Pretty much everything but the areas closest to the terminals have been electrified at this point. Once it’s done, only the MP36PH-3C and F40PH-2C will remain.
@@average_joe8905 but CAHSR is planning to add another track for a total of 3 tracks (2 electrified for HSR and Caltrain, 1 non-electrified for freight and Amtrak) between San Jose and Gilroy as part of their Alternative 4 which was very recently environmentally cleared. So Caltrain will eventually be fully electrified.
Station Timestamps 0:00 Gilroy 9:18 San Martin 14:44 Morgan Hill 29:39 Blossom Hill 35:42 Capitol 41:42 Tamien 47:04 San Jose 53:14 College Park 56:29 Santa Clara 1:01:41 Bypass Lawrence 1:03:39 Sunnyvale 1:09:06 Mountain View Caltrain 1:13:33 ex. Castro (2000) 1:14:03 Bypass San Antonio 1:15:57 California Ave 1:16:53 Stanford Stadium (Football Events Only) 1:17:38 Palo Alto 1:21:03 Bypass Menlo Park 1:21:50 ex. Atherton (2020) 1:24:08 Redwood City 1:28:39 San Carlos 1:31:17 Bypass Belmont 1:32:54 Bypass Hillsdale 1:33:06 (Ground Level) ex. Bay Meadows Racing (2005) 1:33:39 Bypass Hayward Park 1:34:59 San Mateo 1:40:00 Burlingame 1:42:32 Bypass Broadway (Weekend Only) 1:44:08 Millbrae Transit Ctr 1:47:47 ex. Temporary San Bruno (2013) 1:48:38 San Bruno 1:52:17 Bypass So. San Francisco 1:55:51 Bypass Bayshore 1:56:56 ex. Paul Avenue (2005) 1:59:14 22nd Street - San Francisco 2:05:45 4th King - San Francisco
The California High Speed Rail Authority recently approved their Alternative 4 for the San Jose to Merced section of the SF-Anaheim high speed rail line, which calls for a total of three tracks within the existing rail corridor between San Jose and Gilroy. Two will be electrified for HSR and Caltrain, extending Caltrain EMU service to Gilroy, and one will remain non-electrified for freight and Amtrak. So HSR and Caltrain will share the entire SF-Gilroy corridor at a top speed of 110mph, and from Gilroy south HSR will be on its own dedicated right-of-way and operate at up to 220mph. According to CAHSR's models, non-stop SF-LA trains should still be able to just make the 2-hour 40-minute runtime required by Prop 1A with this alternative.
HAHAHAHA....And unicorns fly too right? Man you really drink it hard, no way will it even come close to being a so-called high speed train. It will never go from LA to SF, the whole thing is a complete joke. I live in Japan and no state and most of all CA will know what a real high speed train is.
Thanks for filming this! I'm here to see the electrification progress and it's cool to see Tamien station, and to see all of San Jose station wired up! Since most others just film from San Jose to San Francisco 4th and King Street.
Thank you very much; I've long requested that one of your fanrailer's do a Cabride from Gilroy to San Frnacisco. Just shows that even a small prayer eventually gets answered!
I didn’t get to do Gilroy on my recent trip out there. I was staying near San Francisco airport and I didn’t have a car. I did have a lot of fun doing the rides.
Full completed Electrification currently ends at, the time recorded, 1:20:45 just after Palo alto. Poles are continuously up after. Hayward Park 1:33:38 some Feeder wire, and static wire (maybe messenger wire) is up. Just before Milbrae 1:43:36 the west track has completed wire, after station the east track looks completed. (hard to tell directly under wire). Just before San Bruno wires end at 1:48:26 Feeder wire continues Feeder wire ends 1:51:25 Last pole installed before the four track section 1:54:21 1:57:50 50%~ of poles are installed the rest of the way, into San Francisco 4th and King Street. all Tunnels are complete, but that was finished 2ish~ years ago.
soon you could say, " Goodbye Nippon Sharyo cars and EMD F40PH-2 locomotive, and so far I'm concern, Good Rits" the Stadler Kiss will take over the caltrain run.
Once that cobweb of catenary is complete, how will Union Pacific be able to continue running double stacks from the bay area to Long Beach? Isn't this the old SP main line?
Nice footage. What makes me wonder - why speed limit is set exactly to 79 MPH not 80 or 75, but 79? Where is sense? In LIRR speed limits are set with reasonable 5MPH step.
@@FanRailer Thank's for reply. I doubt someone in Latvia, where I live can tell me this 😃 My experience actually is based on TrainSimWorld but I see that speed limits and many things are very accurate there so I'm curious. The only thing that comes is that during building / design phase something is taken from Europe and there speed limit has been set to 125 km/h that gives roughly 79MPH, but this anyway does not make sense as safe speed for section must be at least 110% of limit, so anyway 79 looks weird for me.
At San Fransisco and San Jose stations, there is no mini high platform, only the wheelchair lifts. So at those 2 stations, how do they get wheelchair on and off the trains with the Bombardier Bi-level coaches?
I’m surprised there’s no plank or paving laid down at Blossom Hill and Capitol for reaching the other track from the platform. Having passengers walking across the ballast is not good.
All trains normally board on the other track, they don't need a second platform as there's only 6 trains a day on weekdays and no service to gilroy on weekends. They had to board on the other track because a union pacific train was on the main track
@fan Railer Is this the cab ride of the diesel engine or from the cars!? Would be nice to see some of the control panals. The communities of the state Peninsula looks very lovely!
0:00 Gilroy 9:18 San Martin 14:44 Morgan Hill 29:39 Blossom Hill 35:42 Capitol 41:42 Tamien 47:04 San Jose 53:14 College Park 56:29 Santa Clara 1:01:41 Bypass Lawrence 1:03:39 Sunnyvale 1:09:06 Mountain View Caltrain 1:13:33 ex. Castro (2000) 1:14:03 Bypass San Antonio 1:15:57 California Ave 1:16:53 Stanford Stadium (Football Events Only) 1:17:38 Palo Alto 1:21:03 Bypass Menlo Park 1:21:50 ex. Atherton (2020) 1:24:08 Redwood City 1:28:39 San Carlos 1:31:17 Bypass Belmont 1:32:54 Bypass Hillsdale 1:33:06 (Ground Level) ex. Bay Meadows Racing (2005) 1:33:39 Bypass Hayward Park 1:34:59 San Mateo 1:40:00 Burlingame 1:42:32 Bypass Broadway (Weekend Only) 1:44:08 Millbrae Transit Ctr 1:47:47 ex. Temporary San Bruno (2013) 1:48:38 San Bruno 1:52:17 Bypass So. San Francisco 1:55:51 Bypass Bayshore 1:56:56 ex. Paul Avenue (2005) 1:59:14 22nd Street - San Francisco 2:05:45 4th King - San Francisco Hope this helps
Gilroy San Martin Morgan Hill Blossom Hill capital tamien San Jose Santa Clara Lawrence College Park Sunnyvale San Antonio California Avenue palo aito Menlo park Atherton Redwood City San Carlos Belmont Hillsdale San Mateo Burlingame Broadway Millbrae San Bruno South San Francisco San Francisco
HAHAHAHA.....The trains and the train system is a pathetic joke compared to here in Japan. You are lucky if the trains are running much less be on time there. Here in Japan you literally set your watch by the train and if it's 3 minutes late they apologize and give you a note to give to your boss for being late. Not to mention they keep the trains on the tracks un-like the USA where it seems there is a freaky wreck weekly. OH and the train system here actually makes money, not like the USA where every single train system is government funded and loses money.
Now to be fair. Most European and Asian trains don't have ringing bells and blasting horns 50% of the entire ride. But yeah they're not isolated very well.