4K- Los Angeles, CA to Bakersfield, CA Amtrak Coast Starlight #14 detour over the Tehachapi Route!

[@EmmEff3168]

Finally, a video there we can see all of the Metrolink Valley sub and UP Mojave sub improvements from recent years. Thank you Amtrak, Metrolink and UP for making it all possible :-). I'm almost tempted to edit and subtitle all points of 'interest' which would of course take days (hint, hint). A good companion to the drone videos of this event on the Tehachapi webcam site. Bravo, bravo!

[@mauriciomorales1839]

Los Angeles Union Station Los Angeles CA. Bakersfield CA.

[@dannymccarty6680]

The only thing that can get me to Dreamland faster than this magically hypnotic video is a right cross smack from Smokin’ Joe Frazier. Fabulous!

[@johncamp2567]

I so enjoy this video!! I have watched it several times and enjoy a much better understanding of the Santa Clara River topography.

[@Bosslifebiz661]

Whenever I’m headed to Tehachapi from Bakersfield I always wondered what those steep climbs looked like from a train 😂

[@JimJohnsonPhotographer]

The video was great with the exception of the loud mouth food service lady and the chit chat toward the end

[@golfberg1]

What a ride. If I knew about this I'd have flown out from NYC and taken that !

[@CentralValleyRailfan8311]

THERE'S ME!!! 3:48:38

[@centralcaliforniarail]

Fooooaaamer!

[@AimlessRyan]

California is so amazing.

[@richardcartwright4284]

What drugs are you on? California is so amazing, yeah ok.

[@AimlessRyan]

@@richardcartwright4284 And you didn’t just watch a video that you knew was entirely California before you decided to watch it. What drugs are you on?

[@thememeking9771]

Union Pacific really needs to allow Amtrak to run daily service along the Tehachapi route.

[@FadedEbony]

Having to take a bus to get from Central Valley to Southern California is extremely frustrating I’d be willing to pay more if they did allow Amtrak to run service through there

[@radioroger1683]

@@FadedEbony - 5 to 6 hours by train vs 2 hours by bus,

[@stereoplayers]

Most (if not all) freight railroads would rather not see Amtrak at all use their rails. From the beginning in 1971, one of the stipulations is that they would host Amtrak for a fee (Amtrak basically being a tenant). Freight is way more profitable than passengers. Another requirement is that Amtrak has the right of way. A lot of times it doesn't happen, then you hear of complaining that a train trip took too long. Amtrak does get the short end of the stick with a lot of things☹️

[@railfanbryan7225]

I railfanned the detoured Amtraks on all those days except the 15th! The 14th my friend @CentralValley Railfan8311 and I went out to the Pepper Dr crossing which is around the 3:42:00 mark. The other days I went to Olive Dr which is just north of the Bakersfield yard and is not in this video.

[@robertbeeson3181]

Question. How did Amtrak handle the arrival into Emeryville and the subsequent departure? Did the engines decouple and do a runaround?

[@jwhitman2005]

You know I've always thought of Amtrak having service between Lancaster and Bakersfield via Tehachapi if metrolink doesn't have plans to extend the AV line up north

[@reynoldhunter8600]

Okay i didn't know the amtrack coast starlight express train in the middle of metrolink Antelope Valley line to Lancaster

[@yankinga]

What necessitated the backup move, after the stop at 9:52 in the video? That looks to be next to the large Vulcan materials complex in Sun Valley.

[@MiguelFlores17]

@3:09:25 Curious on what is or was that cement structure on the right

[@cagorrie]

Excellent video thank you

[@ChordYogaGuitar]

Thank you so much! It so happened that my first trip with Amtrak took the detour over the Tehachapi route, lucky! I wonder how often Amtrak uses the detour

[@williamchristian8389]

Simply Fantastic Ride!!!

[@ryanridder4576]

I believe since September 2019 there has never been a Coast Starlight Tehachapi detour since? I hope to see it happen again sometime

[@ayaowzaa]

Wow, never seen the inside of the tehachapi loop before 2:46:03

[@bboomer1948]

Thanks for posting. Very enjoyable, until ending in that armpit of the world Bakersfield !!

[@CARambolagen]

Pity there are no place names to tell us where te tran is at any one time...

[@tacticalfall4505]

Thanks for documenting an event that may never happen again!

[@repulser93]

Why not?

[@Jinnoth]

@@repulser93 Paul is probably referring to how Amtrak is doing now, because with Amtrak's recent CEOs they have been trying to make Amtrak profitable so that the government doesn't have to fund them. Due to these attempts the CEOs have been slowly turning Amtrak into a Airline on rails. And someday if Congress approves they might end long distance train travel all together because Amtrak has not been making very much a profit off of long distance trains. If anyone looks at this and sees if I might have got some detail wrong your welcome to correct I don't mind.

[@parrocho88]

With that "high" speed, you're sure.

[@stereoplayers]

​​@@JinnothALL forms of transit are subsidized. You don't hear about the airlines or the highways, just passenger rail. For most of their lives, the railroads were over-regulated (the ICC). After WWII, the government threw bucket loads of money towards the airlines and the highways, and ignored the railroads. That's why today, the United States is in the 21st century, and using an 19th century rail network.

[@Tully3674]

Thank you - good video!

[@railfanbryan7225]

What day was this and what locomotives were those at the 3:53:00 mark?

[@notarotomwithhair5637]

Likely an CW44AC or a GEVO

[@TrainSF]

Awesome Video Man!!

[@patriksiegfried5050]

Since Tehachapi, you have removed bits and replaced the camera, a pity to have neglected the Walong loop...

[@daviddowling9830]

Perfect chance for you to grab your camera and pick up where he left off,can’t wait to see it.

[@patriksiegfried5050]

@@daviddowling9830 What do you want to see? I don't live in the United States.

[@oubrioko]

barefoot romping children marauding through the aisles were apparently getting on that attendant's last nerve

[@camerondouglas7055]

Where does the detour begin in the video anyway.I’m curious.

[@michaelkiesling8148]

If you look at 8:30, you'll see two tracks curving off. That's near the Burbank Airport and that is the beginning of the Ventura Line/Coast Branch. Usually, the Starlate would have taken those tracks.

[@divadavis7479]

I love train ❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@Lucrativecris]

Why did it go to Bakersfield?

[@tyrese3745]

Track work on Metrolink's Ventura County Line (which it shares with Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner) between Union Station and Chatsworth, so no Amtrak/Metrolink service.

[@jathre.]

To get to the other side.

[@irouen]

I'm confused. There is no Amtrak train between LA and Bakersfield. There's only the Amtrak bus, over the Grapevine.

[@slasherfun]

As the title says, it was detoured on that route.

[@tacticalfall4505]

8:30 you know something’s up when ur train go the other way

[@staintedcards]

why does it look so dark

[@AVEXentSUCKS]

The train station in LA is so ugly.

[@ponyhorton4295]

Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal is one of the most beautiful train stations in the world.