Our wide-ranging latest installment of News Wire Recommended Reading includes articles on a Wyoming landmark; a massive space under San Francisco built for currently nonexistent train service;, and how things went wrong for a deal to involve German’s Deutsche Bahn to remake Toronto’s GO Transit commuter rail operations.
— You may be familiar with the Ames Monument, the pyramid-like stone structure in Wyoming built to honor Oakes and Oliver Ames, who helped finance construction of the Union Pacific. This Cowboy State Daily article reports on the last time people were allowed inside the 60-foot monument’s tunnels.
— Also in the categories of enclosed spaces visited by few people, public broadcaster KALW reports on the “train box,” the huge space under the four-block long Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco that sits empty, awaiting eventual connection to Caltrain and the state’s high speed rail project.
— The Trillium, a news site focused on politics in the province of Ontario, looks at the short-lived deal between provincial transit agency Metrolinx, Deutsche Bahn, and other companies to expand GO Transit to include commuter trains at rapid-transit like frequencies during peak periods.
Note that on October 31, 2016, the Ames Monument received National Historic Landmark status.
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