Street Running Trains in Oakland's Jack London Square

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4 жыл бұрын

Various Union Pacific and Amtrak Capitol Corridor/San Joaquin trains running down the Embarcadero at Jack London Square in Oakland, California. Some interesting and unique railroading here for sure! Footage shot on various occasions from August 2019 to February 2020.
Thanks for watching! | Video and Content by MichaelLovesTrains 2020

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@gabriellisi7349 4 жыл бұрын

There's something so cool to me about seeing a train on street level. I guess that's why I love streetcars and lrts so much lol

@stevec404 4 жыл бұрын

Watching trolleys and light rail run on city streets seems 'normal'. It is amusing to one unfamiliar with trains on city streets, to watch this video! It feels like I am watching the equivalent of an ocean liner slowly making its way down the local river.

@thetechnocrat4979 4 жыл бұрын

That is a very apt analogy.

@GojiMet86 4 жыл бұрын

I love videos of those big double-deckers running street-level. Imagine seeing that in New York City or DC.

@Robbi496 4 жыл бұрын

No quiet zone here!

@aircraftsandtrains2309 3 жыл бұрын

it should not be a quiet zone

@amtrakandcsxrailfanning351 Жыл бұрын

yea nice catches catching these corder Amtrak California trains and up trains too

@canyontiger4022 3 жыл бұрын

This place has changed a lot since I was a child. I love Oakland and JLS. So many memories here.

@shanewalters2565 4 жыл бұрын

Great video lad, the horns gave me the chills but I love them, they better not make that crossing a quiet zone or I swear to god those locals will get it from me! I'm still taking a while to get comfortable to those grim boring ugly chargers replacing the p40s, f40s and f59s but aside from that negative impression, everything is spot on;) ps. Ok, the chargers aren't all that bad, I don't mind modernising and all but still, I'm more of a classic kind of guy, I'm still riding these trains regardless of what locomotive I get;)

@karlsandin4515 4 жыл бұрын

Shane Walters yah I don’t know how I feel about the chargers either .

@radanju3 3 жыл бұрын

Chargers are nice and modern and all, but I'll truly miss the throttling engine noise and the "puorp" compressor sounds on GE/EMD's power.

@northerncalirails2008 5 ай бұрын

@shanewalters2565, I also hate chargers and I am pissed that they replaced the P42s, F59s, and Dash 8s here in norcal

@deauvilledad07 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent video, seems kinda weird seeing trains on the street as we don't have that in the UK. Great work, well done Michael 🤓💙

@AVeryRandomPerson 4 жыл бұрын

@Anthony Cooper Street running is rare here too. Most are short segments on freight branch lines. The only 2 passenger ones are Jack London Square, relocated form a dedicated ROW in 1993, and the South Shore Line through Michigan City. Quite a few more existed, but mostly disappeared with the interurbans.

@jaymorgenthal9479 2 жыл бұрын

@@AVeryRandomPerson The South Shore street running line in Indiana is no more. Buses have temporary replaced trains that ran on 11st while a new line is being built.

@DomAZ 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice compilation. Love the bird flying by.

@tiffneysmith3323 4 жыл бұрын

Welcome back after 6 months! ☺

@average_joe8905 4 жыл бұрын

Great video! Quite a few quality K5LA horn shows in this one.

@Elise10000 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I lived in the Bay Area for some time and was just trying to describe (topic of Jack London came up) to someone how I loved that trains are on street next to cars and pedestrians in this area. Hard to explain but found and shared your link. Now I’m also absorbed in it :) Love the energy of this area and the trains are part of that.

@xinnti7979 4 жыл бұрын

nice👍 Thank you for showing the movie. I wanna go there and watch trains🔥

@TheMCClellanSpotter 4 жыл бұрын

One of favorite places to Railfan are here nice video

@JuhaVnt 4 жыл бұрын

Great captures! Thumbs up from Finland, Juha :)

@timectrl 2 жыл бұрын

Thumbs up from Estonia :)

@sheridanius 4 жыл бұрын

Nice videos and great perspective.

@SW2SW Ай бұрын

Thoroughly enjoyed your Vdo 😊

@wevefriends Жыл бұрын

2:56 love how that's just an elevated subway for road use 😳

@GamingRailfanner 4 жыл бұрын

More trains. Yay!

@user-ys3mp4lz6n 4 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video!!

@CasperTrains 4 жыл бұрын

Great video greetings from England

@conceyullena 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice video! 🚂👍👏

@Cars.Trains.and.Planes Жыл бұрын

I love trains

@fitz5549 4 жыл бұрын

Nice shots

@thihal123 4 жыл бұрын

I remember this. Used to live here. Chinatown is Nearby. Loved Chinatown!

@galaxyrailfanning7860 4 жыл бұрын

Epic video!

@TwoRibbonRailvideos 4 жыл бұрын

I love how there's a brand new Florida East Coast well car..... in flippin California of all places!

@zackboone15 4 жыл бұрын

Freight cars really get around. A real treat is when you get an old reporting mark from a railroad that doesn't exist anymore. Couple of months ago I saw a Seaboard System gondola on a Pan Am Railways train in MA.

@MrCameronsterling 4 жыл бұрын

Anyone know the max m.p.h. Through here? This seems like a railfan dream living in this area

@MrCameronsterling 4 жыл бұрын

Gamerboy71 that’s kinda fast for street running through traffic

@jbrewphotos79 4 жыл бұрын

B.N.S.F_MW 79 through Bakersfield to Oakland

@thomascheney6083 4 жыл бұрын

I believe 15 mph when the trains are street running. Still pretty intimidating when heavy freight trains come through.

@ryansrailfanningproduction9267 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I prefer 25 - 15 mph

@GamingRailfanner 3 жыл бұрын

No its 15 Mph, 25 Kph, I was Wrong

@lilcattythewildnorwester7786 4 жыл бұрын

Union Pacific EMD Brand New SD70M # 4804 With American Nathan Loud K3LA AirChime AirWhistle

@lilcattythewildnorwester7786 4 жыл бұрын

@phillyslasher What makes you said that about these Units ?

@DiscothecaImperialis 4 жыл бұрын

What happened to the track of the right hand side? it seems not connected. So only passenger trains can run here??

@Wolfgodmak 4 жыл бұрын

DiscothecaImperialis theres two active lines, one for passenger which we currently see and the other for freight, that third line is dead, been that way for years

@jbrewphotos79 4 жыл бұрын

I aways see these trains rolling through Stockton

@wooowallllright 2 жыл бұрын

I lived here for a bit. I love trains but they weren’t as cool hearing this all hours of the day

@thomasstockfleth5274 4 жыл бұрын

In German "trams" need a direction indicator light.

@RTS4018 3 жыл бұрын

Cool video The track that is out of service and looks like its been severed, is it out of service for good?

@Robbi496 4 жыл бұрын

Did the Espee ever have a stop here, or is this strictly an Amtrak/ Caltrans idea?

@jamesparson 4 жыл бұрын

Back in the day, they stopped at 16th St. Station. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_station_(Oakland)

@megahertz27 4 жыл бұрын

I like the klaxon on the americans trains.

@TrainsandFTFEnjoyer 4 жыл бұрын

Where was this taken at?

@NoName-zn1sb 4 жыл бұрын

I would google the phrase from the description "Embarcadero at Jack London Square in Oakland, California", and see what that gets you.

@stbu9709 4 жыл бұрын

The clues in the description!

@a337z_5 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine the 60 mph limit there.

@GamingRailfanner 4 жыл бұрын

A337Z _ it’s 45 mph rn it’s close

@GamingRailfanner 3 жыл бұрын

15*

@NoName-zn1sb 4 жыл бұрын

Somebody's got a new FX pack! Welcome to the 80s

@lucky_railfans_trains_2009 2 жыл бұрын

how can Joaquin go 4 coaches with a comet

@lucky_railfans_trains_2009 2 жыл бұрын

4:10 why is 8306 there

@familiavasquezcorrales4717 4 жыл бұрын

Train 🚂🚋🚋🚋🚋 con otro tren

@dominictauane 4 жыл бұрын

After this coronavirus Pirates is over me and my mom and my friend and his girlfriend are going to Oakland Jack London Square after coronavirus is over

@stbu9709 4 жыл бұрын

You got Pirates? “Shiver me Timbers” ⚔️

@lucky_railfans_trains_2009 2 жыл бұрын

8:42 i need 8308

@ConnorL-ti9we 4 жыл бұрын

If only we could go outside

@karlsandin4515 4 жыл бұрын

CanadianCorn you can.

@russellallen7748 4 жыл бұрын

Allen

@ZAWIstudio 4 жыл бұрын

It must be so annoying to live or work near this track. I'll never understand why trains in America must use their horn so much and also that bell. Its so unnecessary

@shaferkam3907 4 жыл бұрын

ZAWIstudio, Drivers are required to blow their horns when a approaching a level crossing unless in a quiet zone. Normally 2 long, 1 short, 1 long repeated 2 times.

@GamingRailfanner 3 жыл бұрын

ZAWIstudio, everything you just said is wrong

@GamingRailfanner 3 жыл бұрын

The tracks were here before the road, horns and a bell is required

@joesos 4 жыл бұрын

i hope they dont run these at night, it would be really dangerous as it would be harder to spot the train and youd be disorientated from the very loud horn

@GamingRailfanner 3 жыл бұрын

Thay do, 24/7

@familiavasquezcorrales4717 4 жыл бұрын

Train dew bagons 🚋