The Greatest Big Boy FPV Video of All Time! // UP 4014 @ Oroville Horseshoe (2024) CLOSE UP!

For my Birthday on July 11th, I decided to make the Drive 3 Hours North to catch Big Boy as it went around the Horseshoe bend North of Oroville. This gave me the unique opportunity to film the Big Boy at speed as it raced under an overpass!

I then went to the Train station at Oroville, which provided me with the opportunity to get some gorgeous close-up shots of the ruining gear! This was my first ever opportunity to film this magnificent Locomotive so I was quite excited and forgot to record any audio. However, I was able to edit some audio for effect.

Hopefully, I will be given another chance to film a better video of 4014 during a future tour, but for now, I'm just happy I finally got to see it after 10 years of anticipation. Cheers to everyone who was there with me waiting on that overpass!

When it comes to the legal side of things, I'm actually a licensed UAV operator that has been flying operations near and around crowds of people commercially for years now. I've done events, vehicle showcases, videos for locations like bars, etc. It's taken me a long time to become as confident as I am in order to record a video like this. The regulations from the FAA detail that flights like the ones I performed in the video above (with what is known as a category 2 unmanned aircraft, known in the hobby as a "cinewhoop") are allowed if and only if I follow specific guidelines:
The propellers are enclosed (not exposed to prevent injury)
Flight over people is not sustained for long periods of time, same goes for when flying near moving vehicles
You need to be licensed and have had extensive experience
I'll leave a link to the FAA's guild lines so you don't have to take my word for it:
https://www.faa.gov/uas/commercial_op...

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:48 FPV Chase under Overpass at Speed
01:56 Big Boy Passes at Speed
02:52 Following Big Boy out of Oroville Close up Shot!

Videos from which the audio was borrowed:
   • Big Boy 4014  
   • Pacing Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 Steam T...  
   • Big Boy 4014 Westward Bound Tour (Day 5) S...  
   • Pacing Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 Steam T...  
   • Chasing and Pacing UP SD70ACe on CP's Oil ...  
   • Видео  
   • UP's 4014 Big Boy Arrives in Sacramento!  

Equipment Used:
DJI AVATA
(Closed propeller FPV drone, for indoor vidoes)
DJI AIR 3
(Open propeller conventional drone, for outside videos)

Software used for editing:
Sony Vegas Pro