The San Diego buses, Coaster, Sprinters in North County, and of course, the trolley, have been a part of my life for years. Even when Ive had wheels, sometimes I used public transit to save money. Now in Tonasket, WA I'm watching this with pangs of nostalgia.
When speaking about America's lack of trains, when compared to Europe, people often say that the country is so vast, with such great distances between different areas, that trains are impractical. I could not disagree more. The fastest trains can approach the speeds of aircraft, being around 400 mph, so that argument does not make much sense. Trains are also a lot more energy efficient, since they can plug right into the power grid, dramatically reducing emissions, and other fossil-fuel related issues I really appreciate how clean, quiet, and fast the San Diego Trolley is, and I like the retro look of the green trains. I wish American cities would go back to trolleys and light rail. I live in New York City, NYC had many trolleys before they were replaced by buses, but we do still have a very extensive subway system, and lots of commuter rail, as well as intercity rail. The Northeast Corridor runs right through the middle of NYC, which is the busiest rail corridor in the US
Here in Austin we have terrible traffic. People are always complaining about it and fights have even broken out in traffic jams. Yet when someone says we should build a railway they lose their minds. Heaven forbid their shiny new cars end up being pointless!
Foxtrot707 When France’s TGV was in its testing phase, the engineers were able to bring it to 425 mph to demonstrate its speed and agility. With some re-engineering of America’s rail infrastructure, we can bring our trains up to speed (pun intended) and offer speedier service along our routes
Είστε φοβεροί, είστε καταπληκτικοί! Για αυτό ακριβώς πρέπει να μας βοηθήσετε κι εμάς στην Ελλάδα να βελτιώσουμε τα δίκτυα των Light Rails όπου υπάρχουν και να επαναφέρουμε εκείνα τα οποία καταργήθηκαν...
Those are the quiet horns. They are very literally called "Quacker Horns" at SDTI because of the sound they make. The louder horn is called a "Federal Horn". The PCC cars, 1001 (U2), SD-100's and the S70 full length (3000 series) cars all have mechanical Quacker and Federal horns. The S70US fleet (4000/5000 series) have electronic horns that are essentially a PC in a box that plays .WAV files. It's called a TDSG.
I loved the high-quality video, and thanks for making and sharing it. I see the three different series of cars: 1000, 2000, and 4000. I like the buzzer-type horns on the newer 4,000's. Thanks for adding the airplane landing as well.
I got to take a weekend overnight trip to San Diego with LARail, on their Pacific Sands Pullman car. Spent quite a bit of time riding all the trolley lines. It was a fun way to see the sites.
I like seeing the PCC car in operation in a real world setting. I volunteer at a railway museum in Perris California that has several old PCC cars four of them are from the Los Angeles Railway and two from the San Diego Railway. One of the San Diego PCC cars is in the process of restoration and two of the four LARy PCC cars are in active operation at the museum.
There are so many changes now even though this video is not that old. No more U2's, the Blue Line stations have finished renovating, and the Mid-Coast extension is currently under construction.
Great video of the San Diego Trolley in Civilized San Diego. I will be riding the San Diego Trolley again in the future on a planned visit back home to the San Diego area. The San Diego Metropolitian area is the very best Metropolitian area that I have ever lived in in my entire life. Nice to see the PCC trolley cars running in San Diego, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco & Newark, New Jersey in the nations most hated state.
You can ride 2 of the SanDiego Trolleys at the Western Railway Museum in Susion Californis on highway 9 between Fairfield and Rio Vista. These are the older ones recently retired. (From the 1980s)
I take note of how clean the stations and rolling stock looks...San Francisco "The City That Knows How" could take some lessons from the "San" down South!
In the year since you commented, there’s new rolling stock on the MUNI light rail lines and progress is being made on the Central subway on Fourth Street to Union Sq. IMO, SF’s system covers more of the city (though not really north of Market Street); much of SD’s system is outside the city limits and service within city limits is limited to certain neighborhoods.
Here's some fun, useless trivia for your next cocktail party... Alonzo Horton purchased 960 acres of land that became known as "Horton's Addition" and is now present-day downtown San Diego. As he was plotting land parcels within his new purchase, he recognized that corner lots were more valuable, so he made the blocks in San Diego much smaller than in other cities to maximize the number of corner properties he could sell. This street design impacts trolley operations. How? Because the Blue Line runs on C Street downtown, the trolley consists will never be more than three units long because, if they were, they would block the cross streets at intersections. The consists are about 240 feet / 74 meters long, and the city blocks range from 230 to 260 feet / 70 to 79 meters wide.
I really do like the looks of those Red cars, those really do stand out BIG TIME...LOL Those classic ones I really hope after they are finially retired from service that they head to a museum somewhere ther
@@cheeto4sure Well Thats not right, sounds like another set of train cars like I have seen on one of those ABANDONED Tv shows, so if you dont mind me asking, are they just going to continue to sit out there permently, or will they hopefully someday maybe decide to maybe refurbish them and put a couple of them back into service as collector Models??????
@@pizzasubs some were sold to Argentina some were sent to museums the ones that are left will eventually be restored and used on the Silverline just like the PCC Streetcar
The LR network sure has changed/expanded a lot since my one and only SD trip back in 1985. Were it not for the stupid epidemic, I might have taken a return trip by now, or would in the near future.
Watching this now, it's crazy how much has changed in 8 years. Those streets are now riddled with homeless persons and trash, I don't even like my family to travel on the trolley anymore. So sad
LIVED AND RODE TROLLEY IN SAN DIEGO FOR MANY OF YEARS AND BELIEVE ME THEY ARE GOOD TO GO'-IF YOU DON'T KNOW ASK SOMEBODY OR VISIT' -NO GRUMPINESS. FROM LONG DISTANCE@ 😁
@@anonymoussdmtsemployee7770 Yep, so true. I wish the former route bus 120 took (I think) still made a run from downtown to UTC. I would much rather have taken that.
Oh I believe it was the 150 route, but I only rode it a few times so I'm not 100% sure. If it was, I used to catch it at Ash and First downtown.@@anonymoussdmtsemployee7770
Agreed that the color scheme doesn't seem to fit San Diego in addition to some of the cars being overlaid with business ads, marring the appearance. Yet, the tram has a nice design, smooth and quiet and appears to be used more than decently by the populace. Lastly, just learned that San Diego has a tram system, something I didn't come close to imagining. Good to see for the city.
I actually think it's somewhat stereotypical. The San Diego Trolley was the nation's very first modern light rail system, as the current Blue Line, which originally went from the Santa Fe Depot to the border was the very first modern light rail line in the USA. The reason why I say both the color (red) and name (San Diego Trolley) is stereotypical is because, when the San Diego Trolley was first put into operation in 1981, the PBS show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was at it's peak, and they had a segment where they would ride into the Neighborhood of Make Believe, and they took the viewers there on a red trolley. It's my thinking that the MTDB, which ran the trolley in it's early years, chose the name and the color of the cars because of the popularity of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood back then.
I remember riding when the Blue line was new. Everyone called it the Tijuana Trolley. The first modern LRV's were a split order between Boston and San Francisco made by Boeing Vertol Corp starting in 1973 for use in already existing systems in both cities and a new subway line under Market St in SF. Boston's (MBTA) went into service in 1976 and SF's (Muni) in early 1981. San Diego's Trolley is also considered the oldest 2nd generation LRV system in the US. Meaning I suppose it was new, built from the ground up and with modern rolling stock superior to Boeing's problem plagued cars.
Did anyone else notice those three idiots in the beginning of the video driving on the tracks as it was coming....we have a light rail system here in st.louis which we call the metro link and there was recently a car accident between the metro link and a truck because the driver of the truck got inpatient
Our trolleys are cool in San Diego I love the green line you can go all the way to Santee it’s a nice ride through downtown to old town fashion valley mission valley SDSU and it’s cheap 5.00 for a day pass you can go on all the lines beats walking lol
why do american trams always have only 2 cars, I mean they link them a lot, why don't they just use the standard 4 cars(plus 3 wheels cars) like in Europe.
San Diego mostly runs 3 car trains, except for off peak when two cars are normal. The stations only take 3 cars and a 4th car would block cross streets, so we're already near max capacity on some of the lines. We may need to grade-separate the Blue line.
They add on more or take more off depending on the time of day. During events or rush hours they’ll add on the maximum which is around 3 or 4 During low ridership they do 2 and sometimes 1
I can speak for San Francisco. It’s not practical to run very long trains within the city since our Muni Metro has to negotiate many hills. Plus it shares the road with cars. If it were too long it would take up more than one city block when it stops to pick up passengers.
Hold up... This was ONLY 8 years ago???... I saw like 3 homeless dudes... Probably 4, but I'm quite certain the one with the cape was Batman (14:08)... 😀
I don't want to sound ignorant, but from what I read about USA seeing trams or electric trains are rare. In fact train transportation is significantly worse compared to Europe. You guys hate electric tractions or something?
Terepin64 You only see it in major cities, just like Europe. The problem is that we don't have a good train system that connects the country. You usually just take a domestic flight or drive. Amtrak is slow and expensive.
+Terepin64 A national rail system like most countries in Europe have just isn't viable when our country is roughly the size of all of Europe. We DO have a national rail operator, Amtrak, which provides service on some major cross-country and coastal rail routes, but on the whole in a country this size it's much faster to fly. At the local level, most of our cities themselves have decent public transportation just as European cities do.
Terepin64 - Worse compared to Europe, worse than Asia and worse than a lot of other places. America has largely always been car centric (except for the northeastern US, Chicago, SF which have old systems in place and now expanded that go back to the late 1800's). County, state and federal funding for public transit has been increasingly difficult to get for the last 20 years but in light of that cities like San Diego and LA have been able to expand their rail and bus lines. Calif's legislature just passed and the governor just signed a $58 billion infrastructure bill that will not only fix aging freeways but help fund public transit. Getting federal transit money from the trump administration is now highly questionable.
This is the stereotype but untrue. Los Angeles was a rail city and was built by rail. Its first population boom in the 1880s came only after cross continental rail lines were built, and there was competition for passengers. We had huge passenger rail; the Pacific Electric Railway was the largest system in the world. What is true is that they were privately owned and could not turn a profit (outside of World War 2 when gasoline was strictly rationed). Cities where tram/light rail went over to municipal ownership EARLY continued to have those systems, which were never removed and continued operating (but did shrink markedly). I'm talking about New Orleans, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Newark. All moved to government ownership early on.
because Europe country are tiny apartment and population density is 10 time higher than usa why Europe compare to usa population just like france, italy,uk, Germany etc population is very high why European are racist usa than Europe 😂😂😂😂😎😎😎
It's called a Quacker Horn, and dates back to the original U2 cars that entered service in 1981. The PCC cars have a switch to select between the Quacker Horn and the gong (or "bell").
So many people have been hit by those trolleys, part of the reason being that the horns on the new trolleys are fake, electronic, and cant be heard very far, they need to install reql horns on them again for safety. You can all argue that they must wait when the gates come down, but lets face it, people will cross them anyway if they dont hear a trolley near. They barely make any noise.
@@allgoo1990 No it's literally how they make extra money. They get paid by those companies to advertise the wraps. It's extra money that they don't have to beg the government or riders for and they can use it as they please.
There's actually a thing called 3rd rail electrification, however that could be quite dangerous to use outside of an enclosed subway system since there would be a powered metal strip running next to the rails and someone could accidently step on it (or slip into it in some more clever systems) and get electrocuted. There are some smarter systems that have the 3rd rail (as it's called) only powered while the train is directly on top of it, but that would be expensive to implement and in a city that already has a constrained transit budget, it wouldn't be worthwhile to replace the proven overhead wires
@@blue9multimediagroup Kind of impractical to try and hard to ignore. I would have to look down at the ground the entire time I’m outside. I’m hoping they upgrade to that expensive 3rd rail system the other guy talked about.
If you think that's bad, here in Vienna one of our public transportation companies uses trolleys from the 80s and 2000's in mixed configurations. They look nothing alike, because only the newer ones are low-floor vehicles.
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The San Diego buses, Coaster, Sprinters in North County, and of course, the trolley, have been a part of my life for years. Even when Ive had wheels, sometimes I used public transit to save money. Now in Tonasket, WA I'm watching this with pangs of nostalgia.
When speaking about America's lack of trains, when compared to Europe, people often say that the country is so vast, with such great distances between different areas, that trains are impractical. I could not disagree more. The fastest trains can approach the speeds of aircraft, being around 400 mph, so that argument does not make much sense. Trains are also a lot more energy efficient, since they can plug right into the power grid, dramatically reducing emissions, and other fossil-fuel related issues
I really appreciate how clean, quiet, and fast the San Diego Trolley is, and I like the retro look of the green trains. I wish American cities would go back to trolleys and light rail. I live in New York City, NYC had many trolleys before they were replaced by buses, but we do still have a very extensive subway system, and lots of commuter rail, as well as intercity rail. The Northeast Corridor runs right through the middle of NYC, which is the busiest rail corridor in the US
the fastest trains can go ~250mph
Here in Austin we have terrible traffic. People are always complaining about it and fights have even broken out in traffic jams. Yet when someone says we should build a railway they lose their minds. Heaven forbid their shiny new cars end up being pointless!
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Foxtrot707 When France’s TGV was in its testing phase, the engineers were able to bring it to 425 mph to demonstrate its speed and agility. With some re-engineering of America’s rail infrastructure, we can bring our trains up to speed (pun intended) and offer speedier service along our routes
@@danielrbsutton not true, max speed the TGV did was around 370-ish MPH
9:30 The motorist made the peace sign with both of his hands while driving.
LMAO
Sweet memories. I can now come here to view it when am missing SD. Hope to be back.
These are amazing San Diego trolley trains in San Diego. And great video too.
Loved that you labelled the stations. Thanks
Είστε φοβεροί, είστε καταπληκτικοί! Για αυτό ακριβώς πρέπει να μας βοηθήσετε κι εμάς στην Ελλάδα να βελτιώσουμε τα δίκτυα των Light Rails όπου υπάρχουν και να επαναφέρουμε εκείνα τα οποία καταργήθηκαν...
It rocks, especially the Green Line through Mission Valley, bridges, side of the hill running, curves, grades and a tunnel.
+c zephyr
Agreed, I love taking the green line from Little Italy/County Center to Old Town TC to catch a bus to the beach...
@ wxazas-
This brings me back to San Diego memory.
Excellent photography and sound recording!
Thanks man!
Luftschlange and he is
Lawrence Keesler bb
8:32 The SD-100s sound like they have duck calls for horns
Those are the quiet horns. They are very literally called "Quacker Horns" at SDTI because of the sound they make. The louder horn is called a "Federal Horn". The PCC cars, 1001 (U2), SD-100's and the S70 full length (3000 series) cars all have mechanical Quacker and Federal horns. The S70US fleet (4000/5000 series) have electronic horns that are essentially a PC in a box that plays .WAV files. It's called a TDSG.
I think the bells would have been better, a touch of nostalgia
@@Aperture137wut
I loved the high-quality video, and thanks for making and sharing it. I see the three different series of cars: 1000, 2000, and 4000. I like the buzzer-type horns on the newer 4,000's. Thanks for adding the airplane landing as well.
I got to take a weekend overnight trip to San Diego with LARail, on their Pacific Sands Pullman car. Spent quite a bit of time riding all the trolley lines. It was a fun way to see the sites.
I like that red color
Me to
Would've been cooler in blue 😐
@@someearthbeaner619 no
@@Ricardo-qv9jn yes
I like seeing the PCC car in operation in a real world setting. I volunteer at a railway museum in Perris California that has several old PCC cars four of them are from the Los Angeles Railway and two from the San Diego Railway. One of the San Diego PCC cars is in the process of restoration and two of the four LARy PCC cars are in active operation at the museum.
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Yes?
A 3rd car is in restoration at SD Trolley at the rail yard.
Go to san francisco
Great to see Ride and Relax again. Sweet!
I really enjoy all your videos!!!
San Diego's rolling stock looks a lot better than LA's. The color also makes it feel a lot newer.
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Amazing! new and fast streetcars :-)
These look so much better than our Green Line trains here in Boston which are also streetcars.
Great recording
Very nice.
There are so many changes now even though this video is not that old. No more U2's, the Blue Line stations have finished renovating, and the Mid-Coast extension is currently under construction.
SoCal Transportation Spotter and it’s rare to see a SD100 leading
@dynasty001, the UTC extension is now open..
Wunderbar. Da kann man sehen was Strom für eine Macht hat.
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I like some of the trolleys sounded like ducks lol 😆
My brother will always love these trains
Great video of the San Diego Trolley in Civilized San Diego. I will be riding the San Diego Trolley again in the future on a planned visit back home to the San Diego area. The San Diego Metropolitian area is the very best Metropolitian area that I have ever lived in in my entire life. Nice to see the PCC trolley cars running in San Diego, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco & Newark, New Jersey in the nations most hated state.
PCC cars are no longer running in Newark but were running there until about 15 years ago.
The Sound is cool
Brilliant idea running these trains through the most congested areas of downtown creating a traffic fiasco. Get them elevated!
Lots of expensive cars running around could do with a lot more passengers . Nice video. Visited it in 1992
Every time a light rail stops it screams. LOL 😆 4:21
Maybe it was the child in the stroller
That's the motors on the newer S70s
You can ride 2 of the SanDiego Trolleys at the Western Railway Museum in Susion Californis on highway 9 between Fairfield and Rio Vista. These are the older ones recently retired. (From the 1980s)
You can also ride two of them at Southern California Railway Museum, cars 1008 and 1003. We also have original San Diego PCC cars 508 and 528.
I take note of how clean the stations and rolling stock looks...San Francisco "The City That Knows How" could take some lessons from the "San" down South!
In the year since you commented, there’s new rolling stock on the MUNI light rail lines and progress is being made on the Central subway on Fourth Street to Union Sq.
IMO, SF’s system covers more of the city (though not really north of Market Street); much of SD’s system is outside the city limits and service within city limits is limited to certain neighborhoods.
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Woah a PCC with a pantograph!
The color of this light rail makes it newer
Here's some fun, useless trivia for your next cocktail party...
Alonzo Horton purchased 960 acres of land that became known as "Horton's Addition" and is now present-day downtown San Diego. As he was plotting land parcels within his new purchase, he recognized that corner lots were more valuable, so he made the blocks in San Diego much smaller than in other cities to maximize the number of corner properties he could sell. This street design impacts trolley operations. How?
Because the Blue Line runs on C Street downtown, the trolley consists will never be more than three units long because, if they were, they would block the cross streets at intersections. The consists are about 240 feet / 74 meters long, and the city blocks range from 230 to 260 feet / 70 to 79 meters wide.
Lolz, there is also a station in the Seattle Sound Transit system called Convention Center
Ah yes nothing better than that 2nd gen horns
I really do like the looks of those Red cars, those really do stand out BIG TIME...LOL Those classic ones I really hope after they are finially retired from service that they head to a museum somewhere ther
Andrew Silva The oldest ones have been retired for about 2 years now actually, and they're just sitting in our train yard collecting dust 😂
Andrew Silva I think having those old classic cars are nice, able to preserve history.
@@cheeto4sure Well Thats not right, sounds like another set of train cars like I have seen on one of those ABANDONED Tv shows, so if you dont mind me asking, are they just going to continue to sit out there permently, or will they hopefully someday maybe decide to maybe refurbish them and put a couple of them back into service as collector Models??????
@@pizzasubs some were sold to Argentina some were sent to museums the ones that are left will eventually be restored and used on the Silverline just like the PCC Streetcar
Nice
1:31 guy with cane shrugs XD doors on other side
Hi, did you do a video for LA Mesa El Cajon area? They weren't in this video
14:47 that's the same sound used on trimet max car types 4 and 5
I know this was 9 years ago or so.. but what are those bells at 14:15 - 14:33 ?
The LR network sure has changed/expanded a lot since my one and only SD trip back in 1985. Were it not for the stupid epidemic, I might have taken a return trip by now, or would in the near future.
what camera & mic is this?
Remember riding the blue line all the time the crackheads on the trolleys be wild tho lmaoo
yup I had use blue line to get to a padres game and to visit downtown and the trolley be shaking alot lol
You should see the trolley during fan fest, pact to the point you would be squeezing while standing😅
l love Dandiego
Does this Trolley go to Tahiti?
Lol the pantograph on that PCC at 1:15 is as tall as the PCC itself! That looks a bit ridiculous IMO...
cool
Unicamente san diego
Watching this now, it's crazy how much has changed in 8 years. Those streets are now riddled with homeless persons and trash, I don't even like my family to travel on the trolley anymore. So sad
highlights as shap and deluxtion also
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LIVED AND RODE TROLLEY IN SAN DIEGO FOR MANY OF YEARS AND BELIEVE ME THEY ARE GOOD TO GO'-IF YOU DON'T KNOW ASK SOMEBODY OR VISIT' -NO GRUMPINESS. FROM LONG DISTANCE@ 😁
Is there any trolley going to Alpine or Lakeside.
No trolley going to Alpine or TweakSide
You’ll have to come see the new blue line extension to La Jolla, most of which is above grade.
Aka the homeless express
@@anonymoussdmtsemployee7770 Yep, so true. I wish the former route bus 120 took (I think) still made a run from downtown to UTC. I would much rather have taken that.
@@Thucydides1you mean the retired 150 route? 🤔
Oh I believe it was the 150 route, but I only rode it a few times so I'm not 100% sure. If it was, I used to catch it at Ash and First downtown.@@anonymoussdmtsemployee7770
4:21 sounds like a kid screaming loudly
Traffic lights are not sycronized with the trains crossing! They're not held on the green lights long enough creating a dangerous situation!!!
why are they soooo red?
Agreed that the color scheme doesn't seem to fit San Diego in addition to some of the cars being overlaid with business ads, marring the appearance. Yet, the tram has a nice design, smooth and quiet and appears to be used more than decently by the populace. Lastly, just learned that San Diego has a tram system, something I didn't come close to imagining. Good to see for the city.
I like the color scheme. They almost look like the regional trains in Germany.
+timosha21 I'm sure it's for greater visibility.
I actually think it's somewhat stereotypical. The San Diego Trolley was the nation's very first modern light rail system, as the current Blue Line, which originally went from the Santa Fe Depot to the border was the very first modern light rail line in the USA. The reason why I say both the color (red) and name (San Diego Trolley) is stereotypical is because, when the San Diego Trolley was first put into operation in 1981, the PBS show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was at it's peak, and they had a segment where they would ride into the Neighborhood of Make Believe, and they took the viewers there on a red trolley. It's my thinking that the MTDB, which ran the trolley in it's early years, chose the name and the color of the cars because of the popularity of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood back then.
I remember riding when the Blue line was new. Everyone called it the Tijuana Trolley.
The first modern LRV's were a split order between Boston and San Francisco made by Boeing Vertol Corp starting in 1973 for use in already existing systems in both cities and a new subway line under Market St in SF. Boston's (MBTA) went into service in 1976 and SF's (Muni) in early 1981. San Diego's Trolley is also considered the oldest 2nd generation LRV system in the US. Meaning I suppose it was new, built from the ground up and with modern rolling stock superior to Boeing's problem plagued cars.
One more item...where are the good ole GONGS and horn...that police car buzzer is the pits!
Sometimes I'll catch the silver line back home
Did anyone else notice those three idiots in the beginning of the video driving on the tracks as it was coming....we have a light rail system here in st.louis which we call the metro link and there was recently a car accident between the metro link and a truck because the driver of the truck got inpatient
7:04 no way trolleys can honk as well.
0:22 is that doorbell buzzer sounding thing the horn on the train? Lol
Ask me the same
Probably not.
It's just the buzzer that the operators use to warn pedestrians that the Trolley is now moving. The horn is totally separate and is a lot louder.
Chow Chow gotcha
Our trolleys are cool in San Diego I love the green line you can go all the way to Santee it’s a nice ride through downtown to old town fashion valley mission valley SDSU and it’s cheap 5.00 for a day pass you can go on all the lines beats walking lol
$6 now with pronto
Me gustaria salir del mar a san Diego en el.tren.
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4:21 o -o It screams...
seria mais legal se fosse aéreo assim não precisaria parar nos cruzamentos
No bells just buzzers?
No bells. San Diego doesn't use bells on anything except the PCC cars.
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its so quiet
@Leo The Pug The Pug Family where?
@Leo The Pug The Pug Family what electric car is loud?
why do american trams always have only 2 cars, I mean they link them a lot, why don't they just use the standard 4 cars(plus 3 wheels cars) like in Europe.
So shorter trains can be in service. Ridership fluctuates a lot here.
San Diego mostly runs 3 car trains, except for off peak when two cars are normal.
The stations only take 3 cars and a 4th car would block cross streets, so we're already near max capacity on some of the lines.
We may need to grade-separate the Blue line.
They add on more or take more off depending on the time of day.
During events or rush hours they’ll add on the maximum which is around 3 or 4
During low ridership they do 2 and sometimes 1
I'm in Europe and there are mostly two cars lmao
I can speak for San Francisco. It’s not practical to run very long trains within the city since our Muni Metro has to negotiate many hills. Plus it shares the road with cars. If it were too long it would take up more than one city block when it stops to pick up passengers.
red looks more like a train than a trolley
At 4:21 is that the trolley braking or a girl screaming?
Squeaky brakes, probably recently installed.
Girl screaming. Most likely a baby off camera.
That's the trolley motors winding down
Hold up... This was ONLY 8 years ago???... I saw like 3 homeless dudes... Probably 4, but I'm quite certain the one with the cape was Batman (14:08)... 😀
I don't want to sound ignorant, but from what I read about USA seeing trams or electric trains are rare. In fact train transportation is significantly worse compared to Europe. You guys hate electric tractions or something?
Terepin64 You only see it in major cities, just like Europe. The problem is that we don't have a good train system that connects the country. You usually just take a domestic flight or drive. Amtrak is slow and expensive.
+Terepin64
A national rail system like most countries in Europe have just isn't viable when our country is roughly the size of all of Europe. We DO have a national rail operator, Amtrak, which provides service on some major cross-country and coastal rail routes, but on the whole in a country this size it's much faster to fly.
At the local level, most of our cities themselves have decent public transportation just as European cities do.
Terepin64 - Worse compared to Europe, worse than Asia and worse than a lot of other places. America has largely always been car centric (except for the northeastern US, Chicago, SF which have old systems in place and now expanded that go back to the late 1800's). County, state and federal funding for public transit has been increasingly difficult to get for the last 20 years but in light of that cities like San Diego and LA have been able to expand their rail and bus lines. Calif's legislature just passed and the governor just signed a $58 billion infrastructure bill that will not only fix aging freeways but help fund public transit. Getting federal transit money from the trump administration is now highly questionable.
This is the stereotype but untrue. Los Angeles was a rail city and was built by rail. Its first population boom in the 1880s came only after cross continental rail lines were built, and there was competition for passengers. We had huge passenger rail; the Pacific Electric Railway was the largest system in the world. What is true is that they were privately owned and could not turn a profit (outside of World War 2 when gasoline was strictly rationed). Cities where tram/light rail went over to municipal ownership EARLY continued to have those systems, which were never removed and continued operating (but did shrink markedly). I'm talking about New Orleans, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Newark. All moved to government ownership early on.
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WHATS A SLIVER LINE
hesni hanna it's another line that goes around downtown San Diego
That's the one the uses the olde-timey streetcar. It's a small loop around the downtown area only and runs at limited days/times.
Meme MemeMemeBoy It is a another old trolley that goes all around San Diego
They use an older U2 LRV now as well. Car 1001.(the very first San Diego Trolley LRV).
I only know the original trolley. All are red.
Only in America cars have priority to trams
0:21 why is that train making a weird sound lol
thats the horn
Buzzer actually
The horn/bells on these things are laughable. Even that poor PCC got equipped with what is basically a buzzer.
It's called a Quacker Horn, and dates back to the original U2 cars that entered service in 1981. The PCC cars have a switch to select between the Quacker Horn and the gong (or "bell").
Why is there a kid yelling at 4:21
He noticed that Shrek was looking at him and had a raging boner
Plot twist: Those were the brakes on the train...
1 2 3 4 horn
Her shirt is ripped. Her groceries were stolen 4 times.
So many people have been hit by those trolleys, part of the reason being that the horns on the new trolleys are fake, electronic, and cant be heard very far, they need to install reql horns on them again for safety. You can all argue that they must wait when the gates come down, but lets face it, people will cross them anyway if they dont hear a trolley near. They barely make any noise.
In SF, all the trolleys have ringing bells
Just put a K5LA on them
They'll still get hit even with louder horns.
Trust me, our bright white trolleys here in Philly catch bodies all the time.
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Grotesque wrap-a-round advertisements turn the street cars into mobile bill boards
That's how they make money
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No it's literally how they make extra money.
They get paid by those companies to advertise the wraps. It's extra money that they don't have to beg the government or riders for and they can use it as they please.
I hope they invent trolleys with below ground wires because those overhead tangled wires look really ugly.
There's actually a thing called 3rd rail electrification, however that could be quite dangerous to use outside of an enclosed subway system since there would be a powered metal strip running next to the rails and someone could accidently step on it (or slip into it in some more clever systems) and get electrocuted. There are some smarter systems that have the 3rd rail (as it's called) only powered while the train is directly on top of it, but that would be expensive to implement and in a city that already has a constrained transit budget, it wouldn't be worthwhile to replace the proven overhead wires
Then don't look at them
@@blue9multimediagroup Kind of impractical to try and hard to ignore. I would have to look down at the ground the entire time I’m outside. I’m hoping they upgrade to that expensive 3rd rail system the other guy talked about.
At 0:20 what is with that weak-ass horn?
Caleb Chase That's what I thought lmao, we have the same trains here in Salt Lake City and the horns are much louder.
That kinda makes sense, but i don't see the point in having that first horn if you're standing on the other side of the street and can barely hear it
In SF, all the trams got actual bells
So that "weak ass horn" is a buzzer the real one is louder look it up
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I miss the original blue line, the renovation is very ugly
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Mixing the 100-160's and and 70's together is cringe.
If you think that's bad, here in Vienna one of our public transportation companies uses trolleys from the 80s and 2000's in mixed configurations. They look nothing alike, because only the newer ones are low-floor vehicles.
ADA accessibility.
The 100s aren't accessible so they need an S70 to be compliant.
And FYI, they don't have 160s. Only 100s.
Right in Front Of Other Cars Except For The +Cars Made Of Four S7000 6000 Series With Personal Space By:
Front: S7000 6001 rainbow colors wrap
Middle Part One: S7000 6002 rainbow colors wrap
Middle Part Two: S7000 6003 glass
Back: S7000 6004 glass
Uh you mean S70? 4,000's?!
Not a Trolley
Oh yes it is