⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Last Days of Mainline Diesel Service on Caltrain in the San Francisco Bay Area

[@SuperheroJunior]

The F40's are my favorite diesel locomotives 😢 I will miss them a lot.

[@MarcelosalivaTRENESArg]

Excellent video my friends 😊awesome 😮Greeting 🙋

[@Fantech0104]

I still think they should have gone with either ACS-64 locomotives or even better go with ALP-45's. With the ALP-45, you have a diesel backup Incase the overhead electricity ever goes out. Exo doesn't have overhead electricity and they still use ALP-45's. With either the ACS-64 or the ALP-45, you wouldn't have to get rid of the cab cars. The EMU's definitely cost a lot more. I still think it's sad to see more F40's go. Those are such well built locomotives. Despite their age, they pretty much last forever as long as they are being cared for.

[@AjbWhaYT]

I will miss riding these Caltrain Diesel Trains, my childhood trains just like the Legacy Bart fleet

[@NiltonMiranda7724]

They will be donated to the Peruvian city of Lima,I you go to Peru you will find them there.

[@HouseRepublican]

The station at 4:32 looks so creepy under that concrete ceiling. It looks totally sketchy during the day; I can't imagine what happens at night.

[@schnuurtchke]

I’m going to miss the f40s

[@DoubleHCreations]

It’s nice they’re going electric though

[@cxarli]

You can still ride them: between San Jose and Gilroy.

[@davidng2336]

@@cxarlimore specific: the MPI F40PH-2Cs (920-922); the others are being retired.

[@DJHTransport]

Same here. Thankfully there are other places still running F40s, most notably VIA rail in Canada, which is putting their fleet through another refurbishment!

[@Kingofk5la507]

Me too

[@TimsTrainAndBusAdventures]

I'm going to miss the F40s, now that they are retiring off of the CalTrain Network, the only Transit Systems that will have F40s remaining is CSX, NJT, Metro North (MTA), MBTA, and VIA Rail, and Metra

[@maas1208]

You Forgot Metra

[@TimsTrainAndBusAdventures]

@@maas1208 no i didnt lol

[@CanalConcourse1196]

Well, off they go..

[@davidpanton3192]

Jeez. From a UK point of view these are enormous (and lumbering)!

[@marcleslac2413]

They are!

[@DJHTransport]

These huge trainsets of gallery and bilevel cars are a fixture of midwestern and west coast commuter railroads in the United States. They fully take advantage of the massive loading gauge of American rail lines. When arranged in long consists like this, they indeed accelerate quite slowly, hence the work Caltrain has done to replace them with EMUs. That said, they can be pretty nimble in shorter consists, like on New Mexico’s Railrunner service: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKuzmYWJgNOZmaMsi=AO1qa3sYNpwausuL

[@marcleslac2413]

@@DJHTransport ikr, even the Dual mode alp45s are small compared to the huge slabs of a f59ph

[@tkain61]

I'm confused. I keep hearing that Caltrain isn't operating diesel trains anymore, but doesn't Caltrain still need to operate diesel trains on the non-electrified portion of their line south of Tamien?

[@DJHTransport]

Yes, they still run diesels on that portion of the railroad. Many people have a misconception that the end of mainline diesel service means that *all* diesel service has ended.

[@paulwarner5395]

Good video. When do the electrics start??

[@HayleyKiyokoLineBMT]

Now

[@TimsTrainAndBusAdventures]

They just started

[@mtavideocapture]

Cool

[@HayleyKiyokoLineBMT]

No more diesel service north of San Jose

[@tokugawa12able]

Will the cab cars still be used? Will they “care” what they control? Oops, I forgot. Those new trains are unit consists.

[@Sacto1654]

I wonder will they be refurbished and sent to Metra in Chicago.

[@jhostintola3092]

How fast can those tall mfs go on turns without toppoling over

[@pootispiker2866]

Irrelevant

[@davidng2336]

As tall as they want.

[@draveed]

I'm sorry to see them go. Those diesels looked and felt like what a train should be.

[@davidng2336]

At least they’re still being used between San Jose and Gilroy.

[@sidewalkere]

Slow, noisy and polluting? Not what a train should be at all... I understand the nostalgia, and they had their place in history. But "had" is the keyword here. ;)