Show threadBicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏Oct 6

“The hope is for two round trips a day to San Jose, and looping in Amtrak’s Capital Corridor train on top of the existing, once-per-day Coast Starlight.

“'If it all worked well,' Muck says, 'it will be as early as 2028 for that to start.’”

- from report by David Schmalz in #MontereyCountyNow

https://www.montereycountynow.com/news/local_news/it-may-be-arriving-later-than-hoped-but-expanded-rail-service-to-the-bay-area/article_bc01f985-7d3f-40a8-8a2e-94b743a3c008.html

#Rail #Train #Amtrak #MontereyCounty #SFBA #Salinas #Gilroy #Pajaro #Watsonville #SanJose #CapitolCorridor #CoastStarlight #Caltrain #transportation

Steve SloanJan 10, 2023

On Tuesday Feb. 8, 2022, I spent an afternoon at Diridon Station photographing trains.
California DOT (CDTX) 2001 is at Diridon Station in San Jose, CA, Track 7, waiting to go north on Train 542.
CDTX 2001 is an EMD F59PHI owned by California DOT built in 1994 serial number 926339-1.
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Photo With a Nikon F100, Nikon 85mm f2 (MF), Ilford PanF+

#trains #railroads #railroading #CapitolCorridor #SanJose #passengertrains #CDTX

14missionDec 29, 2022
#Drawbridge, the SFBA's only #GhostTown (AFAIK), seen from #Amtrak #CapitolCorridor.
zeruchDec 8, 2022
"But I do remember when I was commuting to #UCD four days week via the #CapitolCorridor train, and often seeing the dilapidated remnants of a town, slowly disappearing into the South Bay marsh. You would cruise by and for a good 5-10 minutes, you would see the vast expanse of multicolored flat marshland, with struggling, lethargic skeletons of buildings and the faint footprints of lives that resided there... " https://zeruch.wordpress.com/2022/12/08/drawbridge-a-california-ghost-town/ #zeruchontour
Drawbridge, a California Ghost Town.

Joseph Estêvão Arruda (zeruch)
Steve SloanNov 30, 2022

At 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday, November 29, 2022, CDTX 8312, the "Mount Inyo" leads Capitol Train 541 northbound approaching the Agnew depot in Santa Clara, CA. CDTX 2121, a Siemens Charger SC-44, is shoving on the rear.
CDTX 8312 "Mount Inyo" is a cab car.

#trains #railroads #railroading #capitolcorridor #santaclara #passengertrains

Show threadThomas ConnorMay 6, 2022
The Coast Starlight is, to my reckoning at least, one of the Big Five Amtrak routes for long distance travel, along with the #SouthwestChief (Chicago -- Albuquerque -- LA), #CaliforniaZephyr (Chicago -- Denver -- Oakland), #EmpireBuilder (Chicago -- Spokane -- Portland | Seattle), and #SunsetLimited (New Orleans -- Houston -- Los Angeles). The Starlight also covers some of the same ground as the #PacificSurfliner (San Diego -- LA -- San Luis Obispo), the #CapitolCorridor (Auburn -- Sacramento -- Oakland -- San Jose) and the Amtrak Cascades (Vancouver Canada -- Seattle -- Portland -- Eugene).