Feather River to The Inside Gateway (4K) | 150 mile chase to Bieber | June 25, 2021 | DJI Inspire 2
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- This video features a BNSF autorack train for nearly 150 miles from Merlin in the Feather River Canyon and up the Gateway Subdivision to Bieber CA.
I'm proud to present some rarely seen territory that is the BNSF Gateway Sub. It's an interesting piece of railroad that doesn't get much attention from railfans. I'm personally fascinated by the section between Westwood and Bieber so I'm excited to have some of that featured in this video.
These scenes were filmed with the professional DJI Inspire 2 drone and the DJI Osmo Action.
Music is used from Soundstripe
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Phenomenal!! Perfect lighting. Perfect Drone operation! Detail is unreal, including the log debris left behind by Feather River floods, and the recently ballasted roadbed!! And the shots you never see: the train breeching tunnels north of Keddie Wye!! The music is perfect for the beauty of this country. Heaven?
Thanks so much!
Superb. Thank you Dan
Another example of how great America is; has been and always will be!
Thank You! For this Magnificence of a video!
The music's pretty good too!
Thank you Ron!
Absolutely beautiful film, very well done. No beauty to me like California and this film shows why. I have driven this part of CA a few times, but nothing like seeing it close up from the air. If I could travel through the universe I wish it to be on a passenger train. Railroads in general are so under appreciated.
Thank you Rick!
That portion of the video entitled "Coming Off The Big Hill" to the crossing on the ground was nothing less than majestic. Some of your best work so far, in my own opinion. What a gift!
Nice that you could document this area before the devastating Dixie fire.
That BNSF ES44C4 lead unit, is niffty!
Sensational and inspiring from beginning to end. Thank you, Railfan Dan!
Thanks Paul!
Brilliant.One of your best takes.
Thank you!
Spectacular
As always the background music is perfect
Happy to hear that for longer videos like this because it takes more time looking for songs that fit well together for me to be satisfied with the turn out so thank you! I spent a long time doing music for this one.
@@TheRailfanDan Linked this on a TrainOrders.com post, because its so prescient. As you may know this is the very area burning away due to the Dixie and Fly fires. This may be the last time we can see this area the way it is in the video. thanks.
@@zr1rob Oh yes I've been paying close attention to the fire situation down there. It's bad and indeed a lot of this could look at lot different when it's all over. I've got one more Feather River video in the works from May as well so I'm glad to have captured all that I did before the fires.
@@TheRailfanDan Your videos are always inspiring. BTW: do you happen to know the "Dan" that Ken highlighted in the July "What's Neat" video?
Boy Dan, I can totally relate! I've been adding music to quite a few of my videos for about 2-years now, and your statement about the difficulty of getting music for the long videos and that they fit (the mood) well and make you happy is so true. Many times it takes me hours to get it right. You always nail it with your videos, sir!
Great work RD! Nowadays seeing the rivers which used to be white water rapids are only a trickle!
Great footage Railfan Dan, I enjoy all your videos in and around the Feather River Canyon, one of my favorite stomping grounds. So sad though, it's late June and the North Fork Feather River has barely any water in it! FYI - The Dixie fire burned a lot of the North Eastern part of the canyon. UP had their fire equipment on the rails at the Keddie Wye spraying water off the Wye and into the ravine below in hopes to prevent any fire damage to the Keddie Wye. Super nice shots of Lake Almanor too, awesome!
Great beautiful Drone-Video Dan !!
One of your best Dan! The Keddie Wye is a longtime favourite of mine, that I discovered on an old Pentrex video feature the Gateway sub , which Ive watched many times! My next trip to the US will be to Keddie to see this beautiful location in person. Some great scenic inspiration for my new layout as well ! First class work Sir.
Cheers Gregg.
Thanks a lot! Yeah the Pentrex one is good. I think that's a great idea for your next trip to the US! You can't go wrong. Even if you don't see any trains it's a beautiful places to drive through and sight see. I guess I'm mostly talking about the Feather River there.
Truly a wonderful work of art!
Beautiful !!
Thanks so much Dan for doing this video, glad you got it done before the Dixie Fire as things will take a long time to recover. towns of Greenville and Canyon Dam destroyed and also some other small communities plus the forests. Never knew the was a horseshoe curve on the Gateway Sub and I am a WP railfan.
Thank you. Yeah I am glad I made it there before the Dixie fire did all the damage it has done. Very sad about Greenville...
Man, all your videos are simply beautiful! Great job on filming, and the music that goes with it is something else! So impressive, leaves you with the jaw on the floor.
Thanks a lot! I'm glad you think so. I get pretty picky with the music and almost always struggle to find what I like that fits so this is the best kind of compliment!
That is epic. Thanks for making the effort to capture this video. The Inside Gateway is literally America's hidden gem of railroading, especially between Westwood and Bieber, which is so remote and isolated. Major props big Dan!
Thank you Jeff! I most definitely agree. It is a big hidden gem no doubt! I'm fascinated with the hill between Bieber and Halls Flat.
I have to agree with everyone else that this is an exceptional video and thank you for sharing! I was last there in the 90s (from the UK) and its interesting to see the changes including the concrete ties (mentioned by others) though I assume they are as much about reducing maintenance costs as they are about enhanced railroad. I note your comment at [24:00} about the railroad engineering - but surely that's the whole WP from Oroville east and north - an awesome railroad, long may it live! (I accept Donner and Shasta as equally awesome routes!) You are very forunate to live in that part of the world and thank you for sharing it with us.
Yeah the concrete ties add a certain characteristic for sure. You're right the whole thing is an amazing railroad. Donner and Shasta are neat as well but I've definitely got a fascination for the Gateway Sub specifically. This is all between 5 and 8 hours away from where I live in Eugene Oregon but relatively speaking you're right and sometimes its good for me to hear from others. I'm incredibly fortunate for the part of the world I live in and I try so hard not to take the for granted!
Nice job. Seeing it from a different perspective. 👍🏻👍🏻
Great footage as always, Dan. I especially like the shot between 9:00 and 10:30 where both ends of the train can be seen.
Thanks Steve!
Great catch, this long, long train. Fantastic drone work. Never seen anything like it. And most viewers don't know that Keddie Wye is actually a triangle, and has a track that connects the main line in the Canyon to the northbound track to Oregon. This connecting track goes through a tunnel. I don't think that it is used much, but it makes for a quick cutoff between the Bieber track and the main east-west line.
Another great video and thanks so very much
You the man, Dan !
RFD, this is a great piece on many different levels.
Cool, I thought I was crazy for chasing a BNSF Roadrailer (Ice Cold Express) train from Barstow California to Kingman Arizona. It was easy compared to this. Thanks for posting
No not crazy at all! I think single train chases like those can be some of the best.
Great video - amazing flying and editing!
Absolutely stunning scenery.
Thank you!
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Thank you. You need to go back next year and see what it look like after the fire down by kadee and Greenville
Thanks Dan , I have watched the video several times and it just looks better and better! Thanks very much for sharing this video I love 💕 it !
It would be interesting to go back and see what urned in the fire 🔥 ⁉️
The Horse shoe curve is that a back to back Horse curve threw a tunnel that exits by Canyon Dam ⁉️
Great video, it almost looks like you could soft land on a train and film for a while if you wanted to.
As a railfan and a drone pilot myself, I've always had a goal to video this route of the former (and beloved) Western Pacific. Now, however, vast portions of the route are burning, so I am eternally grateful that you captured it so exceedingly well in this recent footage. I'm amazed at the amount of track you covered, and some of the locations you accessed -- and all focused on a single train! How was that even possible?! Did you have a teleportation machine?? Thank you so very much for a job exceptionally well done!
Thanks Mark. Yes you're right the Dixie fire is raging through a whole lot of this territory currently and some of this might not look the same. I've visited the Feather River and the South end of Gateway a few times before this so I had some experience of how a chase like this one would go and what I could get away with. :)
Spectacular work, on a line and in a region of California that is very desolate and difficult to reach--in other words, the perfect subject for a drone-based video clip. I've driven California SR 89 from end-to-end, the motorway featured in the part from Crescent Mills to Almanor, and the scenery is just as diverse, yet one feels such a sense of isolation. Thanks so much for uploading this! Will you ever do Union Pacific's Washy Line, from Hinkle OR to Eastport ID?
Thanks a lot! Yeah it definitely does feel isolated up there. I'm actually fascinated by the Washy line as well and really want to dedicate a few day trip there someday but the lack of train traffic from the UP makes it hard to justify. Especially since so much of the line is hard to access. I have a couple videos on here at Joso over the bridge and another right along where Palouse Falls is with all the tunnels back to back. That section is magnificent!
Beautifully recorded and presented, Dan. It almost looks like a model layout. :)
Thanks Ken!
Dan I always wanted to make that trip up to Biber to see what it was all about? When I was a kid I woul see two - three train go by in a day at Greenville and never knew were they were going. I was very lucky got to take three trips up the inside Gateway, formally the ( HIGH LINE) of the Western Pacific Railroad,
I took a trip up to Westwood with the Union Pacific Railroad from Oreville CA , a big storm came in and we almost didn’t make it back to Oreville, we were stuck in the Canyon down by Cresta Power House where the fire started. The last two trips were to Bieber and the last was to Klamath Falls and returned down the SP line threw Shasta .
Beautiful!
Beautiful
Another great video Dan, was it the same crew that took it all the way, thanks for sharing
Thanks Tony!
Awesome!!
Wonderful video Dan! Thank you documenting this train and this area for us. I was reading some of the prior comments and I did not realize that this area that you captured in this video is now, in late July 2021, being devastated by Dixie and Fly wind fires. As I was looking at the scenery I was thinking that a lot of this area looked very dry. The Feather River looked very low as you flew over it with the drone. The BNSF auto rack train was huge. I liked the portion of the video when we could see the whole train. Do you have any idea what the length of the train was? That was a long train to be powered by just two engines. I am looking forward to the other video that you are working on from the Feather River area.
Thank you Thomas! Yes the Dixie fire is indeed ripping right through here as I type. Now both the Dixie and Fly have combined so are just calling it the Dixie overall. Big bad deal going on and this line will now probably be shut down for close to a month. The Feather River looked low to me as well and I think a big part of that is that it's summer time. I've never seen it so low in my now 5 visits there. I'm not sure on the length but I would guess it was between 6000' and 7000' long. I've got one more video to put together from the Feather River from back in May that will be good because it features other locations not see in this video.
It is my fervent hope that people will see what is really happening. There are only dry gulches that used have roaring rivers flowing in them.
I could agree with that. I think right now seems to be the time of year that rivers get the lowest.
As someone into model railroading I was observing that in amongst all the beauty of the terrain that I observed that the mainline track is partially constructed of concrete railroad ties except where turnouts intersect the mainline track, is that correct? Maybe, you could show more examples of this please.
A lot of the mainline throughout this section is concrete ties no doubt. I'm not too sure about the switches though. I can't say I've paid attention to that too closely myself.
surprised its as clear there as it is. must be before all the fires took off
Indeed before the fires took their toll. Still taking their toll as I type.
Stunning. Absolutely stunning. Is the McCloud Railroad still dormant? Anyone know?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCloud_Railway
Thanks Ted! Yes I believe it is still dormant.
Very nice video, no wild fires there?
Not at the time. Now it's a different story.
Dan it’s too bad at Greenville you didn’t gay a shot of downtown Greenville. The area where you were videoing was the area of the Greenville Western Pacific Station stood , Union Pacific Railroad did want it there any more, so they gave it to the town of Greenville and moved it out of town to the South and after all that it burned to the ground 😞🙏💕‼️
Dan, my Grandparents Ranch was about 200 yards to your left and it all burned to the ground🔥😞🙏‼️
Very beautiful bt i think that was actually nubieber not bieber bt still very very nice thnx 4 posting
Thank you! Yes technically it is Nubieber but the railroad still labels it as Bieber so I decided I would do that as well.
@@TheRailfanDan kool i only no cause i went high schoo there bt stiil very nice
Didn't all that area around Lake Almanor burn since you since you shot that video? A new video sometime, for comparison would be cool.
Is the Keddie to Klamath Falls line "dark territory"? Are crews changed at Keddie?
Bieber to Keddie is now all CTC and Klamath to Bieber is all TWC still. Yes Crews run between Klamath and Keddie and then Keddie to Stockton.
Enjoy the scenery of this video, It's all burnt up now......Thanks to the Dixie Fire 2021
Would you be able to cover the trestle repair work on the UP line between Mt. Shasta and Lake Shastina?
I wouldn't want to fly a drone at a site like that with all the big machinery they're using as well as the big cranes they have out there. It would be difficult to not be noticed and probably get some unwelcomed looks.
No helpers, mid-train or end, must have been an empty.
Yes it was empty.
Great videos, but please cut the music. Thank you.
Drones do not record audio because you would only hear the buzzing of propellers. What other alternative would be preferable other than music?