⁴ᴷ⁶⁰ Caltrain: Exploring and Railfanning at the New Hillsdale Station
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 พ.ย. 2024
- After almost a year of closures, Caltrain's new Hillsdale station in San Mateo is finally open! We visited the brand-new station platforms a few days after the first trains began arriving to pick up and drop off passengers on April 26, 2021.
Some background on the project Caltrain completed: Caltrain permanently closed the original Hillsdale station on May 16, 2020, to create an elevated viaduct that bypassed several existing level crossings and a new Hillsdale station a quarter mile to the north.
This project was done to improve safety and in preparation for future shared high-speed rail service along Caltrain's rail corridor; having an elevated viaduct is much preferred compared to at-grade level crossings considering the high-speed nature of high-speed rail.
There are two station entrances, one on 28th Ave and another from the station's parking lot that can be accessed from 28th and other streets.
An office hub and transit-oriented development have sprouted up around the station vicinity, transforming the area into a transit-friendly community with thousands of jobs and residents.
With electric trains coming next year and high-speed rail hopefully running down Caltrain's tracks in this decade, Caltrain is in the midst of a historic transformation that will take it from a standard diesel commuter-rail system to a fast, frequent, and reliable network with direct connections to BART, VTA, and high-speed rail.
The station looks nice! It’s a shame that they didn’t make it high platform for future trains
Future trains have 2 levels of doors
The California high speed train will most likely having dual mode doors, meaning the door could do upper and lower platforms
@@jackchen7003 Nope. Caltrain's new fleet has two sets of doors. CAHSR will be all level boarding. That's why Caltrain got the two-level design, so that they are able to use CAHSR platforms. But eventually all of Caltrain's stations are going to get upgraded to level boarding with high platforms. That's why the Caltrain's new Stadler EMU trains have provisions in them to permanently block off the lower set of doors once they are no longer needed.
This was pretty much always the plan. High platforms were always planned for the entire Caltrain system. CAHSR is just accelerating that plan for Caltrain because there will be high platforms for them to use even before they do all the upgrades themselves.
cahsr isn’t stopping at Hillsdale that’s why they didint make it level boarding, it will only stop at Gilroy,San Jose Diridon,Millbrae and San Francisco 4th and King
It looks great
You should do a video comparing the old station and the new station.
play this video with a general signals type 1 audio its sounds so good!
i wonder if we were here on the same day lmao
The car on 1:26 looks Similar to Metrolink trains in Union Station
That's because it is a Metrolink car that Caltrain bought from them back in 2015 :D
You need to invest in a global shutter my guy, led arrival display be acting funky; probably because fps is too high.
What camera do you use?
Any 4K video is with an LG V60; non-4K videos are with a Panasonic HC-V180K
My goodness, that bell ringing all that time must get a bit annoying for passengers and local residents alike.
I think Caltrain requires their engineers to ring their bell every time they approach a grade crossing, arriving and departing each station
@@evanstonbalce9588 That's an FRA requirement
Can somebody explain to me why US trains still need that darn bell. Its a throwback to the 19th century and is pointless.
Well that's your opinion. I'm my opinion it sounds cool.
@@fuckheinschitt239 still havn't answered the question
@@williamkettle8666 to warn other vehicles and people to stay clear off the tracks
Because the FRA requires it for safety. If a train didn't have a bell, it couldn't operate over QZ's as it would make no noise
@@AVeryRandomPerson Its got a noisy diesel engine for goodness sake