Commentary By Paul Dyson, RailPAC President On Friday January 11th I had a quick turnaround trip to Oceanside on a RailPAC errand that resulted in my spending about 90 minutes at the Transit Center. My observations are about the Transit Center rather than the trainride and I’m trying to look at it from the point…
January 10, 2008 Merced, California Reported by Bruce Jenkins, RailPAC Director The meeting was abbreviated because train #701 (north) was delayed due to a grade crossing accident south of Merced. The SJVRC Board entertained a request to change the meeting date to the 3rd Thursday of the month. However, because of schedule conflicts with a…
By Noel T. Braymer George Skelton of the Capital Journal from Sacramento wrote some rather discouraging things about what is being proposed for the California High Speed Rail Project. This is what he wrote as published in the December 24 issue of the Los Angeles Times.”Turns out, as a Sacramentan, I wouldn’t be allowed to…
By Noel T. Braymer Back in November 4th of last year PARADE Magazine ran a story about Amtrak entitled “With high gas prices and airport delays, could we make our trains…A Better Way To Travel?” With this story PARADE Magazine ran a poll of its readers asking “Should America Invest more in Trains? In the…
Special Amtrak release sent to RailPAC by Ed von Nordeck BLIZZARDS IN CALIFORNIA AFFECTING SERVICE . EXTREME BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WILL AFFECT THE SIERRA NEVADA AND SISKIYOU MOUNTAINS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THE NEXT FEW DAYS, WITH HEAVY SNOWFALL CLOSING THE HIGHWAYS. . ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 4 AND SATURDAY, JANUARY 5: – ALL THRUWAY BUSES BETWEEN SACRAMENTO…
I was delighted to receive an invitation from NCTD to represent RailPAC at these ceremonies in Escondido this past Friday. It’s been nearly 27 years since a group of us, including the late Byron Nordberg and Adrian Herzog, and the very much alive Russ Jackson and Noel Braymer, met at Oceanside and discussed the possibilities…
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By Russ Jackson, RailPAC website Editor The photos below represent the many of MY PHOTOS that appeared on this site during 2007. They are worth a second look! My thanks to the other contributing photographers this year, including Noel Braymer, Mike Palmer, Mike Barnbaum, and Bob Snow. PHOTO OF THE YEAR The Deming, New Mexico…
Restoring more of the time taken away while the Union Pacific did maintenance of way projects in Nevada. 12DEC07 SCHEDULE CHANGE, JANUARY 21, 2008 CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR: TR 5 ARRIVES EMY (Emeryville) 610P, 1 HR 15 MIN EARLIER. TRAIN 6 CHANGES ARE MINIMAL. Information from Amtrak, courtesy Ed von Nordeck.