California High-Speed Rail #30 Downtown Fresno Slow Pass
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Here is a slow pass video of Downtown Fresno between the last of the Union Pacific temporary alignment to the Belmont Avenue overpass.
I call it a slow pass because it is not sped up, barely edited, with some ambient zen music to match the slow 26 mph pace. It is practically straight off the drone. This is actually two flights and there is one transition. This is just a quick release small stretch of the entire area I covered today. I will begin the edit on full Round 3 Part 3 video next. it will go from Church Avenue in Fresno to Avenue 19 in Madera. It will have all the usual side-by-sides and speed-ups :)
Hey, a clear day... finally. Let me get a drink and enjoy this.
Beautiful shots! Thank you for your work!
So crazy dude...I was literally there Today flying my drone as well
Drone off! :P
It'd be hilarious if you met up, and got footage of Jason's drone taking the drone footage.
Like Inception 😂
@@jasondroninaroundDrone-ception
Spooky tunnel. Can't wait for the day that you fly through that.
@@CATDRL2 you can't even see light on the other side lol I'm not sure why
@@jasondroninaround Do you think they even dug through? Maybe they only did the entrances for now and will have to construct a highway bypass later to allow crews to dig through and reinforce the ground above and below to make sure the freeway doesn't buckle into it.
@@CATDRL2 maybe... But what I wasn't going in there to find out lol
@@CATDRL2 The highway was already relocated and the tunnel constructed back in 2019 or so.
@@rwdavidoff Thanks.
Great footage. Thank you.
Hey guys. I think I’m one of the top 10 earliest subscribers of Jason
In response to the comment about CHSR crossing over Fresno Street and requiring an embankment, according to the final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) under the Technical Section, "The Fresno St underpass would be extended under the HST structure. G St would pass over Fresno St, and H St would be re-profiled to provide an at-grade connection with Fresno St." In the flyover, G street is the street on the left running parallel with the CHSR alignment. Fresno Street will have to be closed temporarily and the approach from the left of the screen will have to be deepened and extended and G street will have a bridge crossing over Fresno Street. Thus, CHSR will be at grade over Fresno Street.
@@AxesoftheDanes thank you :-) I knew somebody would know better than me lol
@@jasondroninaround No worries. You are doing an outstanding job video documenting the progress on this megaproject. In my opinion you are performing an invaluable service. Keep it up if you can!
Thanks for sharing. So still lots of work to be done. Do you all think 2033 is doable for the IOS?
Thanks for digging that up. So it will look like Tulare or Cesar Chavez when completed, I guess, without a direct interconnection to G street anymore?
It depends on the actions of the incoming administration. The current administration awarded approximately 3.1 billion dollars to the Authority in December 2023 which, among other things, would permit the Authority to purchase trainsets for testing and operation and single track the IOS. The Authority application for funding that would be used to double track the IOS was denied. If the incoming administration attempts to claw back this funding, it will inevitably lead to a protracted legal battle that will tie up the funding until a final legal determination is made. According to the 2024 business plan, if this funding is unavailable, all they have funding for at the time of that presentation is completion of the initial 119 miles of construction, but single tracked and no trainsets.
I would appreciate either a narration or more descriptive titles, like the new track that snake into the old track - what is it? Is it for freight trains? Will there be more re-alignment? Where the HSR track will be? I guess you explained it in the earlier overflies, still, I don't remember much. Also, someone new may watch it, and without context it is not fully clear what are we looking at. Thanks!
@@TinLeadHammer Yes. They moved the UP line over temporarily to build those underpasses. I think it's supposed to be going back really soon. Then, they'll finish the underpasses all the way through and they'll be ready for the high speed rail line.
These slow past videos have kind of turned into a quick and easy upload that I usually put up the same day or the next day after shooting. The main video it's pretty long and there's a lot of editing and it will take me several days for it to be ready, depending on how much I'm working at my day job :-)
4:11 "They all float down here"
What are they doing earlier in the video with a reroute around what might be the old station?
The new station ties into the old station.
Most of the grade crossing for UP were level crossings. There cannot be level crossing in high-speed rail. UP is getting a bunch of "free" underpasses and overpasses. They temporarily realigned the UP freight lines to built the underpasses. I think they are done with those parts of the underpasses and now UP has to put their rails back where they were. There is a similar situation later in the video, just past the clown's hideout :) You can see where they temporarily realigned that branch line. The part of the Trench is finished where the branch line used to be. Now they are just waiting for UP to put their rails back where they were there as well.
The temporary diversion Jason describes is called a "shoofly" I think by analogy to waving a fly to get it to move away from where you need to do the work--there's also one up at the wye at 4:35, where the track is currently on the shoofly alignment, and needs to be restored to the original alignment (visible with the bridge and ballast just south of the shoofly) now that the canal and trench crossing have been constructed. I'm hoping to see that also in the works when the cut-and-throw for restoring the original alignment from the shoofly at Tulare/Cesar Chavez is completed.
@@rwdavidoff I learned a new word on this comment thread: Shoofly. I updated the labels in the upcoming video :-) thank you. Before this adventure, I was an amateur rail fan and an amateur drone pilot. I'm getting better at both thanks to all you guys lol
As for the video editing last night. All the labels got done and I started making the music. Sometimes it seems to generate the perfect songs and it goes really quickly. Other times, like last night, it doesn't. I don't know if it's my mood or just fate or whatever but I was listening to crappy generated song over and over and over and I just told myself I need to sleep on it.
@@jasondroninaround I learned it from Roaming Railfan's excellent videos about Brightline's construction down in Florida, so just passing it along I suppose. :)
Glad the fog finally burnt off! How far were you able to film? Did you make Madera this time, or will there be one more segment of this loop's videos?
Even gladder to see the track across the Tulare and Cesar Chavez crossings, and a rail surfacing set on site (tamper visible at 1:12). They can't get the cut-and-throw to link that all in done fast enough, this has been such a hold-up!
@@rwdavidoff I made it all the way to Madera with time to spare :-)
@@jasondroninaround I'm pleased the weather cooperated, and I look forward to seeing the whole thing!
So HSR will need to build an embankment up to cross the road trench at 1:40? while UP crosses flat? or am I missing something?
@@MrJohndoe845 someone might know better than me but I'm betting that once they get Fresno Street and Tulare Street open, they will close that one. I would guess that the plan is just to lower the street more. It looks like they won't have to change anything on the UP line so it should be a little easier
I'm not trying to be facetious. I honestly didn't know much at all about this project beyond that big Hanford Viaduct by my house. I've learned a lot from you guys 😁
A user named AxesofDanes had a good answer in another comment you might want to check--basically, the Fresno street intersection with G street will be removed, and Fresno Street realigned to stay lower longer and then slope back up, with G street restored going over on a bridge, much like at Tulare or Cesar Chavez. As Fresno Street will thus be lower than it is, HSR can cross at grade, no embankment required.
@@rwdavidoff It was nice of AxesofDanes to respond to me - thanks for pointing out the disjointed comment threads for others to be able to better track!
The wall.
@@Rtzee thicker than it looks from 90 feet up 😆