Caltrain retires first Nippon Sharyo Gallery Cars

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4 ай бұрын

March 23rd, 2024. A historic but also quite the sorrowful one. Today at gloomy Santa Clara, California, U.S.A. Caltrain has begun retiring their aging rolling stock of Nippon Sharyo Gallery Cars. This comes as storage space is desperately needed to accommodate their new Stadler KISS EMU train sets that are being rapidly delivered to the Bay Area from Salt Lake City.
Caltrain announced the retirement of the 12 cars on their social media platforms the day prior, hosting a mini "get together" event of rail enthusiasts at Santa Clara Station. The train was set to arrive between 8:30am to 10:30am. But due to unexpected delays and imminent rain, the retirement train was severely delayed being built/put together in Downtown San Francisco at the yard by Caltrain's 4th & King Street/San Francisco station.
Lots of frustration and impatience filled the minds of rail enthusiasts sitting in the rain but the passing Caltrain, Amtrak and Capitol Corridor Trains kept the crowd occupied and entertained. Finally around 3:00PM, the retirement train of 14 Gallery Cars departs San Francisco heading South to Santa Clara's Newhall Yard, just adjacent to Santa Clara Station. The train arrived 45 minutes later with F40PH 901 (JPBX 901) at the lead with MP15 503 (JPBX503) trailing. The crew then disconnects the cars and depart as a power move back to the CEMOF (Central Equipment & Maintenance Facility) in San Jose.
These 12 gallery cars will be sent up north to Sonoma via Union Pacific in the coming days.
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@thomascunningham9332 4 ай бұрын

Wow, we're really beginning to witness the end of an era. It's sad to see these beauties start to be retired, but they've been serving the peninsula well for decades. Hopefully the 2000 batch of gallery cars will stick around a while longer.

@Amtrak8306railfanner 4 ай бұрын

Everyone is going to miss them 😭❤

@onlineconsumer9 Ай бұрын

Love it. We'll miss them 🥺

@stevengonzales6218 17 күн бұрын

It’s sad to see that the F40S in retirement on Caltrain for years now well It was so awesome the gallery sets going away 😢very soon 😂 thank you Caltrain too and taking passengers were they’re going to work or baseball ⚾️ games so they can go enjoy riding Caltrain sets thank you for your support to San Jose citizens and the city council we appreciate you Caltrain workers engineers ❤❤❤❤🎉 you earned some gifts 🎁 god bless them 🇺🇸🚆⚾️✍️🍾👍👍👍👍👍🏆👋

@TheCaltrainator903Trackside 4 ай бұрын

Sad to hear about them getting into retirement, I remember riding on the F40/Gallery trains when I was a child up and down the Peninsula. I grew up with the diesels and I hope that they all get preserved.

@Whiterose11476 3 ай бұрын

Stellar video! Sad to see caltrain’s old fleet start to retire😢

@SleepTrain456 4 ай бұрын

I've heard that Caltrain is retiring many of their Gallery Cars, but I didn't know 14 of them are already retired. I'm glad you got to catch this unusual train: an F40PH _and_ an MP15 hauling the Gallery Cars to Santa Clara. Also, why was one of JPBX 901's headlights off? Lastly, that's one fast bell at 11:53! Thanks for the video!

@ethancampbell6076 3 ай бұрын

The top light was on for yard movement and regular service will use the middle light.

@SleepTrain456 3 ай бұрын

@@ethancampbell6076, I did not know that! So, I can think of this as a sort of "classification light": the middle light is on for passenger trains, but off for non-regular service. Thanks for the information!

@stevens1041 Ай бұрын

They were great, rode them for 20 years. But its time for new rolling stock.

@Forestryman707 3 ай бұрын

It would be cool if you are able to film them coming to Sonoma county

@jmream2618 4 ай бұрын

Why don’t They give the old gallery coaches to a museum

@saxonaudio 4 ай бұрын

I got the California state railroad museum in mind.

@TheCaltrainator903Trackside 4 ай бұрын

@@saxonaudioMe too

@gdrriley420 4 ай бұрын

They might give some away but the plan is for nearly all to be sold. Metrolink for the 2028 games was looking at them. Peru wanted them to start a regional rail line.

@trevorderper5050 3 ай бұрын

Some museums already have an interest in mainly preserving the Gallery cab cars but dunno if they will actually proceed or not.

@InventorZahran 3 ай бұрын

@@gdrriley420I'm just glad they're still going to be useful and not scrapped.

@Therobloxrailfanner_113 4 ай бұрын

Nice video! Will they electrify the coast sub down to Gilroy, or will they keep running the F40s? Or will they stop service down to Gilroy?

@arxligion 3 ай бұрын

They'll use the current BB sets for gilroy as those are more recent. They're running shuttle-esque service where you'll transfer between an electric and diesel train to get to and from gilroy at either san jose or tamien (don't remember). further into the future, there will be electrified trackway to gilroy as part of CAHSR, which I assume caltrain will then use

@Therobloxrailfanner_113 3 ай бұрын

@@arxligion ok cool, I believe it will be at Tamien because that’s where the electrification stops

@lalakerspro 3 ай бұрын

They will use battery emus from sj to gilroy. They will charge from sf to sj then use the battery to gilroy

@travisfinucane 3 ай бұрын

@@lalakerspro This has been proposed (by staedler, who wants sales), but I'd much rather see them use CAHSR funding to buy out the right of way and electrify.

@Therobloxrailfanner_113 3 ай бұрын

@@lalakerspro ok

@Perich29 3 ай бұрын

send all these Nippon Sharyo cars to Arizona, allong witht he F40PH Loco, we could use these trainset from Phoenix to Tucson, and up to Anthem way.

@barbarakilpatrick3859 2 ай бұрын

we say no hey siri😷

@oaksub510 3 ай бұрын

🫡

@MrNeilGriff 4 ай бұрын

Great footage but good riddance to truly appalling stock. Should have been gone 20 years ago. Also, they should take the F40 to the shredder while they are at it. The absolute worst tool for the job they have been used on. Dreading to see how Caltrain manage to screw up the Stadler stuff...

@InventorZahran 3 ай бұрын

I agree, gallery cars suck. But what about the F40 makes it the worst engine for these kinds of trains? Lots of commuter/regional railroads have used them successfully.

@Gretschdude1412 3 ай бұрын

Lol F40s are solid. What are you talking about?

@stevens1041 Ай бұрын

I wouldn't go that far, but its certainly long past time for replacement. They were showing their age ten years ago.

@user-jk2bp1hd1t Ай бұрын

I'm going to miss my favorite passenger double Decker's car the gallery cars I had and have good memories on them I'm really sad and sorry

@aaronmiller5012 Ай бұрын

@@stevens1041what about the mp36?

@stevengonzales6218 3 ай бұрын

Caltrain gallery cars were great my favorites 🎉❤❤❤ I’ve never ride on Caltrain before is it worth the ride or is it fun from San Jose to San Francisco station train 🚆 I’m very saddened to see those cars into retirement since 1980 year ago Farewell they did A amazing rush hours for passengers daily back to back work day and fun activities to families events too but they have new EMU stadler Electric train sets entering service in the Fall of September 2024 ❤❤❤❤⚡️🇺🇸🇺🇸🚆👍👍👍👍👍🎂🏆🎁🍾

@Amtrak8306railfanner 4 ай бұрын

Nice to see Caltrain leave 😂😮 but they are making these Brand new emu stadler to Caltrain in Fall of 2024 I'm going to be excited for the electrification improvement ❤❤❤❤ thank you Caltrain for all the years of service of bay area city's ❤❤❤❤❤🎉🇺🇸❤️🍀🚆