California High-Speed Rail #7 Complete Construction Drone Coverage from Hanford Viaduct to Hwy 43

[@AnthonyPinkerton-d7p]

Honestly, thank you for providing videos of the CA HSR completed construction from Hanford to Hwy 43. I wish I could say that I was able to witness the construction first-hand, but I reside in San Luis Obispo County. These videos are the only way I can keep tabs of the construction of CA HSR program.

[@timeforbeans]

Yea he did a great job covering the more remote areas, I enjoyed this a lot.

[@railworksamerica]

This is taking a ridiculous amount of time but when it’s finished I will happily ride it

[@SR-bh5jd]

If you haven’t died of old age.

[@billkraemer4710]

Tell me this after you PAY for the full ticket price, not a subsidized ticket.

[@SoCalHighIron]

Thanks for sharing! I hope videos like this will help people gain an appreciation for how many grade separations, canal relocations, and river crossings have to be constructed for the guideway before the tracks can be laid. Since, for some reason, miles of track laid is the only metric of construction progress that some people understand.

[@jasondroninaround]

@@SoCalHighIron I think most humorous thing I saw was when it finally started making it slow turn to the west and they hadn't moved those high tension power lines yet. So you got one of those towers smack dab in the middle of the tracks :-)

[@ChrisJones-gx7fc]

@@jasondroninaround yeah the slow moving of utilities by the third party utility companies is another reason behind the construction delays. AFAIK, CHSRA has been more on those companies to hurry the relocations up.

[@JitzyJT]

@@ChrisJones-gx7fc maybe some bribing help

[@hor1zon28]

Miles of guideway completed is the metric "Build HSR" references. So far, they report 57 miles of guideway have been completed.

[@ChrisJones-gx7fc]

@@hor1zon28 but that’s as of March 2024. It needs to be updated.

[@timeforbeans]

Great video, thanks for showing the more remote areas of the HSR projects. I look forward to your future videos. 03:10 Harvesting Tomato's ..never follow a Tomato Truck on the 99...splattered the drippings all over my car once, lol

[@jasondroninaround]

@@timeforbeans or traveling any road that was frequented by tomato trucks, after the first rain. All that tomato juice just turns to layer after layer of dried muck just waiting for that first rain of the season to mess up your car 😂

[@gregsonnleitner6250]

There is no such thing as "the 99". It is Hwy 99, or simply 99.

[@jasondroninaround]

@@gregsonnleitner6250 is there more than one 99 around here? If there is, this is The 99 😂 I was born and raised in California and I guess that's the way we talk. Every numbered highway starts with "the". Sometimes I slip up and forget I'm probably talking to people outside of California but I will not apologize 😆

[@kermitefrog64]

This is one of those incredible projects such as the building of the rail road across the country from 1862 until May 10, 1869 when the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific joined at Promontory Point Utah. Or the Federal Interstate projects from 1956 through 1966. All great projects take time but in the end this will make an incredible difference in travel across California.

[@jasondroninaround]

Wow :) somebody reported me for not having closed captions on this video! I think it was either a legitimately def person who though I was giving commentary over the video, or I have a troll. I think I have figured out the problem. I just forgot to set the default language for the channel captions. Now that's set, it will generate them automatically ... I hope hehe

[@stephenmodde5944]

Wow! Thank you so much for this awesome video!

[@rwdavidoff]

Whoa! This was unexpected and really great, thank you!

[@rwdavidoff]

I really appreciate the nice look at the King River crossing at 6:18 and such, which are important though they're less dramatic and more annoying to get to than the road overcrossings.

[@rwdavidoff]

Absolutely incredible footage, thanks! Wild to think if you watched this, even sped up, at 4x speed it still wouldn't be track speed through here!

[@jasondroninaround]

The drone was flying about 26 mph most of the time. The "slow" parts were sped up 200%. The in between parts were 800%. The video would be about 30 minutes long if I didn't speed anything up :) There's actually 33 minutes of raw footage. For the last flight, after circling the 43 bridge, I was going to try to make that clip go all the way to Davis Ave. It was turning out that was going to be a bit too far away for where I was parked and I turned it around. I figured 43 would be a good starting place for the next one :)

[@rwdavidoff]

@@jasondroninaround "for the next one" are promising words. :) The 12 miles or so in the area north of SR43 is pretty interesting in some ways--Conejo, of course, but also the recently completed Mountain View and Floral Ave crossings, the freshly-started Nebraska Ave, and a lot of the BNSF realignment work that should be in progress (their subroadbed and ballast shows up well on satellite but it's not really possible to see if they have ties or rail down). I also liked your thought of going down to Tule River and getting a look at the state of things there from the air, too. But then I'm just greedy for as much of such high-quality video as I can get, and you need to make sure it's not taking up too much of your time.

[@rwdavidoff]

Oh, BTW, I saw the SR41 short bridge videos for Week 24 and 25, but no long ones--waiting for the opening for the final long edit, or been busy out filming all this to spoil us?

[@rwdavidoff]

Short links to points of interest: 0:00 North abutment, Hanford Viaduct 0:25 Grangeville Boulevard (future HSR crossing over road on single-span bridge between fill sections) 0:45 Fargo Ave Overcrossing (beams placed 7/25/2024, roughly 3 days before this video!) 1:40 Flint Avenue Overcrossing (opened to traffic 6/24/2024) 2:42 Elder Ave (per wikipedia, planned to be closed, grade crossing cancelled) 2:54 Critical Central Valley activities, harvesting tomatoes! 3:28 Back to Elder Ave and resume flyover 3:52 Excelsior Avenue Overcrossing (bridge largely complete, embankment work has been stalled foooooreeeeveeeerrrrr argh) 4:55 Dover Avenue and 6th Avenue Overcrossing (opened to traffic May 3, 2023) 5:48 King River Alcorn Branch (incomplete, abutments complete, piers appear in work) 6:49 Cairo Avenue HSR Overpass (appears largely complete) 7:22 9th Avenue HSR Overpass (appears largely complete) 7:40 King River Dutch John Cut (work trestle completed, no work appears visible on HSR span) 8:26 Tub girder storage area 8:50 King River Cole Slough (work trestle completed, no work appears visible on HSR span) 10:00 SR43 Tied Arch Bridge (all deck beams placed, distance from bridge makes seeing rebar status for edge beams hard to see, some kind of tarp or formwork on future deck?)

[@jasondroninaround]

@@rwdavidoff for the tomatoes, I was contemplating just putting the label as, "Squirrel!" Hehe

[@jasondroninaround]

Kind of a strange story about the names of the three branches of the King's River that we crossed. I told myself to look at the names of the branches on the highway 41 bridges. Only one had a name on a sign. The furthest south one that is always dry. The sign called it Alcorn Bridge. The other two bridges did not have names on the signs beyond just Kings River. I got home and did some googling and found the names of the other two on some old USGS maps. The funny part is, the one that the sign on the bridge calls Alcorn Bridge does not have a name on the USGS maps. It's simply called Kings River. I can think of maybe two reasons why this is. It's always been in the dry state that it is now and nobody ever named it on the USGS maps, OR that was the main branch back in the day before "John" came in and made his cut :-)

[@rehabmax]

Beautiful California

[@rickski3769]

but...but.....can you imagine same video before construction.......i dunno.....i'm sure some land owners are very sad...

[@billkraemer4710]

The state is a shit hole these days.

[@hor1zon28]

Fantastic video. Excellent aerial photography. Thanks for your hard work.

[@Sven_Okas1967]

Thanks for that update. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven

[@jasondroninaround]

@@Sven_Okas1967 I'm just finishing up breakfast and headed out to fly south of the Hanford Viaduct this morning

[@green-user8348]

What a massive project. Go California. I am so impressed.

[@mrxman581]

Good informative video. Great seeing all the progress.

[@normbroel4633]

Nice Video. It’s time to lay track down.

[@OldSchool-px1xk]

We should keep in mind the Valley is the easy part of the CHSR project. Flat ground for the most part, no large urban areas to cross (like L.A.) essentially only bridges or overpasses to be built. I guess when it comes to the tunnels, Pacheco Pass, Tehachapi etc it really will get interesting - and expensive.

[@OG_Boodaah]

So glad to live in Fresno and ultimately California. Love the videos!

[@Robert-gw1di]

Another bridge over a road. Yay.

[@bobbobsin3202]

It will be done in time for 2044 Olympics 😂

[@rogerstarkey5390]

Call the Chinese in. 28,000 miles of 220mph network in 12 years(!)

[@stevens1041]

@@rogerstarkey5390 Japan built its Shinkansen network in the 1960s. When I first went to China in 1988, the only subway in the entire country was in Beijing. From my perspective, the Chinese are very slow.

[@bearmarket4u926]

Nice video. Would be great if viewers have some real stats about this project. Such as budgets and timelines. Without those, this is just a nice fly over.

[@TheMiddlest]

Its intersting watching this how much of the work and cost is simply putting in car infrastructure

[@mb_1024]

Thanks for this! Great stuff! I have a list of suggestions for structures to the south, but seems like that comment got auto-moderated away. But, basically, I'd love to see any part from the Hanford Viaduct south to Avenue 56.

[@jasondroninaround]

@@mb_1024 this weekend, I plan on doing pretty much the same video but starting at the Hanford viaduct and going south. I'll go for another 8 to 12 mi. This one did really well. I think I'm going to continue doing the sections like this continuing north and south as long as everybody likes them :-)

[@TheRailwayDrone]

Thanks again Jason! I'm really curious as to what is to happen over Grangeville Blvd. Did the farmers give you some free tomatoes for featuring them...lol...

[@rwdavidoff]

AmpereBeep did a recent video showing off a model he's put together from the plans, basically it's supposed to be some kind of embankment from the northern abutment of the viaduct to Grangeville, then a short bridge over grangeville (single span, no pillars, sort of like Kimberlina or Garces or the like) and then back onto embankment for the descent back to grade?

[@rwdavidoff]

Cairo Ave around 6:53 in this video may make another good point of mental comparison for what it seems the crossing over Grangeville might look like.

[@TheRailwayDrone]

@@rwdavidoff Thanks a lot! I just watched that video you were talking about. Cleared it up perfectly.

[@jasondroninaround]

The viaduct ends well before Grangeville. I be there just going to put in a overpass like the others to the north.

[@rwdavidoff]

@@jasondroninaround Yeah, basically. I guess they made the wider sections viaduct to save on fill, and then once it narrows it will just be on fill to the overcrossing, then on fill back down to grade.

[@tombishop5835]

I believe they built the transcontinental railway in less time and I’m sure under budget!

[@bradmoyer9737]

All of this in only fourteen years at a cost of $11,000,000,000, we now have 1,600 feet of track on the ground, just for perspective that is the length of 1/4 mile drag strip with the run off area. Absolutely an unmitigated success story worthy of celebration, kinda like Olympic Break Dancing.

[@JohnRinNoHo]

Latest projected cost is $133 billion and counting; I wonder if that counts all the farmland that is taken out of projection.

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[@jwbaker]

The fact that a power transmission line remains smack in the center of the berm is a bit odd. I wonder what the plan is for that detail.

[@ramblinone]

Great video, thanks for showing all the construction progress. So sad they just take their time, this project was supposed to be done by 2020 and now they estimate being done by 2050, what a joke. CA Government at it's finest, no accountability.

[@rogerstarkey5390]

(coughchinacough) Installing 2,500 miles EVERY year. 🤷

[@melbournechugging2999]

Meanwhile Hawaii's rail is stuck at the beginning of dillingham blvd and haven't moved in 2 years 😂

[@tigerphid9677]

Just wake me up when they run the first train... in 2035.

[@JitzyJT]

I still feel like hsr tracks should've been on pillars instead of diverting the road over it

[@AlexMaplMoth]

valid, but this may be cheaper and faster since cars handle slopes better than trains

[@VeerChandija]

When it will complete final date 😊

[@jasondroninaround]

@@VeerChandija I don't really know what the date is anymore. It is very fluid lol.

[@VeerChandija]

@@jasondroninaround approx year ?

[@donaldbush1182]

The entire San Francisco to Los Angeles project is expected to be completed by early 2107 assuming no further delays.

[@VeerChandija]

@@donaldbush1182 seriously 😳 that too long bro

[@rickski3769]

@@donaldbush1182 mo money mo money mo money.....pretty soon everything under a $10 bill will be worthless

[@Empire91]

Song name and artist??

[@jasondroninaround]

@@Empire91 I just make my songs on loudly.com. I find it frustrating to keep track of what copyrighted music I can use and not use without getting my video muted. Also, I don't make any money on these videos so I can't afford to pay some local person for their music.

[@punchnazis3498]

​@@jasondroninaround You can't use copyright-free music, or take the time to make your own music, or afford to pay real people for real music, but you can afford to pay some lame company for the limited use of plagiarized AI "music" that was manufactured from a thousand stolen and uncredited bits and pieces of real human-made music? Weird.

[@olgacamargo9711]

And haters were saying oh its the train to nowhere. Lol when its almost complete. If they werent serious about doing it they wouldnt have spend that half of the money to do it in the first place. Remeber guys its california there is always going to be a way to complete something that they want built there no matter the cost. But looking at this its looking like its money well spent.

[@lassepeterson2740]

It's so sad to see the crops cut thru by constuction .

[@billkraemer4710]

LOL. The only thing complete on this boondoggle is the drone flight. The irony is drones were not developed enough to take this footage when the boondoggle started.

[@gilbertpaway1783]

USA out performed by Chinese in road and bridge construction , ashamed

[@williamchandler2558]

Worthless

[@Ckl-z5x]

Such a waste of good farm land, and tax money

[@princessofthecape2078]

This is never going to get finished. Even if they complete this segment, it seems very unlikely the line will ever make it into San Francisco or LA.

[@danielcarroll3358]

All projects require a (usually Republican) pessimist or they aren't real projects.

[@princessofthecape2078]

@@danielcarroll3358 the fact that it's been under construction for a decade with literally no end date specified and is 100 billion dollars over a planned initial budget just north of 20 billion wouldn't have anything to do with it. It's nice to live rent free in your head, though. You must see Republican 'ghosts' around every corner.

[@peoriavideosltd6822]

@@danielcarroll3358 Party affiliation has nothing to do with it. Even here in the "easy" sections (flat farmland, no dense population) the cost is way, way over budget. But this is going to be a drop in the bucket compared to the time and money it will take to get it through the mountains into the bay area and LA basin.

[@tipupakoro5729]

How lovely. lol