Old tracks of the Sunset limited Amtrak train riding on Railcart - Arizona US. (PART 1) 

I was 15 years old when I heard and saw the news of that fatal sabotage. Muy triste

Investigators believe the perps were railroad employees, with specific track knowledge. Unsure what the motive would have been. Pretty twisted, to do something like that.

Don't give up then.

@@jessstone7486 I heard they used to work for Amtrak, but I don't know if they did, or if that just a wild rumor.

The sabotage was an copycat to the 1939 Harney NV derailment of Southern Pacific's City of San Francisco. The perpetrators were never caught.

Thank you very much for telling me what those station ruins are called, there isn't much information. And I thought that if I write, if anyone knew this place, they would let me know. Thank you very much!

Saludos Archie, Dios te bendiga mucho. me gustan tus clips y videos

I'm glad to hear you liked the video. Thank you👌☺️

Save up don’t have kids or get married

@@andrewhatton1606 I'm there ! A 55 year old loser.

I'm already editing the second part but this one is going to take me a while to do. thanks for the patience

Thank you!!!!

Awesome scenery....where? I must have missed it. Looks like a landfill to me....

@@horsdevors4559 My parents lived in Alabama and loved to travel and take photographs in the west. The arid, somewhat barren landscape appealed to them. Added to that the derailment, the train tracks, and the mystery surrounding the situation would have intrigued them. So, not a landfill to them - a new adventure. Again, thank you Archie for bringing us along. Positive vibes and good will. :-))

Thank you!!!!

​@@archiemorenohola te empecé a ver cuando estuviste en el Rosario Bahía, muy bueno lo que haces!! me llamo la atención que muchos de los tramos que haces son en el desierto, eran lineas dedicadas a mineras o de carga gral.?? muchas gracias saludos

They're actually is A very small settlement With a bar for farm workers just a few miles from there I believe it's called la Paloma. It's where the hider Sentinel Road meets the railroad track. I could meet you there for a beer! Ha ha ha

They're actually is A very small settlement With a bar for farm workers just a few miles from there I believe it's called la Paloma. It's where the hider Sentinel Road meets the railroad track. I could meet you there for a beer! Ha ha ha

They're actually is A very small settlement With a bar for farm workers just a few miles from there I believe it's called la Paloma. It's where the hider Sentinel Road meets the railroad track. I could meet you there for a beer! Ha ha ha

They're actually is A very small settlement With a bar for farm workers just a few miles from there I believe it's called la Paloma. It's where the hider Sentinel Road meets the railroad track. I could meet you there for a beer! Ha ha ha

It looks like the air compressor might be in the shop 📢✨👨🏻‍🔧

Io sonno felice di videre un commento in italiano.

si si viene la segunda parte. muy pronto y mejor

Upgrading for future Amtrak again?

The line is in service at both ends as "Industrial Leads", the middle is out of service but not abandoned@@skyh

UP just opened a new intermodal facility in Phoenix to serve LA and Long Beach customers. If that business takes off, they may restore this section of track (the Roll Industrial lead.) A direct route to the west from Phoenix instead of heading to the sunset route at Maricopa makes sense.

@@erict5234 Not at Maricopa at Picacho

The Chandler line used to connect at Maricopa but was pulled a long time ago.

sorry. but I don't have a blueprint, I did everything by eye respecting the width of the road

Thank you

since 1894. 3 trips and 3 returns per week.

I remember when it went to Orlando. I worked for a Short line Railroad there at the time and we shared the rails with the P001 / P002. One of my most memorable moments with the P001 / P002 was when they sent out a pair of relief engines from Sanford, just ahead of the P001. These two engines were both North-facing engines, but they were backwards! going South from Sanford all the way to Stanton connection about 12 miles south of the Orlando station. I believe the Dispatcher labeled this train P931. Anyway, they went to Stanton connection where there is a wye so they could turn around and go backwards North to Orlando... Meanwhile the P001 was right behind them and stopped in Orlando to unload their passengers and service the cars. When P991 got to the Siding just south of Orlando, they held the main line and waited for the existing power to disconnect. The exhausted engines had a North-facing engine on the North side, so they just cut off and pulled South of the double track switch. Then the dispatcher gave them the block to come North on the #1 track (Rule D-251, no signals for opposing movement.) And meanwhile the other engines came up and coupled to the train. Somewhere in here, they switched designations. The Passenger train was still P001 while the exhausted engines became P931. I think crews swapped here as well. Once all the details were worked out, the exhausted engines went North back to Sanford where they retired. P001 went South and turned the whole train on the wye at Stanton, (as it normally did) and came back to Orlando station. Once it stopped, it became P002. They took on their new passengers and blasted off a couple hours later. Gosh I miss that train! But Hurricane Katrina in 2005 severed the tracks along the Gulf Coast and by the time they were repaired and ready for service, CSX had worked a new deal with Amtrak, the likes of which Amtrak could not agree to. And so they cut service off at New Orleans.

For tax reasons and property rights and possible future use. A condition of property ownership often reverted to the previous/original owners if tracks were abandoned.

@@Greatdome99 it isn't railbanked.

Unfortunately. The drone does not have tracking. Later I will change it for one that is a little bit bigger. I want it to have the tracking option. That's great. !! thank you!!!

thank you

Google it

Just look up Amtrak sunset limited 1995 sabotage it'll tell you everything you need to know Around 1996 Amtrak and Union Pacific rerouted the sunset south of Phoenix. Union Pacific was hoping to abandon this line as freight traffic was not feasible on it. Most of it could easily be restored according to Union Pacific if traffic demands warrant it and there was a need for it it's mainly just used for storage of railroad cars.

I hear Amtrak goes to Maricopa, Arizona instead of the track on the video.

@@MrJuvefrank yep that's how they rerouted it basically.

that's what i was thiinking, i would make them automatic and also to deploy as a safety

Picking up certain artifacts in Arizona is a huge no no.

no, nothing,we just get on and leave

Now coming through Maricopa AZ. passing through Gila, Piedra, Sentinel, Dateland, to Yuma and ending in Los Angeles

38 MPH top speed to full throttle!!!

​@@archiemoreno che en kilómetros decilo

Hola .todos le decimos railcart en vias abandonadas. Eso es lo que hago . Pero los railcart le pongo nombres. Como la pionera LittleFox y luego construi el ZORRITO . Y el permiso se lo pido a Dios .😅

60 kilometros

This particular line is the western end of the old SP Phoenix Line. It parallels the main track to the south.

@@silicon212 Thanks!

Part 2 and 3 is comming!!!🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

it has closed caption . sub in english

Google it

@@jljohnson8668 Google what? How tracks moved in the middle of an abandoned RR? By the way, I'm not talking about the Amtrak crash site. I'm very familiar with that. I'm talking about the rails that moved that caused him to have to turn around 37 minutes into the video.

@@bryce2680 well that's where the railroad severed the connection

@@jljohnson8668 That doesn't look like something the RR would do. Typically, it is done with a red flag and one rail shifted to act as a derail. An example would be what he found at the east end of the out-of-service line. There must have been a flood or something that ripped through there and jumbled the track like that.

@@bryce2680 After 1996, the Sunset Limited was rerouted to south of Phoenix (approaching no closer than Maricopa) due to the desire of Union Pacific to abandon this stretch of track (leading to and through Phoenix, AZ) for its through trains between southern New Mexico and southern California. The section of track on which the derailment took place is now used as storage track only. It could be reactivated in the future if freight traffic increases...Per Wikipedia.

Yes