I just heard President Trump is attempting to block a $637 million dollar grant to pay for electryfing a Bay Area train route. That means Caltrain has to hang on to those F40PH CAT's and MP36PH-C's for the time being, but Gov Jerry Brown's CHSR project gets hit as well.
The last time I was In Los Angeles (last fall), a redcap took me, on a cart, down the ramp and through the tunnel to where I could take a taxi. When I was leaving, I walked down the ramp from the lounge right to #2/22 (of course, this was late at night and there was not much other train traffic.
Johnny
blue streak 1Interesting concept. Most eye opener is the plan to raise all tracks 15 feet. That should enable much better The one problem that Amtrak has had is the inability to transfer passenger easily from the lounge to trains. Took a 15 minute delay waiting for a gold line train to clear for the red caps and baggage carts to take bags & passengers to trains.
Why couldn't the red cap/baggage cart just take the tunnel under all the tracks? I didn't know that the red cap/baggage cart had to traverse the "at-grade crossing" that exists with the Gold Line.
I still think that LAUPT doesn't need to be remade into something fancy; it just needs several of the tracks to be "run-through tracks" like what was proposed 10-15 (?) years ago.
http://la.streetsblog.org/2017/02/22/metro-board-to-vote-on-link-us-union-station-run-through-tracks/
Interesting concept. Most eye opener is the plan to raise all tracks 15 feet. That should enable much better The one problem that Amtrak has had is the inability to transfer passenger easily from the lounge to trains. Took a 15 minute delay waiting for a gold line train to clear for the red caps and baggage carts to take bags & passengers to trains.
Here's probably more information then you want to know from Metro's Blog The Source.
It's an Alstom TGV Duplex power car. "Fly California" is a terrible brand name.
The mock-up in CSRM is of the Siemens Valero family, with a different white-and-mint-green paint scheme.
After seeing so many image renderings of the Trainset, Is it me or does the "Fly California" train look like a repained Eurostar or TGV?
The single window on the front kinda gives it away.
blue streak 1The CA HSR authority has approval to purchase two parcels for the LAUS run thru tracks. Just a very small step but who knows ?
In my opinion, the California High Speed Rail project has been a catastrophic waste of taxpayer resources. That said, the idea of creating run-through tracks at LA Union Station will definitely benefit existing Amtrak and Metrolink service.
The CA HSR authority has approval to purchase two parcels for the LAUS run thru tracks. Just a very small step but who knows ? Anyone with a map of acquisition ?
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-bullet-land-20170210-story.html
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