San Francisco & San Jose's Commuter Rail Network Evolution

I know you might not want to include them because they are affiliated with Amtrak, but the Capitol Corridor (15 times per day) and the Amtrak San Joaquins are both important parts of our network. Really enjoy your videos!

Just an interesting fact: Caltrain is the longest-running passenger rail line west of Chicago. It began service in 1863 as the Peninsula Commute, a passenger service run by Southern Pacific from SF to SJ. In 1977, Southern Pacific announced that they would be discontinuing Peninsula Commute due to a lack of funding, but the state stepped in and continued funding it. In 1980, they rebranded it as Caltrain, and transferred the operating rights from Southern Pacific to Amtrak, and it's been that way to this day.

5:30 When Caltrain extends to Salinas, they also plan to add a station at Watsonville.

Commuter rail on this route began over a century ago with the Southern Pacific railroad. I was really hoping that you would include information on that very long and important segment of the route's history.

I feel like not including the Capitol Corridor and to a lesser extent San Joaquins is a mistake, as both routes are state funded, use commuter style trains, and run a lot daily.

I live in the Bay Area and I didn’t even know ACE was adding a new line

Can't wait for the newly electrified Caltrain service! I'll get to try it next time i visit the area in November.

It would be great if they would take the SMART trains and bring it on the Richmond bridge allowing the trains to access/merge into the BART tracks allowing service all the way from Sonoma to San Francisco's new transbay terminal. It's great to see that Caltrain will start service to Salinas and while they're at it maybe we could see an extension from San Francisco to Santa Cruz with Monterey and Carmel included either with Caltrain and/or BART.

I love and enjoy your videos. I can't get enough of them. Please promise you'll continue.

No VTA light rail? It connects to a lot of the commuter rail stations in the San Jose area

hope fully the Dumbarton rail bridge gets rebuilt & trains use it again

You missed the northern extension of Caltrain to the Salesforce transit center in downtown San Francisco. it happened along with construction of CAHSR!

I love your videos keep up the great work

1 wish you mentioned the evolution of both the Baby Bullet and skip-stop Rush hour services on CalTrain. 2. Also in CalTrain, Broadway and Atherton saw service only on weekends, and College Park only saw one train per day each way.

great video! i take caltrain to work most days—I remember when Atherton station closed a few months ago but I didn't realize it was part of a longer trend of pruning the least-used stops from the line—interesting! thank you for this video, keep up the great work!

I'm from the SF Bay Area so I enjoyed the video. The upcoming electrification is exciting. But I wonder if, post-pandemic, ridership will return. A lot of people want to continue teleworking. Could you either reduce the volume of the new background music or go back to the old music? Thank you.

I often used CalTrain when I would go to Menlo Park. Thank you for this video. I am glad my options have increased to include not just San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland airports but now also Sonoma County.

0:23 UP EXPRESS: there is an imposter among us

Nice video as always. I guess this means you're going to do a video covering BART (if you haven't already)?

I love your videos. What software do you use to make the maps?