Caltrain Cab Ride - Train 276 - SF to Mountain View, CA - Pt. 1

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  • Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
  • Cab ride video to Gilroy, first part SF to Mountain View, CA, part 2 picks up from Mountain View to Gilroy, CA.
    Video by FJ Caron - 2006

Комментарии • 46

  • @timectrl
    @timectrl 2 года назад +11

    6:55 and 56:04 are closed Stations! I loved this unique ride!

    • @railsetc
      @railsetc 2 года назад +2

      Update, I believe Atherton is now closed as well, just not in this video

    • @timectrl
      @timectrl 2 года назад

      @@railsetc yes

    • @sixfifty_sebb
      @sixfifty_sebb 9 месяцев назад

      33:20 this one too but only closed temporarily due to the rebuild and relocation

  • @caltrain906railfan
    @caltrain906railfan 2 года назад +5

    Station Timestamps
    San Francisco 4th & King 0:05
    22nd Street 3:59
    Bayshore 8:02
    South San Francisco 13:06
    San Bruno 15:40
    Millbrae 19:10
    Broadway Wknds Only 22:19
    Burlingame 23:57
    San Mateo 26:50
    Hayward Park 30:23
    Hillsdale 33:21
    Belmont 37:07
    San Carlos 40:19
    Redwood City 44:13
    Atherton 48:15
    Menlo Park 49:20
    Palo Alto 52:25
    Stanford Football Only 52:55
    California Ave 53:46
    San Antonio 55:33
    Mountain View 57:16

    • @tventures2
      @tventures2 Год назад +1

      6:50 is the closed and demolished paul avenue station!

  • @JasonB748
    @JasonB748 2 года назад +3

    This is really cool. Forgot how some of the stations used to look.

  • @bryce2680
    @bryce2680 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for putting this up!!!!

    • @straightto8
      @straightto8  2 года назад

      Thanks, I have about 15hrs of video still to encode and edit, need another camcorder to transfer everything.

    • @bryce2680
      @bryce2680 2 года назад +1

      And, BTW, the old double pot still enjoys protecting our driveway every morning and night!

    • @straightto8
      @straightto8  2 года назад

      @@bryce2680 Nice, I would have put it out in my front yard had I kept it, but it’s in a good home.
      Hope you’ve been well.

  • @coleallen3895
    @coleallen3895 Год назад

    15:07 - I used to come to this crossing (San Mateo Ave) all the time in K and 1st grade to watch trains with my dad in 2007/2008 back when the street still crossed the tracks diagonally, but the crossing adjacent to that (San Bruno Ave) was a dangerous interaction with the RR crossing between two traffic lights and a list of crashes occurred there because of confusion caused by that intersection. In the early 2010s, the tracks were raised about 13 feet above the roads in San Bruno as part of a grade separation project to remove those crossings, so this shot is impossible to get anymore

  • @caltrain_acefoamer907
    @caltrain_acefoamer907 2 года назад +7

    52:24 wow I didn’t know that Palo Alto had a pedistrian crossing

    • @northerncalirails2008
      @northerncalirails2008 2 года назад +3

      Same here

    • @coleallen3895
      @coleallen3895 2 года назад +3

      They probably got rid of it after a pedestrian tunnel was added

    • @davidnissim589
      @davidnissim589 2 года назад +3

      We had two! That was the original one, then it moved to the other side of the station during construction of a pedestrian tunnel, then it was removed once the tunnel was complete

    • @sixfifty_sebb
      @sixfifty_sebb 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@davidnissim589do you know what bell they had?

    • @davidnissim589
      @davidnissim589 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@sixfifty_sebb I don't really remember, I was just a kid when the second one got removed

  • @buzzsah
    @buzzsah 2 года назад +5

    This was a different type of ride. Interesting.

    • @straightto8
      @straightto8  2 года назад +2

      I wish the GoPros in 4K were around 16yrs ago, really could have gotten some unique perspectives.

  • @ethantlyu
    @ethantlyu 6 месяцев назад

    Nice view. Are you a train operator?

    • @straightto8
      @straightto8  6 месяцев назад

      @@ethantlyu Retired Amtrak Engineer.

  • @isrj01
    @isrj01 2 года назад +1

    There's something different, are these stations cleaner?

  • @caltrain906railfan
    @caltrain906railfan 2 года назад +2

    How did you do this? Did you sit with the engineer?

    • @straightto8
      @straightto8  2 года назад +6

      Yup, I sat with myself since I was the engineer.

  • @northerncalirails2008
    @northerncalirails2008 2 года назад +2

    Thumbs up much enjoyed

  • @michlo3393
    @michlo3393 Год назад +1

    This was back when Amtrak ran these trains right? Before TASI? I assume it still pays like a slot machine.
    Talk about a contract everyone would love for them to get back. 😁

    • @straightto8
      @straightto8  Год назад

      Yes, this was during the Amtrak era, there was lots of $$ to be made at that time, that’s for sure. Now the pay is greater, jobs aren’t as lucrative, some are and some aren’t, though I hear from friends still working there about some of the choice assignments being lucrative. If I didn’t have to leave Amtrak due to my work injury, I probably would have just stood with Amtrak and work out of Oakland where I started.
      Yes, would be nice to see Amtrak get it back. I think they (JPB) were shortsighted when they retained TASI, but the worker bees don’t call those shots.

  • @caltrain_903YTchannel
    @caltrain_903YTchannel 2 года назад +2

    That's f40 913 horn change it sounded like a K2 but it's a P2

    • @straightto8
      @straightto8  2 года назад +6

      I just wish they were the original K5’s.

  • @northerncalirails2008
    @northerncalirails2008 Год назад +1

    Sounds like 913s old P2

  • @jacobestevez7570
    @jacobestevez7570 2 года назад +1

    ... cool ...

  • @dannyluo2077
    @dannyluo2077 Год назад +2

    If I were the conductor on the train, I would’ve announced the upcoming stop, and at Redwood City and Menlo Park stations, I would’ve announced that after Menlo Park, the train would go to Mountain View, then Lawrence, then Santa Clara, and then make all local stops to Gilroy except for College Park. I would’ve announced that if passengers were going to a station that 276 wouldn’t stop at, there was a train right behind us that they could transfer to at Redwood City or Menlo Park.

    • @straightto8
      @straightto8  Год назад +2

      Engineers aren’t responsible for announcements, that’s the conductors job.

    • @dannyluo2077
      @dannyluo2077 Год назад

      @@straightto8 how come I didn’t hear any announcements from the conductor?

    • @straightto8
      @straightto8  Год назад +3

      @@dannyluo2077 Because the engineers don’t make announcements as I said, engineer runs the engine.

    • @dannyluo2077
      @dannyluo2077 Год назад

      @@straightto8 in the engine, can you hear the conductor’s announcements?

    • @straightto8
      @straightto8  Год назад +3

      @@dannyluo2077 Nope, but in the cab control car, yes.

  • @caltrain906railfan
    @caltrain906railfan 2 года назад +2

    this is a 4k version its done! ruclips.net/video/PitTCAVHleo/видео.html

  • @caltrain_acefoamer907
    @caltrain_acefoamer907 2 года назад +2

    What was leading your train?

    • @straightto8
      @straightto8  2 года назад +2

      I have to see if it’s in my notes.

    • @straightto8
      @straightto8  2 года назад +1

      @Rock The Gamer Ok, I was going to say 912, lol.
      Can’t remember back 17yrs, gettin old. :-)

    • @ThisisGabe120
      @ThisisGabe120 Год назад +2

      @@straightto8 Sounds like 910s old horn.

    • @straightto8
      @straightto8  Год назад +3

      @@ThisisGabe120 It might have been, if I can find my old log book I’d know for sure.

    • @caltrain_acefoamer907
      @caltrain_acefoamer907 Год назад

      No this is more likely to be 913