There wasn't much reason to show myself before, but I figure I'm going to end up in random drone shots anyway, so I may as well make an occasional cameo. Plus, I may need to do a review of In N Out or Freddy's from time to time. :D
Thank you for putting out some of the only real and high quality information about some of the most important infrastructure projects in the richest nation on Earth
Thank you very much. I was looking to cover sales tax. We have that. With superthanks coming in as they are, I'm considering another 32GB of RAM or a step up on the video card, both of which could prove helpful in the future, especially with Unreal Engine 5 on its 5th minor revision.
@@maly2ts408 I assume you're talking about Rancho Cucamonga? Because there is a freight spur the tracks need to fly over about 750ft east of the station.
i really hope brightline west sets a precedent for hsr grades in the future, even though they are taking that grade pretty slow a 6% grade on high speed rail is absolutely insane, and would save a fortune in tunneling and earthworks if it was more common on other projects i believe one of the early propsals for hsr in australia included the capability to hit 5% grades at 360km/h and just make it up with momentum in order to save costs, but 6% wow
Yeah, that's kind of the problem here. Shadow Valley is really the only place where they can do that. Southbound from Ivanpah Valley up to Mountain Pass a little bit too, but everywhere else there isn't much help from the freeway geometry.
@@LucidStew classic freeway geometry making things worse still, the capability to hit high speeds at a 6% grade would be useful in many places around the world
Thanks for the video! Regarding the LV monorail potentially connecting, I think the chances of that are slim. The LV Convention & Visitors Authority bought it in 2020, and dismantlement money is buried in the deal. It will likely be gone by 2028-2030. The trains are getting old, are no longer produced, and the line is evidently incompatible with the modern monorail trains now available. Expansion plans have been out there since the very beginning, including downtown, the airport, and elsewhere, and none of them have ever gotten off the drawing boards. LVCVA now makes no mention of any expansion plans.
I appreciate the video as always you clearly put a lot of work into this one. I can’t help but think that some of those structures Brightline West has to build are going to be what delays this project. If even 1 of them has a significant enough delay their already optimistic timeline of the 2028 Olympics goes out the window.
Gosh dang it ya made me want in-n-out lol And I won't be able to head back to the city for another like 9 days!!! How dare you make me want In-n-Out so badly! haha
Hi from france, i'm not judging but for Brightline it's a stupid idea to follow the road if you can't go at 200mph, and i never heard of a single track of high speed line. from LA to Las Vegas it's full desert so i think it will be much better to build a full straight line and smooth curve with tunnels and viaducts. I must say that I appreciate your work and all your previous video.
It being built in the median is probably the only reason its able to be built at all. Otherwise, the cost would be prohibitive for a private company. As for government, well, we know what government has accomplished on the route so far. Spain has some single-tracked systems like this. They use it as a way to cheaply get a line in service and then expand as needed. Thanks for watching. Hopefully I'll have some construction progress to show soon.
@@LucidStewIs there enough room in the median for this route to be expanded to double-tracked from Rancho all the way to Vegas? (I'm concerned about the single-tracking as well) Are there any key bridges that are being built on the route - and will they be double-tracked in the initial build?
@v3ka457 Yeah, Brightline sees only two viable rights-of-way for new high-speed rail services in the USA as being existing railway and highway right-of-way, due to the environmental review costs, land acquisition costs, NIMBY lawsuit costs, and political opposition. The example of this are (1) the California High Speed Rail Project which after a decade and a half of development and construction is billions over-budget, years-behind schedule, and years to go before service connecting two mid-size cities in the Central Valley; and (2) Texas Central, the planned Shinkansen between Houston and Dallas which despite environmental and regulatory clearance was near-dead after years of costly lawsuits from angry rural landowners and local governments, till Amtrak stepped in to keep it going a bit longer. In contrast Brightline planned, built, and opened Brightline Florida between Miami and Orlando in about a decade's time, utilizing the existing freight tracks of the Florida East Coast Railway and a short new 125 MPH segment on publicly owned state expressway right-of-way to Orlando Int. Airport. Brightline West will be if all goes to plan running trains in commercial service before CaHSR does in the Central Valley. As for the single-track, Brightline is build what Spanish academics have dubbed "Alternating Double-Single Track" high-speed rail line, a concept for less trafficked services through difficult terrain to provincial cities in Spain. Sweden also as one single track 200-KPH (125 MPH) line as well. To build Brightline West to "perfect" standards would be to create the nightmare of the CaHSR Project which is now over $100 billion in costs and decade behind schedule, with no money to finish it from San Francisco to Los Angelese. Brightline West is "good enough" and thus can be built for $12 billion in less than a decade.
It shouldn't on a new system. The technique they use is to season the rails by installing them on hot days, that way they don't have much expanding to do. Contraction they handle by securing the rail very well. They then need to be vigilant about maintenance, especially with a single tracked system. This area does have a wide range of possible temperatures. From about 0F to 125F, so it will be challenging from an engineering standpoint.
I appreciate your efforts in producing these videos, however there seems to be so many slow sections throughout the planned alignment. If they can raise more funds they can use infrastructures which will enable smoother curves and gradients, establishing a much faster average speed in line with systems like Indonesia’s HSR etc.
If the line performs really well, perhaps they will consider it after expanding to 30 minutes headways. There is also the possibility that Amtrak would like to use portions of the route at some point, and the government may be more able to help out in that case.
I like the concept of high speed rail running to Vegas and I'm sure I'll try it out, but hear me out... If you live anywhere in the Los Angeles or Orange County area it will take 40-60 minutes to drive to Rancho Cucamonga and park in the structure... Getting situated onto the train may take another 20 minutes... Then its a 2-hour- 20 minute ride before you arrive in Vegas... Now you may end up getting a rental car.... My point is you might as well just drive your own car to Vegas if you want mobility around Las Vegas... Just my two cents...
For sure not everyone will stop driving, but only a small percentage need to take the train instead in order for it to be successful. There are something like 40 million tourist trips between the two areas yearly. They'd like to grab about 15-20% of that. You also have a future where car-free transit in Vegas is going to improve and its already feasible to go there and never leave The Strip. Plus, hey, on the bright side for people that keep driving or live in the desert: traffic is going to improve a little, especially around the weekend. Personally I think they'll have a bit of a slow start, but a couple of seasons of watching the train fly by while sitting in parking lot traffic at the state line will entice people.
You can also - hear me out - take a train to RC, and eventually it will extend to LAUS. Realistically, most people don't need a rental car in LV, I certainly never have.
@@LucidStew a couple of seasons of watching the train fly by while sitting in parking lot traffic at the state line will entice people. Not just any parking lot of traffic but one in a miserable, hot desert
Your voice commentary is a little too bass-heavy, but interesting video otherwise. I'd still like for Amtrak to re-start their Desert Wind segment between Las Vegas & L.A. for the interim, although Union Pacific would probably want to charge a pirate's ransom for "infrastructure upgrades" to allow that to happen. As Patrick McGoohan once said, as the star of "The Prisoner" (TV Series 1967-1968) show: "Be seeing you".
Thank you! I have my parts lined for the new rig. We'll see how response on this video goes. If its strong, I might be able to upgrade even further. However, the planned rig is a big enough upgrade that it will facilitate some nice additions and free up enough production time that I'm able to add those without it taking any longer.
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Nice to see you in person, Lucid Stew!!
There wasn't much reason to show myself before, but I figure I'm going to end up in random drone shots anyway, so I may as well make an occasional cameo. Plus, I may need to do a review of In N Out or Freddy's from time to time. :D
Stew matches the voice just as I pictured!
@@LucidStewsimilar to how Distant Signal does his diner / luncheon reviews mid video
Stew posts, I view
Thank you for putting out some of the only real and high quality information about some of the most important infrastructure projects in the richest nation on Earth
Thank you for this kind comment!
THE STEW REVEAL
That was technically in the Australia video. :)
awesome video, the renders are super helpful and the commentary is perfect. Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much. I was looking to cover sales tax. We have that. With superthanks coming in as they are, I'm considering another 32GB of RAM or a step up on the video card, both of which could prove helpful in the future, especially with Unreal Engine 5 on its 5th minor revision.
Lucid Stew with your fashionable sun protection
It's the desert. There's no trees!
Why is that station going to be elevated
@@maly2ts408 I assume you're talking about Rancho Cucamonga? Because there is a freight spur the tracks need to fly over about 750ft east of the station.
Nice to see Lucid stew in person!!!
Get used to the hat and the windbreaker, you'll likely see more of both. :D
Appreciate the effort you put into these your vids are mad underrated :)
I prefer to think of them as happily underrated 😄
I love how the retaining walls are just massively scaled up jersey barriers.
Yeah, I need to find a better prop. I could probably do some of those myself if I had a decent texture.
218-219 miles in 3 years. I wish em luck with it :)
Absolutely Fantastic! Thanks! 😃
Let's go, Ben! It's looking like an upgrade to the intended rig is probable.
Damn, that was extensive
Well I didn't drive all the way out there for nothing. :)
i really hope brightline west sets a precedent for hsr grades in the future, even though they are taking that grade pretty slow a 6% grade on high speed rail is absolutely insane, and would save a fortune in tunneling and earthworks if it was more common on other projects
i believe one of the early propsals for hsr in australia included the capability to hit 5% grades at 360km/h and just make it up with momentum in order to save costs, but 6% wow
Yeah, that's kind of the problem here. Shadow Valley is really the only place where they can do that. Southbound from Ivanpah Valley up to Mountain Pass a little bit too, but everywhere else there isn't much help from the freeway geometry.
@@LucidStew classic freeway geometry making things worse
still, the capability to hit high speeds at a 6% grade would be useful in many places around the world
Is that really you? Or a 3D rendering? Merry Christmas. Love the videos!
They're not THAT good! ...yet. Merry Christmas! Thank you for the gift of your viewership.
Thanks for the video! Regarding the LV monorail potentially connecting, I think the chances of that are slim. The LV Convention & Visitors Authority bought it in 2020, and dismantlement money is buried in the deal. It will likely be gone by 2028-2030. The trains are getting old, are no longer produced, and the line is evidently incompatible with the modern monorail trains now available. Expansion plans have been out there since the very beginning, including downtown, the airport, and elsewhere, and none of them have ever gotten off the drawing boards. LVCVA now makes no mention of any expansion plans.
Yes, I would tend to agree, but one can continue to dream until they start tearing it down.
I appreciate the video as always you clearly put a lot of work into this one. I can’t help but think that some of those structures Brightline West has to build are going to be what delays this project. If even 1 of them has a significant enough delay their already optimistic timeline of the 2028 Olympics goes out the window.
Gosh dang it ya made me want in-n-out lol
And I won't be able to head back to the city for another like 9 days!!! How dare you make me want In-n-Out so badly! haha
That's what a hamburger's all about!
16:05 ouch that's gonna be uncomfortable travel
not having the entire thing be double-tracked from the start is already silly, but having some sections be permanently singled-tracked is just dumb.
zny plans for future tunels under a the pass.
none.
@@LucidStew hopefullly sime day thet willl be addwd.
Holy smokes! Stew was not an AI generated voice this entire time yet was an actual person. 🎉❤😂
Subs already knew this from me ranting against AI in community posts. That's a subtle hint. :)
Hi from france, i'm not judging but for Brightline it's a stupid idea to follow the road if you can't go at 200mph, and i never heard of a single track of high speed line. from LA to Las Vegas it's full desert so i think it will be much better to build a full straight line and smooth curve with tunnels and viaducts. I must say that I appreciate your work and all your previous video.
It being built in the median is probably the only reason its able to be built at all. Otherwise, the cost would be prohibitive for a private company. As for government, well, we know what government has accomplished on the route so far. Spain has some single-tracked systems like this. They use it as a way to cheaply get a line in service and then expand as needed. Thanks for watching. Hopefully I'll have some construction progress to show soon.
@@LucidStewIs there enough room in the median for this route to be expanded to double-tracked from Rancho all the way to Vegas? (I'm concerned about the single-tracking as well) Are there any key bridges that are being built on the route - and will they be double-tracked in the initial build?
@v3ka457 Yeah, Brightline sees only two viable rights-of-way for new high-speed rail services in the USA as being existing railway and highway right-of-way, due to the environmental review costs, land acquisition costs, NIMBY lawsuit costs, and political opposition.
The example of this are (1) the California High Speed Rail Project which after a decade and a half of development and construction is billions over-budget, years-behind schedule, and years to go before service connecting two mid-size cities in the Central Valley; and (2) Texas Central, the planned Shinkansen between Houston and Dallas which despite environmental and regulatory clearance was near-dead after years of costly lawsuits from angry rural landowners and local governments, till Amtrak stepped in to keep it going a bit longer.
In contrast Brightline planned, built, and opened Brightline Florida between Miami and Orlando in about a decade's time, utilizing the existing freight tracks of the Florida East Coast Railway and a short new 125 MPH segment on publicly owned state expressway right-of-way to Orlando Int. Airport. Brightline West will be if all goes to plan running trains in commercial service before CaHSR does in the Central Valley.
As for the single-track, Brightline is build what Spanish academics have dubbed "Alternating Double-Single Track" high-speed rail line, a concept for less trafficked services through difficult terrain to provincial cities in Spain. Sweden also as one single track 200-KPH (125 MPH) line as well. To build Brightline West to "perfect" standards would be to create the nightmare of the CaHSR Project which is now over $100 billion in costs and decade behind schedule, with no money to finish it from San Francisco to Los Angelese. Brightline West is "good enough" and thus can be built for $12 billion in less than a decade.
nothings ever that simple in america
cant just simply build a new alignment through an empty desert
Does heat impact services? I use Caltrain and I think it was last summer where they stopped running trains briefly because it was so hot one day.
It shouldn't on a new system. The technique they use is to season the rails by installing them on hot days, that way they don't have much expanding to do. Contraction they handle by securing the rail very well. They then need to be vigilant about maintenance, especially with a single tracked system. This area does have a wide range of possible temperatures. From about 0F to 125F, so it will be challenging from an engineering standpoint.
I appreciate your efforts in producing these videos, however there seems to be so many slow sections throughout the planned alignment. If they can raise more funds they can use infrastructures which will enable smoother curves and gradients, establishing a much faster average speed in line with systems like Indonesia’s HSR etc.
If the line performs really well, perhaps they will consider it after expanding to 30 minutes headways. There is also the possibility that Amtrak would like to use portions of the route at some point, and the government may be more able to help out in that case.
Those are some good possibilities for the future, thanks for your tireless efforts.
Camry Mothership Mobility (CMM) technology?
I like the concept of high speed rail running to Vegas and I'm sure I'll try it out, but hear me out... If you live anywhere in the Los Angeles or Orange County area it will take 40-60 minutes to drive to Rancho Cucamonga and park in the structure... Getting situated onto the train may take another 20 minutes... Then its a 2-hour- 20 minute ride before you arrive in Vegas... Now you may end up getting a rental car.... My point is you might as well just drive your own car to Vegas if you want mobility around Las Vegas... Just my two cents...
For sure not everyone will stop driving, but only a small percentage need to take the train instead in order for it to be successful. There are something like 40 million tourist trips between the two areas yearly. They'd like to grab about 15-20% of that.
You also have a future where car-free transit in Vegas is going to improve and its already feasible to go there and never leave The Strip. Plus, hey, on the bright side for people that keep driving or live in the desert: traffic is going to improve a little, especially around the weekend. Personally I think they'll have a bit of a slow start, but a couple of seasons of watching the train fly by while sitting in parking lot traffic at the state line will entice people.
You can also - hear me out - take a train to RC, and eventually it will extend to LAUS. Realistically, most people don't need a rental car in LV, I certainly never have.
@@LucidStew a couple of seasons of watching the train fly by while sitting in parking lot traffic at the state line will entice people.
Not just any parking lot of traffic but one in a miserable, hot desert
Your voice commentary is a little too bass-heavy, but interesting video otherwise. I'd still like for Amtrak to re-start their Desert Wind segment between Las Vegas & L.A. for the interim, although Union Pacific would probably want to charge a pirate's ransom for "infrastructure upgrades" to allow that to happen. As Patrick McGoohan once said, as the star of "The Prisoner" (TV Series 1967-1968) show: "Be seeing you".
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Thank you! I have my parts lined for the new rig. We'll see how response on this video goes. If its strong, I might be able to upgrade even further. However, the planned rig is a big enough upgrade that it will facilitate some nice additions and free up enough production time that I'm able to add those without it taking any longer.
Face reveal!
why did i think you were gen z 🤦😭
I am all generations.
Dropping background music will make the narration clearer and the video overall 20% better.
Music isn't going anywhere.
the music is quiet enough to not be an issue
Background music is better IMO