Los Angeles Metro Gold Line - Time Lapse Tour
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- The complete Los Angeles Metro Gold Line in a little over three minutes of time lapse footage from the cab of a train. Shot in Spring, 2011. Music is L'Arlisienne - Suite No. 2, IV: Farandole by Georges Bizet
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R.I.P. Metro L Line (Gold) 2003-2023. As of today, the Metro L Line (Gold) no longer exists all due to the Regional Connector now existing. From Atlantic station in East LA to Little Tokyo (1:12), that segment of the L Line is now part of the new E Line (Expo/Gold). From Little Tokyo (1:16) to APU/Citrus College station in Azusa (Gold Line's northern terminus was at Sierra Madre Villa station in Pasadena back then in video), that segment of the L Line is now part of the A Line (Blue), now also known as the original "Pasadena Blue Line". 1:11-1:14 The original 2009 built Little Tokyo/Arts District station no longer exists since 2020. It is now an underground station of the same old name served by the new A and E lines as one of the three new RC stations.
Please note at 0:54 that Pico/Aliso station is the last stop of East los angeles. As of 2023, The gold line now uses one car on East Los angeles to Pico/Aliso. The cars that are curretly used on East Los angeles is The KInkishary P3010. Union station is currently the Last stop From azuza. The cars that are curreltly used are the P3010 and the P2550.
what happened to the p2000s
@@danill4381they’re still in Alstom for refurbishment. They’ll operate on the blue line but they’re also possibly going to be on Expo line
More trains, more buses, more riders, more density, more sense of community.
How much is the cost of construction for the entire system compared to one exclusively on an elevated right of way
Please note at 1:14, Little Tokyo/Arts District station is permanently closed in October 2020 due to the construction of the regional connector and the Gold Line (L line) will merge with the Blue (A line) and Expo (E line) once the regional connector is complete. The new and current station will not be on the street, it will be underground. Please make a timelapse of this line once the regional Connector is complete!
Stay Gold, L line.
The L Line (Gold) will no longer exist once the Regional Connector is complete. The L Line will be broken into two segments as extensions of the existing A (Blue) and E (Expo) lines. The Union Station to APU/Citrus College (Azusa) segment will be part of the A Line while the Pico/Aliso to Atlantic (East Los Angeles) segment will be part of the E Line. Therefore it would have to be A Line from Long Beach to Azusa and E Line (with gold color) from East Los Angeles to Santa Monica both time lapse.
For those who aren't aware, the gold line back then only went from Sierra Madre (Pasadena station next to Best Buy and the 210) to Chinatown. They didn't add the extension until a few years ago. If you wanted to go to Little Tokyo, you'd have to walk from Union Station to 1st Street
The music goes so well with this. From 2:07 and forward it's literally in sync with the crossings bridge curves etc.
Literally the best music choice ever
It also goes well with the power lines passing by
Took a bit of time to find a piece that worked, but the first time I synced it up it just fit so perfectly. Not sure what happened there, but a happy coincidence!
Good one! I've rode the Gold Line before. The music in the background is called Farandole. I remembered having that song as one of the pieces in orchestra when I took that class and I did not quite favor the teacher. When I rode the Gold Line, I found it so scenic looking all over.
Perhaps the only light rail line in the system (maybe even the country! Or world!) where you can experience multiple track types: at-grade crossable, at-grade median, subway, existing right-of-way, elevated and highway median.
Now the A Line (Blue) (to and from Long Beach and Azusa) is now known as the only light rail line in LA Metro's rail system to experience multiple track types:
1. At-grade running with signalized railroad crossings (some wholly owned by LA Metro, others jointly owned with Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway).
2. At-grade running within street medians.
3. Underground running.
4. Elevated running.
5. Freeway median running.
6. Running on former rights-of-way of Pacific Electric Railway's Long Beach Line and ATSF Railway's Pasadena Subdivision.
And now the A Line is also now known as the longest light rail line in the USA and the world, running up to 48 miles.
Always fun riding the Gold Line!
Not any more. The old bridge has been removed and a new one is being constructed. The line is being extended in 2 more phases. Also, it will eventually split - this service will continue from East LA, but at LIttle Tokyo will travel through downtown and continue to Santa Monica. The Pasadena portion will go south to Long Beach.
Oh man, this movie is SO RAD! Great choice of music for an amazing journey. Thank you so much for making my favorite documentary!
The music sounds so cool!! And the train itself I would ride. So cool!
MOAR! Now do Expo!
Recreate this footage when Regional Connector opens. Although the L Line between Little Tokyo and East LA will become the part of E Line’s extension. While A Line will take over the L from Little Tokyo and Azusa (Soon to be Montclair).
You might want to wait for a redo until the Regional Connector opens; the lines will be completely re-routed. This is a good archival presentation of the line during this period of time.
Tomorrow marks the last full service day of the fractured L (Gold) Line. By fractured, I mean the sections that run from Azusa to Union Station and from Pico/Aliso to Atlantic in East L.A.
The Metro 1990s vision of the “Pasadena Blue Line” becomes a reality this Friday at 12 Noon PST when the A Line officially takes over the Foothill Extension, linking it to the existing line between 7th Street and Downtown Long Beach.
Likewise, the E (Expo) Line will utilize the Pico/Aliso-Atlantic branch (the latter becoming the new eastern terminus).
Once the regional connector gets built, the gold, expo, and blue lines will be heavily used. Trains will run more often and trains will be more crowded causing a greater demand for rail and bus service. At grade street running if or the trains should be avoided at all costs.
Ahhh so this is what's in GTA V. There's a tram line in the trailer with the overhead wires and columns like here. Good stuff!
0:00 Intro
0:03 Atlantic
0:09 East LA Civic Center
0:16 Maravilla
0:31 Indiana
0:44 Soto
0:50 Mariachi Plaza
0:54 Pico/Aliso
1:10 Little Tokyo/Arts District Station
1:23 Union Station
1:32 Chinatown
1:41 Lyncoln Cypress
1:47 Heritage Square
1:53 Southwest Museum
2:06 Highland Park
2:21 Mission
2:32 Fillmore
2:38 Del Mar
2:44 Memorial Park
2:51 Lake Station
2:57 Allen
3:09 Sierra Madre
3:11 Outro
I hope there will be another Metro Foothill Line Extension from Ontario Airport to San Bernardino after Glendora to Montclair
1:10 This is where the newly updated E train will enter the second underground portal to the brand-new Little Tokyo Station (as part of the Metro’s newest Regional Connector project which includes Historic Broadway and Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill stations) on its way westward towards Santa Monica.
Guys, would you believe that when the Regional Connector opens this coming summer, the A Line, which will take over the Foothill section of the soon-to-be decommissioned L Line proper, will have become the longest light rail line in the world? This will surpass the 42 mile-long (68 kg), 138 year old Coast Tram in Belgium. I hope this makes it into the Guinness World Records.
It looks cool the timelapse on the tunnel, it seems as if ypu are going backwards at some parts.. You can see how badly the eastside line meeds signal preemption, with all those stops that are as long as waiting at a station.
It's crazy how much has changed since this video was released. Now the gold line doesn't even exist.
Yep bc it shutdown
This fascinates me.. wish we had something like this in San Diego
Lowk_ don't you guys have the San Diego trolley.
@@hectora7479 Yes
Very cool tram ride!
Great preview, as I will be riding the entire Gold Line when I visit LA later this week. :)
i vote for crossing gates at ALL intersections for goldline and expoline.
And they say we don't have good public transportation in L.A. It's a great system!
For a city of its size, LRT is quite underwhelming, especially compared to the systems of smaller cities like Vancouver.
very nice video
Nice - Does this line follow any of the old Pacific Electric routes?
I know this comment is old, but: The section that goes from Lincoln/Cypress to Memorial Park does. East of that, I think the Arcadia and APU/Citrus College stations are near old Pacific Electric stations, but the train doesn't follow PE routes. Although once the extension to Montclair opens, parts of it may run along PE routes again, or very close to them, since it's going to parallel Metrolink and Metrolink is very close to/overlaps with the old PE route in places.
Oh Just to let You know that by 2022 (a year from now) the Metro L line (Gold line) will cease to exist for a short period of time and be replaced by the Metro A line (Blue line) from Downtown Long Beach to Azusa (also known as the Blue line Extension) and the E line (Expo line) will replace the South part of the L line (Gold line) from Downtown Santa Monica to in Downtown East LA (Just like the Blue line this will be known as the Expo line Extension)
Cool metro line
from the end of the video there is an old bridge that crosses the 210 freeway but its not there but the old railroad tracks are still there that goes more longer right ????
the last part from lake station to sierra madre station was used for the scenes from the film "speed"
Wow... you learn something new every day.
I'm really surprised the train doesn't have the ability to automatically trigger a green light for itself at the at grade intersections. Also, are there no crossing arms to warn drivers and pedestrians that a train is coming?
I have always enjoyed using LA public transit. Going through South Central on the Blue Line has not been my favorite though...
Thank you for the video. i love the gold line!
Crazy the East LA section is now the Expo Line and the Pasadena and Azusa section is now the Blue Line
Our Muni Metro Train in San Francisco looks kinda like that. Except more grey, less letters on the train, some red, and in all honesty it looks a whole lot better. Its like the best looking train in the country. However its not the most reliable at times.
kool thanks
Beautiful video!
very fantastic video.
Thanks!
Great choice of music
Really neat video! I hope you will do another after March 5 when the extension to Azusa/Citrus is finally opened!
pretty soon, u're gonna hav to do that again. that's b/c the Gold Line Foothill extension is under construction rite now. can't wait for that :D
That was really fun. Great video.
great video!
I love this video!!! And i love metro Los Angeles
it would be cool if the metro is this fast
Yeah.... If the metro traveled at an average of 590 mph...
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and weren't held up by stop lights either...even our automated sightseeing overground the Expo Express had been protected better:
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Wonderful video, which offered me a nice free virtual ride through LA! Anyway, this also shows that driving is far faster than using this metro line: At full speed, a suburban metro should always be faster than cars to compensate 1) The fact that urban transportation is not door to door and 2) the necessary stops. Not to mention the rail network is so limited that it is mostly limited to the very poor, who can't afford a car, and the extreme ecological aware people who love to cycle and walk.
Dope!!!
Can they do this for the other metro lines like the Green and Blue l;ines?
From East Los Angeles to Pasadena
Could you do a remake of this with the Azusa extension? It is ok if you don't. No pressure.
The original video was shot by an operator, so I will have to find one to do it again. Will post here if it happens.
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@@calpeninsularailfan lol
Then he has to do it again with the Claremont extension.
I started with raw video that had some stop lights edited out, so you're probably right.
It sure looks like people were beating down the doors to jump on.
Do another time lapse of this line when the Regional Connector tunnel opens. This line will run from the Eastside to the Santa Monica Pier.
R.i.p gold line.2003-2023😥😥😥🟡🟡🟡
Forget the Hyperloop, this one leaps to Hyperspace.
Awesome
awesome keep up the good work
I know that most of these comments are older than other comments but, Just to let Y'all know that by 2022 (a year from now) the Metro L line (Gold line) will cease to exist for a short period of time and be replaced by the Metro A line (Blue line) from Downtown Long Beach to Azusa (also known as the Blue line Extension) and the E line (Expo line) will replace the South part of the L line (Gold line) from Downtown Santa Monica to in Downtown East LA (Just like the Blue line this will be known as the Expo line Extension) Also this will probably get a remake
At the, mission / meridian xing, to the upper left is were they filmed the scene as Laurie and her friend meet the friends father the Sheriff after smoking weed from the movie Halloween.
Would the gold line had been more expensive if it was built as above ground heavy rail?
Thanks
To me, the METRO rail train in LA look almost like the MTA LIRR, outside of NY. 😀
Nice clasical music
Received message via Bizet record. Number 2's instability confirmed.
It looks like more to a tramway ( i think you call that a trolley tram in english ) then a metro
Thats my ride home from school! ;)
Wow, what was the total amount of time you spent on the train?
I've never been to or have anything to do with L.A but this is a really cool video
WOW. Welcome to the 21st Century LA! Light rail finally hits the big time.
Remember there was a slow down pace version of this video and it got removed due to copyright
music excellent and special movie
@thecopsofid L'Arlisienne - Suite No. 2, IV: Farandole by Georges Bizet
@JollyRodders Here and there. PE and Yellow Car routes as well as a long stretch of what was just a freight line.
As of 2012 1:54 The siemines P2000 has been removed from the gold line and curretly operates on the Blue, Green and expo lines.
They will be back in the gold line tracks once the regional connector is finished.
I swear there was another version of this video with some really chill vibe music. Do you happen to still have that version or know the song name? It would've been a slowed down version of the video from what I remember...
GTA V is smaller then i thought
lol
how do you know when to stop
Oh i know i mean even if you go to Canada which i know you have but if you go to Toronto the same they call it a "Tram" too.
Nice
Who misses the old Little Tokyo😢
Nah dude in the states we just call it a "Tram".
Please note at 3:09 Sierra madre is No longer the last stop of the gold and the final stop is now azuza.
Any chance of uploading the entire 25 minutes long video?
No way it only took 25 minutes to get from Atlantic station to the Sierra Madre station...
These systems are just proof the interurbans are still needed. This was built in the 70s way after Pacific electric went out of commission
What happened to the underground subway in LA
That was great. I love light rail. My only complaint is with the scenery. Not exactly the greatest views out the windows of that train. Mostly the back of industrial buildings and other boring views.
0:31 the part i like
The East LA Segment was supposed to be an underground continuation of the Red Line.
It's awsome
From los angeles
And all these stops are wheel chair accessible???
Beun007 There's ramps so yes
i wanna live in l.a. after college but all my family is on the east coast
Woah, this line has everything:
At grade without a dedicated right of way
At grade with a dedicated right of way
Elevated track
Subway tunnels
And is it just me, or does the route seem incredibly curve for a light rail line, lol...
The lol was just about the time he said he would get the chance for a second round exit and he said no but I think it’s gonna be good 1:22
LOVE THIS VIDEO, only thing wrong is the info should have put so we can get a chance to read it go by too fast have to keep stopping video to read. thanks for this video/