The leader in documenting Brightline's Florida passenger rail construction. Also extensive coverage of the Florida East Coast Railway and the fecNtrak modular layout, but also covering railroads across the USA and even around the world. KiwiRail and Auckland Transport in New Zealand are also a specialty. Occasional Walt Disney World, baseball, and other oddball videos I make are added as well.
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Stunning!
It amazes me that our govt. cannot do something like this by itself...It takes a private company to do this, although they do have partial funding from the govt. Our govt. can't get out of its' own way , sometimes.
One of the best train videos available, and I have watched hundreds. Thank you for sharing 👍🏼
This may be a long train, but it is made to look puny by the surrounding terrain.
From your current location, can you see where VRF has their camera?
It was somewhere on that far hill to the south in the shot with the three trains. The camera itself could not see where I was.
Great drone work.
Glenwood Canyon is one of the most beautiful places in the US. I want my ashes scattered there when my time is up . Excellent video, such a scenic route. That's what I call a serious train, I didn't even try to count all the cars. Guessing around 120-150 ??? Thanks for sharing this video.🚂🚃🚃🚃
Love the scenery! When they have DPUs at the end of the train do they have to crew one of them in case the remote control fails?
No crews in the DPUs
amazing the bridge is double track
6:00 9:22 What a stunningly beautiful landscape. Thanks for sharing! Does anyone know the purpose of having a single hopper car placed at the front and rear of the tankers?
Regulations require railroads to have a buffer car between the locomotives and tank cars as a level of protection for the engine crews should something go wrong. They are typically loaded with sand, rock, etc so they can be considered loaded for train composition and protective purposes but they aren’t revenue loads.
Great jumping off point for a day trip to South Florida!
Beautiful scenery!
De Beque is pronounced de-beck by the locals in the area, that's where I grew up.
Great action shots, great Drone work! Excellent! But then again, you’ve always been the BEST!
I've never pulled off of 72 to go up to the overlook of Big 10. Too eager to get up to east portal. But next trip out I guess I need to make time to do it. Great video!
Super great drone video. I live in Boulder, and know this area well from a ground level. Cool to wee it from above. The U at hwy. 72 is one of the easiest accessible in the Colorado front range,
Great video mate.. Good luck you lot on the HSR. Much love from the UK
I miss the Rockies so much, this is beautiful
The drone images are so sharp. I would love to see a aerial video of Dave at “That’s railroading” little railroad
Nice shot with the lighting/sun 👍 Thanks.
I love this! I happen to go to this area when I first moved to Denver just exploring and following the tracks out of Denver west. I usually do not catch trains in that area. I have better luck between Denver and the Springs on the consolidated line.
Are you in New Zeeland now?
That was filmed 5 years ago. Found the footage when I was looking for something else.
Spectacular photography! Like a perfect N-scale exhibition layout! 🤩
I love these wraps. It makes each train on Brightline’s system unique! As long as they stop wrapping the windows like the Palm Beaches wrap here I love it.
Fantastic Film
I've only ever seen a view from VRF railcam. This footage of the area was just EPIC. The storm at start just added more. Thank you from an Australian rail fan.
You capture the grandeur of the Rockies perfectly. Mountains versus sea level. Either is fine by me as long as there is a train in the shot.
The elevation difference between the front and rear of the oil train was quit astonishing. Heck of a view!
Nice stuff, Austin!
Nice shots. What drone do you use and how do you get such vibrant colors. Keep up the good work.
Once you experience the grandeur of the mountains, Floriduh is pretty lame
its like a big model railway/train set - great use of the cinematography
Because of the light colored ballast they used the FEC right of way looks so clean and new. I wonder how long that will last
Some of that ballast is 4 years old at this point and still looks great!
Not the fastest on the planet. me believes.
It had to slow down for the curve on the north side of the river. It is accelerating back up to 110 mph here.
Why does it have to be the fastest on the planet? Switzerland does not have the fastest trains, but they are some of the most well regarded.
So much better looking without windows wrapped
And doesn’t hinder the view from the inside!
List of my favorite ad wrap coaches from Brightline: 1. Vist Orlando 2. The Island of Bahamas 3. Princess Cruise 4. Cunard 5. Discover the Palm Beaches 2024
Pretty rare seeing four-axle power (especially a single unit) pulling an intermodal train these days.
It was a shorter train so I wonder if it was just branching off somewhere, like a local
It was a local taking the loads from the Port of Palm Beach to Fort Pierce yard to be picked up by a road train headed north overnight
@@RoamingRailfan Oh okay. Doesn’t FEC have similar intermodal locals like that between PortMiami and Hialeah Yard?
Have you seen any unusual Brightline workings, such as additional (or fewer) cars, or locos, or two whole trains coupled, or ..... ?
Since the trains are semi-permanently coupled, they don’t do one-off unusual consists in revenue service. Yes, there have been differences in trains back during testing for various reasons but nothing since service to Orlando began.
@@RoamingRailfan Ok, thank you
Great Work as always... Can you do a video on the progress towards Brightline Orlando to Tampa?
There is nothing to document in regards to Tampa so no videos anytime soon
Another excellent job, Austin. Thank you for braving the heat (for those of us retied folk who refuse to leave our Laz-e-boys).
Not a RXR related question, couldn't help but notice the bright red foliage occasionally. What kind of tree is that? Long time and loyal subscriber from Wyoming, Thank You.
Not sure, might be a Cypress that's dying. They turn red around December before going dormant grey for winter. The smaller one's have more color than the full grown.
With all the upgrades and double tracking between WPB and Cocoa, has the FEC been able to increase the speed of its trains or run more routes?
No real increases in speed other than not having to slow down for some curves anymore with them now being broadened. Number of trains is dictated by how much business they have.
Glad to see the later Wraps have he windws, not Wapped, as had to 😊see through the full wraps, headaches to, trying to see thru the Dots., when will, the added Rail Cars be delivered to Brightline.
Good looking - and presumably - running trains. Excellent capture, and thank you for keeping the real sound. Curious, classically, freight is very hard on rails, and don’t share track with passenger, particularly fast passenger - what speeds were you recording ? How is it going to work with Brightline sharing rail time with FEC to keep the rails and bed to spec for the high speed rail ? And for scheduling purposes, are the freights routed to the other side, in order for the fast passenger to pass ? I remember many trips on Amtrak back in the day, when the train crept along and the conductor announced “we’re behind a ________ freight” and looking at the schedule as we arrived ever later at each subsequent station.
Some of those trains were going 110mph. There are maintenance crews out most nights maintaining the tracks so freight and passenger can use both tracks and there are contractual obligations for FEC to keep it maintained that way. The upgrades were designed with crossovers every 8-10 miles so it's easy for Brightline to zig and zag around freight as necessary.
Is it typical now for trains to run on the left main north of Stuart?
Its whatever the dispatcher wants to do
Nice seeing the trains running so smoothly at proper speed. Great railfan video. Thanks.
Glad to see newer wraps don’t cover the windows. I hope this will this will become policy.
Me too....
Will they fix the track alignment with the new bridge? That curve is really sharp and you can hear the wheels screeching.
The curve will get broadened slightly but not much of a change. With the surrounding developments and roads, there isn't a lot of room to change it.
Always enjoy watching your videos. In the video, you talk about not being able to use your drone near the airport. How far away do you have to be to use a drone?
It depends highly on the airport. In Vero, I was essentially right on the line of where I could/couldn't so it wasn't worth the risk.
Thank you for the latest upload .