The Tehachapi Loop further south has viewing spots where you can park and watch and see the entire train at once as it winds around the loop. Spectacular.
@@kevinlynch1227, a 20' ascent or descent in railroading is quite a bit. Note that the total elevation change should be calculated between the trains' entrance to & exit from the loop, which will be greater than the difference in elevation between 2 "parallel" parts of the curve.
I use to go at night, have a campfire & beer, it would be so quiet. It was really nice when an EB came uphill, you could here it for miles. It would be dead quiet, super loud then back to dead quiet in about 10 minutes.
Not being aware of the layout of the loop, my initial reaction to the opening shot was, "Well, that's a mediocre shot." but when the same train came into the shot AGAIN on the lower lever, which was PERFECTLY framed btw, I thought, "And this shot just got BADASS!!" Thank you for sharing this fantastic video!!
This is the amazing railroad tracks up and down. Very beautiful especially when the train passes on both rails. Thank you, I hope your channel will be more successful.
I use to hop on the train all the time. I was on an EB, came thru this little tunnel and the lead locomotive was right above me. Conductor just looked at me, all back in the pre 9-11 days.
I first seen the Williams Loop on a episode of Trains and Locomotives on RFDTV. the episode was -' Into The Feather River Canyon'. To me it is so relaxing watching this. Thanks for the Great Video!
Well, it's appropriate to show this on the 101th year of it where Gematrinator will tell you that 101 is the 26th prime number and in reverse full reduction "train" equals 26. 200,000 people were supposed to go to Etsy and buy up my "Dance of Death" a James Grider novel so I could afford to move out of the desert into a nice area like in the video where pine trees grow, otherwise it's not cold enough and it doesn't rain enough to have trees where I am.
@@jamesd2128 I watched the aerial view but it's silent so I ran this video in the background in a separate window, just to have the sound. worked pretty good.
Great shots Trains32! Been there a couple times myself back in the late 90's and early 2000's. Great place to visit. Not a lot of traffic when I was there, but a few trains anyway.
Wow- thank you for sharing! What a cool video. Honestly, I was not aware of another 'loop' in the U.S. other than Tehachapi. Learn something new every day! I'm adding this to my recommended videos.
I have a video of the Daylight steam train that ran from Portland down south into California and it had a short segment in Dunsmuir and the Cantera Loop.
There is a "loop" on the CN that links the old IC and EJE at Park Forest/Matteson IL which is just south of Chicago. Not many trains "Loop", but it's an interesting track pattern.
lukebccb Not sure why you mention Sawmill Curve as it's really nothing special. It's a 10 degree curve as I recall and named Sawmill as there used to be one close by. There is something about Cantara Loop that I learned about when I worked on it after the chemical spill. And it's not the fact that it is very sharp for a main line curve. I believe it's somewhere around 16 degrees I believe. There was something else to that curve that did make it different than most curves. Do you know what that was?
Amazing how many comments suggests that some people don't get the concept or the dynamics of this construction.....Makes me feel better about myself !!!
..... Fascinating.......... It brings back memories from the 40s and 50s but now I have a better appreciation for the trains and the engineering that produced everything. It's hard to imagine how complex things are and how much things have changed. Next thing will be high speed ''trains'' or small ''trains'' that operate like a horizontal high speed elevators. . . . maybe and maybe not
I used to be a conductor on this run. A 4200 foot train was perfect for the rear passing over the head end. I used the the loop to inspect many a train without the long walk.
That train are take the train car have 109, that was amazing! Since our Hong Kong MTR company are only take the train car have 8-12 in everyday, no one will take more than 12 train car.
