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[quote user="CMStPnP"] BTW, the "heavy rail"  SP Line on which most of the Red Line replaced, used 90 lb rail and SP ran freights at 49 mph using train orders over most of it.    It started in the 1870's as a mixed passenger and freight line and used to haul the steamship passengers up from Galveston and Houston, the name of the line was originally the Houston and Texas Central Railway.     I think most of the Passenger runs were discontinued by the 1930's North of Dallas but I am not sure. The part of the San Diego trolley liine that is dual use is near the Mexican Border and used by a Freight Railway..........there is a noticeable difference in ride quality on that portion of the line.    I was last there about two years ago and I do not know if the freight line still shares these tracks.     Pretty sure DART can do the same over some sections although so far it has avoided it and insisted parallel freight lines be seperate from DART even if on the same ROW.      On the Blue Line, the Dallas, Garland and Northeastern parallels the Blue line from before the Garland stop into Downtown Rowlett..      There are some grades that might be challenging for long freight trains but DGNO doesn't really run long freight trains on this section.............just an interesting note to add.[/quote] I was in San Diego in January, and I took the trolley to San Ysidro, which is the last stop before the Mexican border.  The trolley does not run on the freight tracks, and to the best of my knowledge never has.  It parallels the freight tracks from at least National City. Here is an example of why many middle class people do not now and will not use public transit in the United States.  At the 12th and Imperial Transfer Point, where the Green, Orange, and Blue Line intersect, a ruckus broke out on the train.  A couple of bad guys got into an altercation with the transit cops, who were required to draw their guns to subdue them.
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