Good morning! I hope you’re enjoying your morning coffee as much as I am. I really appreciated the flyover of the Tree Topper; I’ve always been curious about how it was done! This was an enjoyable video to watch, and the comments about Grape were such a fun touch. The Cloud Squirrel was a delightful little break, too! I had a funny thought: how about changing the Highway 99 message board from "Don't Drink and Drive" to "Don't Drone and Drive"? With winter approaching, we might have to wait until March for the next flyover, but that’s perfectly fine! Just remember to take breaks for yourself, too. Whatever you decide to do, we’re all supportive and excited! Tony
I think it is because this section is so close to the Kings River. The CHSR grade has to be at a higher elevation to be well above 100 year flood level. That necessary height above grade extends to where CHSR crosses Highway 43 making it much higher than Highway 43.
As long as they are working on it, I will fly it. I'm trying to keep the updates a little more than a month apart and that means breaks between. As for droning and driving, the closest I have become is out in the Madera County Section. There, the project is in a state to where it is very easy to just drive right down the middle of the grade. A few times, at the end of the flight, I would bring the drone close to the ground, leave it hovering, and drive to the drone's location, instead of bringing the drone back to me. Pro Tip LOL: You can change what the drone does when it looses communication with the controller. By default, it is set to begin the return-to-home routine. You can change it to hover-in-place which is important distinction when you are no longer in the place where you launched from hehe
@@jasondroninaround Do you "leap frog " yourself? That means you start the drone and then meet up with it later when the batteries get close to empty. Or are you at the midpoint and have the drone go back and resume flight until it passes you and returns?
@@CATDRL2 with the orchards around here, it's hard to get further than the batteries will let you. It's usually more like going as far as the radio signal will let you. Then, yes. I just leave the drone there and drive to it. That's only up there in Madera County where I know I can drive down the middle of the project. Battery-wise, I have brought it as far as 20,000 ft away before I started getting battery warnings and had to turn it around. On this project, a typical flight is anywhere from 3/4 of a mile to 2 mi each. That just depends on the line of sight from where I park. Trying to balance keeping my car out of the shot with getting clearer skies for longer shots.
My wife and I watched the video together yesterday, and this was actually my third time viewing it. During our discussion, she offered an insightful suggestion. She observed that you frequently stop at specific grade crossings of bridges that have already been constructed and are now fully open to the public. Since these crossings are not subject to any further modifications, she questioned the necessity of pausing to perform a slow flyover of these locations over and over, when nothing else will be added to them. Instead, she proposed that you concentrate your stops on grade crossings, stations, and viaducts that are still under construction or incomplete. By prioritizing these unfinished projects, you would significantly reduce the time spent on stops for battery changes. This change could enhance the overall pacing of your video, allowing you more time to execute slow flyovers of new construction initiatives, which she finds particularly engaging. Additionally, she pointed out that even when the tracks and electrical lines are already laid out for completed grade crossings, the visual differences experienced while passing under or over them become minimal. As a result, focusing on the incomplete areas would not only make more sense but would also provide viewers with more valuable insights. On a different note, she appreciated the notations regarding the farmland and thoroughly enjoyed the moments featuring squirrels. These elements added a delightful touch to the video, making it more enjoyable to watch along with the choice for music to increase the viewing experience. FYI: My wife was a systems analysis. Best Tony.
I'm trying to balance between people that have been watching the series since Day 1 and those who are watching for the first time. Maybe I'll quit the quarter orbits and slow downs for the intersections that are completely finished or have not even broken ground. I kind of have to fly "every inch". That's my niche I guess. The drone flies about 26 mph. I usually speed it up 200% for the interesting bits and 800% everywhere in between. I'll think I'll keep it at 800% more often now. I like that idea. The low flies are kind of a squirrel moment in themselves. I do them to mix it up a bit where I'm on a long section where there is nothing really to look at. The drone is still going about 26 mph and sped up 800%. That works out to "208 mph" and bringing the drone low really brings out that speed :) I think my very first squirrel moment happened on this section, in the very first round. When I wasn't filming CHSR, I would drive home from work on different routes, hoping to catch some harvesting or something else interesting. One day, I was on Part 1 Round 1 of this CHSR. On the drive to the next launch site, I saw they were harvesting tomatoes! I always want to keep the amount of time between flights short to minimize the lighting and shadows being different on the video transitions. I launched the drone, intended to keep my eyes on the prize, and tried to ignore the tomato harvesters. I got a few seconds into the level flight and I though, "Screw it! I have to film these harvesters." I broke off and did a lap around them and came right back in line with the CHSR like nothing happened. A lot of people though it was funny and now I try to take the little detours whenever I see them :)
@@jasondroninaroundI’ve been following for some time and have only recently started commenting. I agree with my wife’s suggestion to discontinue the quarter orbits for completed intersections and instead just fly through while noting the street names. I would prefer that you spend more time hovering and using a split screen to show the new and ongoing construction while you slow down for them, and also speed things up between major construction projects. There’s so much to cover, and I’ve noticed your segments are getting close to 30 minutes long, though I don’t mind that at all. I think the breakout "squirrel moments" are enjoyable and offer a nice break. Yes, please keep including them! For instance, I found it amusing when I saw the cows in the dairy start running as you flew over them. If these moments become too frequent, they could be compiled at the end as an "End Credits" or "Behind the Scenes" segment. Best to you, Tony.
@@jasondroninaround I personally like the quarter orbits. I find that it's a really nice way to see the extent of what has been done, because I just started watching in the previous one.
Yes, but if you only happen to view one of the later videos and he didn't stop at the completed projects, you would necessarily know they were not originally there. Maybe he can slow down and have the text overlays but not go all the way around with the drone. Just slow down, but keep going along the route.
@@thondupandrugtsang some of the stuff is hard to identify in the winter when there's no leaves, especially the stone fruits like the peaches and plums. Walnut orchards are usually gigantic trees that are not hedged at all. Almonds lose their leaves last. The way to tell the wheat from the alfalfa is by the patches. The alfalfa is planted once and harvested all year long. That means that they're kind of in bunches and patches and the little dividers in the field to separate the water sections are flattened out because they've been run over several times. The wheat on the other hand is more uniform and it is planted once and harvested once. You can tell the little dividers in between the sections have not been up very long. Even though I don't remember seeing any table grapes in this section, they are easy to tell apart by what's between the rows. Raisin, juice, and wine grapes are grown tall and narrow with a large gap for harvesting equipment to go in between. Table grapes on the other hand kind of look like a T or a Y when you look at the cross section. They form a canopy. There is no need to bring tractors through because they are hand harvested. Pistachios lose their leaves pretty quickly but they have that weird look where there is one different tree for like every 100. I think I heard that those are the male trees and they're necessary for pollinization or something. I might be wrong on that.
The latest update shows improvement in the approximate 4 mile BNSF relocation. The 1st segment of about 1.7 miles goes from 15:37 to 17:02, and the 2nd segment goes from around 17:50 to 19:33 for about two miles. When finished about 4 more miles of CAHSR will be completed. At 17:56 you can see about 36 hopper cars filled with gravel for the project.
Also, around 16:35 there's a rail surfacing set visible, with a ballast regulator (like a bulldozer for distributing and rough-forming ballast around the rails) on the right/south and what I think is a ballast tamper/fine track alignment machine on the left/north side.
Rebar up for all four of the columns on the north side of the rail spur at Hanford, with forms up around two of those. Not clear the status of the southern row, not much visible above ground, I can't tell if there hasn't been any work other than land clearance, or if they just haven't erected the column rebar yet.
For a reason I still have to find out, I am getting hungry after watching.... Alfalfa. I had to look that up (do not like, I know now) The off-topic zoom in on the Tree Topper was the highlight!
@@Keikdv alfalfa is one of my favorite crops around here for two reasons. First, when they cut it, it has a very distinctive smell that is on the same level as cutting grass but more extreme. It's probably a bad thing if you have allergies. The other thing about the alfalfa is that when it flowers, there's millions of these bright yellow butterflies that are attracted to it. I don't know where they come from or where they go but they're all over the place right before a harvest.
Another fantastic video; man the Central Valley looks like you guys got hammered with the atmospheric river that came through? Hell, I live in San Luis Obispo County and we got 48 hours of Hell, but nothing like it appears that you guys suffered? I’m starting to think that the Hanford Viaduct and Excelsior Avenue overpass will likely be the last projects completed? Seriously, I hate all these anti-HSR websites claiming that nothing has been completed since 2018? Really, do these people no drive through the San Joaquin Valley and see everything being completed? Once HSR starts laying rails and installing overhead catenary wires, then they’ll have to eat humble pie!
@@AnthonyPinkerton-d7p It mostly stay to the north of us. It was pretty bad up by Stockton and Sacramento. We only got one good day of rain. There is a lot of work to be done on the Hanford Viaduct. I drive under it everyday on the way to and from work and I see they're working on it everyday :-)
No, it was just a really foggy morning. I work full time M-F and the weekends are the only times I can do these long shoots. For continuity, I like to shoot all the videos back-to-back, as quickly as possible, on the same day. It had rained a lot on Saturday. Rain around here usually means dense fog for the next few days en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tule_fog I started as early as I could with the fog and still hopefully have enough time to make it to Fresno in one day :)
I wonder why CHSR is building over the roads instead of depressing the highways? Less grading and shorter /smaller bridges. It probably has to do with drainage of rain water.
@@shreychaudhary4477 The no drone zone goes from about where I stopped on this video all the way to Church Avenue. There is another even smaller no drone zone up in Madera. Then, there's a gigantic no drone zone in Bakersfield. That's going to be a problem someday when I start filming down there. Down in Bakersfield, there's a large airport that runs parallel to one side of Highway 99 where are the proposed CHSR route runs along the other side of Highway 99. It doesn't run through like corner of the no drone zone like the other two, the one in Bakersfield runs parallel to the no drone zone hehe
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Another informative video with a beautiful sunset image at the end. Well done.
I really love how much effort you put into increasing the production value of your videos!
Good morning! I hope you’re enjoying your morning coffee as much as I am. I really appreciated the flyover of the Tree Topper; I’ve always been curious about how it was done! This was an enjoyable video to watch, and the comments about Grape were such a fun touch. The Cloud Squirrel was a delightful little break, too!
I had a funny thought: how about changing the Highway 99 message board from "Don't Drink and Drive" to "Don't Drone and Drive"?
With winter approaching, we might have to wait until March for the next flyover, but that’s perfectly fine! Just remember to take breaks for yourself, too. Whatever you decide to do, we’re all supportive and excited! Tony
Why isn't highway 43 taken over the railway in stead of rail over road , surely it must be cheaper to raise a road tha a rail track
I think it is because this section is so close to the Kings River. The CHSR grade has to be at a higher elevation to be well above 100 year flood level. That necessary height above grade extends to where CHSR crosses Highway 43 making it much higher than Highway 43.
As long as they are working on it, I will fly it. I'm trying to keep the updates a little more than a month apart and that means breaks between.
As for droning and driving, the closest I have become is out in the Madera County Section. There, the project is in a state to where it is very easy to just drive right down the middle of the grade. A few times, at the end of the flight, I would bring the drone close to the ground, leave it hovering, and drive to the drone's location, instead of bringing the drone back to me. Pro Tip LOL: You can change what the drone does when it looses communication with the controller. By default, it is set to begin the return-to-home routine. You can change it to hover-in-place which is important distinction when you are no longer in the place where you launched from hehe
@@jasondroninaround Do you "leap frog " yourself? That means you start the drone and then meet up with it later when the batteries get close to empty. Or are you at the midpoint and have the drone go back and resume flight until it passes you and returns?
@@CATDRL2 with the orchards around here, it's hard to get further than the batteries will let you. It's usually more like going as far as the radio signal will let you. Then, yes. I just leave the drone there and drive to it. That's only up there in Madera County where I know I can drive down the middle of the project. Battery-wise, I have brought it as far as 20,000 ft away before I started getting battery warnings and had to turn it around. On this project, a typical flight is anywhere from 3/4 of a mile to 2 mi each. That just depends on the line of sight from where I park. Trying to balance keeping my car out of the shot with getting clearer skies for longer shots.
My wife and I watched the video together yesterday, and this was actually my third time viewing it. During our discussion, she offered an insightful suggestion. She observed that you frequently stop at specific grade crossings of bridges that have already been constructed and are now fully open to the public. Since these crossings are not subject to any further modifications, she questioned the necessity of pausing to perform a slow flyover of these locations over and over, when nothing else will be added to them.
Instead, she proposed that you concentrate your stops on grade crossings, stations, and viaducts that are still under construction or incomplete. By prioritizing these unfinished projects, you would significantly reduce the time spent on stops for battery changes. This change could enhance the overall pacing of your video, allowing you more time to execute slow flyovers of new construction initiatives, which she finds particularly engaging.
Additionally, she pointed out that even when the tracks and electrical lines are already laid out for completed grade crossings, the visual differences experienced while passing under or over them become minimal. As a result, focusing on the incomplete areas would not only make more sense but would also provide viewers with more valuable insights.
On a different note, she appreciated the notations regarding the farmland and thoroughly enjoyed the moments featuring squirrels. These elements added a delightful touch to the video, making it more enjoyable to watch along with the choice for music to increase the viewing experience.
FYI: My wife was a systems analysis.
Best
Tony.
I'm trying to balance between people that have been watching the series since Day 1 and those who are watching for the first time. Maybe I'll quit the quarter orbits and slow downs for the intersections that are completely finished or have not even broken ground. I kind of have to fly "every inch". That's my niche I guess. The drone flies about 26 mph. I usually speed it up 200% for the interesting bits and 800% everywhere in between. I'll think I'll keep it at 800% more often now. I like that idea.
The low flies are kind of a squirrel moment in themselves. I do them to mix it up a bit where I'm on a long section where there is nothing really to look at. The drone is still going about 26 mph and sped up 800%. That works out to "208 mph" and bringing the drone low really brings out that speed :)
I think my very first squirrel moment happened on this section, in the very first round. When I wasn't filming CHSR, I would drive home from work on different routes, hoping to catch some harvesting or something else interesting. One day, I was on Part 1 Round 1 of this CHSR. On the drive to the next launch site, I saw they were harvesting tomatoes! I always want to keep the amount of time between flights short to minimize the lighting and shadows being different on the video transitions. I launched the drone, intended to keep my eyes on the prize, and tried to ignore the tomato harvesters. I got a few seconds into the level flight and I though, "Screw it! I have to film these harvesters." I broke off and did a lap around them and came right back in line with the CHSR like nothing happened. A lot of people though it was funny and now I try to take the little detours whenever I see them :)
@@jasondroninaroundI’ve been following for some time and have only recently started commenting. I agree with my wife’s suggestion to discontinue the quarter orbits for completed intersections and instead just fly through while noting the street names. I would prefer that you spend more time hovering and using a split screen to show the new and ongoing construction while you slow down for them, and also speed things up between major construction projects. There’s so much to cover, and I’ve noticed your segments are getting close to 30 minutes long, though I don’t mind that at all.
I think the breakout "squirrel moments" are enjoyable and offer a nice break. Yes, please keep including them! For instance, I found it amusing when I saw the cows in the dairy start running as you flew over them. If these moments become too frequent, they could be compiled at the end as an "End Credits" or "Behind the Scenes" segment.
Best to you,
Tony.
@@jasondroninaround I personally like the quarter orbits. I find that it's a really nice way to see the extent of what has been done, because I just started watching in the previous one.
Yes, but if you only happen to view one of the later videos and he didn't stop at the completed projects, you would necessarily know they were not originally there.
Maybe he can slow down and have the text overlays but not go all the way around with the drone. Just slow down, but keep going along the route.
Wow that sunset at the end was great
Along with the high speed infrastructure it was nice of you to highlight the crops grown along this route 👍. 🇺🇲
@@thondupandrugtsang some of the stuff is hard to identify in the winter when there's no leaves, especially the stone fruits like the peaches and plums. Walnut orchards are usually gigantic trees that are not hedged at all. Almonds lose their leaves last. The way to tell the wheat from the alfalfa is by the patches. The alfalfa is planted once and harvested all year long. That means that they're kind of in bunches and patches and the little dividers in the field to separate the water sections are flattened out because they've been run over several times. The wheat on the other hand is more uniform and it is planted once and harvested once. You can tell the little dividers in between the sections have not been up very long. Even though I don't remember seeing any table grapes in this section, they are easy to tell apart by what's between the rows. Raisin, juice, and wine grapes are grown tall and narrow with a large gap for harvesting equipment to go in between. Table grapes on the other hand kind of look like a T or a Y when you look at the cross section. They form a canopy. There is no need to bring tractors through because they are hand harvested. Pistachios lose their leaves pretty quickly but they have that weird look where there is one different tree for like every 100. I think I heard that those are the male trees and they're necessary for pollinization or something. I might be wrong on that.
@@jasondroninaround All I can say is, you know your stuff 🙂. 🇺🇸
@thondupandrugtsang I was born and raised here in the Central Valley. I'm still learning a lot about the droning though lol
@@jasondroninaround Your camera work is superb. Certainly gives the mainstream media a run for their money. 🇺🇸
Beautiful sunset! Thank you.
The latest update shows improvement in the approximate 4 mile BNSF relocation. The 1st segment of about 1.7 miles goes from 15:37 to 17:02, and the 2nd segment goes from around 17:50 to 19:33 for about two miles. When finished about 4 more miles of CAHSR will be completed. At 17:56 you can see about 36 hopper cars filled with gravel for the project.
Also, around 16:35 there's a rail surfacing set visible, with a ballast regulator (like a bulldozer for distributing and rough-forming ballast around the rails) on the right/south and what I think is a ballast tamper/fine track alignment machine on the left/north side.
These videos are so cool to watch!
When you went down low I was hoping you would fly underneath one of those overpasses :)
Why was I thinking the same thing lol...
Thank you!!!
Rebar up for all four of the columns on the north side of the rail spur at Hanford, with forms up around two of those. Not clear the status of the southern row, not much visible above ground, I can't tell if there hasn't been any work other than land clearance, or if they just haven't erected the column rebar yet.
For a reason I still have to find out, I am getting hungry after watching.... Alfalfa. I had to look that up (do not like, I know now) The off-topic zoom in on the Tree Topper was the highlight!
@@Keikdv alfalfa is one of my favorite crops around here for two reasons. First, when they cut it, it has a very distinctive smell that is on the same level as cutting grass but more extreme. It's probably a bad thing if you have allergies. The other thing about the alfalfa is that when it flowers, there's millions of these bright yellow butterflies that are attracted to it. I don't know where they come from or where they go but they're all over the place right before a harvest.
@@Keikdv I kind of got a little sloppy flying down to that tree topper. I had to keep it in because like I said, they've been hard for me to catch.
@@jasondroninaround I saw a ton of butterflies when driving through Los Baños last July/August; Is this related to the alfalfa bloom?
@@shreychaudhary4477 maybe, they are pretty small and bright yellow
Another fantastic video; man the Central Valley looks like you guys got hammered with the atmospheric river that came through?
Hell, I live in San Luis Obispo County and we got 48 hours of Hell, but nothing like it appears that you guys suffered?
I’m starting to think that the Hanford Viaduct and Excelsior Avenue overpass will likely be the last projects completed?
Seriously, I hate all these anti-HSR websites claiming that nothing has been completed since 2018?
Really, do these people no drive through the San Joaquin Valley and see everything being completed?
Once HSR starts laying rails and installing overhead catenary wires, then they’ll have to eat humble pie!
@@AnthonyPinkerton-d7p It mostly stay to the north of us. It was pretty bad up by Stockton and Sacramento. We only got one good day of rain. There is a lot of work to be done on the Hanford Viaduct. I drive under it everyday on the way to and from work and I see they're working on it everyday :-)
The foggy atmosphere is beautiful at the start of the video. Did you take it at a different time than usual?
No, it was just a really foggy morning. I work full time M-F and the weekends are the only times I can do these long shoots. For continuity, I like to shoot all the videos back-to-back, as quickly as possible, on the same day. It had rained a lot on Saturday. Rain around here usually means dense fog for the next few days en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tule_fog I started as early as I could with the fog and still hopefully have enough time to make it to Fresno in one day :)
Fargo avenue looks really close to opening if it's not yet...
@@rwdavidoff Yes. That one is very close :-) It is probably meant to coincide with the closing of Grangeville Boulevard
I wonder why CHSR is building over the roads instead of depressing the highways? Less grading and shorter /smaller bridges. It probably has to do with drainage of rain water.
@geoffreykail9129 in the few miles surrounding Kings River, that is exactly it, to stay above the 100-year flood level :-)
I thought you said the Cedar Ave viaduct was a no drone zone 'cause of the airport?
@@shreychaudhary4477 The no drone zone goes from about where I stopped on this video all the way to Church Avenue. There is another even smaller no drone zone up in Madera. Then, there's a gigantic no drone zone in Bakersfield. That's going to be a problem someday when I start filming down there. Down in Bakersfield, there's a large airport that runs parallel to one side of Highway 99 where are the proposed CHSR route runs along the other side of Highway 99. It doesn't run through like corner of the no drone zone like the other two, the one in Bakersfield runs parallel to the no drone zone hehe