DART Orange Line Full Ride - Parker Road to DFW Airport GPS Overlay

DART Orange Line full ride headed south and west from Parker Road station to DFW Airport station. This ride has a few interesting features. Like a switch from track 1 to track 2 and an opposite station approach due to an out of service train blocking track 1. Plus extra traffic and delays due extra train service for the State Fair of Texas. This version has the map, speed, and direction on screen.
4k @ 60fps
October 2023
0:00 - Parker Road Station
1:36 - Downtown Plano Station
3:47 - Cityline / Bush Station
6:00 - Galatyn Park Station
8:27 - Arapaho Center Station
10:55 - Spring Valley Station
13:30 - LBJ / Central Station
17:10 - Forest Ln Station
20:00 - Walnut Hill Station
21:51 - Park Lane Station
25:00 - Lovers Lane Station
27:10 - SMU / Mockingbird Station
31:10 - Cityplace / Uptown Station
35:02 - Pearl / Arts District Station
36:56 - St. Paul Station
38:35 - Akard Station
40:31 - West End Station
46:48 - Victory Station
49:54 - Market Center Station
52:09 - Southwest Medical District / Parkland
54:01 - Inwood / Love Field Station
58:30 - Burbank Station
1:02:15 - Bachman Station
1:08:49 - University of Dallas Station
1:17:53 - Las Colinas Urban Center Station (Opposite side)
1:20:37 - Irving Convention Center Station
1:23:16 - Hidden Ridge Station
1:26:38 - Dallas College Northlake Campus Station
1:30:22 - Belt Line Station
1:40:38 - DFW Airport Station
The same video as this, but without GPS data overlay:
• DART Orange Line Full ...

[@VideoGuy_TX]

0:05 - Passing Red line cars 146, 154
0:40 - Switch from track 1 to track 2
2:48 - Passing Orange line cars 190, 255
8:27 - Passing Red line cars 197, 125
12:45 - Passing Orange line cars 208, 217
19:10 - Passing Red line cars 139, 133
22:50 - Passing Orange line cars 158, 148
28:33 - Passing Red line cars 151, 123
30:00 - Unfinished Knox Station
34:25 - Passing Orange line cars 166, 214
35:05 - Passing Green line 3 car set 250, 251, 261
37:57 - Passing Red line cars 145, 168
38:43 - Passing Special State Fair Green line to Lawnview 3 car set 185, 244, 201
40:24 - Passing Blue line cars 196, 228
45:33 - Passing Orange line cars 114, 131
46:41 - Passing Green line cars 144, 126, 135
48:22 - Passing Special State Fair Green line to Lawnview 3 car set
56:54 - Passing Orange line cars 167, 160
58:35 - Passing Green line 3 car set 153, 117, 132
1:12:40 - Passing Orange Line cars 176, 162
1:13:55 - Switch from track 2 to track 1
1:14:14 - Passing Out of Service train cars 116, 101. Possible maintenance issue
1:17:53 - Pulling into Las Colinas Urban Center Station on the opposite side of normal operations
1:20:24 - Switching back to track 1 from track 2
1:20:39 - Passing Orange Line cars 233, 252
1:30:25 - Passing Orange Line cars 245, 234
1:38:14 - Passing Orange Line cars 136, 149
1:40:03 - Switching from track 1 to track 2

[@Witheredbonnie295]

Dude, I like all of your timestamps and how do you do that in the camera and all that?

[@Witheredbonnie295]

Here's a 30 sub

[@VideoGuy_TX]

@@Witheredbonnie295 Thanks. The timestamps do take a bit of extra time to create. Both the chapters (stations) and the extra timestamps I put in the comments. If you're asking how I add in the GPS overlay, the GoPro actually records the GPS data. Even more than what I show on the screen (like g-force, acceleration, horizon, angle, etc). So I just use the GoPro GPS data and add that over the video. That is why I have 2 videos for every ride, one with and one without the GPS overlay.

[@xavierjones2814]

I think the orange 🧡 line has the LONGEST rail line out of all 4

[@MakeItWithCalvin]

While I was in Dallas for the eclipse with my friend we rode DART From Bachman as far as City Place but I have to say the network was quite nice. Not perfect, but not what you would necessarily expect in a car-centric city like Dallas either.

[@BenriBea]

And only 30 years ago, DFW had zero rail transit

[@hobog]

This light rail gets properly fast, maybe the fastest of any light rail in the Americas

[@VideoGuy_TX]

It's top posted speed is 65 mph. I have seen it hit 67 a few times. I have a short that I'm going to post soon that shows what it looks like at 65 mph.

[@UncleBearShares]

What are the turnouts at 1:36:00 and 1:41:00 supposed to be for? They are stubs going nowhere.

[@MakeItWithCalvin]

I would assume future-expansion. Cheaper to have that sitting there than to retrofit it later.

[@UncleBearShares]

@@MakeItWithCalvin said, "I would assume future-expansion."
To where? I can't find any future plans that DART has in the area.

[@hobog]

The tunnel goes super long without a station, did some nimby district force the train underground?

[@VideoGuy_TX]

There was supposed to be a 2nd stop. I have a video on it. th-cam.com/video/m8WeAYyzAEM/w-d-xo.html

[@hobog]

The station approaches are really efficient too, is there atc or are the drivers and brake controls that good?

[@VideoGuy_TX]

I believe that is all driver, no automatic controls.

[@OliversElevators]

There's no automatic train operation -- everything is manually driven by human operators. I agree, the station approaches are pretty fast and efficient in this video, especially considering these trains only have 3 brake notches, but a lot of that has to do with the operator. Some operators, like the one driving the train in this video, like to come into stations pretty fast and hug the posted speed limits quite tightly, whereas others take things slower. The DART light rail timetables are pretty tight, though, so the operators can't dilly-dally too much or they'll start running late.
A good measure of how early/late a train is running is what the LED passenger information displays at station platforms are doing when a train pulls in. If the displays are scrolling the "Arriving: Orange line train to DFW Airport station" message, the train is running on time; if the signs have already played through this message by the time the train arrives (usually they'll display "DART" and the current time after scrolling through the aforementioned Arriving message), the train is running late; if the signs are still displaying the next departure times (oftentimes you'll see the train currently pulling in listed on the signs as being 2 minutes away), the train is running early. This method works because the signs are programmed to follow and display each train's _scheduled_ arrival times at each station, so if a train isn't running to schedule, the signs won't reflect that, as they always run to schedule.

[@hobog]

1:37:00 why is the speed lowered under 50mph? These long stretches look like they can take 65mph

[@VideoGuy_TX]

Not sure. This operator never got to any of the posted speeds. Maybe they were ahead of schedule. That specific section is going into a long curved section of track. But before that, it seems like they could have gone faster. I'm not too concerned with top speed. Especially in curves, I would prefer comfort.