The Tehachapi Loop

[@Paul-fi7vv]

This video was somehow very calming. I'd love to see more of this if you ever feel like it.

[@HansWeberHimself]

Love it. Rockets and trains really go well together. Same crowd I guess.

[@emmanotsostrong]

Autism. Or at least that's my case 😂

[@sonicsupersam7793]

We all love machines and vehicles. Especially big heavy ones :) and autism, in my case.

[@3dprintedhardware]

You could also add music, photography, CAD, electronics and PCB design to that same crowd. I've been watching Joey B for over 4 years now and all of his interests are the same interests I've had for over 10 years. I didn't know Joe was into trains until today, I was into trains since I was a kid. More recently I got interested in train horns, the different companies that make them and the different sounds they make. The horn clusters are usually made with 2 to 5 different size horns, different notes, to make one sound. The notes are listed by the manufactures so I bought a keyboard to play the notes together and hear the sounds that different train horns make, good times! You can make train horns but I don't think that will make people happy in my neighborhood 😃

[@sonicsupersam7793]

@@3dprintedhardware wait ur right

[@3dprintedhardware]

@Joe Barnard My guess is that they made it a mixed car train because they are mostly empties being returned somewhere. All the lumber cars are empty, some of the boxcars had the doors open and the 3 scrap metal cars in the back were also empty. Empty cars would also explain why this train had no helper engines in the middle or in the back. Btw, in your explanation of the different type of cars there is a bonus one, the long boxcar in the foreground with silver metal grates on the side at 2:24 is a car hauler. Thanks for posting this video 👍

[@coatduck]

It's really interesting that once you can see the train in the background, as well as still in the foreground, the parallax is making it look like the train segment in the foreground is moving faster than in the background. Sorta just a cool demonstration of parallax, since obviously the train is going at a constant speed along it's length.

[@evanbarnes9984]

As any good Factorio player knows, you definitely want those trains to be single purpose! Mixed load is a nightmare at scale

[@samuelknox3178]

I drove past Tehachapi in November when I was visiting. Lovely place!

[@rjung_ch]

Pretty cool. The scale seems massive. Our train compositions here in Switzerland are not quite that long either.

[@peraltarockets]

My understanding is that cargo trains in North America have gotten longer because of consolidation and cost cutting in the sector, which leads to things such as the derailment in Ohio and the town in Quebec that was blasted off the map.

[@Acrophobia2]

@@peraltarockets and deregulation. The last administration in America removed a lot of safety regulations which led directly to the derailment in Ohio.

[@rjung_ch]

@@peraltarockets Yes, I think profits over safety at this point. These things happen only once, not every month or more! Not all are hazardous, but the dangerous ones there needs way more safety, no doubt.

[@Blackburnian737]

It is- the Swiss and US rail systems are totally different. US freight trains are set up to take huge amounts of freight across the country really efficiently, and we have so little passenger rail they don't have to work around passenger trains like in Switzerland. Also the Loading Gauge (dimensions of the train) is significantly bigger in the U.S.

[@sethdrake7551]

theres a reason america usually has around one train derailment per week...

[@Simple_But_Expensive]

A little further down the canyon, there is one of the last remaining curved railroad tunnels. This tunnel limits the size of loads on the line. Large pieces of oilfield equipment intended for the Bakersfield area must either be broken into smaller assemblies or transported by truck. The fail closed air brakes were the invention that made George Westinghouse his initial fortune. Prior to that, the brakeman had to turn individual wheels on each car. This lead to a lot of brakemen falling off boxcars when traveling over roofs, train wrecks when they couldn’t make it to all the brakes in time, and expensive equipment failures from improperly balanced brake loading. This meant that railroads were eager to install the new system, unlike auto couplers that had to be forced down their throats by unions that got tired of paying out for the amputated limbs of the workers. My grandfather told me that during the depression, the foremen in the coupling yards could tell if an applicant was experienced by having him hold up his hands. If he had all his fingers, he wasn’t.

[@ltpinecone]

I love your second channel videos. Random, yet interesting! The engineering behind trains and their infrastructure is pretty fascinating.

[@Muny]

Beautiful shots and fun commentary, thanks Joe :)

[@Blackburnian737]

As a fellow space and railroad nerd it is cool to hear that you know quite a bit about trains! Mixed/Manifest freight has actually gotten quite common as far as I know despite/because of PSR. Plenty of Unit and intermodal as well though.

[@tormachinc]

We just put this video into a never ending loop.

[@kitsandham7001]

The light in that shot is really perfect.

[@edward_jacobs]

I love this side of you, please feel free to make more content on this!

[@nuclearumbrella5818]

Good old UP. I haven't seen them run engines in the middle of the train recently, but they do frequently run them at the end. Love the Tehachapi loop/pass, always tons of trains because it's also one of the main routes across the country, in addition to moving anything North from the ports in LA.

[@ralphq5895]

Joe - Nice vid, very scenic and love the engineering commentary. Keep it coming and be well.

[@flyingraccoons2283]

We only have the T line here so I don’t usually see cargo trains. Super cool to see how big they actually are

[@amessman]

DPU is my favorite thing when it comes to trains... I will miss lashups of five SD40's on the head end though. In addition, I typically see the flashers only at night, in fact, in my own studying I find they are usually not blinking in the daytime, at least here in MI. Those are powered by compressed air hence the whining noise when the tail end goes by. Lots of "mixed manifest" trains here in Michigan too.

[@Philberton]

This was cool. +1 for more Joey B rail content (or just nice scenery with stuff going on!).

[@nobodynoone2500]

Used to live near there. It's a neat feature. Check out the local Basque resturants while there!

[@martenkerkhoff6600]

The spiral tunnels at the kicking horse pass in BC, Canada does almost the same thing, except the loop is inside a mountain. Check that out

[@duncanmcallister7932]

what a beautiful valley!! nice video

[@fox25_fpv19]

Who gave Tom Scott acess to the Joe Barnard Channel?👀 Great Video, especially when it is 3am before aerospace engineering classes today😅

[@peraltarockets]

The pass is part of the ritual if you're going to FAR or Lucerne from the Bay, thanks for capturing this part.

[@billlane7486]

You don't need it to be dark in the UK to see the EOTD - all our trains have a red light at the back, and many of them flash, but that is all it is, a light at the back! We also have breaking designed such that if a train breaks apart then the breaks come on - stops stuff rolling back down the hill into a terminus station. As the US still hump shunt, and I don't think the UK does, we can have railway trucks that are braked when not coupled.

[@MichaelLloyd]

They could be transferring constructs. Cool video. I've heard of the loop but never seen it

[@decb.7959]

I think it puts into perspective how efficient trains are; it's so long that it coils around itself multiple times, while only being pulled by a few locomotives. It seems like most of those cars were empty, so maybe this train is simply moving the cars themselves from place to place?

[@simonabunker]

It sounds like train brakes are a bit like spiders - they close up if they loose pressure too

[@willibaldkothgassner4383]

Hello Joe, thanks for video. I would be intrested in your comment on Starship liftoff !

[@ojjoooooo]

He's into trains only now.

[@TheOrbitingBrick]

BPS.Trains?

[@rubenwardy]

This was an interesting video, thanks for sharing! (Joe model railway video series soon?)

[@rocketmanandrew]

That’s gata be fun going down that in winter. Yikes

[@leeterthanyou]

Now THIS is some quality JoeyB content!

[@GypsyTinker2012]

Love It! Thank you, Joe!

[@Murin97]

Beautiful landscape btw. We don’t have here in Belgium 😂

[@HansWeberHimself]

Was all covered by redwood and giant sequoia forests before the gold rush. You got hexagonal fries! And great mussels. Love those.

[@nuclearumbrella5818]

@@HansWeberHimself If this was the coast further North, it would have been. But this area is and always has been a desert. The pass crosses from Bakersfield into the Mojave, and is a beautiful drive at any time.

[@JohnOCFII]

Very relaxing!

[@threehammers2516]

Really cool video Joe!

[@cursed_train_vids342]

Joey b Railfanning is what we’ve needed the whole time more when

[@MrGatlin98]

This feels like I'm watching a model train because of the zoom

[@toiyabe_effect]

I suspect your route into the desert is usually along Highway 14. Do you ever make it up Cajon Pass? Lots of cool cuts and tunnels getting up and down the pass.

[@fish_cylinder]

Please make Joey B Train Talk a recurring segment

[@igorgylycheyev9294]

If that was on trucks, imagine how much space they took!! Trains ftw!!!

[@icannotfly]

yes more railroad videos please

[@puppzogg]

JoeyB meets Tom Scott

[@peterweber6716]

Trains are awesome

[@PhilNubbins]

we need more train content

[@fabv.4297]

Train spotter let’s go!

[@LeonardChurch33]

"May your tracks be clear and your grades be low"

[@elmomusk9952]

What happened to Tom Scott’s voice??? ;)

[@FoxBoi69]

why is the train so long? the longest train i have ever seen was still shorter than 700 meters. 700 meters is the longest legally allowed train here where i live

[@kingsleyrocketry]

Hey nice catch! interesting to see those UP sd90s on the Tehachapi loop! Are you a railfan too?

[@Yataka]

Love it

[@terrydavis8451]

That is a train full of empties.

[@paulsidhuUK]

Nice 4k footage

[@bowenbrown]

I feel like i am strapped to a chair

[@7imbrook]

This is how I can tell you and I consume the same content

[@Death-Cross]

Now joe i remember the railway in Godzilla movie to move nuclear to San Francisco 😅😮❤

[@MikesTropicalTech]

Who knew that Joe was a train nerd? Train nerds unite!

[@donaldcollins8551]

These are called mixed freight.

[@nerdtronaut]

Wow looks like a model train track!

[@theelectricwalrus]

I liked this

[@collinschofield808]

NNNNEEEEEERRRRRRRDDDD! (no harm in being one, I’m one myself, like the content!)

[@jdavidcard]

So cool

[@noahhastings6145]

What did you just call me?

[@collinayars708]

Cool

[@NICKCIN]

uh yeah this is interesting haha, v cool ty joe

[@zacharyhudson618]

cool

[@mumblbeebee6546]

“There’s not really a big point to this” … come on, this gradient stuff could easily be addressed by the addition of rockets 😂

[@KellyWu04]

Wow nice

[@Casey_Schmidt]

Trains are wonderful and efficient until you realize that the engines in them haven’t been updated much since the 1950’s. The engines are hopelessly out of date.

[@breadiboo]

more train content

[@VulcanTheConqueror]

Who wants to join me and camp at the top of the hill in the Tehachapi Loop and watch trains until we fall asleep?

[@freddysanders2826]

trains ar so cool

[@MongoosePreservationSociety]

Red eye Fred

[@kemfic]

train gang

[@jerwahjwcc]

May your rails be steel and....

[@carllarsson5021]

Your hills be low

[@fullflowaerospace]

Train

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

@joebarnard >>> 👍👍

[@jaredleroy9876]

BPS.trains. You know, you really need a train to transport your materials for your motor program. The efficiency of moving equipment around the workshop by hand is terrible. Clearly a train is the way to go. You're carrying hazardous and dangerous materials and components around by hand like a caveman. Rail transport has a vast number of advantages. Also, we have a spiral similar to this one in NZ, but not as big. Really cool to see how they do it over in the US.

[@franktank5781]

cool