4:25 isnt it a DMU instead of an EMU

lol they should have just extended service with existing rolling stock. What a dumb move by metrolink

The failure to provide timely connections and less competitive transfer times is a huge problem, as was predicted, by a number of planners. More frequent ML connections are needed. The comments about the safety of H2 vehicles are just plain amazingly ignorant and false.

Good video, interesting information. But your pronunciation of San Bernadino is completely indecipherable. Same thing with "Arrow". Certainly the closed captions had no idea what you were saying. I worked it out, but it might be worth rerecording at some point.

What a beautiful shot! Awesome videography!

Last year, I had to go out to Redlands for a business trip. Would arrive there at night. Looking at Google Street view, the Redlands stations looked to be out in the middle of nowhere where I did not want to be at 8 PM. So instead, I exited the Metrolink at San Bernardino downtown, even though I had purchased a Redlands ticket. That downtown station is certainly not very charming at night either, but I just took an Uber to my destination in Redlands instead of taking the Arrow line. They should have just extended the Metrolink.

That depends if the Redlands line is set up to handle a Metrolink train. You've got to consider that the Metrolink trains are probably much heavier. Did they engineer the route for heavier trains? What about that bridge they had to replace? Also look at the length of Metrolink. I know they would definitely block University Street at the crossing when stopped at University of Redlands station. I sometimes have to drive that way to get to work and that would suck to have to wait for the passengers to load and unload all while holding up vehicle traffic at the crossing.

It’s illegal to have two 2105’s in California. There’s only one 2105, and that is the one and only “North County Transit District Coast Express Rail SDNX/NCTC Electro-Motive Diesel F40PHM-2C Locomotive”. My hero. 🥲

What you said was literally what I initially thought because Arrow is simply just a filler

It’s like they want the subway/railway system to fail because it cuts into their wallet. If more people uses a train the less people are driving meaning less fuel consumption.

The proper choice would be to buy more of these trains, add carriages with toilets and just use them for the whole line to LA. Although we all know that aint happening, so what has to happen is advertisement and dedicated transfers as part of the schedule. And maybe an overhaul to the station signage or even the whole layout, dont know exactly whats going on there.

The proper choice would be to buy more of these trains, add carriages with toilets and just use them for the whole line to LA. Although we all know that aint happening, so what has to happen is advertisement and dedicated transfers as part of the schedule. And maybe an overhaul to the station signage or even the whole layout, dont know exactly whats going on there.

Bring back classic 1910s 1920s early 1930s ATSF heavyweight pullman passenger trains and bring all 1910s 1920s early 1930s ATSF Heavyweight Pullman Cars that do formerly ran ATSF Redlands Branch and today’s BNSF freight service back into former ATSF Redlands Branch

One more you missed: VTA Orange line extension (Eastridge to BART regional connector) broke ground this year in San Jose, planned completion in 2028. I desperately hope Dreamstar becomes a reality, but a 2025 launch is laughable. Even all of the info tabs on their website are still blank.

These connections should never ever be longer than 3 to 5 minutes. That they design infrastructure that does not enable that seems ridiculous to me.

they need to increase frequency between IE and Orange County that is where the traffic is not between redlands and san bernardino. There should be lines running every 20 mins between i.e. and oc to reduce 91 freeway congestion.

As a long time native californian, urban planning in this unorganized, high tax, low services blue state, is a disaster. A pure disaster.

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They should extend the A Line to Ontario Airport.

4:35 you mean DMUs? The line isn't electrified.

Waste of money!! And its another HERZOG, CONTRACTOR for Metrolink. The conductor's are idiots and tards from railcar cleaning businesses and treat passengers like criminal suspects

Hydrogen is not typically greener. Green hydrogen (ie: generated using renewables) is very expensive, and regular hydrogen (usually a by product of petroleum refining), while cheaper than green hydrogen, is vastly more expensive than diesel, and only serves to move emissions to the refinery and not the locomotive. Metrolink's baffling refusal to even consider electrification leads to these dead end experiments.

Should have extended it. I take this quarterly and the transfer is so annoying.

Metrolink should extend to Redlands. Use Arrow trains to connect to San Bernardino Airport and Ontario Airport on the side on its own tracks to make it convenient for riders who will take flights out of those airports.

I've seen that train go by many times on test drives and I've never seen more than maybe one or two people on it

IMO the answer is the A Line. Somehow that needs to push through that mess in San Bernadino and get to Redlands.

Could the DMU's double as street cars? I'm wondering if down the road there'd be an appetite for that in various parts of Redlands and San Bernardino. Otherwise, yeah, I'd say just extend Metrolink. I'm guessing they'll eventually electrify the whole line anyway so the diesel issue is temporary.

They should use the extension line to further extend it to Palm Springs, with stops in Calimesa-Yucaipa, Beaumont (by Oak Valley Parkway and 10 freeway or 10 and 60 Freeway interchange), Banning, Morongo Casino, Palm Springs International Airport, and Coachella off Indio Blvd. between Clinton and Monroe.

In regards to your point about noise levels. DMU and Metrolink locomotives use combustion which generate noise levels that an EMU or ZMU won't. Additionally the US rules regarding train horn use apply to all trains, these rules also inform the use of bells. With the successful use of DMU/EMU's globally I don't see the equipment as the issue (they should've ordered FLIRTs with toilets)I think the problems as with all public infrastructure are more political. Just look at how we arrived at a line called Arrow, or all the things cities/voters don't want in their neighborhoods (noise, no overhead power, station location). The hydrogen fuel concern seem to be an overreaction, we have hydrogen fuel cell vehicles on our roads and I've not heard of anyone stopping hundreds of behind a Hyundai Nexo or Toyota Mirai.

The arrow should be extended south to Riverside where there is a deficiency of service

Im not from the area but that a link functions well, it have to be linked in the first place. Use the arrow as low speed train who have a good conection to a faster train ar both ends and somewhere in the middle would help alot. So people can take the faster train until the middle or end and then switch to the arrow to get to the station who is close to the destination. It should be possibel to create a direct connection at sfations with seperate tracks for both lines. So the artow can arrive bevor the fast train and leave after it. Anything in this direction would significant push the usage of the arrow.

A solution to the stopping and not picking up anyone is to do what switzerland does for less-dense routes. There’s a request-stop button on the platform that signals to the driver that there are passengers to pick up. If it’s not pressed, no need to stop!

8:05: SMART’s new Petaluma North Station also opens in 2025.

I have lived in Santa Clarita my whole life and remember my mom and I having to use the Metrolink for over a year after this earthquake to go to work in Burbank.

Extend your heavy rail metro link for direct service

Something commuter related from San Diego to LV, northern AZ or points south thru Yuma. Opening up the last great undeveloped area in the lower southwest. And, can I go from Tustin, CA into LV or Yuma?

I have more of a chance of winning the Powerball jackpot, twice, than the Brightline project from Las Vegas being completed in 2028.

Good Video . Love the history

These are DMUs and they are more reliable than existing fleet on metrolink

The extension of the metrolink would still require the Redlands infrastructure as the route was washed out decades ago otherwise no extension of metrolink

1. Why no electrification of the line? Let me guess, too expensive? 2. Why do American trains look like ugly boxes? Haven't we learned to build sleek and curvy-looking trains like they have in Europe or Asia? I mean, the train looks like it's transporting prisoners, not commuters.

Sounds like the two completions in the year were the Aviation station in LA and the Copper Line in San Diego. Everything else is 2025 or sometime in the future.

Ill-informed people spreading misinformation is the Internet. Because of constraints in Measure I and in the laws of the Cities of Redlands and San Bernardino, the project could not purchase enough trainsets to provide, in the initial phase, 15-minute headways, which are necessary for any high-quality transitway and for transit-oriented development. Change the laws in order to increase the service frequency.

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slow at grade and infrequent. surprise nobody rides it? LA continues to spend money on slow at grade systems that nobody rides. There is no need for loud horns or bells when you have no crossings.

Minor mistake-No SB Line grade separations are planned. The Hellman Ave and Archibald Ave upgrades are mainly just medians to prevent drivers from going around the crossing gates

Hydrogen trains are running just fine and passed all safety regulations here in Germany, why would the US be an exception?

Looks a lot like Sydney's double deckers

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Ha same number different loco!