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Riding the Train the Day the World was suppose to End
Report and Photos by Noel T. Braymer Photos can be enlarged by clicking on them I woke up early on December 21st and noticed that the world hadn’t ended so I decided that it was good day to go for a train ride. I arrived at my local station in Oceanside for the 7:35 AM…
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Why Not Lease the Coast Line?
Opinion and Photos by Noel T. Braymer Amtrak is leasing for at least the next 25 years 95 miles of railroad from the CSX of the Empire Corridor in upstate New York. The reasons for doing this are so Amtrak can dispatch their train to improve their on-time performance and have a free hand in…
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LA Busy Building over 35 Miles of New Rail Transit over the Next 10 Years.
Report by Noel T. Braymer with illustrations from LA METRO Los Angeles County has two major Light Rail extensions under construction now that are planned to be finished by 2015 which will be added to its existing 87.8 miles of rail transit. There is the 6.6 mile extension of the Expo Line using an old…
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The Mission of LOSSAN
Analysis and Photos by Noel T. Braymer LOSSAN started out as a loose coalition, a network really of local elected officials, mostly city council members and mayors along the route of the San Diegans in the early 1980’s. Most of these elected officials were from cities that had or were planning to build or improve…
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How Profitable is the NEC?
Report by Noel T. Braymer According to Amtrak’s 2011 Fiscal Year their NEC Passenger Trains grossed just over 1 billion dollars. Revenue that year was roughly split evenly between the Acela Trains and the conventional Northeast Regional Trains. In 2011 according to Amtrak the Acelas covered their fully allocated costs and had an operating profit…
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What’s next for LOSSAN?
By Paul Dyson President, Rail Passenger Association of California and Nevada The LOSSAN Board met Monday 19th November in the wake of the unanimous decision by NCTD on Thursday 15th to reject the proposed Joint Powers Board. Some of the reasons: The expected $79,000 share of the cost to set up the agency, and, after…
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Better Bus connections to LAX from Trains
Report by Noel T. Braymer Los Angeles World Airports is the city agency which operates the airports owned by the City of Los Angeles including LAX. The LAWA also operates the Flyaway bus service which provides direct connections to LAX. The busiest Flyaway bus service is at Van Nuys where the LAWA has a satellite…
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Train Trip to LAUS and Lancaster
Report by Noel T. Braymer with Photos Nothing beats going out and riding the trains to see what is going on by finding problems and improvements of local rail service. It is the only way to get photos of what is going too. Well I got to bed early for me just after midnight planning…
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How to have High Speed Rail in California Sooner, Faster and Cheaper
By Noel T. Braymer Since 1996 with the creation of the California High Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) it has had the dream to build the most sophisticated High Speed Rail service in the World with the highest running speed in California. Such a service would serve the largest cities in the State in less time…
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Rail Passenger service at San Diego Airport by 2015?
Report by Noel T. Braymer San Diego’s International Airport was created and named Lindbergh Field back in 1928. Charles Lindbergh’s plane the Spirit of St. Louis was built in San Diego and took off not far from the current airport on his way to New York for his non-stop flight from there to Paris in…