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The Top 3 Most Needed High Speed Rail Connections in California
By Noel T. Braymer Current planning by the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) is for initial High Speed Rail service of 34 round trips daily by 2022 between Merced and Burbank. By 2022 with the completion of run through tracks by 2020 at Los Angeles Union Station there will be plenty of connections from…
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RailPAC rail PHOTOS of the month (November, 2014)
Here are this month’s photos by RailPAC photographers! Click on each photo to see it full size! 8 PHOTOS THIS MONTH. LOOK FOR A SPECIAL WINTER EDITION SOON! Contributions to this page are welcome. Send your jpg rail photos to Russ Jackson, RailPAC Photo Editor, at [email protected]. 1. This is Donner Lake at 7000 ft…
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Trip Report on the Texas Eagle and other trains: How was it?
Commentary by Russ Jackson Opinions expressed in this report are the author’s, and not necessarily those of the RailPAC Board This writer and spouse recently completed a November Amtrak circle trip, starting and ending with the Texas Eagle, which covered much of the western United States. For reporting purposes, the information below primarily covers the…
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Passenger Train Service depends on healthy Freight Railroads
By Noel T. Braymer The nation’s freight railroads have plenty of business now. In fact maybe it has too much business to handle current traffic, let alone future growth. This in turn has affected several long distance passenger trains, often causing them to be habitually late and making long distance rail passenger service less viable.…
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Capitol Corridor Monthly Report (FY 2014 and October, 2014)
From DAVID B. KUTROSKY, Managing Director Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority clic on images to see them larger Service Performance Overview FY2014 Projected Results The Capitol Corridor finished the FY 2014 on a high note. In September 2014, a total of 119,034 passengers rode Capitol Corridor trains, an impressive increase of 7.6% compared to September…
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Are Hybrids the Future for Locomotives?
By Noel T. Braymer The Diesel-Electric locomotive has been around since the 1930’s. Since the 1950’s it has been the standard locomotive for most American Railroads. The Diesel-Electrics drove out the Steam locomotives for simple economic reasons: one Diesel-Electric could do the work of at least 3 steam locomotives. Will economics again drive out the…
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Steel Wheels in California Conference Presentations
Saturday – November 15th, 10:30 – 3:30 PM California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento Presentation Files: