Caltrain Third Public Electric Train Tour 5/11/24

Enjoy this quick overview of Caltrain's new electric trains. These videos were taken from 1.00pm to 2.30pm at Mountain View and San Carlos. I added some relaxing music and some subtitles. Enjoy the video! At the tour, there was ‪@PeninsulaRails‬‪@ThisisGabe120‬, ‪@MychaelHall24‬ , ‪@Lorsterthe34st‬ , ‪@Deadchannel99128‬ , ‪@RailsOfTheBay‬ and a few other railfans.

[@timectrl]

The video was filmed at 4k30fps, but the video did not load fully in my editing software, because I transferred the videos 5 times. Next time I'll try to make it better, sorry :(

[@IamTheHolypumpkin]

The upper level looks so roomy compared what I'm used to from bi-level trains. The less restrictive us loading-guage really opens up the car.

[@StefanWithTrains]

Yeah they are (I think) 20cm taller than normal KISS trains used in Europe.

[@austriankangaroo]

@@StefanWithTrainsand also, the upper deck is straight and not curved

[@himbourbanist]

These new trains look really, really great. This is such a huge step forward from Gallery Cars. The investment in electrification is WELL worthwhile. Someday this could be Metra!!

[@markdebruyn1212]

But Metra does not own most of it’s lines

[@wdd6864]

Metra instead has Gallery EMUs

[@strredwolf]

Snazzy! I'm glad they're getting rid of the Gallery cars.

[@Deadchannel99128]

4:44 I rode this train to San Francisco yesterday!

[@caltrain906railfan]

Will miss the old Caltrains but I am excited for electric trains.

[@MychaelHall24]

Nice video I was in it

[@tacocatgamingandmore635]

Nice Video! I think i saw you on train 237 in the front car maybe?

[@timectrl]

Yeah I was on the front car.

[@tacocatgamingandmore635]

@@timectrl Nice! I got on at redwood city, i think we might have locked eyes, anyways, that event was fun. Thanks for another vid.

[@onlineconsumer9]

Hey I was there!

[@Deadchannel99128]

Me too! I was on the train that departed at 4:44 to San Francisco that day.

[@atsfevan0242]

Hard to believe in just a few short months those trains will replace the f40s among other equipment on Caltrain.

[@RailsOfTheBay]

This tour was a lot of fun!

[@EpicThe112]

The Northeast needs to buy them too however the key difference is that both doors will need to be accommodated and opened in normal service because there are some operators in the Northeast that have electric low level platforms unlike New York State and Connecticut which just went high level platforms in electric territory

[@gamerfan8445]

I can name a couple.

[@johnhughes8492]

I could be wrong, but in the promo it appeared to me to have a diesel locomotive rather than electric.

[@Locomotiviert]

There is no locomotive on the new trains, these are electric multiple units

[@evanstonbalce9588]

They look like double decker versions of Muni Metro’s Siemens LRVs to me

[@timectrl]

That is not true

[@Perich29]

I'm concern about the safety with the big gap on the platform from the train. at 3:48, that little kid could fall right into the gap.

[@timectrl]

Survival of the fittest

[@roachtoasties]

"Mind the Gap."

[@eturtled]

@@timectrllmfao

[@benedictdesilva6677]

The "gap" is due to a project planning shortcoming, which one hopes should be remedied soon. All station platforms need to be raised-end to end-to the level demonstrated at 3:32 by the temporary structure that has been placed there. The door opening mechanism is designed so that a foot plate automatically slides out to meet (almost touch) the (raised) platform to enable absolutely gap-free and level boarding for both walking and wheeled passengers, *at every door along the entire length of the train.* The foot plate recedes when the doors close. It appears that the foot plate mechanism has been deactivated because the platforms here are too low-except for the one that can be seen at the raised portion of the platform.

[@rotatorcuffs8140]

Only 480p in 2024? You gotta pump those numbers up

[@marcusdamberger]

and 24fps

[@timectrl]

Yeah I filmed it in 4k30fps but it seems to be a problem with KZbin or my editing software.

[@celebrityrog]

For me, this is 15 years too late. In fact, we should have had this back 20 years ago. When it comes to public works projects, public transit, etc, there should be NOTHING that stops it from development at the plan, the price, the scale as originally intended, regardless if there is a disaster, a pandemic, a decrease in ridership, or lack of funds. Transit MUST be a guaranteed service. If the job balloons from $1B to $10B then those costs should be removed from another agency or entity, like military spending, it should be put up by the Federal Government and taken out of military budgets first, congressional salaries second and out of taxes as a last resort. That said, prices should be next to nothing regardless the distance, because its already paid for in the taxes that were moved from military spending.

[@gamerfan8445]

Yeah no Military is important.

[@RailroudHobby]

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