As a person who has taken a day and driven this route half a dozen times, I find it truly amazing that you were able to track a single train all the way through and still hit all the major scenic spots. In this video you showed me some features I didn't even know were there. The drone adds so much to the experience. Well done!
Thank you! This makes my 3rd trip there to railfan and at this point I remember location well enough to know what locations I can get back to back. It's pretty amazing all the signature locations are spaced apart enough to be able to film them all back to back.
Another superb video Dan, that is the best videoing of the Williams loop i have seen, my wife and i chased a up manifest over the same route after the train stopped at Spring garden, we sat on the side of the road overlooking it and the engineer came over to us and invited us to look over the locos, took into the cab of the lead unit then the second one, gave us lots of mementos, super nice crew, we then chased him all the way through the canyon
Yep you can make it from one to the other back to back just perfectly which really is pretty incredible. Williams Loop is just East of Quincy and Keddie is just West of Quincy.
I rarely leave comments but this is an exception. By far the best video I've ever seen of the Feather River Route. I've watched all your videos and this is also by far, your best work ! One of the reasons I have always been a fan of the Western Pacific RR. Excelent job on cinematography, music and sound editing. Keep it up !
Well thanks a lot Mark I'm humbled you decided to comment! This makes the 3rd time I've visited here and the first with the Inspire 2 which I've been extremely eager to bring here! It is by far the smoothest flying drone I've owned and I was real excited to put it to use here. I guess it worked out good!
Sensational!!! The drone is far and away the best platform to allow a full appreciation of the difficult terrain through which to construct and maintain a class 1 railroad. A derailment in that canyon country must be a nightmare to recover. Very well done!
Nice shots! I was just there in February. Camped at Williams loop then visited Keddie and the bridges on the way back into the valley. Was quite cold with snow on the ground still. But that area is gorgeous.
Another great video, Dan! The train was wonderful to see going through the canyons, crossing trestles, and going around curves. The scenery was magnificent. Thank you for documenting this train and for sharing it with us!
Fantastic video. Allows me to relive my own Feather river train chase some years ago. What a fun exprience! Included a few minutes at the throttle of a switcher at Portola.
Total Awesome. Great Work. Thanks for putting captions of the locations for Rail Fans that aren't familiar with the Feather River Canyon.The drive through the Feather River Canyon on Highway 70 is my favorite drive. Wish it was still Western Pacific but after 40 or more years, UP is starting to grow on me. Glad that the Locomotives were GEVO's, don't like SD70ACe's as their horns are too load. There was a lot of run through UP power in the 70's , as well as BN. WP leased some UP U30C's and SD40-2 while WP's GP35's and Early GP40's were rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen and WP ordered 15 new GP40-2's. I did not like the horns on the SD40-2's they were very obnoxious.
DAN VERY NICE ! Really wanted to see the concrete arch bridge over Oroville Dam reservoir. I haven't seen a drone shot of said bridge. A spectacular view I would like to model in N Scale GREAT video, will watch again! Appreciate your efforts Brad
Excellent video, great job! Respect from a railfan❤️ Even though you can't go to America and admire those intoxicating landscape in flesh due to the epidemic, you can experience this marvelous route in Train Simulator. Feather Canyon route (Keddie to Oroville) DLC is available STEAM store.
Mis más cordiales felicitaciones por estos videos tan hermosos, su contenido es fantástico y las tomas aéreas junto con los paisajes me dejan sin palabras. Infinitas gracias por compartir su trabajo tan especial. Saludos cordiales desde amecameca México.
Love your videos, Dan! Can I make a request for your next trip? Catch the PNWR across the Holcomb trestle? Might be a tough one unless you can figure out the schedule lol. Thanks
That is one I've been trying to get for a while now but regular schedule trains run over it at night as far as I know. There are times when things get off schedule and run over it in daylight or they run extra trains on the weekend in the daylight but I have to have a pretty decent heads up from someone about it to manage it. To be honest it's about my least favorite drive through the entirety of the Willamette Valley which is what that is so things have to line up really dang perfectly for me to capture that.
11:27 OMG. You have put it all together on this one. What amazing beautiful scenery and the camera work outstanding. Do you railroad artists have any kinda guild or are you just on your own?
Haha yeah that is an awesome part in the canyon. I am a solo practitioner! Actually had my dad with me during this video but he was only along for the ride. All done on my own.
Another fun video...always love your music choices...I could really see the (landslide warning screen?) in this video...have there been any lately? thanks again for all your hard work...😃
Awesome video as always 👌. What video camera do you use when on the ground? How long do you think it took you to perfect your craft in terms of being so smooth with flying the drone? What video editing software do you use? Sorry for all of the questions, but your footage is just so incredible that it makes me want to try it.
Thanks! Using the DJI Osmo Action on the ground. Well I've flown for almost 5 years now and flying the Inspire 2 definitely results in the smoothest videos BY FAR. I've flown it for 1.5 years now. I use PowerDirector to edit. 🙂
@@TheRailfanDan About the DJI Osmo Action. Do I need to buy a microphone to pickup the sound like you do? Does it automatically focus and is it really 4k? Does it record to my phone or a mini sd card? Thanks in advance.
@@TheRailfanDan One last question if you can get to it. Is the camera only good if you are trackside or can you zoom in from far away? Thanks and I look forward to more of your drone videos.
@@Atsf1976 The Osmo Action is capable of recording audio by itself. Yes it's 4K about the cheapest 4K camera on the market. It's infinite focus so no need to do anything there and does record to a micro SD card. There is no kind of zoom capability. It's basically a GoPro but made by DJI.
I disagree about the diesel sound when the footage is from the drone. The fact that it is from the air lends itself more to background music rather than possibly very low-volume engine noise. IMO, the music Dan has chosen is perfect.
Thank you both. The biggest issue with that is the drone doesn't record audio because if it did then you would only hear what would sound like a bees nest from the props. Anyone who wants the sound of the train itself had to set up ground recorders to capture sound and edit it in to the drone video. It then becomes tedious to match the sound to the video and make it sound like what you're watching. I've done that a few times and I've always been very satisfied with the result but it adds a whole lot more time to editing which I really don't have patience for. Editing already takes me longer than I want it to even using music.
@@TheRailfanDan "....the drone doesn't record audio because if it did then you would only hear what would sound like a bees nest".... Ooops! I overlooked that fact when composing my response. :D
On average UP runs about 5 to 6 trains in 24 hours and then in the canyon where BNSF runs West from Keddie they'll run anywhere from 3 to 6 trains in 24 hours.
Wow! My father has always talked about this place and maybe later in the year 2024 I will get a chance to visit it. To some questions. From the first time you catch the train until you leave it. How long does it take the train to travel this distance. If I come here I will choose Keddie Wye and Wiliams loop to try and see some train. Can you manage to move between the places, or do you have to hope that there are two trains during the time you are there. Is there also a parking lot that is in the middle of everything. Where you can see trains from slightly different angles, not only at Keddie Wye but other places in the canyon. Like a high altitude where you can see the train coming and you can follow it with your eyes. Many thanks for this movie. Greetings from Sweden. 😃 🇸🇪
Greetings and thanks a lot! So, some answers for you. Pretty much everything you saw here you can count on as far as locations you can catch the same train over and over. From the first spot seeing this train to the last spot was about 4.5 hours. So a 4.5 hour chase. Driving it as a straight shot is closer to 2 hours. Yes from Keddie Wye to Williams Loop you can make it to see the same train in both locations but you do have to be quick about it. Not really any parking lots near most of these spots just places to pull off of the highway or Williams Loop for example can get right down at the cross point which is a little bit off the highway. Not too many high altitude shots in the canyon from the ground. The only good one that comes to mind is Pulga which is near the West end of the canyon. Hope this helps!
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These videos of yours, Dan, are absolutely bloody beautiful. Outstanding cinematography. All credit to you.
Well thank you Ken! I greatly appreciate it. 🙂
Very, very nice video. Especcially zhe scene of Williams Loop. Greetings from Germany
Watching this, I could feel the spirit of the old Western Pacific. The Feather River Route lingers on ! 🧡🪶
It will never die!
As a person who has taken a day and driven this route half a dozen times, I find it truly amazing that you were able to track a single train all the way through and still hit all the major scenic spots. In this video you showed me some features I didn't even know were there. The drone adds so much to the experience. Well done!
Thank you! This makes my 3rd trip there to railfan and at this point I remember location well enough to know what locations I can get back to back. It's pretty amazing all the signature locations are spaced apart enough to be able to film them all back to back.
Another superb video Dan, that is the best videoing of the Williams loop i have seen, my wife and i chased a up manifest over the same route after the train stopped at Spring garden, we sat on the side of the road overlooking it and the engineer came over to us and invited us to look over the locos, took into the cab of the lead unit then the second one, gave us lots of mementos, super nice crew, we then chased him all the way through the canyon
Thanks! That's a great experience for you too!
Wow, great tour from the Great Basin to the Central Valley. Love to see the bright yellow UP units in this dreamy und rough terrain.
Thank you!
America the beautiful!!...thanks .
Terrific cinematography and outstanding production values, congratulations.
Thank you!
Excellent, Dan. Now I understand how the Williams Loop and the Keddie Wye are linked.
Yep you can make it from one to the other back to back just perfectly which really is pretty incredible. Williams Loop is just East of Quincy and Keddie is just West of Quincy.
SPECTACULAR! Beautiful work as usual. Thanks much!
Thanks!
Another awesome visual & sound escape while marveling at the engineering. Thank you!
Very nice video , thanks for posting !!!
Great drone vids. Great scenery. Good music accompanying the vid. Good stuff all the way.
Thanks John!
Spectacular! I love the Williams Loop sequence!
Thanks Bill I love Williams Loop!
Thank You for giving us a birds eye view of this great canyon. Could spent a lot of time just scanning the scenery.
Thanks! Yep you've got a point. Even if you aren't into trains it's definitely a region to drive through for the scenery alone.
I rarely leave comments but this is an exception. By far the best video I've ever seen of the Feather River Route. I've watched all your videos and this is also by far, your best work ! One of the reasons I have always been a fan of the Western Pacific RR. Excelent job on cinematography, music and sound editing. Keep it up !
Yes. One of the bests videos 👍
Well thanks a lot Mark I'm humbled you decided to comment! This makes the 3rd time I've visited here and the first with the Inspire 2 which I've been extremely eager to bring here! It is by far the smoothest flying drone I've owned and I was real excited to put it to use here. I guess it worked out good!
Sensational!!! The drone is far and away the best platform to allow a full appreciation of the difficult terrain through which to construct and maintain a class 1 railroad. A derailment in that canyon country must be a nightmare to recover. Very well done!
Well done! Awesome use of the drone.
Nice shots! I was just there in February. Camped at Williams loop then visited Keddie and the bridges on the way back into the valley. Was quite cold with snow on the ground still. But that area is gorgeous.
Thanks! Yeah that does sound cold but great with snow!
Nice work, brutha!
Especially enjoyed that 'intermission' on the ground at Williams Loop. (@ 08:45)
Thanks! I was excited to be able to add that in too. The loop from the ground is just as good!
Stunning footage of one of my favorite places.
Thank you it is amazing there.
Another great video, Dan! The train was wonderful to see going through the canyons, crossing trestles, and going around curves. The scenery was magnificent. Thank you for documenting this train and for sharing it with us!
Thank you Thomas! It's an incredible area. It's amazing how all these locations are so close to each other relatively speaking.
Another outstanding effort. Your videos are the best out there, period. You should put together a DVD, I know I’d buy it!
Well thanks a lot Dave! Maybe one day down the road. That would be a whole other realm I'm sure but great to know you're interested!
Fantastic video. Allows me to relive my own Feather river train chase some years ago. What a fun exprience! Included a few minutes at the throttle of a switcher at Portola.
Thanks Richard and I'm glad it did! It's a beautiful area.
Magnificent images, just a shame not to see the two head locomotives doing the Williams Loop completely. Greetings from Switzerland.
Amazing work! Awesome :)
Absolutely incredible videography! Its a great era to be a railfan.
Great job. Thank you very much.
Total Awesome. Great Work. Thanks for putting captions of the locations for Rail Fans that aren't familiar with the Feather River Canyon.The drive through the Feather River Canyon on Highway 70 is my favorite drive. Wish it was still Western Pacific but after 40 or more years, UP is starting to grow on me. Glad that the Locomotives were GEVO's, don't like SD70ACe's as their horns are too load. There was a lot of run through UP power in the 70's , as well as BN. WP leased some UP U30C's and SD40-2 while WP's GP35's and Early GP40's were rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen and WP ordered 15 new GP40-2's. I did not like the horns on the SD40-2's they were very obnoxious.
Well thanks! Yes even for someone who isn't into trains it's a wonderful drive for the scenery otherwise!
DAN
VERY NICE !
Really wanted to see the concrete arch bridge over Oroville Dam reservoir.
I haven't seen a drone shot of said bridge. A spectacular view I would like to model in N Scale
GREAT video, will watch again! Appreciate your efforts
Brad
Thank you very much Brad!
Amazing video !! I catch this train in Martinez when it takes the old Cal P line thru the Bay Area. Love this video. Truly a work of art.
Dan, your vids have taken railfanning to a new level. Well done as usual.
Fabulous coverage...
Nice work, Dan!
Thanks a lot!
Awesome Vid Dan !!
Wow... amazing video :)
Thanks for sharing, from indonesia railways
Nice drone footage. Keep it up.😀
Excellent video, great job! Respect from a railfan❤️ Even though you can't go to America and admire those intoxicating landscape in flesh due to the epidemic, you can experience this marvelous route in Train Simulator. Feather Canyon route (Keddie to Oroville) DLC is available STEAM store.
Another amazing video Dan, the DJI drone must have some range and great battery life.
Mis más cordiales felicitaciones por estos videos tan hermosos, su contenido es fantástico y las tomas aéreas junto con los paisajes me dejan sin palabras.
Infinitas gracias por compartir su trabajo tan especial.
Saludos cordiales desde amecameca México.
No more adjective to qualify this beauty
Beautiful !!
Miss driving this route. Have to get to Portland and help the FRRS guys out.
That was beautiful.
Superb!
Not a UP fan . But I gotta say this is one fine video . Thanks
Love your videos, Dan! Can I make a request for your next trip? Catch the PNWR across the Holcomb trestle? Might be a tough one unless you can figure out the schedule lol. Thanks
That is one I've been trying to get for a while now but regular schedule trains run over it at night as far as I know. There are times when things get off schedule and run over it in daylight or they run extra trains on the weekend in the daylight but I have to have a pretty decent heads up from someone about it to manage it. To be honest it's about my least favorite drive through the entirety of the Willamette Valley which is what that is so things have to line up really dang perfectly for me to capture that.
@@TheRailfanDan Ah I didn't know that. Well nevertheless, good luck in capturing it one day!
I remember the Orville Dam Building. Too many years back.
11:27 OMG. You have put it all together on this one. What amazing beautiful scenery and the camera work outstanding. Do you railroad artists have any kinda guild or are you just on your own?
Haha yeah that is an awesome part in the canyon. I am a solo practitioner! Actually had my dad with me during this video but he was only along for the ride. All done on my own.
Thanks, well done.
Another fun video...always love your music choices...I could really see the (landslide warning screen?) in this video...have there been any lately? thanks again for all your hard work...😃
Thanks so much! Yes this canyon is plagued with landslides ever year and so far this year I believe has been one of the worst.
@@TheRailfanDan Yikes!😮
AMAZING
Awesome video as always 👌. What video camera do you use when on the ground? How long do you think it took you to perfect your craft in terms of being so smooth with flying the drone? What video editing software do you use? Sorry for all of the questions, but your footage is just so incredible that it makes me want to try it.
Thanks! Using the DJI Osmo Action on the ground. Well I've flown for almost 5 years now and flying the Inspire 2 definitely results in the smoothest videos BY FAR. I've flown it for 1.5 years now. I use PowerDirector to edit. 🙂
@@TheRailfanDan About the DJI Osmo Action. Do I need to buy a microphone to pickup the sound like you do? Does it automatically focus and is it really 4k? Does it record to my phone or a mini sd card? Thanks in advance.
@@TheRailfanDan One last question if you can get to it. Is the camera only good if you are trackside or can you zoom in from far away? Thanks and I look forward to more of your drone videos.
@@Atsf1976 The Osmo Action is capable of recording audio by itself. Yes it's 4K about the cheapest 4K camera on the market. It's infinite focus so no need to do anything there and does record to a micro SD card. There is no kind of zoom capability. It's basically a GoPro but made by DJI.
Great ! If you have Diesel-Sound may be it would be a good idea if we hear both - musik and Diesel and may be Sound af rolling stock.
I disagree about the diesel sound when the footage is from the drone. The fact that it is from the air lends itself more to background music rather than possibly very low-volume engine noise. IMO, the music Dan has chosen is perfect.
Thank you both. The biggest issue with that is the drone doesn't record audio because if it did then you would only hear what would sound like a bees nest from the props. Anyone who wants the sound of the train itself had to set up ground recorders to capture sound and edit it in to the drone video. It then becomes tedious to match the sound to the video and make it sound like what you're watching. I've done that a few times and I've always been very satisfied with the result but it adds a whole lot more time to editing which I really don't have patience for. Editing already takes me longer than I want it to even using music.
@@TheRailfanDan "....the drone doesn't record audio because if it did then you would only hear what would sound like a bees nest"....
Ooops! I overlooked that fact when composing my response. :D
@@hcrun That's alright Ken. 🙂
thanks for posting this in hi-res....
Do you know if any of these crews watch your vids?
Some I think do. I know quite a few crew members close to home and some take a look at what I post.
The beautiful Sierras
Approx. how many trains a day through this route? Great video.
On average UP runs about 5 to 6 trains in 24 hours and then in the canyon where BNSF runs West from Keddie they'll run anywhere from 3 to 6 trains in 24 hours.
Awesome Video, does the feather river or donner pass get more intermodal traffic?
Wow!
My father has always talked about this place and maybe later in the year 2024 I will get a chance to visit it. To some questions.
From the first time you catch the train until you leave it. How long does it take the train to travel this distance.
If I come here I will choose Keddie Wye and Wiliams loop to try and see some train. Can you manage to move between the places, or do you have to hope that there are two trains during the time you are there.
Is there also a parking lot that is in the middle of everything. Where you can see trains from slightly different angles, not only at Keddie Wye but other places in the canyon. Like a high altitude where you can see the train coming and you can follow it with your eyes.
Many thanks for this movie.
Greetings from Sweden.
😃 🇸🇪
Greetings and thanks a lot! So, some answers for you.
Pretty much everything you saw here you can count on as far as locations you can catch the same train over and over. From the first spot seeing this train to the last spot was about 4.5 hours. So a 4.5 hour chase. Driving it as a straight shot is closer to 2 hours. Yes from Keddie Wye to Williams Loop you can make it to see the same train in both locations but you do have to be quick about it. Not really any parking lots near most of these spots just places to pull off of the highway or Williams Loop for example can get right down at the cross point which is a little bit off the highway. Not too many high altitude shots in the canyon from the ground. The only good one that comes to mind is Pulga which is near the West end of the canyon. Hope this helps!
any idea on what this ones symbol is
@@RailroadPidge It was a INPOA I believe.
Sad to the mess for the fires.
What's not to like?!
Song name?
A number of different songs used from Soundstripe.
Thanks