Thanks for highlighting the incredible Oakland Station that includes a fierce statue of C. L. Dellums, co-founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first black labor union in the USA (1925).
I used to take this train daily between Fairfield and Richmond. It's a nice journey, but the problem is frequency - I just wanted to show up and not have to worry about missing my train and getting stranded for 3 hours. The San Joaquin line is really nice as well.
Now most northbound trains at Fremont stops that the longer concrete (Station side) platform instead of the shorter asphalt (canopy side), since they are rebuilding the asphalt platform.
whoooooooooo boy that is one MIGHTY FINE train there, kiddoo.................................................. remember back in the old days when we had trains like this all OVER THE PLACE!!!!! ..............hope to see more of this sorta thing in the future......................................would love to ride trains like the old days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unfortunately, most states don't care enough to recreate these services as much as California. But as the state's experience proves, people want to and do take trains when they are well maintained and available! I wish more states started doing this.
Ha! This video's been out for almost 8 months, and you're the first person to notice that! The reason they're driving backwards is because of how I filmed that shot. I started by focusing on the signal, and then tilted down to the tracks, but while editing, I found it worked much better the other way around, so I just reversed the clip.
Sadly, the F59PHI's are really the only EMD's Amtrak has on its fleet roster, and technically not even owned by them, but state agencies they partner with
The train is FULL with very few seats (certainly not enough for as many tickets are sold) if any available from Emeryville to Sacramento. If you own a car, it's cheaper and faster to drive. It's a 2.5 hour train ride of standing only. $38-45. Coductors with attitude problems. Yeah, it's not worth it. You can also fly from SFO to Sacramento in 54 minutes and $165 roundtrip.
And the later cars named after beaches, points, and either canyons or Islands in the Bay, and like some VIA Sleeping Cars , the Business Class Cars are named for Parks.(Eg: Balboa Park or Belmont Park) are used for Business Class. BART has nice futuristic trains you should ride.
@@LonestarTrips I'm local too. Great video! I don't really have a reason to take the Cap Corr but I'll dream up some kind of a trip just because of your video. Keep up the good work! If you're interested, we have a lot of tourist and recreational trains in the Greater Bay area too. There's a surprising number of historic trains available around here if you're into that sort of thing.
@@TohaBgood2 Glad to hear I’ve inspired another person to take a trip on the rails! I am actually interested in taking a look at some more historic or excursion railways, so I’ll be sure to put those on the list of things to do next time I’m in the Bay Area!
@@LonestarTrips I think therew as a historic touristy rail thing along the niles canyon or something! There's a new BRT line in Oakland as well but idk much about it
California is going to do a minor rebuild program again and keep the F59phi in service likely till the mid 2030s when CARB has decided that all pax rail should be zero emissions... with wires no instead most lines seem to be going for hydrogen. The Section between oakland and San Jose will change with the line going closer to the bay as it first did under the project name South Bay connect. Rolling stock here has nothing to do with amtrak and is all on caltrans. Caltrans owns this fleet, picked the paint and named them.
Relatively soon! I'm planning my travel for the summer months, and one major stop on my journey will be Boston, so expect multiple videos from the MBTA coming in the next few months!
@@LonestarTrips I accidently deleted my other acc so I made a new one I saw so many coasters on my trip up to ca I live in UK I'm going to be living in US in 12 years
@@StudioSA15 Oh no! Sorry to hear you deleted your account! Where in the US are you wanting to live? If you're really after our railways, and don't mind some bitter weather in the winter months, the Northeast is the best place to go!
Interesting. Don’t think I’ve ever seen the cafe car on the California Cars, so was quite surprised to see the cafe area on the upper level. I wonder what’s on the lower level?
I had expected to see a cafe car, but not one on the upper level. From what I can see in the footage, it looks like the lower level has a few tables and other amenities for the crew, and I'd bet that there's also some baggage space down there as well.
