The Shasta Semi-Loops (4K) | Short Segment | May 10, 2024 

Excellent video!

Majestic landscape and amazing long train!!!

What a great vid to wake up to! Thanks for explaining about the derail guardrails- had seen and wondered about. Looking forward to the full video!

Awesome footage and very interesting. Thanks.

AWESOME !!! The new technology with drones is SOOoooo incredible and majestic and I just am stunned by this view, I hiked and walked through this area many times before the era of drone cameras and NEVER got to clearly see all the levels of track at once before. FANTASTIC !!!

My favourite rail video channel!

very well done!

thanks very impressive

Interesting engineering there to get the trains through the area. Thank you for the video!

Once again Dan, outstanding video..

Mighty fine video, as usual.

Thanks for the ride. Shasta country has the best view what ever way you are looking. Paul

Happy Father's Day....Dan! Thank you.....for the great views!

What a good reminder as to the guard rail , and why it’s there. I had to really think back on the spill and when it happened. Thank You for a beautiful video

Enjoyable "short" yet informative. Looking forward to the fuller version now that you have teased us!! Nice work!!

Without drones we couldn't enjoy the sight of these amazing horseshoe curves. Maybe it's possible to rent a small airplane or helicopter nearby and film the surroundings but that's expensive. We should be grateful for this great invention. The dense forest around the track is wonderful, we barely see the train between the tall trees. I didn't know the sad story of the Cantara Loop. Hopefully that huge railing can prevent future disasters. This will be a fantastic movie Dan and I can't wait to see the finished product.

Dan Dan Dan .... YOU ARE THE MAN !

Another awesome video to enjoy more than once. Have a wonderful rest of your weekend Dan. Steve

Extremely rough piece of mainline mountain railroading at it s best !!! THE Southern Pacific Railroad Lives on !!!

You are teasing us again, Dan, and I love seeing these teases! These two horseshoe curves are in beautiful locations with the Sacramento River and Mt. Shasta and Mt. Eddy in the background. That guard rail at Cantara Loop is an interesting structure and is needed on that tight loop. As I have said in my comments on previous short segment videos of Union Pacific's Black Butte Subdivision, I am looking forward to your full video on the Black Butte Subdivision.

Outstanding loop to loop Dan.

Simplemente fascinante.

Other outstanding video Dan. We Railfan that area alit and it's great to see stuff we can't see from the ground. Keep up the great work .. Gary

Yet another stunning video of some gorgeous scenery. Thanks for sharing Dan. If you ever need a co pilot sometime...... hint hint. LOL

That would be a beautiful ride as an engineer.

Great video on a very fastening portion of the old Southern Pacific.

Excellent coverage of the Shasta Loops. I knew they were there but I didn't understand how steep the terrain is.

Wowee! I have rail-fanned Dunsmuir -Black Butte several times but can’t see the loops. The guard rail structure over the Sac River is fascinating. I’ve seen some structures like this elsewhere. One parallels the BNSF tracks after they cross the Missouri River into North Kansas City. The guard rail is to prevent derailed cars from falling onto the freeway below. Looking forward to more greatness from you!

Ok, that's got to be the worlds biggest guardrail!

Fantastic railroad being shown in a very nice video. Thanks for the map! Is the gradient still 2% in the sharp curves? I hope not. Incredible, building "fences" for trains like for "happy" humans. Why not middle locos, pushers etc?

Ooooorrrrr I want to fly with you or be in the locomotive. Fantastic video. Have you seen my locomotive in the photo, it's a 911. Many thanks to the men and women from the fire department. Greetings from Micha from Dresden / Germany

6:00 minutes in. The ECOFRAUDS won t let the UP dig a short tunnel before the curve and bridge which would significantly reduce the risk by widening the curve.

Outstanding Railfan Dan Video as always. Did you say that train was 4 miles long? Keep up the great work Dan.

Spectacular! In you estimate how tall are the trees? (avg)

Dan, I see only front end power, I'm used to seeing push/pull and push locomotives on these great long consists in the USA. What determines the locomotive positioning on a train?

Great video!