I work for an Amtrak thruway shuttle that transport passengers from Flagstaff AZ to Williams, AZ to the Grand Canyon Railway and Southwest Chief 4 is my train i transport for. Alot of ppl get frustrated or angry because Amtrak is always delayed. But there is no need to be, make it part of your adventure!! And not once have they missed out on a connecting transportation because of the delays. Ppl just need to relax and enjoy!

@Neville60001

Жыл бұрын

@Lindsey, that's the best statement I've heard anybody say about taking the train in (North) America, one which I wish more people would take to heart.

@lja1229

Жыл бұрын

Ppl are always in such a rush... they are suppose to be on vacation.. just relax and enjoy the adventure. Not everyday do ppl get to take advantage of traveling by railway.

@dhawthorne15

Жыл бұрын

I actually look forward to the delays to avoid going home 😊

An excellent video for anyone who loves passenger trains. Amtrak trains can run on both BNSF and UP. The Southwest Chief runs exclusively on BNSF because when Amtrak was created it replaced the Santa Fe's two premier trains, the Chief and the Super Chief. The only route change came when BNSF sold the original route between San Bernardino and LAUPT via Pasadena to be used for the Gold Line light rail. At that point the Southwest Chief started running through Fullerton. The Amtrak California Zephyr replaced the original California Zephyr that was a joint train operated by the Burlington (now BNSF), the Rio Grande and the Western Pacific (both now UP). I could be wrong, but I think that "Southern Transcon" usually refers to the former Southern Pacific (now UP) Sunset Route from LA to New Orleans, though the former Santa Fe transcon is the more Southerly of BNSF's two transcon routes, the other being from Chicago to Seattle or Portland. The original transcon from Omaha to Sacramento is now all UP. By the way, Amtrak did once have an LA-Salt Lake City train called the Desert Wind that ran via Las Vegas. Living in Pasadena in the 70s we could see both the Southwest Chief and Desert Wind after stopping in Pasadena travelling down the middle of the freeway where the Gold Line now goes.

What a terrific video my friend, I really enjoy your content, and most of all because I can feel your passion for traveling same as I have myself. Thanks for letting us join you on your travels. ^^ Greetings from Bangkok and Tokyo via Denmark. Thomas

I love the touch of using the russian tee cup on an american train!

@adamzieba8364

Жыл бұрын

26:26 It has the word "Ukraine" in cyrillic letters.

Wow what a beautiful land! I love trains and no sleep compares to that on a train! Thanks for sharing ❤️👍

This is a very unique experience for those unfamiliar with modern US trains

Thank you for the content. I leave on train 4, Friday in a sleeper.

I am thrilled to see your Amtrak journeys… I was in Las Vegas recently and got a ride to Kingman AZ to board the Southwest Chief. I too wish Amtrak would go to LV… Thank you for your magnificent videos!

interesting travel experience 🤗

re: locomotive bell. US practice is to use the bell when the train is moving within a railroad yard.

What a great trip.

Hello from cold Scotland in the UK. It's a cold January here and I'm snuggled up on my sofa watching this amazing video. Thank you so much for making these, it's like I'm able to be there and experience it. Fascinating. Hopefully one day I'll get to do this journey for real. Your trains look amazing, and the views 😮 wow I'm a new fan and subscribing ❤

@doc7austin

4 ай бұрын

you are welcome !

Informative, interesting and well worth the view. Surprised to see dining car was built by Bombardier (Canada) and the "bombed-out" Metrolinx. Well done, can't wait to catch Part 2, thank you

Excellentes vidéos, seulement du visuel sans commentaires. On voyage avec vous, un grand merci.

Super video! Interesting train ride! Good job! Mega 👍👍👍😉

Wunderbar, vielen Dank!

Superb video! I have watched all your videos. Glad you got to take this journey!

Mesmerizing Presentation 👌 Hearty Greetings from Hyderabad India 🇮🇳

My favourite country usa🎉.... California my favourite State...one day I will settled in los Angeles 😅😊

There are 2 letter "R's" in San Bernardino.

Beautiful camera work!

I just took the Southwest Chief last week from Chicago to Los Angeles. Since it was 42+ hrs onboard I got a roomette and I have zero regrets. I really enjoyed the trip, the roomette, the staff, and the dining. Everything exceeded my expectations.

Very nice ! 😎😎😎😎

Great scenes, and I LOVED the "reading" commentary! As a note: please list nhe times in common times; most people Do not recognize the 24-hour time!

Very nice travel video. There's actually a Flyaway bus from LAX to Union station.

So nice !! I love deserts 🏜 ❤️ But,very unfortunately I am allergic to dust & it gets so bad whenever visiting deserts !! But,I'd love to make it to this trip ! I live in L.A.! A very nice video !! 👍👍🏜💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🚝💞

California Zephyr runs along the UP between West Oakland and Denver, and then along the BNSF between Denver and Chicago. Regarding passenger service between LA-LV, Amtrak used to operate the Desert Wind ( LA-Las Vegas-SLC )...but that got cancelled in the late 90s during the many budget cuts due to low ridership.

Very nice!!

Really nice. Liked the Ukrainian cupholder and the announcements in Ukrainian. Nice touch, well done.

Excellent video!

At 17:28 the car is a 1972 Dodge Challenger.

Nice video! Although the locomotive at 6:14 is the mp36ph-3c. I believe the only company using F59PHI in so-cal is NCTD Coaster in San Diego.

17:29-silver car looks like a 1969 Dodge Challenger.

@bobsmith6079

Жыл бұрын

17:30 The 1969 Dodge Challenger which was used in the movie Vanishing Point and Death Proof didn't have 4 separate tail lights but rather used a tail light bar which the current Charger models have adopted.

@stumbledotcom

Жыл бұрын

@@bobsmith6079 I’ve seen photos of both styles identified as ‘69. Not sure if the variation was due to trim level or model year.

@bobsmith6079

Жыл бұрын

If you're referring to the car that crashed into the bulldozers at the end of Vanishing Point they substituted a 67 Camaro so they didn't have to destroy a new Challenger.

@stumbledotcom

Жыл бұрын

@@bobsmith6079 Sorry I don’t know the film. My references are ads/auctions and contemporaneous Dodge promotional images.

Very nice vlog.

"Provodnik" 😆

Awesome

We want too this travel.

Could you tell me where did you buy this led lamp or what kind of company it is? :D

I wanted to ride the train to Flagstaff this summer but I couldn't cus of work and school and with fall semester imma have to wait possibly till January when there's snow.

@christianbarraza2899

Жыл бұрын

That will be well worth the wait my friend -From Flagstaff

Bravo DOC7,bel video LA - Chicago, Please Toronto - Vancouver ? is possible...tank you...

Saw a classic ‘69 Cadillac Coupe DeVille convertible pimpmobile right where you saw your classic.

@doc7austin

5 ай бұрын

oki, thanks for the info

I wouldn't say double track is all that rare in the US. Data filed with the Surface Transportation Board indicates that Class 1 railroads own 16,000 miles of road with two or more main tracks.

Airplanes definitely a quicker but its not a bad way to travel with all the accommodations to relax sleep dine,work, with using Internet phones,and to be able to walk around at your leisure

The silver car looks like a late 1960s Camaro by Chevrolet.

@Mike-df1ye

Жыл бұрын

1972 Dodge Challenger.

According to 24:56 There will be a high-speed-train betwen La and Las Vegas in the future. They are planning on it.

Rode the City of New Orleans from Chicago to New Orleans

Re intercity from LA to LVNV, I believe the private carrier Brightline (operates now in Florida) have won the right to build such a high-ish speed line, from just outside LA. It will, of course, be years in the making. Also, since you showed the menu, it's clear that your appetizer was the Mexican souffle! As to the "provodnik" not making your bed, did you try using the call button? I do believe they have to make up your bed if you request it.

@doc7austin

Жыл бұрын

Didn't the Desert Wind connect LA with LV? From Barstow and LV the train could use the Cima Subdivision line; The provodnik was virtually all the time in the Transition Sleeping Car, i dont think a call button would have helped; Where is such a call button?

@TrainwreckPoet

Жыл бұрын

the call button is next to the buttons or switches for the lights… Yes, once you press the call button your Provodnika must & will respond. Unless it between quiet hours from 22:00 to 07:00

Sorry you didn't have any help from the Providnik😊

Love your clips Coool Did i hear twice announcements in Russian at the loudspeakers??

@doc7austin

Жыл бұрын

close; it was ukrainian language announcements

There is a direct bus from LAX to Union Station hourly.

Hermoso tu video, como siempre, lleno de información que nos hace aprender. Por lo que entiendo, el camarero no te ayudó a hacer la cama: me extraña, sinceramente; las veces que he viajado siempre las hacen ellos. ¿Habrá cambiado la costumbre?

@nataliajimenez1870

Жыл бұрын

No, no tenía un buen camarero. A esos es bueno reportarlos llamando al customer service de Amtrak. El servicio necesita a trabajadores que hagan su trabajo para atraer a usuarios

The US needs more double-track lines, obviously. Maybe if there is a recession, this is how the government can help improve the economy like in 1939.

All of America started speaking Ukrainian now? There were any babushkas selling hot barshch at the stations? :P

@doc7austin

Жыл бұрын

I wish they did ; Yes, I have added some creative elements into this video

🚂🚂🚂💙💙💙💙💙👍

Why do they need 2 big locomotives for 8 car passenger train? Are there steep parts in the mountains?

@nataliajimenez1870

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Particularly the Raton Pass in New Mexico

I thought the gold line only went to pasadena??

@juliemartin6101

Жыл бұрын

goes all the way to Pomona now.

I , Remember When They Had A Lounge Car Where You Could Get A Drink And Smoke. Gone , Are Those Days.

@LisaMarli

Жыл бұрын

You can still get the drink. Beer, wine and harder stuff is available in the Cafe and the Dining Car. Smoking is a Big No. Not that I mind, I'm allergic to cigarettes. Don't miss that having to hide out from the smokers.

What was your favorite meal on this train? How many hours of uninterrupted sleep did you get on this train?

@doc7austin

2 ай бұрын

maybe 2-3 hours of sleep max

33:47 What's the purpose of that green light on the vagon?

@doc7austin

Жыл бұрын

i guess to indicate that all doors have been closed

@Spanderson99

Жыл бұрын

@@doc7austin from what I’ve seen, they turn yellow to indicate the brakes on the car have applied. You should come North and try our Via Rail sometime!

@emilkarpo

Жыл бұрын

Every time a train restarts from a stop the engineer in the locomotive conducts a brake test by lightly applying and releasing the brakes. The red and green lights on the cars allow the conductor in the last car of the train to confirm the brakes of each car applied and released. When he observes and the brake set and release he gives the engineer a highball by radio.

@Methanol2000

Жыл бұрын

@@emilkarpo Thank you very much! =)

@emilkarpo

Жыл бұрын

@@Methanol2000 You're very welcome Methanol2000

The reason to why your train has as two P42DC or combined P40DC P42DC formation is that The Southwest chief needs that power to climb I-25 Raton Pass and I-15 Cajon Pass Railroad Tracks. Otherwise Southwest Chief Needs to be pushed from the back end by a BNSF Helper locomotive at Cajon and Raton Passes. This is the same practice at Aachen Hbf Ronheider Rampe towards Liege DB BR232 218 363 pushes the train from the back then Separate once it reaches the summit of the route. Since SNCB NMBS HLE18 Alstom HLE21 27 13 lack the power to make Ronheider Rampe that changed with rework of 2007-2011 where SNCB NMBS HLE18 Siemens has enough power the make the climb over Ronheider Rampe. One more thing that Amtrak means to learn from its European counterpart ÖBB Nightjet is that the economy Class can be Placed in compartments something that American Sleeper trains lack. Followed by couchette and steam heated food Instead of using microwave on the restaurant carriage which are the viewliner II and Superliners

@billgracey6369

Жыл бұрын

This is AMERICA quit trying to turn us into pinko Europe!

@nataliajimenez1870

Жыл бұрын

Many Americans dislike to be in a small room with 3 or 5 strangers like the couchettes of NightJet. They prefer the safety of the airplane cabin model of coach. I can see better acceptance for the Canadian VIARail cheapest flatbed accomodations where the roomettes have no walls and are just separated by curtains at night when each pair of seats become a set of bunk beds

Where are you from?

@doc7austin

Жыл бұрын

Kiev

@avatar_auxbourgh2010

Жыл бұрын

@@doc7austin ok

@avatar_auxbourgh2010

Жыл бұрын

Good luck

@bobsmith6079

Жыл бұрын

“Slava Ukrayini!” “Heroyam Slava!”

@doc7austin

Жыл бұрын

what?

Provodnik? Where are you from, comrade?

@doc7austin

Жыл бұрын

thats how sleeping car attendants were called in ukraine

Вот народ,одстаканники с гранёными стаканами у нас скопировали.

America,speaking, ukraianian,

Interesting….you seems you’re from Europe that using metrics like km , military time and Celsius temperature that most Americans don’t use that system except Canada using most of international metric system and British still use Celsius for the weather but not using km for distance …England use the mileage system like us ….

I’m in the Uk this is a wonderful video

30:48 jaki sens ma ten wagon o tej porze z włączonym oświetleniem? Przecież nic nie widać... Na co ci ludzie się gapią? Na swoje odbicie w szybie?

@LuisaH2022

Жыл бұрын

Reading a book or so

7:40 Ukrainian voice station announcements )) wtf?!

@doc7austin

Жыл бұрын

some creative additions to the video should be ok, isn't it?

@MrBredn

Жыл бұрын

@@doc7austin of course, like a nice metal podstakannik )

President Bill Clinton stopped the train that ran from LA to Vegas to Salt Lake City to spite the Utahns who overwhelmingly voted against him at the highest rate in the nation. There was some project to bring back train service under the Brightline brand and California and Nevada issued $3.2 billion dollars worth of construction bonds but it's not clear how that's going or if it is still being built. Thanks Doc for another great video. I think that car was a current production Charger rather than a classic model but I wouldn't bet money on it.

@bobsmith6079

Жыл бұрын

I guessed wrong because the current Chargers use rear light bars. The closest match to those rear lights that I can find is a late 60s Nova SS with the white backup lights between the red rear light and the red turn signal.

Such an interesting travel experience but US trains are sooo expensive as if trying not to attract customers.

@cestmoi1262

Жыл бұрын

I don't quite see your point: $430 is approx. 20 cents per mile (1.6km) in a double bed single occupancy roomette and meals included.

@runoflife87

Жыл бұрын

@@cestmoi1262 should've been about 350$ to compete w/alternative means of transportation. And no major delays.

@cestmoi1262

Жыл бұрын

@@runoflife87 It isn't always the money. It is what is most important to you. If time is of the essence then take a plane. If getting there without any hassle take the train. If freedom of the itinerary is important take the car.

@nataliajimenez1870

Жыл бұрын

@@runoflife87 The coach seats are much cheaper and they are comparable to business class seats in airplanes. But the main competition of train travel is not air travel but car travel. Trains provide an alternative to someone that was driving hundreds or thousands of miles and arriving very tired to their location. An advantage of trains over planes is the more lenient luggage policy, making it easier for people that are moving to a new location plus the sightseeing advantages that you get with trains that you don't get with planes

The reason why there is no train btwn LA and LV is that once one gets past the LA area, there is nothing but desert! The trains are capitalist, they need flow of passengers, they get none for most of that route! BTW it's KINGMAN, Arizona! not "Kingsman"!

@doc7austin

Жыл бұрын

i thought the US doesnt have a king

@gaxnemo6833

Жыл бұрын

​@@doc7austinIt has one, but he´s been dead for 45 years now (atleast thats what they want you to believe...). 🙃

@Neville60001

Жыл бұрын

@Bill Gracey, that's complete codswallop and then some; Brightline is building/going to build a L.A.-Las Vegas HSR (and back in the early 2000's, there was a proposal to build a maglev train line between both cities which was-IMHO-stupidly quashed.) To say that there's nothing but desert between both cities is, again, codswallop; after all, there's nothing between the cities on this particular train except desert and forests.

@robertgambling502

Жыл бұрын

@@gaxnemo6833 You mean Elvis Presley?

@gaxnemo6833

Жыл бұрын

@@robertgambling502 😁

Yes, thank god the govt doesnt own the track, it would be impassable!

I wish the author had used feet and mph for units of measurement. This is confusing for Americans.

@doc7austin

Жыл бұрын

I am from Europe

@tomgroenbeck7620

Жыл бұрын

@@doc7austin Me too, Germany until 2000. Now in CA I'm using both metric and imperial measurement interchangeably.

Amtrak has always been an embarresment. worst in the world. they never got it together. never investted in their own tracks. Even third world countries are having first classsystems. I have been on trins in Europe India Japan many years ao. They are light years of US back 40 years ago.

@dylanwhite3383

Жыл бұрын

Well to be fair they are using pre-owned equipment and have to rely on congress for more funding

@AlexCab_49

Жыл бұрын

Then vote for politicians that are pro public transportation. Amtrak is the way it is because of fiscal conservatives that see any form of mass transit as a waste of taxpayer money. Vote the fiscal conservatives out and we'll have better trains

@dylanwhite3383

Жыл бұрын

@@AlexCab_49 very true

@LisaMarli

Жыл бұрын

They are prohibited from owning their own track for most sections. They finally got the money to upgrade the rolling stock during Obama.

@AlexCab_49

Жыл бұрын

@@LisaMarli I think the states could step in and buy some of the tracks, however I can only see a handful of states doing that.