Caltrain Electrification: Stunning Time-lapse of Electric Train Journey from Utah to the Bay 

Theres a few RU-vidrs that have done so on the diesel units (includes the electric infrastructure)

The Southern Pacific had plans to Electrify everything from San Francisco to Salt lake City back in 1912 including what would become Caltrain

"yet"? Trust me: Union Pacific has NO plans WHATSOEVER of electrifying the Overland Route.

"yet"? Trust me: Union Pacific has NO plans WHATSOEVER of electrifying the Overland Route.

Sadly most railways did and its still a superior technology... Perhaps the government should create an electrification matching fund to get these projects done! @@IndustrialParrot2816

WAS just about to comment this question, THANKS for answering ❤

We placed a GoPro Max in the trailing cab car and had it set to take images every 5s in timelapse mode. The camera had an external battery plugged in to keep it powered during the multiple day journey. The images were reframed and compiled in After Effects. Hope that helps!

@@caltrain thanks a ton! I'll be sure to tag you in it when we do the move 😁

I would have thought they would use the coast line to SJ and not the warm springs sub

you must be very confused. these are electric train cars being delivered to the sf bay area. they will never run in this area.

It's not running under its own power its being towed

@@IndustrialParrot2816 when it gets up and running…? that was kinda implied

@@railsand oh there are plenty of videos of them testing the trains are the energized sections

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SKHo3fItsTM.htmlsi=2fFk_QTiUw7kGU62 here is video from the Stadler train arriving and departing in Switzerland. Caltrain will have the same train (more or less, but the basic things are the same) 👍

Maybe, we dont know for sure since it was a timelapse

@@lalakerspro actually, I took a closer look at the video by slowing down the playback speed - they did travel over the CZ’s route between SLC and Winnemucca, then again between Roseville and Emeryville/Oakland, but between Winnemucca and Roseville, they used the former Western Pacific line via Feather River Canyon. It was the route of the original CZ prior to Amtrak, but today, Amtrak uses the former Southern Pacific line between Oakland and Winnemucca (the ex-WP is used between Elko and SLC, but between Winnemucca and Elko, Amtrak uses two sets of UP tracks that are physically distanced apart from each other and used to be separately owned by both SP and WP. The ex-SP is for westbound trains and the ex-WP for eastbound trains, both are now UP owned)

Seems like after emeryville (where CZ ends), they used the niles and warm springs sub to get to san jose@@coleallen3895

Never, aem was only meant for testing, but they arent going to use it anymore

@@lalakerspro😢😢😭😭😭

@@lalakersprowhat are they going to do to it

@@kl6361Probably use it as a maintenance vehicle or something.