Sunday Fun: Train Chasing



This is one of the coolest videos I have seen in a very long time and you do not have to be a train fan to enjoy it. It is of a small radio controlled helicopter chasing a BNSF train around the world-famous Tehachapi Loop in California. This video is in HD. I suggest before viewing setting it to 1080HD and then viewing in full screen.

What is the Loop. It is a place constructed in the 19th Century to allow Southern Pacific trains (now Union Pacific with BNSF using it with "trackage rights") to get up the steep grade. The trains literally loop around themselves. See photo below with the locomotives indicated by an arrow.
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If you aren't a train fan, here are a couple of screen captures to help you figure out what you are seeing:
 The train has climbed to the Loop's upper length, what you are seeing in the background is the same train.

The train is rounding the curve at the upper level with the same train on the lower loop.


And, finally, you see the almost the entire train on the upper and lower loops.

Comments

  1. Fellow railfan here, and both Cajon Pass and Tehachapi are on my bucket lists. Awesome video.

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  2. I have been to both. Tehachapi is amazing. Before making a trip be sure to look at some of the forums for railfans. There are some issues in both areas.

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