent of the Philadelphia-NYC run.
hahah your pfp is an sc charger AWESOME
I seen that video on Facebook
32 Miles Per 1 Minute
128 miles.
Now I hope They can upload The Southbound to San Diego from The Inside of The F59PHI.
TommyPickles Fan1992 same
hhahhahaha any one else felt like thins was a rollercoaster.
No stop San Clemente 😀🤔
@Matt Humphries @The Gaming Channel Actually, Amtrak has 4 trains that stop at San Clemente Pier Daily. 566, 768, 583, and 785. It’s Metrolink that only serves that station on weekends.
So I'm guessing for the best views from LA we should sit on the left side of the train going to
San Diego
The engine will lead the train going southbound from Los Angeles, so sit on the right side of the train while facing the direction of the engine for the ocean views!
Yep, the people who work on train simulator got this route correct conpletely
Pause at around 3:24-3:25 and that station is where a train festival is held yearly,
Mason French Fullerton?
not this year :(
1:11 is where most of railfanners of RUclips film at that station
From European point of view it´s weird the rail isn´t electrified.
Can you show this with normal speed and no music? Thank you!
wanna ride this train before I die...
wheres the music from, and is it copyrighted?
Why dose this line insist on running on the left its confusing to the new passengers
No time lapse is necessary.
Those Norwegian train cab videos are very popular.
Is oceanside a pretty big station compared to other big stations?
Yes, it is one of the bigger stations on the route and you can walk to the beach.
3:13 You can see the ARTIC Transportation hub lol
whats the name of the song wanna add it to my spotify playlist its a really good song!!!
Our system is antiquated. A TGV could do the same 128 miles in less then an hour. it takes Amtrak 3
Not if it operated on that infrastructure with single track (mostly), grade crossings (a lot) and most of all tight curves and a few long stretches of straight track. High speed rail requires dedicated routes with mostly straight long sections with only gentle curves, only a few crossings, little to no freight trains and commuter rail usually segregated to the outside track of quad or triple track. You'd need a major rebuild of that route inland away from the beach.
TGV isn't gonna go 128 mph on antiquated tracks though, they needed all new corridors first
I rode the Pacific Surfliners many times. The damned Federal Railroad Administration has a rule that 5he very most Amtrak trains and all trains can only go up to 79 miles an hour. The roadbed is in top notch condition between San Diego & Los Angeles, many segments are being double tracked & many more segments have been double tracked. The Damned Federal Railroad Administration can if they truly & really wanted to let the Pacific Surfliners make the run in 90 minutes between San Diego & Los Angeles with the stops it makes. The state of Michigan spent millions of dollars making the majority of the Chicago-Detroit-Pontiac line they own not only on grade crossing elimination, but rebuilding the entire line, having positive train control and the damned F.R.A. Told Michigan you are only allowed to run the trains at a maximum speed of 79 miles per hour. Pennsylvania which owns with Amtrak the Keystone Service line between Philadelphia & Harrisburg where there are no grade crossing, has positive train control and has many portions of they line quad & triple tracked and can run the trains up to 125 MPH, but no, the damned F.R.A. Wants slow speed trains. Those in the offices of the damned Federal Railroad administration need to take train rides on the Pacific Surfliner, the Cascades, Wolverine, Keyston & Empire corridors & see for hemselves that the trains need to run faster and let Amtrak, the freight railroads & even state owned railroads run the trains faster.
@@christopherorourke6543 The Surfliner actually has a top speed of 90mph between LA and SD thanks to the ATS system installed by ATSF.
3:58 I see 3751
Why does it have to be on the left side
click sprocket in video frame, click speed, change to .25
are these trains usually packed or is there plenty of space to chose from to sit?
Is there any reason why the NCTD section south of Oceanside is left hand running?
What speed did you take this video at? (i.e. were the exposures every second, two seconds ??)
The whole line has been shutdown due to coastl erosion
It’s open again as of July 2023
I can't work out what makes people want to live in a desert. I guess the same could be said for Dubai.
Well my eyes hurt now.....