October 8, 2009 Reported by Paul Dyson, RailPAC President I was very pleased to accept an invitation from Joe Boardman to meet him at Los Angeles Union Station today on Board the “Beech Grove” business car. Mr. Boardman was making a brief stopover during an inspection and meet the troops tour. I invited RailPAC VP…
September 25, 2009, Monterey Reported by Chris Flescher, RailPAC Associate Director, Salinas There is currently a capacity study being made for the Coast Daylight train. San Luis Obispo and TAMC have each given $500,000 to help fund the study. There is still an issue of UP and Caltrans lacking an agreement on what capacity improvements…
Reply to a Los Angeles Times report by Paul Dyson We should be grateful to the Los Angeles Times for bringing up the topic of rail safety, even though the pieces that filled your columns last Sunday 27 September seemed to be more concerned with causing a sensation rather than examining the causes of the…
Reported by Mike Barnbaum, RailPAC Associate Director Wednesday, 16 September 2009, in Suisun City. The CCJPA FY 10 Budget was passed by all members present as was the CCJPA/Amtrak FY 10 Fixed Price Operating Agreement. In Legislative Matters, this writer approached RailPAC VP North, Arthur Lloyd, over concern of a bill brewing in Sacramento by…
. . . PHOTOS . . . and Commentary by Russ Jackson . . . October 1, 2009. (Photo right) California Zephyr waiting to depart Sacramento station. . . . On Time Performance and other Amtrak news: . . . Good news for travelers! . . . Amtrak Guest Rewards is offering double points on…
Family Fun Event with Activities from Paso Robles to Santa Maria – October 8-12, 2009. A variety of free events and activities will take place at numerous railroad, historical and educational locations throughout San Luis Obispo and northern Santa Barbara Counties. See their website announcement at www.ccrf.com The Central Coast Railroad Festival will be a…
Report and Photos by Noel T. Braymer Recently I had a free Saturday afternoon. Since I like to go for rides and I always need more photos for the Newsletter it was a good time for a train ride. Metrolink has a weekend train that leaves at 2:10 PM out of Oceanside to Los Angeles…
Commentary by Paul Dyson, RailPAC President The September 9th LOSSAN Board meeting at Oceanside may well be regarded as a turning point in bringing some rationality and common sense to the governance and operation of this corridor. And it perhaps was appropriate that the meeting was held at Oceanside, the site of the “Berlin Wall”…
. . . PHOTOS and Commentary by Russ Jackson . . . California. . . . The Solano County city of Vallejo had some good economic news this month when Caltrans announced that Althom will open a Mare Island facility in October to overhaul all 66 California cars on a $13.1 million contract. Door replacement,…
Reported by Eugene K. Skoropowski Managing Director, Capitol Corridor Joint Powers Authority I apologize for the ‘combined July and August reports’. Future reports should return to their usual month-by-month issuance. Ridership numbers in California and across the nation continue to be lower than a year ago (2008).However, upon further comparison to 2007, the 2009 numbers…