TRAIN CAB RIDE OVER TEHACHAPI (4K)

[@adrian33161]

This is one of those rare gems. Not reversed, high quality, raw sound, American freight, front cab view, not to mention an awesome horn. Thank you for uploading this.

[@adrian33161]

And to have all this on Tehachapi Pass? Icing on the cake

[@jlane496]

I agree with you on a lot of ideas you wrote. No music. No Reverse. One of the railroad marvels.

[@pedromorgan99]

Now imagine it was twice as fast for commuters and travellers ..

[@xavierthomas8311]

Il est vrai que c'est du réel et c'est sympa Merci.

[@KennethBoren]

Best video I seen that showed what the view is like at the head end .

[@edog7059]

I'm at home in the midwest, it's 8 degrees (F), fires have been raging through L.A., but now we get to see exactly why California has been drawing people to it for many years. Beautiful!

[@jamesmassey-cc4ml]

I’m 58 years old, I’ve lived in California off on half my life. The state is mostly arid, a lot of the coastal and alpine mountains have very flammable vegetation, even more so after a long dry spell. There are some places people just shouldn’t build. They should let it be unspoiled like this.🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@TracksideNW]

The perfect view and still with all the train noises! Love it! Thanks for sharing it.

[@RRphotographer661]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@louiezoi980]

Absolutely fantastic video - the sights, the sounds, the camera location and direction - and what a view of the Tehachapi Loop! Please add mine to the voices asking for the rest of the run to Mojave. The piercing blue skies and fresh green of the hills are helping me through up yet another week of cement-gray skies here in the Midwest. And the sounds of that locomotive - wow! Best of all, I get to continue the journey by looking up lots of the objects and items and locations we got to see and that I am curious about. Thank you for this fantastic, and I look forward to your future uploads!

[@3railmike713]

Enjoyed the ride and scenery. Thanks for posting! Love the sounds of those hard working diesels and an occasional blast of the air horn instead of some annoying music.

[@curtc3092]

Excellent! I've been railfanning and filming the Tehachapi area for years. It was so nice to see many of the remote areas that I've filmed (the Narrows, Allard, Cliff, etc.) from this perspective. Great job on this - congratulations!

[@windyrotorblast]

Outstanding! It was just what a cab ride should be. Thank you for posting.

[@Atsf1976]

That's pretty awesome. Unique and a great view from the train as opposed to being on the ground taking the video of the train passing.

[@rickcampbell6588]

You just went by all the places along the tracks where my High School buddies and I would drink beer. 44 years ago. The loop rocks. Great Memories!

[@TomYoureDoingItWrong]

Sometimes I miss playing with big trains. But then I remember what managers at UP have devolved into, and how much I enjoy sleeping in my own bed every night and not being chained to my phone. Retirement is lovely, especially on the first of every month. Y'all stay marked up now, y'hear???

[@sandyprotz9042]

Couldn’t agree more.

[@raylrodr]

Retirement: The Real Reward!!

[@ATSFSuperChief]

Truly excellent and memorable cab ride from Bakersfield to the intermediate signals where Marcel used to start. If, please, make the rest of the run from old Marcel to Mojave available. And put them both onto Blu-Ray and sell them.🤠👍🐱🍀🌲❄☃🏴‍☠

[@robertknight5637]

🇬🇧 This was my first outing with the channel and what a revelation it’s been. Stunning photography of a beautiful land.Excellent and many thanks.

[@bryce2680]

I love that this was from an EMD loco! Sounds GREAT!!!

[@kenneths3742]

This is a fantastic video. Thank you so much for recording and uploading this!

[@georgeburns7344]

Nice to see a North American Cab ride. We need to see more of them.

[@roygoodhand1301]

Hopefully RailRelaxation continues their Tour of The Americas this far north. For them, the next stop is The Andes on route to Colombia.

[@curtvote1099]

That is really cool seeing the train pulling itself after going around the turn!

[@markprice1984]

Thanks for that awesome conductor's view of the route. Very fascinating to see all the flange oilers, dragging equipment detectors, signal aspects and the incredible engineering that went into this route.

[@RRphotographer661]

You're welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@dannyoreilly8540]

That was thoroughly enjoyable !! Can't wait to see the rest of the journey to Mojave, hope we see it soon, well done !!🙂

[@frankpayne8281]

This is so fantastic. Not too many cab forward videos here in America (Norway and Sweden have a bunch of cab rail videos). Yeah, this was just great. Beautiful country. Great engine ambiance. I will watch this again soon. Hope we see more of this in the future. Thank you!!!

[@loddon82]

The UK have a lot too

[@michaelvollmer9491]

Swiss Videos are also Great. Long train rides through the alpes, cab forward!

[@NorCaliRailroading2023]

Caltrains has tons of carbide videos

[@jraybye]

Thanks so much for this.....a real treat!

[@howardn1693]

This was epic! So many of us crave these views that just a few of you get to enjoy. Thanks for sharing, please do more if you can!

[@RRphotographer661]

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'll try to do more!

[@davidcozakos6163]

I wholeheartedly concur with @ATSFSuperChief . Over the years I've collected over 200 professionally-produced railfan videos, including about 20 cab rides, and this video ranks right up there with the best of them. All it's missing are some periodic graphics indicating the major landmarks in terms of sidings and road crossings. Great work with the wide-angle camera showing much more of the scenery along the track than usual. Also wise choice of outstanding weather and time of year. I live in the Los Angeles area and have visited the Tehachapi area every few years for the last 50, including this last October. It has to be the mecca of great railfanning.

[@WalterKuhn-pb2rd]

Fantastic Video with a very, very, long Train

[@friscohamster6100]

Turned up my subwoofer for this one. Thanks for the great audio!

[@brazenzebra]

Wow! This is like the engineer's perspective rather than the typical railfan perspective. Love it! The weather is so beautiful with unlimited visibility. It must have been just a day or two after a storm.

[@Chilcoot]

Was just through here 3 months ago, had no idea. Won’t make that mistake again. Fantastic!

[@phillipcegielski]

This is absolutely fantasic. Thank you for having this. Please do more if you can. Would be interseting to hear a GE GEVO on the same route.

[@johnnybadger2851]

Fantastic video! Had fun following along the route on Google Earth on a second monitor.

[@barefoot3662]

Thanks for takeing me with you.

[@ianmacpherson9092]

Excellent from beginning to end, well done, thank you.

[@rjdio3750]

Pretty cool at around the 1:53 mark you can see the train going over itself on the Tehachapi Loop - an engineering marvel.

[@richardolson5638]

I finally found what you're talking about; it's at 1:55:09-1:55:27.

[@johnchambers1380]

As a retired trucker, tehachapi was always a favorite. Just a nice drive. But not near as nice as this train ride. Thanks

[@dennisschell5543]

Dittos brother! 😎

[@AndreiTupolev]

You see very few U.S. cab rides compared with other countries, so this is especially valuable

[@StormySkyRailProductions]

Awesome video for sure. Have a great rest of your week.(Steve)

[@RRphotographer661]

Thanks, you too!

[@kenneycooper6199]

The engine sounds of notch 8 pulling the mountain is my favorite. I’d like to have that horn on my semi tractor truck. 😊

[@williamchristian8389]

Simply Fantastic!! The Best RR video Ever!!!

[@RRphotographer661]

Thank you!

[@oharashosuke7602]

Thank you for Stunning video. I look forward to The Part Ⅱ of this video. Front views of American railroad are still rare. This video is so precious in this point. See you again, from Japan.

[@RRphotographer661]

Thank you very much!

[@brianwillis8447]

Props to whoever had to build this rail line.

[@FlyToChina0071]

What a fantastic video. Great job and happy you were allowed to film from the cab. Would like to visit that area one day. Regards from Denmark

[@wccl]

Would love to see the rest of this footage if it exists. Maybe donner pass from start to finish in the future. These definitely get the view counts up quickly!

[@monikalenz2559]

Wow!! I've driven that stretch of 58 many times and stopped to watch the loop traffic at the Loop Overlook. Always wondered about the stretch between the loop and Caliente. It's such gorgeous country. Next time I drive the Lions Trail (Caliente Bodfish Rd) from Lake Isabella to Caliente, I'm going to stop at the Cesar Chavez Monument (didn't know it was there until your video!) So thank you so much for this marvelous ride through the southwestern tip of the Sierra and the wonderful Loop!

[@jamdiep99]

Great video. To me, it is very peaceful and serene with the sounds and landscape. Thank you.

[@willeton]

I have seen this route many times, albeit hiding in a well body. My parents even watching it. To see it from this perspective is amazing as well.

[@keystonedriving8180]

Great video, particularly as it includes the new track at the top end of Walong. I visited the loop twice, back when it was grey team versus blue team (1977 and 1980). I even had a ride on a track speeder from Walong to Woodford (officially arranged in advance, I would add). There were no trains running on the second visit as a Santa Fe intermodal had come to grief at Monolith. I had wondered why we had overtaken an SP truck loaded with track panels on the freeway. It has changed in some places over the last 40 years, but it's still recognisable in others.

[@robertcummings1971]

Great train view from the cab love it and the train engine is awesome as well.🙂💯👍👍👍

[@RRphotographer661]

Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@DougCeleste]

GREAT video and thanks for sharing! LOVE the "beefy" horn! I am VERY familiar with this area since I used to live in San Jose and traveled on Hwy. 58 in these mountains many times in the last 50 years on my road trips and still travel though them back to the Bay Area from where I live in New Mexico. I did not know that there were that many tunnels in these mountains. Glad you sound the horn when approaching a tunnel in case someone is illegally inside it and hopefully can escape before the train comes with very little room on the tunnel sides. What were all those yellow boxes on the sides of the tracks? I bet the RR workers have to be VERY careful when working along the tracks in that rattlesnake country, esp. when there are piles of materials near the tracks. Keep the videos coming!

[@drywinddotnet]

SO COOL!!!

[@southernbiscuits1275]

Very pleasant trip! Thanks for posting!!

[@Yorchiro]

3:35 is where the notches kick in full throttle. Enjoyed every aspect of this gem.

[@bigern32480]

I knew right before the first train crossing that this leader was an Acer. The toot of that horn I knew I was right. Great video

[@trevorcooke8129]

This rides gonna be very cool 😎 👌

[@paulbatchelder6556]

This is absolutely awesome. I would love to one of these over Sherman Hill in Wyoming.

[@Mark-p2n4o]

Awesome mountain Railroad at its best, the scenery is beautiful.

[@railpast]

Heard so much about it to write it is amazing great video keep up the great work

[@rossbryan6102]

FANTASTIC !!! MYSELF AND 2 OF MY BROTHERS RODE AT&SF PASSENGER TRAIN # 1 , THE SAN FRANCISCO CHEIF THROUGH HERE WESTBOUND, JUNE 3,1970! THIS WAS MY VACATION , AND I RODE OUT ON MY PASS TO SAN FRANCISCO! REACHING THERE , WE RENTED AN CAR AND DROVE THE BIG SUR HIGHWAY TO LOS ANGELES. WE KNOCKED AROUND THERE, THE TURNED THE RENT CAR IN AND RODE BACK TO KANSAS CITY ON TRAIN #23. AFTER RETIRING IN 1995 , I GOT INTO DELIVERY DRIVING BIG TRUCKS FOR DEALERS, AND RAN THIS AREA, ON CALIFORNIA STATE #58 HIGHWAY AND RAIL FANNED AN BIT!! NOW WAITING ON THE TEHACHAPI TO BARSTOW PART! KEEP THEM ROLLING BROTHERS!! 👍👍

[@michaelhamubotu3106]

The scenery is absolutely breathtaking.

[@robertowsley3386]

thank you very much i have hunted for a vidio for years well maybe a couple yrs

[@trevorcooke8129]

That was epic 😎 👌 what a beautiful day for a train 🚆 journey weather beautiful sun 🌞 ☀️, and the scenery along the way was spectacular, shame it finished recording where it did could have done with it arriving at it's destination 🙈🙈

[@ClinchValleySD40]

A really outstanding video. Enjoyed every moment

[@RRphotographer661]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@marcelocarlos9140]

Last November 8th I was in the loop. Travel from Spain to see and hear this marvel of breathaking nature and engineering… This wonderful production complete my collection of Tehachapi videos…awesome!! This is filmed In spring? Greetings from Spain

[@GeorgeJansen]

Beautiful ❤❤❤All the great railroad historical sites need videos like these ❤❤❤

[@CobraChamp]

Love the natural sounds rather than music, etc. Great video! Did that require special permissions to get the go pro on the hood?

[@CobraChamp]

@RRphotographer661 Did that require special permissions to get the go pro on the hood?

[@charlesscott2918]

​@CobraChamp There's No Go Pro On The Hood Of The Train. He Was In The Cab Of The Trains Engine. Says It In The Description. Be Extremely Careful And Safe Out There During This Global Planned New World Order Agendas Taking Place Globally Right Now !! May You, Your Familia, Friends, Pets Have An Amazing Positively Safe Blessed Day/ Night.

[@stillbobrb9]

Enjoyed it so much I shared with my friends. I use to live by this track. Traffic is quite heavy.

[@darrylbond5238]

Really enjoyed that!

[@arthurmchugh5184]

Man !! That 🚂 sounds sweet !!!!!!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@jamesmassey-cc4ml]

Looks like late March or April. All the hills are a nice shade of green. I wish they were always that green.🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@jonmoore4919]

That video was great!!

[@gwinterboer]

Couldn't have chosen a better time to film this. Nice and green!

[@michlo3393]

I worked that mountain for a decade and always talked about doing this. Dammit.

[@iantaf5559]

Thanks for posting this cab ride over a magnificent piece of railroad civil engineering. Will there be a chance to see the rest of the route to Mohave?

[@grahamnancledra7036]

Like many other earlier reviewers, I really enjoyed this cab ride. More from the USA please. Makes a change from all the European rides we see.

[@NealPT]

Loved this video.!!!

[@thuncourt013]

it would be really nice if someone did something like this with the NY central line, going all the way from selkirk northwest then west through the mohawk valley out towards buffalo. lots of great scenery out that way no matter what the season is

[@25vrd48]

So COOL . Love it .

[@CajonSub]

Awesome video, would love to see the rest down to Mojave.

[@larrydavidson423]

I love it! Thanks !

[@J3scribe]

Great ride along. An impressive stretch of railroad by any measure. Even got a meet, and ground level view of the new cut along tunnel 10. Consider me subbed.

[@MichaelMontgomery-c2u]

Need more cab rides. Awesome view

[@davehughesfarm7983]

400 feet elevation to about 4000 ft. in 2 hours with a 1-2 mile train...Not bad....Always impressive.

[@jeffreymcconnell6794]

Fabulous video! Thanks for sharing it!!!

[@mec253]

Excellent Video. Thank you for sharing.

[@jacobstraessle5874]

Thanks for the ride.

[@RRphotographer661]

Any time!

[@johnwalters1341]

I really enjoyed that. You sure had a pretty day for filming.

[@FranciscoGarcia-fq3nf]

Awesome video thanks 👍🏼

[@RRphotographer661]

Thanks for watching!

[@NismoFinder]

Wow, Beautiful footage. It’s God’s country out there that’s for sure. Love the K5LLA and EMD purring up those grades.

[@gmck91204]

Love it! Great shots.

[@MrAndreluiz2009]

Parabéns pelo vídeo! Muito bonito. Congratulations, vídeo amazing, beautiful

[@jamesmccoy666]

excellent video keep up the good work

[@neillawrence4198]

That sure is one mother of a hill. Being in Maine, where everywhere is tree covered, I am always amazed at the lack of trees in a lot of the western country.

[@WoodyTheoldwoodsman]

flying over the East, one sees large forested areas with small rectangular clearings, a house inside each. Over the West, you see vast open spaces dotted with squares of trees, a house inside each one.

[@xavierthomas8311]

Très belle czttz vidéo et réelle? Merci. Depuis le temps que nous voyons des TEHACHAPI de loin, là au moins c'est depusi la cabine de conduite. Merci pour le travail et de l'avoir mise sur youtube. Amicalement.

[@johncamp2567]

That was so enjoyable, putting the landmarks together and showing the grade….in spectacular conditions!! 🛤️ (‘Must have been a Sunday afternoon, as there were no garbage trucks on the road to the Bakersfield landfill, 21:00.🚛)

[@Chainsaw63-n4y]

loves the view of crossing on the loop thanks for the video🤩

[@nickpickard6657]

This is cool man

[@jamesmccoy666]

best train video please post more

[@danielramsey1959]

Awesome!

[@JanesDough855]

What a beautiful area!

[@JanetWilham]

wow very well maintained railroad tracks.

[@DomQuartuccio]

Fantastic video, thanks for uploading!

[@Danda2024]

Beautiful video! Too bad the route is littered with so many of those yellow tubs. Where do they come from? Other junk along the line despoils the view also, but just can't get over how many of those (still useful?) yellow bins are littered along the line. Anyone know where they come from?