Trona, Calif. Federal Railroad Administration Safety Map; TRAINS: Steve Sweeney LOS ANGELES — Trona Railway officials are still surveying damage to the company’s track and structures from back-to-back earthquakes July 4 and 5, but officials tell Trains they are already looking at a serious track displacement of about three feet on their main line a […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A grand jury report has blasted the San Jose area’s public transit system as “one of the most expensive and least efficient … in the country,” the San Jose Mercury News reports. The report released last week says the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, which operates bus and light rail systems, […]
Southern Pacific General Manager W.D. Lamprecht’s business car rides the rear of train No. 28 as it passes the helpers on Extra 6311 West at Midas, Calif., on Donner Pass in October 1957. In the foreground, the conductor of the freight walks forward to inspect his train. Philip R. Hastings photo […]
PITTSBURG, Calif. — Bombardier Transportation announced Friday it would open a new railcar assembly plant in Pittsburg, with new Bay Area Rapid Transit cars to be the first equipment built at the site. Assembly of equipment for the 775-car order is currently taking place at Bombardier’s plant in upstate New York, but will be transferred […]
LOS ANGELES — LA Metro has announced moves to fill five key senior management positions. Joining the staff or being named to new positions are: — Nadine Lee, who becomes permanent chief of staff after six months in an interim role. She will work with CEO Phillip A. Washington to implement projects funded by Measure […]
L.A. Metro workers lead a tour through one of the Regional Connector tunnels between the Little Tokyo/Arts District and Historic Broadway stations. LA Metro The Bunker Hill station on the Regional Connector will be more than 100 feet below ground. LA Metro Space constraints for the Historic Broadway station forced LA Metro to use a […]
SAN FRANCISCO — The Transbay Transit Center, closed since last September, will reopen July 1 — but not, initially, for its primary use as a bus terminal. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the $2.2-billion transit facility, which closed just six weeks after its August 2018 opening because of cracks in two major steel support […]
SAN FRANCISCO — An independent panel examining the design and repair of the Transbay Transit Center has determined the $2.2 billion facility is safe to reopen, but the San Francisco Chronicle reports a date for returning service to the facility has not yet been set. While preparations for reopening the center have been under way […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Nearly seven decades after being built, PCC streetcars are still earning their keep in San Francisco and thanks to a recent rehabilitation effort, the streamlined cars will be doing so for years to come. Since 2014, Brookville Equipment Corporation has been rebuilding 16 PCC cars for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. […]
FORT WORTH, Texas — BNSF Railway has placed in service another section of quadruple main line on its Southern Transcon route, this time on the Seligman Subdivision near the California-Arizona border. The four-mile section of fourth main line through Needles, Calif., went into service recently, BNSF said in a June 7 customer advisory. The Needles […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Ron Mei’s HO scale Sunset Route fills 58 x 68 feet with scenes of railroading in the 1950s through southern Arizona and California. The model railroad features many prototype based scenes, including Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. See passenger and freight trains in […]
Having trouble viewing this video? Please visit our Video FAQ page Ron Mei’s HO scale Sunset Route fills 58 x 68 feet with scenes of railroading in the 1950s through southern Arizona and California. The model railroad features many prototype based scenes, including Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal. See passenger and freight trains in […]
