locations, can earn much more than pocket change. In 1995 Susie Tannenbaum wrote a book about the buskers called Underground Harmonies. Thanks to Doug Barron for the interesting item. A tunnel boring machine is busy digging
the new Central Subway in SAN FRAN- CISCO. In the fall of 2013 the machine was on its way from south of Market Street and beneath the Powell BART Muni stations to Union Square; the BART crossing is a tricky business. When the subway is finished the Third Street Line light rail will use it. Thanks to D. Martin for the news. January 16, 2014, was the sesquicenten-
seating capacity, combined with the two hour mid-day service, was the undoing of providing good service for the waiting crowds on opening day. An additional car was added to one train on day one, and on day two, an additional trainset was added as crowds and late train times both grew throughout the day. It also helped that CSX freight trains have been rerouted to another line except for a local at night serving on- line customers. Future plans are to extend SunRail south
to Kissimmee, adding four new stations, and to the north, adding a fifth new station at DeLand, which would in total almost double SunRail’s track mileage. The initial cost of the current operation, $1.2 billion, is moti- vated by the fact that Interstate 4 is going to be rebuilt by adding four toll lanes to its cen- ter. This reconstruction will only add to the
nial of rail service between San Francisco and San Jose. Now called CALTRAIN, the commuter service was first operated by the San Francisco & San Jose Railroad, later by the Southern Pacific, it is a ride worth tak- ing. Thanks to John A. Lee for the news. William Everett sent a picture of his mod-
els of PACIFIC ELECTRIC cars. He has several displays of the quarter inch scale models, one of which is in the old Pacific Electric Building at Sixth and Main Streets in downtown Los Angeles. He also has a dis- play at the California State Railroad Muse- um in Sacramento, and the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris. He writes that he began his PE modeling in 1946 and con- tinued into the 1950s. He says he built hun- dreds of models of the Big Red Cars. David Menard sends word that the light rapid transit cars in CALGARY, ALBER- TA, have soldiered on; however, the first batch of Siemens U2 cars from the early 1980s are showing their age and are respon-
sible for breakdowns and interruptions in service. The replacement plan for the early fleet members will have to be speeded up. WASHINGTON METRORAIL expects
to begin service on the new Silver Line in the first part of 2014. The new line will be 11 miles long and will reach from East Falls Church to Reston, Va., and will have four stations in Tysons Corner and one in Reston. Mid-2014 should see the second phase of about 12 miles to Dulles Airport and Loudon County under construction. The DETROIT STREETCAR PROJ-
already congested traffic choking the high- way thru Orlando. The DOT has scheduled the trains to serve primarily commuters, but as the volume of off-peak riders indicated on the opening days, there is a demand to ride the trains at mid-day and in the evening hours to such attractions as Church Street Station and Winter Park with their shop- ping and eating attractions. There is a large leisure and retirement population in and around Orlando, not to mention tourists, that would be attracted to enhanced mid- day and evening service. But there is also large opposition to SunRail ranging from NIMBY’s, to the horn blowing (no quiet zones yet,) to even multi-story homeowners who live next to the tracks who are objecting to the multi-level cars on local TV newscasts because “riders on the car’s top level can see into our bedrooms.” —JOHN BARR
ECT will be built along Woodward Avenue between Baltimore and Congress streets and is planned to serve revenue passengers in early 2016. The whole project is expected to cost $137 million and the line will be 3.2 miles long. Key contracts for design, con- struction management, and rolling stock were to be completed by the end of 2013. Maryland’s MARC commuter rail service
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initiated weekend service on the Penn Line on December 7, 2013. Nine round trips will be operated each weekend day between Washington Union Station to Baltimore Penn Station and Martin State Airport. A purchase of several dozen cars and ten loco- motives will help to protect the service. Las Angeles METROLINK rail com- muter service has some serious accounting problems. To go over the books, KPMG was employed to troubleshoot the records. A seri- ous forensic audit will be pursued later. Thanks to Douglas I. Duncan, John A.
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