Union Pacific's El Segundo Local LOW20 chasing from Downtown LA to El Segundo 10/18/2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 พ.ย. 2024
- LOW20 is the Union Pacific El Segundo Local, one of two local jobs originating from 4th Street Yard in Downtown LA. Today I was able to chase it the full length of its run before it tied down in Hawthrone on the return trip from Chevron Refinery. Normally going on duty at 3AM, this job was running extremely late and ended up leaving the yard in the afternoon, while normally it leaves before sunrise. This rare opportunity to see the local in good lighting was too good to pass up, and I set up a chase.
I started along the banks of the LA River, where I caught them building their train at Union Pacific's 4th Street Yard. Here, power was a singular GP40, while usually the power is two six axle motors. They started by taking their unit from the north end of the yard, ran it down the Metrolink River Subdivision, before coming back up the yard lead to the south end a few hours later after a communications issue between the locomotive and River Sub systems. Now running even later, the sun was in prime lighting for running on the Wilmington Sub.
My next shot was on the UP Wilmington Subdivision where the tracks join alignment with the Metro A Line. I then followed it to their first industry, Grain Craft, where they switched two loaded hoppers for two empty ones. I then shot then at Slauson Junction as they continued south. From here chasing was difficult, but I got it again passing Hawthorne on the Union Pacific El Segundo Industrial Lead, before getting a second shot at the diamond at Wise in El Segundo, following them dropping their empty hoppers in a siding. From here, I caught them again switching the yard in El Segundo with tanks for Chevron. I then caught them heading back out in El Segundo on the lead before they tied down not far away from me due to the crew being on duty for 12 hours. Thanks for watching!
Train ID: UP LOW20 18
Head End:
UP 1469~GP40-2
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It's weird seeing a locomotive with more graffiti than the cars its pulling.
What a beautiful part of Los Angeles for a great rail video. Glad you survived.
I wonder if the railroad crew gets hazardous duty pay that looks like a sketchy area to begin with the daytime and to think that job normally starts at 3 AM I know I wouldn’t want to be out there at that time in that area. Interesting video. Thank you for posting.
They don’t but all locos are equipped with axes and firearms in case of an emergency
@@NorCaliRailroading2023 Absolutely not. There's no way there are firearms on the engines. In fact, I bet it's against UP rules to have a loaded or unloaded firearm on company property. No corporation on Earth is going to open themselves up to a lawsuit like that
@@NSHorseheadSD70 Correct.
@@NSHorseheadSD70”absolutely not” 🤓
In 2004, Union Pacific claimed to pay $74,000 a year starting the second year an employee worked a job like this. That sounds like what I call "Money."
I have been here so many times in GTAV 😄. Amazing video!
I agree:)
Great video of the El Segundo Local. Thanks for sharing.
nice video great footage love me some local switching but mad about they graffitie that engine
Great 📽️ video..
Someone needs to tell Union Pacific it's been past the time to repaint this locomotive...
@rodcurry6387 Judging by the amount of graffiti on it it'd be covered again as soon as they did...
@@Greensleeves94 They store that power at 4 st yard (under 6th st) and there are taggers all day and night there. Sadly a fresh paint job wouldn't last.
Pay the graffiti artists to repaint it SP!
There are coatings that they can apply that allow the graffiti to be washed off with a pressure washer. The stuff is expensive and has to be retreated fairly frequently. I doubt UP would pay for anything like that.
They wait 40 years to repaint some of their equipment. It's difficult to believe, but it's true.
Great video!
The most unique crossing on the El Segundo Industrial Lead is the El Segundo Bl/I-405 on/off-ramp crossing
Excellent video of the local!!👍👍
Stunning piece of equipment.
Great shots, awesome video Colin!
Be safe when recording in rough areas : )
- Larry
Thanks Larry! I will be safe!
Could I use this with credit?
That poor Union Pacific Diesel Engine with all all the painting 😭😭😔
Iff I was on taht diesel engine I will clean offf that type of painting do my best get as much of it off the train as possible
But great viideo anyways thanks for posting
Cleaning the paint off that Diesel would be a good thing to do 6 or 7 times a week; Diesels get painted by slime balls pretty often.
This is Califronia... what do you expect?
@@BlackMan614 You said it!
3:45 I enjoyed seeing the birds scatter (from a grain car?) as the locomotive bumps the cut of cars during coupling. (I spotted a tagger in that yard…but, given the location.🙄)
Nice shots, looked like a fun chase!
I worked this job when it was called 4th St years ago 😂
@@JimMiller-lu2py hey man i’m 16 and want to get into this business, do you have any tips to work only local like those jobs
@@Jun-rr4ivstarts with you most likely now going online and filling out that application when you turn 18. Understand this is like a truck driver you will be alcohol and drug tested. They will train you to be a trainman. Just expect to work and to work hard. Compensation is excellent. Family time is tough. You will miss so many parties and weekend events that it will hurt. But the railroad gives you an excellent retirement and an excellent pay package benefit. Just imagine doing this job 24 hours if any day all year long. The railroads don't stop. And they need you to work it. My father was an executive officer with the Southern Pacific. The Union Pacific took them over in the '90s. I got on as a Brakeman... You sure you get your high school diploma. Employers like to know you do accomplish things when you're young. You're diploma is an accomplishment.
Great video
Excellent video 👍
UP 1469 needs a bath because it got vandalized such as Graffiti
That GP40 looks like it might have originally been an SP unit…
Answered my own question… This was originally SP SSW (Cotton Belt) #7637…
WOW ExSP into 2024 and hopefully 2025😊❤❤❤❤❤❤
This scenery was featured in grand theft auto video game 😇
Cool video!
No cover car.
No EOT.
Getting on and off moving equipment.
All rule violations before I retired.
16:09 People call that a "Crossover," but I heard that's wrong. I heard the correct name for it is a "Diamond."
Nice video!
Does anyone know if those tankers are getting filled up or dropping off at the refinery?
They’re being dropped off. They mix the oil they drill offshore with crude oil from the Midwest to create their product
What is history on UP1469 old EMD unit.
An artist will pay for his own canvas, spray painting your name on someone else's property is vanalism and should be prosecuted accordingly
I paint graffiti on my model trains so that they look like typical trains with graffiti. I doubt I will stop painting my model trains like that because the slime balls who paint real trains will never stop doing things like that, and they will outnumber people who don't do things like that if they don't already outnumber us.
that is gross to have to work in something that looks like trash. But on a video related note.. I have no idea where most of these places are filmed.
It begins south of downtown Los Angeles. It then heads south towards El Segundo and Hawthorne in the South Bay. Space X, in the old Northrop plant next to Hawthorne Airport, is off camera to the left in one scene.
@@treehugger1640 The water to the side is the LA River.
@@paulmorissette5863 That's about the only place I know of. The rest of those intersections are foreign to me and I used to be a repo driver and uber + lyft for years in that area.
Trash!? That thing is bad! It can pull or shove at least thousands of pounds if not more than that. If I had one of those things, I wouldn't throw it away.
@@MrJuvefrank I was talking about the tagging
Nice Video Mate! Can I Use This With Credit?
What are you doing and what footage in particular would you wish to use?
Up 1469 needs a bath because it has a graffiti all over it
You have a serious security problem when someone can repaint your expensive train engine undetected.
Looks like some type of third world country there.
@@AG-un7dz it’s Los Angeles, it is third world.
Looks like LA really takes pride in their city😲😲💩💩
Los Angeles has so many haters, it should change its name to "Los Devils."
that must be u,p heratige graffied unit l.a edtion
BTW, if you’re using a digital camera, you can turn the shutter sound off. Otherwise, great images.
Mine has a mechanical shutter, it is older than most
Nothing says lack of respect like vandalizing other people's property.
The two random NPCs walking through an active rail yard at 1:21 😅
Its a GTAV online server out here
That locomotive engine needs a complete new fresh paint 🎨 job.
@@christophercotton9048 unfortunately the graffiti punks would paint over it again and again.
Newsom what to bring that sh'"*+-e to the rest of us in the USA.
Yep, definitely Crapifornia. Where even the locomotives get covered from top to bottom in graffiti! 😂
Don't trash 🗑️👎 my home state, ok?!
@@christophercotton9048 stay in commiefornia
The scum graffiti is disgusting. Cinder dicks? I am just horrified that such a lawless place exists. What more evidence do we need of zero security?
Nice paint scheme 😂
Democrats state..not shocked at all