We used to highball our steam or diesel freights at 60 mph on the Nickel Plate, but it was 80-100 cars. Three miles is spectacular, and I love the speed. But it is easy to see how anything going wrong where there is close contact with towns and cities makes a major disaster. That said, I'm glad those boxes are on a train rather than on a truck on the interstate. It could be gridlock LA-Houston
1) Great video. Love the drone perspective 2) 16k Z, wow! 3) Your annotations in the video are informative & make ur videos more interesting 4) Didn’t know those signal housings were called Darth Vader signals. Love it and glad I know that now. 5) The monster z-train was hauling ass through that approach diverging signal as if he was expecting a clear aspect ahead rather than an approach as the signal indicated.
They're called "Darth Vader" signals in a disrespectful manner by people who are upset that new signals are replacing the old, "classic" signals (which this location doesn't have anyways). That's not an official term, just slang, and pejorative slang at that.
Watching this in 4k is epic! I love where videography is these days. Drones being cheap enough that more people can afford them and produce high quality videos.
I figure the beer was going to Biagi Bros. I’ve hauled a lot of beer for them as a sub hauler. Not to mention a lot of new empty cans for production. I used to bring different brands of imported beer from their warehouse in Tucson for distribution in the Los Angeles basin. The empty cans usually came from Goodyear AZ to their warehouses in Montebello and Van Nuys.
It sounded like I recognized one of the dispatchers voices, I’m not sure if it’s the same one, that I’m thinking of but great video nonetheless even the drone shot of the 16,000 foot hot shot Z train
Any train over 10k is complete BS! Anything to keep from hiring people! Even though a big train maybe cool to a train buff, try having to walk it to fix a problem especially in bad weather! Then it takes forever to either put the train together or break it down once at it's destination!
Bring on those high-speed movable point switches, we can use those out here in the valley where I’m from and I live darn close to the main line where there’s a passing track within sight of me
Todd Lamar Harvey TLH dispatching that day. He was our dispatcher sacremento to the bay area a few years back. Pretty cool to hear him doing his Thang lol
If bound for Houston, that was likely I-LBHO. Long Beach to Houston. I've seen that train as it pulls into Settegast yard in the NE part of town. Large intermodal but i do believe it also drops off cars at San Antonio.
@AbelG8781 Yea, i used to hear ILBHO all the time. Just recently started hearing ZLBHO, which is surprising with all the international traffic. But it is definitely a Z, heard them a few times on the radio. Thanks for watching there, Abel.
Great freight trains 🚆 video 📹 really great captures some of the art 🎨 or graffiti,depending on how look at it, helps make the carriages less drab, earth vadar signals very cool 😎 with the cover on 😂great drone footage, what's the time frame for new overhead signals being on line?
Unfortunately the front stretch Grandstand and media tower are about all that’s left of the speedway today. Unfortunately it’s going to meet the same fates as Ontario and Riverside Raceways. My wife and I went to the first night race there in September 2004. Also where a young Kyle Busch got his first Cup win for Hendrick MS in 2005 in the Sony HD 500.
Those are not officially known as "Darth Vader" signals. That's a pejorative term that some people use for "new signals" that they hate to see replacing the old ones. They are vertically stacked LED colorlight signals with snowhoods.
We used to highball our steam or diesel freights at 60 mph on the Nickel Plate, but it was 80-100 cars. Three miles is spectacular, and I love the speed. But it is easy to see how anything going wrong where there is close contact with towns and cities makes a major disaster. That said, I'm glad those boxes are on a train rather than on a truck on the interstate. It could be gridlock LA-Houston
One of the best things about trains! Fewer trucks on the road!!
Yea, it's pretty impressive. Thanks for watching
Wow nothing like a 3 mile long train on new trackage to start a great train video 📹 👍 ❤
Thanks Robert!😎
@RRTrainVideos you're welcome 😊 my pleasure
i was a roadmaster for 6 years. Crazy the level of detail you can have with these drones.
Yea, it is really cool. Thanks for watching
1) Great video. Love the drone perspective 2) 16k Z, wow! 3) Your annotations in the video are informative & make ur videos more interesting 4) Didn’t know those signal housings were called Darth Vader signals. Love it and glad I know that now. 5) The monster z-train was hauling ass through that approach diverging signal as if he was expecting a clear aspect ahead rather than an approach as the signal indicated.
They're called "Darth Vader" signals in a disrespectful manner by people who are upset that new signals are replacing the old, "classic" signals (which this location doesn't have anyways). That's not an official term, just slang, and pejorative slang at that.
Haha, thank you Jovet.
Glad you enjoyed the details! 😎 Thank you very much for that!
Great photography and excellent captioning
Thank you very much, I'm glad you liked the captions!
High speed dual control movable point frog turnouts are a thing of beauty.
Right, pretty cool!
Common here in Houston. High speed trains on the southwest part of the city is awesome!
Watching this in 4k is epic! I love where videography is these days. Drones being cheap enough that more people can afford them and produce high quality videos.
@@sirblack1619 haha thank you very much!😎👋
240+cars 3 miles long. Precision scheduled railroading (PSR) . Two unit trains combined 1 crew of 2 , soon to be 1 if RR's get their way.
Great location and action 👍🤟😎
Thanks for watching Bradley! 😎
I figure the beer was going to Biagi Bros. I’ve hauled a lot of beer for them as a sub hauler. Not to mention a lot of new empty cans for production. I used to bring different brands of imported beer from their warehouse in Tucson for distribution in the Los Angeles basin. The empty cans usually came from Goodyear AZ to their warehouses in Montebello and Van Nuys.
Very interesting, thank you Cory!
nice concrete ties
It sounded like I recognized one of the dispatchers voices, I’m not sure if it’s the same one, that I’m thinking of but great video nonetheless even the drone shot of the 16,000 foot hot shot Z train
Spatcher Big Harv?
“C’mon, c’mon, c’mon!”
Haha yea, hes a good dispatcher, TLH! Thanks for watching!
Any train over 10k is complete BS! Anything to keep from hiring people! Even though a big train maybe cool to a train buff, try having to walk it to fix a problem especially in bad weather! Then it takes forever to either put the train together or break it down once at it's destination!
Calm down bro. Just get a Dairy at this point ☠️
Do you see loads of people lined up to get a job on the railroad? Why do you think they have such large signing bonuses? Get a brain.
Lmao you've fallen off your meds guy 😂
@@AbelG8781 🤣
Nice catch Rob i see you out there parked on the road that Z was rollin' got three SD70's in the mix an AH . a M and an ACE
Haha yup, it was cool. Thanks Caleb!
Killer presentation. 👍😎🍿
Thank you, appreciate that!
I love those new signals, you can see them.
Me too, pretty cool!
UP always seems to be at the top for railroad row maintenance on their main lines, very good at concrete ties and high speed switches!
@JoeyLovesTrains Yea they really do!😎
HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!! Mybad i overreacted but yea nah try BNSF. UP doesnt do anything until something breaks.
Bring on those high-speed movable point switches, we can use those out here in the valley where I’m from and I live darn close to the main line where there’s a passing track within sight of me
Haha, UP likes those 50mph Turnouts
Great video - just love railroading in the Inland Empire. Would love to have you follow a train up the California Steel in Fontana.
@@toddmusser6537 Good idea! Thank you 😎👋
The colton yard is also being torn up and new tracks are being laid out...
2:47 i have one of them in my shed 😊
Todd Lamar Harvey TLH dispatching that day. He was our dispatcher sacremento to the bay area a few years back. Pretty cool to hear him doing his Thang lol
Haha, he's a fun DS to have on the radio!
That sucker had three main engines and two dpus
That's enough beer to last for a couple of day in the USA!!
Haha, thanks for watching!
Man those new tracks look nice.. they look like Swiss ones!
@@sgdeluxedoc haha right! Pretty cool 😎
Excellent video👍
Thank you very much!
Wasn’t there some construction going on at Ono or near San Bernardino on the BNSF side? Saw something but wasn’t sure it was railroad related
Nice footage!
Thank you!
Great video... This is my first time seeing your channel. I subscribed. Do you cover the LA Basin exclusively? There is enough there for many videos.
Yea, I do a lot in that area, but I travel around to other locations too. Thank You!
If bound for Houston, that was likely I-LBHO. Long Beach to Houston. I've seen that train as it pulls into Settegast yard in the NE part of town. Large intermodal but i do believe it also drops off cars at San Antonio.
@AbelG8781 Yea, i used to hear ILBHO all the time. Just recently started hearing ZLBHO, which is surprising with all the international traffic.
But it is definitely a Z, heard them a few times on the radio.
Thanks for watching there, Abel.
Always ove treain grew up in wva on the main N&W line great show.
Thanks!
Great freight trains 🚆 video 📹 really great captures some of the art 🎨 or graffiti,depending on how look at it, helps make the carriages less drab, earth vadar signals very cool 😎 with the cover on 😂great drone footage, what's the time frame for new overhead signals being on line?
Vandalism isn’t art
Thanks Trevor! Not sure on the timeline for the new signals. Some weeks crews are out working, other weeks nothings going on haha.
16,000 Ft equals 3.03 miles. Wow!
Haha, pretty cool!
What’s the new track for?
Just increasing capacity along the line, I would say.
I like to count the wagons myself and whilst you had some great observational drone shots I was up 200 and something and.........then 👋
Haha, me too!
Great Coverage……is the 100 lead The Long Entrance into Colton Yard ?
Yes, I usually see trains shoving into the Crest Yard from the 100 lead so they don't tie up the mains. Thank you!
Dpu all right
Sounds like Todd Henry, Dispatcher Dawg, 250 is back from vacation and haming it up.
Big Dawg!
Excellent video. Is the new main to accommodate growing intermodal volume?
Yes, I think that is part of the reason. UP is now running Intermodal Traffic in and out of West Colton
And Thank you!
where ? thanks . southern ca?
@@allanegleston4931 Fontana, CA
@@RRTrainVideos my old stomping grounds. too bad it isnt used for transit.
Nice video. I like your channel name.
Thanks!
5:52 *Signal cantilever
13:01 There's your signal _bridge._
Thanks Jovet!
haha, thumbnail i thought this was HO scale.
Haha!
Unfortunately the front stretch Grandstand and media tower are about all that’s left of the speedway today. Unfortunately it’s going to meet the same fates as Ontario and Riverside Raceways. My wife and I went to the first night race there in September 2004. Also where a young Kyle Busch got his first Cup win for Hendrick MS in 2005 in the Sony HD 500.
I didn't know about that, I haven't been over there in a while.
I could just make out the shadow of the drone in a few spots.
@@GLICKMIRE haha yea you can see it in a couple spots. Thanks for watching
Those are not officially known as "Darth Vader" signals. That's a pejorative term that some people use for "new signals" that they hate to see replacing the old ones.
They are vertically stacked LED colorlight signals with snowhoods.
More and more concrete ties every year....
nice new cars with graffiti on them ..shame
Last video I watched train was 412 cars,,, now that's unemployment