Electric Caltrain Open House

[@shreychaudhary4477]

Glad so many young folks are interested in trains and stuff to attend these tours! Hoping for a train-filled future!

[@ILoveTrains]

Wonderful video of the Caltrain Electric tour!

[@P0w2you]

I appreciate your outlook, on transit and advocacy! and great video!

[@user-np2eu9dt5t]

Stadler (the company that makes these new trains) is a Swiss company, not German :-)

[@DanielHoward-aka-dannyman]

I knew that, and yet ... My next mini project will be to look into superimposing a correction in kdenlive and re-uploading to KZbin. ;) Thanks!

[@jason7473]

If it weren't for US YOU'D all be speaking GERMAN!

[@DanielHoward-aka-dannyman]

@@jason7473 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Switzerland

[@Greggs30806]

​@@jason7473Well thanks to the United States, Soviet Union, Italy (when they changed sides in 1943), and the United Kingdom, along with other allied countries. Don't take all the credit lol

[@Lausanne-xy3nq]

In Switzerland, the federal railways have many of these Stadler, but much more luxurious inside😅

[@MatthiasWiesmann]

Nice video, it's interesting to see how the Stadler Kiss are outfitted compared to those operating here in Zürich. The Caltrain ones have a lot of seats. Here there is way more open area in the lower decks, in particular around the restroom. Also there are no real tables when two seats are facing, just a small ridge along the window.

[@LMB222]

Why only two toilets for the entire train? Standard is one per car.

[@daniellewis1789]

Average distance isn't long enough for more? Prioritized seating?

[@ZPPrograms]

This is a commuter train and not a long distance train. The total end to end travel is around 1 hour to around 1.5 hours in length. With this in mind, Caltrain made the decision to prioritize seating over restrooms. I should also add that a lot of riders don’t go end to end, for example I only ride from Sunnyvale to Menlo Park.

[@Jeff-uj8xi]

The first six minutes of your video had nothing to do with Caltrain electrification or the new Stadler electric MU train sets. Those six minutes were a total waste of time and should be discarded. The bit with the Good Karma bikes was also a waste of time. Also, slow down when panning your camera. Either that of give us sea-sick pills and aspirin. The term would be operator, not driver. After 14:30, the video is basically another total waste of time and had nothing to do with the Caltrain open house and display.. Why didn't you record the speeches given by the officials? That Santa Clara model train layout was interesting, however.

[@CanalCruisers]

This has to be a top 5 Karen comment on YT hahaa. It really isn't that deep, relax lmfao!

[@Jeff-uj8xi]

@@CanalCruisers Who is Karen? I don't know the woman. And what is imfao? That's a new one on me.

[@DanielHoward-aka-dannyman]

I am flattered that I made a video worthy of criticism. This is of course an amateur effort, but I had thought to maybe make an "Express" cut of the video. Also, look into the "chapters" function on KZbin. Sometimes Karen is just saying what some of us quietly suspect so thanks!

[@jason7473]

You appear to need more serious drugs than dramamine and aspirin. Please consult a street pharmacist. Hopefully you can find one within six minutes, and not feel your life has been wasted again.

[@DanielHoward-aka-dannyman]

TIL: adding chapters to a KZbin video is dirt easy, and now folks can easily skip to kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGaldqNmi7KLopo and otherwise control their experience of this video. They can sit around and watch me for half an hour or just jump right to the bits they care about. I think that's pretty good. Everyone wins!