I have to comment after watching this video. The nostalgia I get from watching a video from a time period I did not even exist in is so significant I cannot help myself but admire it. The RARE lash up of 2 F40PH's 1 F59PHI and a P42-DC in an OLD livery, is stunning. The WIG WAG CROSSING SIGNAL at 1:06:00 was AWESOME to watch in operation, all the mechanical railroad crossing bells and old railroad crossing equipment, once entering Ventura county around the 50:00 mark. You can notice MULTIPLE Raco and Griswold gate mechanisms, incandescent lights, and even mechanical bells popping up on crossing after crossing. As this corridor has rapidly modernized into 2021 and almost all of these Railroad Crossings, track improvements, and bridges have been made or added. These are some sights you will never see again. - And this does not even include all the old Southern Pacific Locomotives you see, the OLD Metrolink phase 1 Cab cars with K5LA's AND some still having whistles if you look carefully on the top. I can't help myself, this video is stunning and thankfully immortalizes a time of railroading I desperately wish I lived to see. Please give this video a FULL watch. Do not skip around. I loved it. Amazing work, AMAZING editing. Top Notch stuff 100/100

I used to run this train on the Coast before Amtrak took over in 1986. To and from LAUPT and San Luis Obispo. Great footage brings back great memories of the greatest run ever. The Valley Ventura dispatcher was Jim Gruledge. It was filmed when freight still ran on the Coast. Now days The only freight now is the Gemco to Guadalupe local.

Out of all those Emd's the GE was making the most noise.

Wow! Everything on The Former SP Coastline has been Changed over The Past couple of years.

Lovin that fresh GE chug

Was seeing those Type G triangular signals, and it put me in mind of that 1979 movie: Disaster on the Coastliner, where they showed those kind of signals along the California Coastal line with Amtrak Trains. But back then, SP had H2 Searchlights. In the 90's, art became reality, when UP put the newer signals in.

Awesome video, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I'm rewatching this video and noting changes to the territory. It's amazing how much has changed and how much hasn't. 45:55: Field of Onions on one side, lemons on the other. These are now Marijuana/hemp fields on both sides lol. And the speed is 15.. (Make that 79, but the perpetual crossing orders make that hard to accomplish). I saw you uploaded another video recently and had to swing through your channel RR. Hope your retirement is treating you well!

I lived in Moorpark about the time this was filmed. Great memories!

@ 23:10, more or less, is where the MetroLink train hit the UP freight head-on in 2008. The Metrolink train ran a red signal at the point where this train merged back onto the main after letting the freight go by. Also, the first tunnel is right next to the location of the former Spann Movie Ranch. The Manson Family lived there in the late 1960's. And, one more bit of trivia, that same tunnel is featured at the very end of the Hitchcock movie "North by Northwest." Some SoCal railroad trivia for you.

Memories of running AMTK 7 & 8 on the High Line in Montana. The 350’s and 360’s were fun to run at high speed…

That was a great video and I thoroughly enjoyed it. 👍🚂

Really makes me wish that one could "window hang" on Amtrak today. What I would pay to be able to do that.

The engineer is a nut job !

From 1:08:50 to 1:09:07 is the section thru the Monticeto mud slide zone, the crossing is Olive Mill Road

Good clip, particularly liked the GE "thrash" from the train view.What was going on at the level crossing then a bit later where the dispatcher seemed a bit confused as to what train was which (not that the quickfire exchanges are all that easy to understand, at least to this British observer!)?Hopefully this route will make an appearance in the Run8 simulator at some stage...

Can't believe that this video recorded almost 20 years ago.

56:16 that train trestle over the 101 in Ventura I drove under that many times never knew it was a train bridge

Back in the day when railroads were cool

Trains havent change

Cool Train Radio Rodger 2:07

That was fun!

You see that crossing with the truss bridge an that tall building? That's the plaza, it's going near where I am rn just not the date im in

Image these days that their is a P42DC leading with an F59PHI behind it and an ALC-42 charger locomotive behind the F59PHI and then another P42DC behind the ALC-42 locomotive

I can't believe you skipped over the part where you went by my house in Moopark !r

iam confused part of the vid is with an f40 leading with the p42 3rd out and some of the vid is of the p42 leading is this the same train but different times and also what was the engine number of the p42 btw. awesome vid

Hey Radio Roger, can you tell me the name of the Engineer in this video? As a young Railfan (about 18+ years ago, I remember always riding with the #14 from LAUPT to Glendal station in the cab... My fondest memories were the Genesis cab rides... (Now 28 years old and work for the German Railroad, Deutsche Bahn in Duisburg, Germany! :) )

did the reverse route last august but started in seattle

What's going on with the face to face at 19:00 ? Two on the same main so close is unusual no?

Do you have any old 80s or 90s footage of the Amtrak Sunset Limited ride in Los Angeles?

Perhaps the next edit could reduce the number of shots along the train and long tunnel travel to include more scenery. Otherwise, I liked the video. Thanks for posting.

What was up with that 'race' between the trains as they approached Santa Barbara?

if you're from L.A. going to santa barbara, which side is the ocean view, Left or right? PLS REPLY...THX

Can you post the entire cab ride?

Do you have the full cab ride of this Video at all?

It's hard to believe that (fast) passenger trains use these tracks! :(

I do believe the engineer is Tommy Johnson...

I’m surprised there’s 4 locomotives on that train.usually it’s just 2.

Ah, the radio track warrant days

WHAT YEAR IS THIS VIDEO?

Antelope Valley line!!

43:21---> couldn't wait for a passenger train to roll by...

Southern Pacific oh god Soo good

One thing is for sure they call signals the wrong way out there. You're not supposed to say yellow over red etc.

You skipped the run through the trench between Moorpark and Saticoy. Thanks :D

24:54 Santa Susanna Tunnel

7:58 231 OLS

Amtrak cdtx f59phi😮😨

56:43

Why the hell were they allowed to get THAT close to another northbound train on the same track? what the hell was the dispatcher on when he told the engineer to go past the red signal that CLEARLY told him not to move. did they seriously need 6 engines? Ironically today's Union Pacific is an off shoot of Southern Pacific. Todays Union Pacific Railroad (Mark II) was created through the merger of the UP into Southern Pacific Transportation Company. SP didn't merge into UP. UP merged into SP. However after the merger the Parent company was changed to Union Pacific Corporation. Currently the 4th Version of the Union Pacific name.

maglev in china japan france and this old antiquated shit