BART's Complete Trip from MacArthur to Pittsburg/Bay Point
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Fall asleep on a calm, scenic ride away from the hustle and bustle of San Francisco on this 9-car Pittsburg/Bay Point train, as it departs MacArthur Station in Oakland for Eastern Contra Costa County at the tail end of the Bay Area morning commute.
This is the first time in BART's history this stretch of the system has ever been filmed, and also the first time it's been shot, since the Pittsburg/Bay Point extension opened in 1997. Of all the sections of the BART system between termini, transfer stations and unofficial transfer points, this span between MacArthur and Pittsburg/Bay Point is the longest --- totaling at least 35 minutes each way.
Some unique features on this ride include the Berkeley hills tunnel (which spans Alameda and Contra Costa counties), zipping by the Concord maintenance yard near Downtown Concord, and traveling over the hills and along Highway 4 from Concord to Bay Point and Pittsburg.
MacArthur is the final transfer point for those wishing to switch between the Richmond and Pittsburg/Bay Point trains, and is also the only BART station to utilize four platforms. Pittsburg/Bay Point Station geographically is the northernmost stop in the BART system and serves as the terminus for the Pittsburg/Bay Point-SFO line, the agency's longest point-to-point connection and most heavily used route in terms of ridership.
Upon reaching Pittsburg/Bay Point, all out-of-service trains depart for the storage tracks up ahead, before re-entering the station on Platform 2 as a San Francisco Airport (weekdays until about 5:15pm), San Francisco/Daly City (height of weekday morning commutes only) or San Francisco Airport/Millbrae train (weekdays starting around 5:30pm, plus all day on weekends). Destination signs on the platform will also correspond to read "San Francisco/SFO Airport," "San Francisco/Daly City," or "SF/SFO Airport/Millbrae."
** Videographer's Note **
On weekends, the San Francisco Airport/Millbrae train usually arrives at Pittsburg/Bay Point's Platform 2. Rather than pull into Platform 1, head for the storage tracks, and re-enter the station on Platform 2, this train switches tracks at the apex of the hill on Highway 4 between Concord and Bay Point, then continues right into Pittsburg/Bay Point Station.
Also, the reverse version of this ride from Pittsburg/Bay Point to MacArthur is now available at • BART's Complete Trip f...
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I absolutely love that electrical sound you hear in the lead/rear cars of the train
those are old technology train, the update ones doesn’t make that electric sound anymore.
Jason Dic* I agree
@@niqhtmaree4550 actually they do
This is pretty awesome! I last rode BART in 1979. These trains are roomier than the CTA trains where I live because of the extra track gauge
Chciago
its good that ur capturing BART as it is now. soon the new cars will be on line and the current fleet will slowly be phased out. hopefully they will keep a few cars for historical purposes.
0:00 MacArthur
2:34 Rockridge
7:43 Orinda
12:15 Lafayette
16:32 Walnut Creek
19:19 Pleasant Hill/Contra Costa Centre
24:30 Concord
28:20 North Concord/Martinez
35:00 Pittsburg/Bay Point
I miss bart and the bay area
+Bentley Milnes its bad now there are crack heads riding the bart
and its very dirty , i was there 2 weeks ago and the downtown area is crazy too
its not worth it living in the bay area today
And now Bart Bart goes to San Jose wow
i see they still have all those crosses by the Lafayette station.
Oooo train race at the start of video nice..
Have a question is Oakland closer to Portland thann la?
I love the morning time
@bartfansma True that, I spoke with a train operator the other day operating my Fremont train, who told me he did operate a PBP train at one point. He told me that they do breaking of the trains in the station in PBP and send the other set to the Concord yard. According to your video, they don't do breaking in the station, so in this case they must send it to the storage tracks and break them there and one leaves for SFO and the other leaves later for the yard.
@WxStar101 Actually they didn't. When I finished shooting this clip, it was between 9:30-9:45am at Pittsburg/Bay Point Station, and BART tends to still run longer trains even after the "heart" of the morning commute on this line out to SFO. The 9-car San Francisco Airport train arrival announcement you hear on the platform towards the end of the clip is for the same train shown here. So all in all, this train re-entered the station "unbroken."
@WxStar101 That I have no idea. I suspect BART does this because the distance between the Concord yard and Pittsburg/Bay Point is closer than the span between Dublin/Pleasanton and the Hayward or Daly City yards. I figure the Concord yard can do quick maintenance on some cars during the midday hours, then send those cars back to Pittsburg/Bay Point, whereas trains terminating at Dublin/Pleasanton don't have that flexibility.
@bartfansma Yeah, actually the earliest time I rode on this line was at around 10:20am from Daly City onwards. That's a couple of the trains before it gets broken down to 5 cars. Yeah, I can see it's a lot different than the other lines. Next round I assume they break the trains. They also recombine the trains earlier maybe at 2pm or so, whereas the rest of the lines break the trains at 9am and recombine at 3/4pm.
funny how whenever theres a pittsburg-bay point train at first its super crowded, and at the last stop literally 5-15 people are still there in the train
I've seen sets of 4 and 5 cars on the Concord yard while I was riding on this line a couple of times. I was confused on that.
Its horrible to think that people are paying top dollar to have an apartment out there and not real wages in SF or Oakland and then get stiffed by woe.
One thing I understand...the storage tracks past Pittsburg/Bay Point are no different than Dublin/Pleasanton. The only thing I don't understand is why do they send the second set of trains (like after breaking the trains) to the Concord yard and not keep them in the storage tracks like Dublin/Pleasanton?
To WxStar101, first, I assume that you still use this as ID on the Internet, as I'm reading your message lodged about 8 years ago during 2012. Otherwise your Post at this video would've been deleted by now (2020).
If my input here can answer your question to bartfansma, then I've done my job. I live in Australia, where I was born in Melbourne, and it once was common practice for trains on one line to stabled in yards on another. On our system, the 1920s - built Jolimont Yards east of Flinders Street Station were gradually decommissioned between 1989 & 1997/98, reducing the numbers of tracks from 52 to 12, these 12 being active lines to/from Melbourne's north/northeast, east, southeast/southern Bayside.
As a result, it's now even more common for trains to transfer between depots and yards. Our major suburban electric train depots are at North Melbourne, Newport, Westall, Epping, Craigieburn and Pakenham. Translating this to San Francisco's BART trains, this would probably explain why trains from the Pittsburg/Bay Point Line are sometimes stabled at Dublin/Pleasanton.
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