I appreciate you for doing this. It's great to see the progress!
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot, I'm glad you liked it!
@stevyd
3 жыл бұрын
Some of the ponds that you mentioned, collect the run-off from the irrigated fields. Originally there was to be a drainage canal that would empty into The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. It was never completed when it was discovered that the residual salts in the drained water were extremely toxic and emptying them into a major source of drinking water for southern CA. was not a good idea. Instead, the ponds are used to evaporate the liquid leaving a toxic sludge that God (?) will take care of.
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah that’s just dumb enough to be true. Thanks a lot for enlightening me! Lol
@stevyd
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheFourFoot: Check about the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge on Wikipedia. Read from the year 1978 on the timeline.
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that’s pretty cool. Thanks for the info!
@brandonk7361
3 жыл бұрын
4:02 wasn't bad flying. The drone was just trying to avoid the smell of the cattle.
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, let's go with that lol
@albertcarello7133
3 жыл бұрын
Brandon Kynsi: HAHAHAHA!
@warrenjones497
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks very much for putting this together! Very impressive work!
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it!
@marywallace1400
3 жыл бұрын
John, this is so cool! Drone looks like a lot of work. Good job!
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot! It is a lot of work, and honestly it’s a little stressful when flying, but I love the footage I get!
@TheFarmanimalfriend
2 жыл бұрын
California has learned from the Amtrak problems of the northeast corridor. High speed trains require their own set of tracks. This video is really important to show why it's costing so much. You can paint a house, without doing the prep work first, but it won't last very long. The high speed rail project requires a lot of prep work by very dedicated people. I grew up in Merced. The tule-fog led to some deadly crashes. The high speed rail does not allow traffic to cross the tracks. Mixing fog, stalled vehicles and trains traveling fast is to be avoided.
@CiaranAnything
3 жыл бұрын
dang... it almost reminds me of minecraft, the way it looks foggy in the distance all around
@JimBones1990
2 жыл бұрын
TPF2.
@chromebomb
3 жыл бұрын
build baby build
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
Yes! Lol
@joalberi4658
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome videos. Gracias! ♥️ California
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot!
@kevinkevin6806
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@superstarem
3 жыл бұрын
Great information. thanks for doing this :)
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
@timmedlock4402
3 жыл бұрын
Great job....FYI, as someone who's originally from Fresno, Corcoran is pronounced "Corker-in" by the locals. Great job on the rest of the pronunciations. Almost everyone not from the valley gets Tulare wrong.
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
I tried lol.
@theexmann
3 жыл бұрын
I don't remember if the first section to be completed will be between 120-170 miles, but once it is finished I plan to ride it. It will be cool to see all the farmland. I live in SoCal and remember even going to Disneyland as a kid you could see miles of farmland. A lot of fruit orchards. Now, very little is left if any. BTW, is it true that initially the first section will use diesel engines since the track won't actually be electrified at that point? If so, do you know if the passenger cars themselves will be the same ones? Also, how fast will these non-electrified trains go? Thanks, again for another informative video.
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
I for sure feel your pain. While agriculture isn’t my top pick when it comes to natural beauty, it’s far superior to suburban sprawl. Even in my brief childhood in northern Illinois, I got to witness the orchard to orchard-themed-subdivision pipeline firsthand. I’ll be honest I haven’t followed the project too closely in the last month, because I’ve been waiting on any (hopefully good) news out of Washington regarding the project, but yes, a majority single track, non-electrified line has been proposed as a way to get something running with the current funds available. I would be lying if I said I didn’t see this coming; honestly rumors about this have been circulating for at least a decade. I don’t want this scenario to become reality, but if it does it will be *big sigh* better than nothing. If it does become the temporary future of the CAHSR system, yes, Siemens chargers will be pulling the current siemens coaches and California bilevels on the HSR alignment at 125 MPH. You might even see the comet cars make an appearance lol.
@davidleonard6336
3 жыл бұрын
Hi does California high speed rail relocate the fruit trees or just flatten then loved you video
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
I’m sure they don’t relocate the trees. They have planted hundreds of trees however to offset the carbon sequestration lost.
@markjensen7091
3 жыл бұрын
Maybe you can answer this question for me which is "why build and buy a new rail right of way when you have an underutilized right of way 200 feet off to the side of a road?" Obviously the BNSF right of ways are utilized, I'm talking about the under used and/or abandoned spur lines.
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
If you can tell me which abandoned spur line connects Los Angeles and San Francisco and will support speeds of 220 mph, I’d love to hear about it.
@markjensen7091
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheFourFoot Well you just mentioned a short line rail road in the central valley. My question is "why build a brand new right of way, when you can buy that small right of way, and develop it for high speed rail." You don't need to file an environmental impact report because you are already using that section of track for it's intended purpose which is for rail use. Then maybe 100 miles up the road is another abandoned spur line, why not acquire that line as well and piece along rail right of ways between already established lines. Obviously the path thru the mountains along Pacheco pass and the Tehacapi mountains is going to have to be built but other paths could be used to connect.
@markjensen7091
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheFourFoot The example I will give of a good reuse of an abandoned rail corridor is the rail line along the 210 freeway in Los Angeles that goes from Pasadena to Azusa etc... For years before the Gold line (now L line) that rail corridor was abandoned, Santa Fe didn't need it any more and it was no longer in use. Then metro rail bought the corridor and repurposed the line for light rail use. To me that is what I mean, obviously sections of that line were unusable or didn't fit the goal metro rail had for the line, but metro rail made the connections either on the street level or sub/above street level that connected to Union Station. My question is "why didn't CA High Speed find similar rail corridors in the central valley that they could have rehabilitated and pieced together to make a high speed rail line."
@AlexCab_49
3 жыл бұрын
@@markjensen7091 It probably wouldn't have connected to towns or something
@gardenman3
3 жыл бұрын
Why the gap between package 4 and package 3?
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
There were no public roads that I could drive on to fly my drone.
@ClintonStClair
3 жыл бұрын
What's a Geometry Test car?
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
It’s a car that railroads use to test several aspects of the physical track structure looking for defects, such as rail wear, gauge, mud holes, etc.
@wizardmix
3 жыл бұрын
Phase I will be completed in the same amount of years it took China to construct 15,500 miles of high speed rail. I'm all for this project but "high speed rail" is a bit of an oxymoron in this case.
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, yes lol
@wizardmix
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheFourFoot I'm not in love with China but I've ridden their HSR extensively and I'm utterly amazed and what they've been able to do in such short time. A ticket from Xiamen to Shanghai, which is about 700 miles, will cost under 100USD and cheaper if you're a Chinese citizen. The fast train will take about 5.5 hours. I'm not naive to think we're apples to apples here. I get that the circumstances and priorities are way different between the US and China, not to mention property rights. I just hope that once the CA HSR is up and running, people will be able to afford to ride on it.
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
That’s awesome! I tried to go to China last year, but my visa got messed up and there wasn’t time to get a new one. I’d like to ride experience their high speed network, but I know it’s very existence is incredible. On top of the other differences, America’s smaller population likely means a nationwide HSR network might never be built. Obviously important corridors like California are perfectly capable of supporting HSR lines, but I agree, I hope the ticket prices aren’t too high. Making the train a luxury item that only well-off people can afford is going to do nothing for the environment/congestion.
@wizardmix
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheFourFoot My first HSR experience was the RENFE in Spain, which was amazing. The only issue I have with HSR is that the pressures in the cabins fluctuate which can mess with your ears but other than that, extremely smooth and otherworldly to see land moving by that fast. The ear thing was true of the Chinese trains as well. The only other country I've experienced HSR was China. I've been on several trains there including the MAGLEV in Shanghai. The trains in China are definitely modern, very smooth but much more like a commuter train in "feel." There are two and three class variations. Generally it goes 2nd Class, 1st Class and Business Class (business being above 1st) in the case of the trains. 1st is definitely the way to go on longer haul trips (3 + hours). Purchasing tickets as a westerner is very strange as well, you often need a service to buy the tickets for you or you have to stand in line at the station. It's much easier for Chinese citizens. I'd imagine the Japanese trains are the nicest, I'd definitely like to ride on those if I ever get there.
@TheFourFoot
3 жыл бұрын
Interesting! Yeah I’ve only ridden high speed trains in England, France, Japan, and Korea. Japan definitely has the best service (from what I’ve ridden) as far as service frequency and rolling stock, although the prepared meal I had on the Eurostar was quite nice! It’s definitely a goal of mine to ride every high speed rail system in the world, but that’s gonna take a while! Lol
@neilworms2
3 жыл бұрын
Btw that Dairy farmer story reminded me of this cities skylines series on a fictionalized rural town in Texas: kzitem.info/news/bejne/y4yG23dvi2VepI4
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