I always love seeing these cabrides, the Stadlers will definitely improve Caltrain, but I will definitely miss these gallery passenger cars when they retire in just a month or so away. Great video!
Cool. I moved to Mountain View from Sunnyvale a few weeks ago and I'm right close by the Caltrain station. I might start taking Caltrain to work if their promises about more frequent operation are true.
Trains every 15 minutes, with trains every 30 minutes in the off-peak hours! So basically, BART frequencies! But it's starting September 18th or 20th. They're just replacing some of the diesel trains for now to test the new electric ones in operations with actual riders before the September launch of the new schedule.
@@TohaBgood2 I currently drive to work in Santa Clara and I don't mind the drive because I'm going opposite the bad traffic flow, but I have a fun car and I'd like to save it for fun on the weekends while not putting so many boring miles on it during my work commute.
@@mikeydude750 Awwwwww man, you're making me feel bad about my c3 vette that I got from my uncle for three nickels and a handshake. I completely destroyed it mechanically after college because I was broke and it was my only car and my job was in the devil's asshole in Stockton. That poor vette deserved better. Yes, it was mechanically challenged, but the interior and the bodywork were near mint! "Targa" top...
This is not a cab ride in one of the new electric locomotives. I can tell by the voices and the "clunk" sound of the bell that this is taken from the door at the cab end of one of the bilevel cars.
SF has a fancy multimodal transit station but Caltrain doesn’t get there yet. A plan to extend to there is under way. It will be an underground section. SF doesn’t really need a big train station for much as it is a peninsula, a dead end. If you want to go anywhere on a train you go to Oakland. You can take a BART train to Oakland. Been that way for 50 years. There were trains on the old Bay Bridge at one time but not for a long time now.
All these comments about how exciting this electrification thing is. Unbelievable that the US is like 75yrs behind the curve even to a 3rd world country such as India.
We led the way in the early 1900s. Californians gave the world the ubiquitous pantograph. We were merely misled, alured by the false promises of the automobile and freeway. Most of the world was look towards cars and freeways as the future; the US simply had the money after WW2.
Are caltrain electric trains still going to ring the bell coming in and out of stations and blow horns at every railway crossing? It’s an outmoded way of doing things,and ridiculously noisy.
Because this wasn't just an electrification project. They're getting the right of way ready for CAHSR. They've also installed modern automatic train control, modified stations, added grade separations, and modernized the entire line. And there's more upgrades to come! They'll continue upgrading it to BART levels for the next 10 years until CAHSR arrives.
@@TohaBgood2 Correct. HSR will connect to CalTrain track at Gilroy, then continue into San Francisco. MetroLink in LA will also need to electrify for the same reason.
This is the first Cab View I have watched from the USA, and was quite surprised. Compared to the Electric Motor Units (EMU) I've seen in Europe, Asia and Australia, these seem rather slow with sluggish acceleration. Is this a First Day testing thing?
Only took ten years longer than it should have. The oil company that owns it needed to get as much cash as they could. Should be criminal charges filed
@@lukeskywalker6338 The weekend schedule doesn't have any early morning trains, there has been only one train so far today. We need to wait a bit longer. Update: that first train today was actually a new electric one!
Maybe, just maybe in not to distant future, maybe even this century Californians will again be able to ride an electric train from Sacramento to S.F. in 2 hours, just like back in 1938... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9JJAUFL_Y9Q.html
Trains are running slow and tooting all the time. You should modernize the track as soon as possible. Even the worst routes in Germany are much better than this.
