Caltrain Cab Ride on train 113 Tamien to San Francisco

[@davidpanton3192]

Good stuff. From a UK point of view it's interesting to see that the main station in a city the size of SF looks so sleepy and is approached by a single pair of tracks!

[@timectrl]

Honestly it’s because SF is on a peninsula and only one train line goes to this station.

[@BirbarianHomeGuard]

It’s best to think of Caltrain as regional rail, BART as the s-bahn/suburban railway, and Muni as a stadtbahn tramway.

[@physh]

It's because the US has not cared about public transit since the 60s.

[@rogertemple7193]

Taking a ride on the train and looking out at the scenery. 🚄🚃🚃🚃🚃💨

[@Victorsword123]

I watched the whole thing it was amazing

[@Koreanroads0311]

귀한 영상 잘봤습니다. 😮👍

[@canadiantimberwolf1]

I am pretty sure I have watched this video before, and it is about time. A lot of European In-Cab videos, and very few from North America...Keep it coming...

[@timectrl]

Thank you! I have more on my channel, but it’s mostly this route.

[@AnthonyPinkerton-d7p]

Honestly, thank you for doing a Cabride video from Tamien to San Francisco; it's been too long since someone has done a video. I'm curious if anybody could explain the bridge work on the bridges immediately after leaving Tamien. It's got me curious? Honestly, the only part of the trip I was interested in was between Palo Alto to Redwood City. It's the only section that is being improved at a snails pace!

[@timectrl]

There is a reason for there being few Tamien cab rides: all of the trains are locals except for some early/ late rush hour ones so to do a Tamien Cabride, you must take the local or try to take the few limited trains.

[@Castyk]

¡ Nice.very nice video !.Saludos desde Alicante,Spain !.👍👍🚂🚂🚋🚋👌👌

[@engitopia]

Nice to see the electrification

[@coleallen3895]

1:13:36 - a low pitch door closing chime! Metra commuter trains in Chicago have the exact same chime as Caltrain

[@caltrain906railfan]

Nice L1 cab ride! Love the cab car 4012 the horn is 🔥 Please keep up the good work! (You forgot to put this in your cab rides playlist.)

[@caltrain906railfan]

What’s the camera you used?

[@northerncalirails2008]

Awesome

[@maas1208]

25:19 yes

[@JoeyLovesTrains]

Dang… still no wires between Menlo Park and Belmont…… thats frustrating Edit: and they haven’t fixed the wires that had a tree fall down on them in Burlingame

[@USArailfan2000]

[14:12] "COAST" Interlocking - Located just north of Santa Clara Station where other non-Caltrans trains such as Amtrak Coast Starlight, Amtrak Cali, ACE, and UP veer off from the Peninsula Corridor, and continue east on the East Bay Main.

[@caltrain906railfan]

Did you kinda copy the chapter in my full cab ride "View of a passing Southbound Caltrain?

[@timectrl]

yes I saw that a month ago and decided to use it on this

[@PapyrusCUT]

At 1:47:36 Look to you’re right, you will see 919 hidden in the background covered up by sheets

[@timectrl]

Correct

[@luigibrunomanzini253]

Nice video, interesting to see that finally the important lines are electrified even extra-urban. I wanted to ask what train safety system used in the USA ? In Europe, each railway administration of the European Community uses its own national system, but modified to meet ERTMS and SCMT standards at least level 1. If the signal buoys and the GSM on 900 MHz radio system and the SCMT level 2 equipment are installed, the line can safely allow trains up to 350 km/h (TAV) to run safely. Hello and thank you !👍👍👌👌

[@rigol2k]

Sounds like that car has a wheel flat spot.

[@peterheerens3093]

I heared it too, and had the same respons. Certainly looks like it.

[@INNOCENTWIZZARDS]

What a noisy nightmare Im glad I live in Europe

[@timectrl]

There will be new electrics soon.

[@caltrain906railfan]

At 1:47:34, if you look to your right you can see 919 hidden behind the cars with a white cover

[@timectrl]

Yes

[@thepokemonguy996]

@@timectrl​​⁠ are those AEM-7s a couple seconds before?

[@henkdegroot5872]

This is an original old-style honkytonktrain. Or is it a steam train? Amtrak revisited....

[@timectrl]

it's a commuter train

[@Zesen10]

Fällt die Lok auseinander wenn die etwas schneller fährt ??

[@jethrotaylor2614]

are those timber sleepers?

[@jackchen7003]

are they only electrifying one track from Tamien to San Jose?

[@timectrl]

i'm not sure

[@williamyoon7660]

What's the ongoing construction at 1:46 all about?

[@timectrl]

I don't know exactly

[@blakeclark5898]

Bridge replacement

[@blakeclark5898]

Bridge lengthening

[@mikeaustin6561]

Why do trains in the USA travel so slowly, even freight trains in the UK travel at 75mph

[@joscallinet6260]

The vibration of the train is having a bad effect on your camera's microphone. Perhaps it's touching the door or window frame of the cab car. Sometimes the sound comes through ok - but you should check to see if your microphone is touching something. One thing about this service from San Jose to San Francisco, is most of the trains seem to have a bad flat-wheel problem. It's interesting to see how much progress has been made on the electrification project. This is going to be a very different ride on the new Stadler trainsets.

[@fredericcornilleau9359]

25ķw 50 hrtz ou 60 les caténaire

[@luigibrunomanzini253]

I think it's all at 60 Hz, given the upgrade they are making to electrify lines where until yesterday they used heavy naphtha as fuel. I think you are French, in Europe as regulations, safety and technologies, on the railways, we are only second to Japan!😁😁😁😁

[@JoeyLovesTrains]

@@luigibrunomanzini253 the only similarities between electricity in Europe and America is that we both use 25Kv to power our electric trains (not in every electrified portion, but on newer ones). However Europe and most everywhere else except part of Japan uses 50Hz while US/Canada and part of Japan uses 60Hz (And Germany is weird bc they use 15Kv at 16.7Hz to power their trains)

[@peterheerens3093]

@@JoeyLovesTrains No just Germany. Austria, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden use it too. Given the amount of trains running on this system, weird is mayby not the correct term.

[@JoeyLovesTrains]

@@peterheerens3093 it’s definitely interesting. I find it very odd that the Northeast corridor in Massachusetts is electrified at 12Kv 25Hz.. very old, and some parts have been upgraded to 12.5Kv 60Hz, which is what the rest of the American electrical system uses

[@jerseykevin27]

This train is slow, America used to have much faster trains.. old people knew you needed to get places