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- This is Part 4 of an 8-part mega-train Odyssey, consisting of my eastbound 3-day trip on AMTRAK's "California Zephyr" from Emeryville, California to Chicago's Union Station in August 2022.
Because the weather was so fine, and the time of year provided a lot more spectacular scenery during daylight hours, I decided to take a LOT of video, and edit to preserve as much good content as possible. I also decided to edit so that each of the 8 parts (except the shorter Part 1 "Prologue") was about 1.5 hours duration, rather than make a smaller number of longer video segments.
I have a MUCH shorter TH-cam video of the California Zephyr, taken on a westbound train in late December, and that is only about 1.5 hours long by itself, if you want a shorter viewing experience or want to see the route in the Winter with snow-covered mountain passes.
Sorry, but that static is annoying…
I've never seen this route between Emeryville & Salt Lake City. The eastbound Zephyr once originated in Oakland. I lived in SoCal & would book reservations in the '80's & '90's on The Desert Wind out of L.A. that met up with The CA Zephyr in Salt Lake City. Another train which left from Seattle-The Pioneer, would meet up with the Zephyr & Desert Wind in Denver which made an impressive train on to Chicago. Much has changed, but the overall experience is still enjoyable & unforgettable compared to air or cross-country car travel.
We took the triple train 5/25/35 out of Chicago in 1991, headed to LA on the Desert Wind. Beautiful trip...Will never forget it.
#5-CA Zephyr
#25-Pioneer
#35-Desert Wind
Took #29-Capitol Limited DC to Chicago
Took #2-Sunset Limited from LA to NOLA, then #20-Crescent back to DC.
Made the loop.
Hi youtuuba. A respectful suggestion. I think many of your fans would appreciate a addendum video with primary focus on the "traditional dining" as well as the "flexible dining" options.
I would love to hear not only your reviews but also any commentary you would be willing to share about the reviews from your fellow passengers.
Meanwhile, welcome back to the rails. You should know how much I look forward to your odyssey reports. For a disabled old man, you are the garlic in my spaghetti sauce of life. God bless you my friend.
Doug Abbott, I appreciate that you like my train videos.
But as far as dwelling more on the AMTRAK meals, there is just no way that I am going to do more than I currently do in this regard. I don't understand the fascination some viewers have with the meals....I can only assume that they themselves have not done these train trips, and imagine some kind of "Murder on the Orient Express" type of classy dining and gourmet meals. While I think most meals I have had on AMTRAK are pretty decent, I would be embarrassed (and rather bored) focusing on them more than just showing what my own meals look like. Reviews would be silly, and anyway would be too subjective to be of use to anyone.
well you're right... the trains mosly visit the industrial side of towns and villages.
Great to have you back! You've been missed. I'm on vacation and looking forward to watching as much of this odyssey as I can tonight. And thank you for changing the scanner frequency. :D
Thank you for filing the California Zephyr going from west to east. Back in 1975 when I think I was 14 I got to ride the California Zephyr from Salt Lake City to Denver. At that time it was the last privately run passenger travel train in the United States. It had streamlined F units pulling it, with vista dome cars for seeing the scenery. The Utah desert struck me as odd. There were what appeared to be sandstone pillars with obvious horizontal strata typically meaning the rest of the land area would have been similar, but had eroded away. That seemed impossible. Where did all that material go. The other aspect was I was hoping for with the flat open land and this sleek passenger train was we might see speeds 90 - 100 mph. Instead in the barren desert the sandstone pillars seemed to just creep by and then when we did get near a highway the cars would be passing the train so it not only seemed slow we were going slow!
Getting to Grand Junction a bunch of new people got on the train. I saw a highway sign that said 150 miles to Denver, but the train schedule still had it taking it 6 hours. I wondered what was going on. The rest of the trip to Denver was a real interesting adventure in mountain railroading. The grades involved are severe. The track was highly regulated with signaling and side tracks for holding trains while others passed. It seemed meticulously well maintained. It was a very active railroad; whereas, the desert section seemed only mildly used and not maintained very well. A few years later Amtrak took over running this train and ended the last privately run passenger train in the USA along with its vista dome cars and F-unit streamlined Diesels pulling it.
Thank you so much for what you do for us. I love train travel so much but in my condition, I probably will never be able to do it again you give us people with poor health the dreams that we are missing. The Photography that you give us Is so Outstanding and you are so knowledgeable that narrating this for us. I hope one day you’ll be able to do the sunset limited from Los Angeles to in New Orleans, that would be so awesome. Again, I just want to tell you how much I appreciate you and what you do for all people………Louis
Louradman, I have done a lot of Sunset Limited as part of my Texas Eagle trip, and I have a video of that trip.
Your radio interference is probably a spurious emission from another source from the train itself. Could be cell phone, tablet or even the radios the crew carries.
Glenn Blum, the noise went away after I disabled scanning of two particular frequencies that are established as ones used for this train on this route. Some railfans have told me that some radios used for trains are now incorporating digital content rather than voice, and that trying to listen to such channels results in sounds like I was experiencing here. Problem is, I did not know going into this journey which frequencies were being used for digital communication, and since the hiss did not bother me, I did not promptly take steps to disable them.
@@youtuuba 1) When you dial to a fax line, it produces a continuous tone, not a hissing sound. So any digital transmission the scanner happened to lock on to, should produce a similar sound in the audible range. Hissing may be a sign of interference, not something the scanner can not decode.
2) 1:10 Mars has no sign of life, which means no vegetation, not even a sparse one. So Nevada's landscape can not be confused with Mars'.
Wonderful videos that make you feel you're riding the train. One HUGE request. PLEASE lose the scanner or use a headset for it.
It completely ruins what otherwise would be perfect videos. The squelching of the scanner, especially when you're talking is so annoying and obnoxious. There is no information coming across the scanner that is that important to the video. I've had to stop watching some of the videos because the screeching of the scanner was so bad and annoying. My only other option is to turn off the volume, but your narrations are so wonderfully done, only to be ruined by the annoying scanner.
Waltermitrenga, this particular Train Odyssey is the only one I have done that has significant scanner noise.
I am not about to stop using the scanner, because it is very important to ME, and after all I am the one actually taking the trip (and paying all the expenses and doing all the work).
@youtuuba I don't mind the scanner at all. The only thing that irritates me are people in the comments crying about it. Don't like it? Don't watch it.
1:10:38 😊 I’m hoping to take a cross country train ride this year for our 50 anniversary. Question: what camera do you use to get your great videos. Also, what radio do you use to hear the the RR communications? Keep up the great work. I just subscribed to your channel.
Your back, I was wondering what happened to you. May of this year, I took the Amtrak from Malta MT to Solona Beach California San Diego. Spent 12 days in SD, than went back to MT on the Amtrak, it was epic. I was just looking at my videos and pictures yesterday. Nice to hear from you again.
Check out Grounded Life Travel blogs if you are interested in the meals on trains. This couple covers all meals on their train trips.
Joseph Rossignol, and that is one of the few things they bring to the party. I used to watch their videos until I realized how repetitive they were, and how little they covered of what was outside the train. To each his own.....
I'm a multi-tasker... I can procrastinate, waste time, and be unproductive, all at the same time.
multi-tasking is an IT term. How it passed into common usage is anyone's guess, but it may be misused.
Beautiful scenery!
And an FYI. I follow one of your fellow TH-camrs (Mike Jensen) that videos the #5 coming into Fort Morgan, CO every morning. The last two weeks in August, both the #5 and #6 were affected time wise by track work in east CO and into western Nebraska. There was even one day that the Moffet was shut down.
Reverand Lovejoy is back... off've The Simpsons 🤣
At around 52:00 in the video, the train was traversing the Gilluly Loops (a three level loop) between Thistle and Soldier Summit. Two friends of mine, at different times, were in charge of track maintenance on that section of railroad. The town of Helper, Utah was named as it was (and still is) a base for helper locomotives to assist trains climbing Soldier Summit. One of the friends that I mentioned was born and raised in Helper. There were a lot of coal mines around Helper, and northeast of Price in the Uinta Basin is a major petroleum and natural gas production area today.
A bit off this main venue but as a train buff did you ever ride the old Chicago North Shore? Used to ride it from Kenosha down to watch the Cubbies.
Helper Utah gets its name from the extra engines there that are used to "help' the regular coal loaded trains up Price Canyon and Up to the leveling off in the mountains.
hello again after watching this this reminds me of them doing some kind of work on the sunset limited before it went away due to katrina we had to wait along time before they let us go nice scenery buy the way peace
I got poop IS distasteful.
Scatological.You are right!
Before they built that trench, trains coming through would stop traffic on Virginia Ave. Passenger trains stopping, and long freights rumbling through could snarl auto traffic for blocks.
Nick Greenwich, I assume you are referring to the trench at the train station.......
@@youtuuba Yes. Virginia St. was a much more happening place in the 40’s and 50’s with all the different gambling halls. Also, it was Hwy 395. Fun times when Reno was the only place for Northern Californians to gamble.
There were horses at 19:26;
9:00; Why did they put the train in a concrete canyon?
To avoid blocking roads in downtown Reno :)
Can you lock the door when you go to eat?
No , you can only lock from inside of your room.
CB Johnson, as CD Riley said, the room door lock is just there to protect your privacy while you are in the room. It is not a lock intended to keep other passengers out while you are away. With few exceptions, the only passengers in a given sleeper car are those who also have rooms in that same car, or are in the adjacent sleeper car and are just passing through on the way to the Dining car, etc. Theft of items is not a big problem, but AMTRAK still recommends not bringing "valuables" along on train trips, and certainly not leaving any in plain sight in your room while you are elsewhere on the train.
The scanner squawking in the background is annoying.
Helper and Price are still active mining centers for Anthrosite ( ?) coal) There are concentrations of Grreks, Hispanics, and Finns there, along with non Mormon Churches, as Brigham Young opposed mining in Utah and that his people avoid it, leaving mining in Utah open to te outside world
Anthracite