Update: She's doing better. We both got home on the same day. Thank you guys :-) I am at the hospital with a friend. I'm fine. Hopefully she will be too. I was in the middle of posting this video when she called. I did not finish the whole description with the Google Earth link or the chapters. I'll finish the description when I get home.
Thanks for the great video update. It really helps to have the graphic text overlays so we know what we're looking at on this amazing transit infrastructure project.
I live in fresno.this is all nice to see from a higher perspective. I worked on the Hanford viaduct being rock and sand to there yard they used to make the concrete for the gerters they make
Not sure if I can really share this but I’m one of the overseers of the Belmont Overpass on this project and it’s incredible to actually see how much progress this project have seen in the past couple months I’ve been on site 6:20
They did a time lapsed vision of the construction of the new bay bridge. With a little ingenuity something along those lines could drum up support for this project. 14:33
I have a day job and I have to keep my day job. I am a truck driver for a small construction company in Visalia, California. I work 5 to 6 days a week and 50 to 60 hours a week. I live in California. It's too expensive to live here without an actual job. Though I do have aspirations of retiring to my camper van and living down by the river. Get myself a really good laptop that'll run DaVinci Resolve and just go around the state shoot and drone videos lol
@@williamwadsworthwilliams I am Jason Stevens of Hanford California on Facebook. I guess my full name is not that secret because those Google Earth links I share show my full name. It's also not much of a secret that I live close to the Hanford Viaduct. I am somewhat public on Facebook because of my videos I post. You should be able to easily find me and message me there. I've had the same phone number forever and I'd rather keep it that way. I feel uncomfortable sharing my phone number here 😂
@JasonDroninAround. I love your videos and they are truly showing the progress that is being completed. I cannot wait for this to be finished so I can ride it and hopefully one day we can have HSR from Seattle to los angles.
Hope your friend is okay. This was a fun video. Liked the split screen. Interesting to see how much additional work is going on besides just laying track.
The drone footage is pretty cool but I really like the soundtrack. The last time I consistently took mass transit was in the 70's but I'll ride this once just to go fast.
@@AnthonyPinkerton-d7p Watch this video on your cell phone to see what I see while flying the drone. The screen for controlling the drone is my cell phone. I saw the first ones and stayed over them. I almost didn't see the second ones. The collision avoidance is optical. It is well known that it has problems with power lines and trees without leaves. That was not an automatic stop. The drone never alerted to the power lines until I was completely stopped. That was a close one hehe.
@williamwadsworthwilliams for now, all the is really set up is the Super Thanks here on TH-cam. I don't have any kind of Patreon or any of that set up yet. This all happened kind of quickly lol. Though, I do have daydreams of some year this TH-cam thing takes off enough to where I can quit my day job and just do some every inch coverage of the original transcontinental railroad router something silly like that :-)
For building high-speed rail, I'm a little surprised to see so many level crossings appear to be in place looking like they've been revamped - are the expected to be left in place? As for value for money, Italy's high-speed rail network has meant that travel around the country is cheaper, easier, and they have virtually no more need for domestic air travel. Living in Melbourne, Australia, I can say that travel between Melbourne and Sydney would be faster, cleaner, and far more efficient if we had Euro/Japanese-style HSR. (We can only dream of maglev trains at this point.)
This isnt a high speed rail line, its just the state of California subsidising freight railroads track upgrades. A good majority of us who mistakenly voted yes on this will be dead by the time the first "high speed" train runs along any amount of this line.
There will be no crossings for most of the line, once it enters the urban area there will be crossings but the trains slow down to only 110 miles an hour there
@@StaYUTI420start of active testing in 2029 and revenue service in 2030-33. That’s mostly funded at this point (including the six high speed trains, which will operate at up to 242 mph in testing and 220 mph in service), with about $4-7 billion more needed to complete the Merced and Bakersfield extensions and begin revenue service. The entire Central Valley segment is being designed and built for max speeds of 250 mph.
@@r.a.mancillas812 this is all northbound. The entire round two is northbound. As so should all the future rounds all in the same direction from now on. Northbound is good because it's much more likely for the sun to be at the drone's back and less details hiding in the shadows :-)
About 35 billion dollars thus far, for the short segment. Then another $100 billion, per the LA Times - we know this a good estimate because the 1st estimates to build were so accurate. If they sell seats for $500 per person, how long before it pays for the expense to build? Let’s see, $135 billion divided by five hundred bucks. Oh yeah, it’s a math word problem. No one in California can do those. The people of California have just lost their minds. To spend all this money on a street car between two fixed points is beyond insane.
Update; they just requested another 100 billion!!! B - as in billion. I tried posting here but my comment was deleted because I've made negative comments on the project before. Someone doesn't like differing points of view on this corrupt project? Don't know.
About once a month I think to myself, "Why are my taxes so high when the the interstate is in such disrepair, why can't I take public transit to work 16 miles away and why does every surface street feel like a dirt road?" and then I watch some CAHSR videos and it becomes clear again.
$135 billion to build this dumb train between two fixed points. The people in California are beyond salvage with their stupidity to support this boondoggle.
@@DanielColby-t6l I should find that other link to the other video. That guy seemed to know some history on that building. It used to be a Foster's Farms feed house and then the last name that it had before it went out of business was a company that I've never heard of before. If you're not from around here, Foster's Farms is a big poultry producer. So, it was just a big poultry feed mill. I'm from Hanford so unfortunately I don't know a lot about that place.
Thank you! I scrolled through my history trying to find it but I couldn't. I don't mind sharing another local train loving drone guy's channel on here th-cam.com/video/rGJrUnC5kD8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=HAzPh5sKLZtL4HMF
California High Speed Rail Project--By far, the biggest boondoggle in California history. We might as well be flushing the billions of dollars we're spending on this right down the toilet!!
as many thousands of homeless people in the great state of california prepare their makeshift tarp-tents to try an stay dry and warm, here is another example of useless newsum - everytime we visit the store and are asked, "would you like a bag for 10 cents" or the latest, legally obligated to ask our prefered pronouns, we are reminded of the failure that is newsum - all aboard !
Train that no one wants. They should stop construction and give the land back to the farmers. Gavin newsom should be arrested for grand larsony and put in prison for the rest of his life.
So what else are we supposed to do to fix the travel hassle between sf and la? Keep widening highways, which also disrupts far more land, increases congestion, doesn't even fix traffic at all?
@@jasondroninaround well nobody voted for it when it was on the ballot. Otherwise it would have passed. That train is going to cost a trillion dollars by the time it’s done. How long is it going to take to pay that off?
@@EdwardM-t8p I hope you make a lot of money. That train is going to cost a trillion dollars by the time it’s all said and done. And that means expensive tickets.
You're acting like the US doesn't waste even more billions of dollars on even less useful shit like highway widening, oil, the military, etc. Also only 11B has been spent on cahsr as of now.
Au contraire, only 11 bln of that 100 bln has been spent so far and not only have they pushed around dirt, they're building or have built overpasses and underpasses for both the railway and some of the cross streets. They've also laid track for relocated railroads, all captured in this video and elsewhere! Elsewhere they've begun laying HSR tracks and up in the San Francisco Bay Area they've upgraded the Caltrain tracks for better commuter rail service now and for the future HSR trains!
In the next century, our great-great-grandchildren will still be extolling the virtues of being able to ride the California HSR line between the former great cities in the Golden State, should the construction of the planned route through the central valley and the extant mountains ever be finished. Meanwhile, those of us in Texas will more likely enjoy service between Houston, San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth, plus the multitude of local connections along the way. Would you like to go to Monterrey, Torreon, De Fe, o quisas SLP? California. Is too slow, too late.
@@WaitNoIdidntMean I wouldn't call the 3 things you mentioned useless (okay maybe oil is) but at least those get finished eventually. Theres a chance that CAHSR just gets given up on.
Update: She's doing better. We both got home on the same day. Thank you guys :-)
I am at the hospital with a friend. I'm fine. Hopefully she will be too. I was in the middle of posting this video when she called. I did not finish the whole description with the Google Earth link or the chapters. I'll finish the description when I get home.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery for your friend!
Praying for your friend. Best of luck.
Like the others have already said I also hope your friend has a speedy recovery.
Rest recover, stay healthy.
The side by side comparison really helps to understand the progress or lack there of!
The construction of the new railway and related work is so fascinating! Keep up the good work recording footage and keeping us updated! 🎉🎉🎉
Thanks for the great video update. It really helps to have the graphic text overlays so we know what we're looking at on this amazing transit infrastructure project.
I live in fresno.this is all nice to see from a higher perspective. I worked on the Hanford viaduct being rock and sand to there yard they used to make the concrete for the gerters they make
Not sure if I can really share this but I’m one of the overseers of the Belmont Overpass on this project and it’s incredible to actually see how much progress this project have seen in the past couple months I’ve been on site 6:20
I wish I could talk to you directly, or just listen.
Do you document daily progress photographically?
They did a time lapsed vision of the construction of the new bay bridge.
With a little ingenuity something along those lines could drum up support for this project. 14:33
I have a day job and I have to keep my day job. I am a truck driver for a small construction company in Visalia, California. I work 5 to 6 days a week and 50 to 60 hours a week. I live in California. It's too expensive to live here without an actual job. Though I do have aspirations of retiring to my camper van and living down by the river. Get myself a really good laptop that'll run DaVinci Resolve and just go around the state shoot and drone videos lol
@@mood4eva98 when they're all done, is the roundabout still going to exist in some way?
@@williamwadsworthwilliams I am Jason Stevens of Hanford California on Facebook. I guess my full name is not that secret because those Google Earth links I share show my full name. It's also not much of a secret that I live close to the Hanford Viaduct. I am somewhat public on Facebook because of my videos I post. You should be able to easily find me and message me there. I've had the same phone number forever and I'd rather keep it that way. I feel uncomfortable sharing my phone number here 😂
@JasonDroninAround. I love your videos and they are truly showing the progress that is being completed. I cannot wait for this to be finished so I can ride it and hopefully one day we can have HSR from Seattle to los angles.
Hope your friend is okay. This was a fun video. Liked the split screen. Interesting to see how much additional work is going on besides just laying track.
Thhanks for update. You have your drone. Greetings from Berlin/ Germany. Sven
Thank you for all your work🎉🎉🎉🎉
Best wishes to your friend. Thank you for updating us to this point.
Always so fascinating! Always much to see!!! 🤩
Best wishes for your friend. Thanks for your hard work on the videos!
This is great please never stop making these videos
The drone footage is pretty cool but I really like the soundtrack. The last time I consistently took mass transit was in the 70's but I'll ride this once just to go fast.
great video once again!
As always another great video; just be careful around the power lines, it could’ve ended badly for your drone!
@@AnthonyPinkerton-d7p Watch this video on your cell phone to see what I see while flying the drone. The screen for controlling the drone is my cell phone. I saw the first ones and stayed over them. I almost didn't see the second ones. The collision avoidance is optical. It is well known that it has problems with power lines and trees without leaves. That was not an automatic stop. The drone never alerted to the power lines until I was completely stopped. That was a close one hehe.
@@jasondroninaround How can I support your work?
Let me reward your risk and work in a modest way.
@williamwadsworthwilliams for now, all the is really set up is the Super Thanks here on TH-cam. I don't have any kind of Patreon or any of that set up yet. This all happened kind of quickly lol. Though, I do have daydreams of some year this TH-cam thing takes off enough to where I can quit my day job and just do some every inch coverage of the original transcontinental railroad router something silly like that :-)
For building high-speed rail, I'm a little surprised to see so many level crossings appear to be in place looking like they've been revamped - are the expected to be left in place?
As for value for money, Italy's high-speed rail network has meant that travel around the country is cheaper, easier, and they have virtually no more need for domestic air travel. Living in Melbourne, Australia, I can say that travel between Melbourne and Sydney would be faster, cleaner, and far more efficient if we had Euro/Japanese-style HSR. (We can only dream of maglev trains at this point.)
All will be removed here, but avoiding cutting the city in half requires them to be closed for work in phases.
This isnt a high speed rail line, its just the state of California subsidising freight railroads track upgrades. A good majority of us who mistakenly voted yes on this will be dead by the time the first "high speed" train runs along any amount of this line.
italy is way smaller than australia, so trains make way more sense there
There will be no crossings for most of the line, once it enters the urban area there will be crossings but the trains slow down to only 110 miles an hour there
@@StaYUTI420start of active testing in 2029 and revenue service in 2030-33. That’s mostly funded at this point (including the six high speed trains, which will operate at up to 242 mph in testing and 220 mph in service), with about $4-7 billion more needed to complete the Merced and Bakersfield extensions and begin revenue service. The entire Central Valley segment is being designed and built for max speeds of 250 mph.
Nice ending.
lets goo!
Are you headed south? or north?
@@r.a.mancillas812 this is all northbound. The entire round two is northbound. As so should all the future rounds all in the same direction from now on. Northbound is good because it's much more likely for the sun to be at the drone's back and less details hiding in the shadows :-)
About 35 billion dollars thus far, for the short segment. Then another $100 billion, per the LA Times - we know this a good estimate because the 1st estimates to build were so accurate. If they sell seats for $500 per person, how long before it pays for the expense to build? Let’s see, $135 billion divided by five hundred bucks. Oh yeah, it’s a math word problem. No one in California can do those. The people of California have just lost their minds. To spend all this money on a street car between two fixed points is beyond insane.
Update; they just requested another 100 billion!!! B - as in billion. I tried posting here but my comment was deleted because I've made negative comments on the project before. Someone doesn't like differing points of view on this corrupt project? Don't know.
About once a month I think to myself, "Why are my taxes so high when the the interstate is in such disrepair, why can't I take public transit to work 16 miles away and why does every surface street feel like a dirt road?" and then I watch some CAHSR videos and it becomes clear again.
$135 billion to build this dumb train between two fixed points. The people in California are beyond salvage with their stupidity to support this boondoggle.
It's true. Guess what. They've just asked for another "one hundred billion dollars for this thing". Not million. Billion.
Hey jason that masive silo structure is being demolished just past the 180 to the east you can see at 545 in the video
@@jeremygrossardt7548 ya, I saw another person's video on it. That's cool 😎
what is that called ? (video link?) love these videos
@@DanielColby-t6l I should find that other link to the other video. That guy seemed to know some history on that building. It used to be a Foster's Farms feed house and then the last name that it had before it went out of business was a company that I've never heard of before. If you're not from around here, Foster's Farms is a big poultry producer. So, it was just a big poultry feed mill. I'm from Hanford so unfortunately I don't know a lot about that place.
@@DanielColby-t6l I think the channel was "Time for Beans," at least that's the video I recently saw of it.
Thank you! I scrolled through my history trying to find it but I couldn't. I don't mind sharing another local train loving drone guy's channel on here th-cam.com/video/rGJrUnC5kD8/w-d-xo.htmlsi=HAzPh5sKLZtL4HMF
This project is all but erasing the old US99 through Fresno.
😂😂😂😂😂
Nope, no track yet.
California High Speed Rail Project--By far, the biggest boondoggle in California history. We might as well be flushing the billions of dollars we're spending on this right down the toilet!!
Nah
as many thousands of homeless people in the great state of california prepare their makeshift tarp-tents to try an stay dry and warm, here is another example of useless newsum - everytime we visit the store and are asked, "would you like a bag for 10 cents" or the latest, legally obligated to ask our prefered pronouns, we are reminded of the failure that is newsum - all aboard !
Train that no one wants. They should stop construction and give the land back to the farmers. Gavin newsom should be arrested for grand larsony and put in prison for the rest of his life.
So what else are we supposed to do to fix the travel hassle between sf and la? Keep widening highways, which also disrupts far more land, increases congestion, doesn't even fix traffic at all?
It's a train that I want. I guess it's not the first time I've been called a "nobody" hehe
Once the HSR links up SF and LA a lot of nobodies will be taking the trains!
@@jasondroninaround well nobody voted for it when it was on the ballot. Otherwise it would have passed. That train is going to cost a trillion dollars by the time it’s done. How long is it going to take to pay that off?
@@EdwardM-t8p I hope you make a lot of money. That train is going to cost a trillion dollars by the time it’s all said and done. And that means expensive tickets.
100 Billion and 10 years and they have moved some dirt. What an absurd waist of money.
You're acting like the US doesn't waste even more billions of dollars on even less useful shit like highway widening, oil, the military, etc. Also only 11B has been spent on cahsr as of now.
Au contraire, only 11 bln of that 100 bln has been spent so far and not only have they pushed around dirt, they're building or have built overpasses and underpasses for both the railway and some of the cross streets. They've also laid track for relocated railroads, all captured in this video and elsewhere! Elsewhere they've begun laying HSR tracks and up in the San Francisco Bay Area they've upgraded the Caltrain tracks for better commuter rail service now and for the future HSR trains!
In the next century, our great-great-grandchildren will still be extolling the virtues of being able to ride the California HSR line between the former great cities in the Golden State, should the construction of the planned route through the central valley and the extant mountains ever be finished.
Meanwhile, those of us in Texas will more likely enjoy service between Houston, San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth, plus the multitude of local connections along the way. Would you like to go to Monterrey, Torreon, De Fe, o quisas SLP? California. Is too slow, too late.
@@WaitNoIdidntMean I wouldn't call the 3 things you mentioned useless (okay maybe oil is) but at least those get finished eventually. Theres a chance that CAHSR just gets given up on.
@@lalakerspro I'd say highway widening is useless. It does not fix traffic at all and only makes it worse, yet we still do it