The Forgotten Surfliner Incidents of 2000 and 2001 

Finally, 6902 gets some attention. Good video dude.

A couple of our cab cars up in NorCal had similar incidents. 8301 was involved in a collision with a vehicle and was burned. 8301 was repaired and given a fresh coat of paint a year ago. 8313 was also involved in a fiery vehicle collision and is still out of service sitting in the Oakland yard

Excited for this one!

It’s crazy that Surfliner incidents date back to the early days of service and to this day incidents still continue. Just couple months ago I saw 790 almost hit a car at s rose ave which would have maybe caused a derailment and halted Metrolink 117, 119 maybe Amtrak 11 and the Guadalupe hauler LOF66. Its sad that these cab cars take all these heavy hits but at least they do their job and have continued for 24 years (until Amtrak makes the decision to retire them in the future and replace them with new cab cars similar to Metrolink’s Rotem Commuter Cars).

I think there was an incident of 6901 in 2002 but I’m not exactly sure. It might’ve been a similar story to 6902. I believe it was a standard automobile that got hit, and burned the cab of 6901, though not as severe as ‘902.

Great video question will you be doing a train lost media cause train lost media is heavily underrated?

Hey bro I love the content! Can you do a video on Metrolink’s riverside line? It’s currently the 2nd deadliest commuter rail line in the country. Which is a shame given that it gets from LA to riverside in half the time as the 91 line

The scary thing is there are still lots of unprotected crossings between Moorpark and Ventura. There is a lot of farmland in that area, and there are lots of crossings for farm equipment to get between the fields. I do hate sounding defeatist, but given the insane things I have seen people do around grade crossings in the Bay Area, slapping lights and bells does not always mean people will react accordingly.

Excited just finished recording at carlsbad village hope to be friends with 5008 creations

Finally we have new information and image of what happened to 6902 and I’m so surprised that 6900 had also gotten a incident.

1:35 I’m sorry but no way bro said “cah-mer-il-oh” Really great video either way 👍👍👍

3:42 I heard him say Oxnard and it reminded me of F59PHI 458, which crashed into a semi truck causing it to be almost completely destroyed. It is now in service but its now with METRA

2:19 Amtrak Surfliner cab car 6900 (now named as Point Buchon) crashed? I thought it was cab car 6901 (now named as Point Hueneme) that crashed years ago and got repaired.

Why -is- was this a premiere 😭😭

WHY DID YOU PRONOUNCE CAMARILLO LIKE THAT

Man, If 6902 Wasn’t Leading, and A F59PHI Was Leading, Or If The Tractor Would Not Have Been Fully Fueled, 6902 Would Have Been On The Surfliner Today.

I remember seeing a couple of British Rail level crossing safety videos that have since been removed from RU-vid (copyright probably). One of them showed how private crossings on farmland, for instance, have phones. The crossing user is required to call their local signaler and request permission to cross the tracks with things like a tractor, truck, or animals. They don't need to call if they themselves are walking across. The signaler must confirm that no train is approaching and then applies a red signal before giving permission for the vehicle/livestock to cross. Public RR crossings here in America have the Blue Emergency Sign on them so you can notify the signaler of an emergency (like a stuck vehicle). I wonder how much trouble it would be for UP and the other railroads to add a wireless phone or callbox next to these private vehicle crossings and (because the tracks are their private property) require users to call the local signaler to get permission to cross with things like trucks or tractors?

A recent assessment I read said 6902 could have been feasibly repaired if done at the time but after over 20 years sitting in the elements it was no longer possible. Such a shame.

something bigger might have happened in 2001 that overshadowed this accident, but who knows

Good documentary. Is any of this info from the surface transportation board by chance? They usually have extensive reports about wrecks.

So Pacific Surfliners were still running with locomotive towards LA in 2001? When did they switch them all to face away from LA?

What is the song called when 6900 crashed that’s the song I wanted to know

I hope someone could do something like this for the Amtrak San Joaquin And Capital Corridor.

Wait how come the drivers of the vehicles that died didnt bother getting out? Did they not have enough time to do so?

“9” could’ve been bad luck for Two Commuter Trains.

Awesome.

Moorpark to Oxnard has had 5 bad road vs rail incidents; 3 surfliner, 1 metrolink and 1 starlight derailment in the last 25 years. Really we should just get the whole coast line out of UPs hands, double track and then upgrade all crossings that stay to being paved with gates. So many private crossings exist to give farmers slightly more land or a slightly shorter route.

6902 sadly crash but a plane crash in New York again in 2001 flight 587 I think it’s a day apart so I really don’t like 2001 because of all of this

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Every incident here has happend within 10 miles of me!

At what point after this did the Surfliners switch their operating orientation? They currently pull away from LA Union Station and push towards it, whereas this shows them running the opposite. Does anyone know when they changed?

I’ve lived in San Diego since 1998 and I never heard about those accidents. Probably cause they happened in LA county and didn’t make local San Diego news at the time in the 2000/2001 this was all news to me

What game are you using for the footage?

If 6900 gets into a second accident, it will definitely be scrapped

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What routes are these?

whats the name of this simulater?

He Supposed to meant Amtrak f59PHI 459

The simulation of the second accident shows F59PHI 459, NOT 458

Not enough trains on the Santa Barbara sub for UP to justify upgrading those crossings. I'm sure they'd love to pass that responsibility onto either the local municipalities or Amtrak or Metrolink (SCRRA). A lot of that territory is still TWC ABS. That right there should tell you how much UP is investing in it.

What’s the song called I like it someone tell me the song

Great video, my only gripe is that your pronounced Camarillo and somis wrong, Camarillo is Cam-Uh-RE-O and somis is So-miss, but other than that fantastic video (also side note it seems Ventura county does not like Amtrak cause Amtrak trains keep derailing there)

What video game is at 1:42

The second accident happened on my birthday

I find it funny that almost every Cabcar had the front numbers being 69😆!

People who saw the bell under the train 👇

Hehe 69

GOOD GOD THE THUMBNAIL IS HAUNTING