Amtrak Trains in Santa Ana, CA (November 2nd, 2013)

Santa Ana, CA
Saturday November 2nd, 2013
This was my first day visiting 4 new crossings in Santa Ana: Grand Ave., Lyon st.,E Mcfadden & Ritchey st.
A pretty Mediocre Horn day in my opinion, and to my knowlage, all these crossings will be Quiet Zones soon.
Train #1 - (4th Street) Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #572, with P42DC #86 leading. Solid K5LA, but unfortunatly the only blasts were from leaving the station, and at the chestnut crossing just south of me. And as far as i know - To this date, 4 street is not a quiet zone... There were not any "no train horn' signs either. I was expecting horn. Oh well...
1:42) Train #2 - (Lyon st.) Amtrak #573 with 6 Amfleet cars, and F40PH #90230 leading with nice horn action.
2:58) Train #3 - (Ritchey st.) Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #777, with cabcar #6906 leading.
3:20) Train #4 - (Ritchey st.) Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #774 running about 44 minutes late, with F59PHI #453 in the lead with nice K5LA Action !!
5:20) Train #5 - (Grand ave.) Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #579, with cabcar #6951 displaying LOUD horn action !!! F59PHI #461 following.
6:46) Train #6 - (E Mcfadden ave.) Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #580, with F59PHI #463 leading with very poor horn action, and F59PHI #464 following.
7:54) Train #7 - (Lyon st.) Amtrak #582 with 6 Amfleet cars, and P42DC #83 leading. This unit has a lousy K5L, but showed as good of a horn display as it probably could have.. F40PH #90230 following.
10:03) Train #8 - (Ritchey st.) Amtrak Pacific Surfliner #784, with F59PHI #457 leading with good horn action!

[@spencerhughes2255]

All these crossings are bound to go quiet soon. Idk why the first train didn't use the horn...

[@elizabethvillanueva7923]

First train did

[@owenevans5061]

Second crossing the train used its horn

[@owenevans5061]

First train

[@thomaspalmer1019]

Awesome! The first catch is probably my favourite.

[@hectorortiz8907]

I like trains with Santa Ana is was so cool

[@USARailProductions]

The engineer on 86 must have been reaching down to get a dropped paper, I didn't see his head when he passed, he must have been distracted, anyway, nice video! Great shots!

[@fletcherfamily6950]

SoCalRailfan ,

[@jacobsaintlilypiroblox9286]

Train #2 is the same train with train #7

[@DINESHGADA]

Nicely taken

[@SouthCalifas619]

I just saw the pdf for quiet zones so far it says mcfadden isnt planned or the others

[@jarrodlomeli94]

At 7:22 you can hear two guys saying get off the road

[@ScorpionFireGD]

What?

[@evie9495]

I did

[@sogabethomas193]

My Favorite Cabcar 6906 And F59phi 451 Horn Show

[@jabrown04]

You meant 453

[@ScorpionFireGD]

6:47 Those Bells Are So FAST

[@clarkpitti3196]

Is that area a quiet zone now? i noticed the p42 didnt use his horn.

[@citxsd70m-2]

8:49 great K5L!

[@TrainsNStuff]

Question: Do some engineers not give a crap whether a quiet zone or not, and blow anyway?

[@TrainsNStuff]

(on this line)

[@danielpyxlcool1294]

I think it's illegal to blow in a quiet zone unless one ditch light isn't working

[@UserID-oo9he]

@@danielpyxlcool1294 unless both ditch lights are out, there's track work, or a danger to the crews and others, then the engineers should abide by the QZ rules. It's always fun to get some who break them though.

[@AmtrakCal462]

Nice video dude! Weird how 86 screwed you with the horn for that crossing, it has a solid-ass hybrid horn! Engineer in 463 on 580 sucked it up! Barely blew it! And 83 replaced 118 on the fleets? Bad trade-off!

[@oliverpena9712]

What location it is?

[@thekman760]

@spencerhughes2255 did you ever have a good camera that was $420?

[@Helvett222]

In Europe, the barriers at railroad crossings are lowered much earlier than in the US - I consider it a big plus for your railways. Passenger trains in Europe are much longer and freight trains shorter than yours. Cool and interesting video, greetings from 🇵🇱 🇪🇺

[@RealRusty999yes_lol]

same im from france the gates go down so early but there are some taht go down like literally 3 secs before the train arives at the crossing!

[@SoCalRailVids]

@ Surfliner462 By standing super close he gets better shots of the train. I still agree though with you 100%.

[@38Baked7]

I ride the metrolink from Santa Ana all the time :D

[@tiffneysmith3323]

What a awesome horn 📢 on the last train he filmed while it was sunset 🌅 :-)
This could be my favorite video. ;-) 👌

[@jordansalustri81]

Jordan. Salustri

[@publicentertainingchannel815]

Hello! And, for what the camera was shooting a video?

[@jabrown04]

0:15

[@jabrown04]

1:44

[@jabrown04]

2:59

[@jabrown04]

3:30

[@jabrown04]

5:21

[@metrolinkamtrak2724]

I wa born on desember 29 2011

[@evie9495]

This is trains, not birthday

[@jordansalustri81]

Jordan. Salustri More training videos

[@jordansalustri81]

More training videos

[@Ten-ku4yj]

I thrk the amtrak 1605

[@Praster89]

He's not too close. He's fine.. The camera just makes it look that way. Everything is a little zoomed in.. And he has his shit on a tripod... He could be standing off to the side of it...

[@destinyfletcher5382]

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