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LIGHT RAIL, TRANSIT, AND COMMUTER RAIL NEWS BY GEORGE M. SMERK New Light Rail Cars for New Jersey
THE NEW JERSEY TRANSIT board of directors has moved to buy 35 expanded light rail cars for service on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail line. The cars are not totally new, since they will be manufactured using existing cars as the base. The expanded cars hold 50 percent more passengers than a standard car; the cars may also be employed on the Newark light rail service. The expanded sections of the standard cars were developed in cooperation with manufacturer Kinkisharyo. The addition of two more sections to the three sections of the standard cars provides the extra capacity. Some 25 Hudson-Bergen cars will be retrofit- ted and ten Newark cars will be expanded. The need for more capacity is driven by the
This comprehensive roster of Amtrak’s passenger cars and motive power in service during the company’s first 40 years is fully illustrated with a mixture of lineside scenes and roster views. Roster information is presented in a spreadsheet format with introductory text, grouped by major categories such as steam-heated cars, Heritage fleet, Amfleet,
Superliners, diesel locomotives, and electric locomotives.
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growth of patronage. Since the Hudson-Ber- gen Line was launched in 2000, ridership has almost doubled to 45,000 daily patrons. The addition to the equipment is expected to cost $54 million in a contract with Twenty-First Century Rail Corporation. The added sections will lengthen the standard cars by 37 feet and boost seating capacity from 68 to 102 seats. It is planned that the expanded cars will enter revenue service at the end of 2015. Thanks to Jonathan Goodman for the information.
Los Angeles Rail News
Isaac Lankershim was a pioneer developer in the San Fernando Valley. A railway station
that served both the Southern Pacific and Pacific Electric was built in 1896 at Lanker- shim and Chandler Boulevards, and this has been the site of the North Hollywood Station of the Red Line subway and the Orange Line busway. The building has been restored to its late Victorian glory in mustard yellow and brown, with a large roof sign proclaiming a station for SP and PE. It took awhile to ar- range funding for the construction work. In addition to the Metrolink commuter rail
service and the Red Line heavy rapid transit subway, Los Angeles is served by several light rail lines. There is a problem with the light rail Expo Line Phase 2 from Culver City to Santa Monica and the Gold Line Foothill Ex- tension from Pasadena to Azusa. Both will be finished by late summer or early fall of 2015. Sadly, it does not appear that the light rail cars for the two lines will be delivered until the summer of 2016. Another estimate for delivery is for January 2017. The new cars are being built by Kinkisharyo at its shop in Palmdale. Ideally, Metro would like to oper- ate full service on both lines with ten-minute headways. That may not be possible until all the new cars are delivered. There is some thought that operations should not begin until it is possible to run the full service. According to Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, 78 cars are needed to provide the
The Southern Pacific Along the Pacific Coast
The photography of Malcolm R. “Mac” Gaddis by Rod Crossley & Joe Dale Morris
Observe the Southern Pacific Railroad along the Pacific Coast during the steam to diesel transition era.
Over 300 never before seen photographs through the extraordinary photography of Mac Gaddis as he traveled the Golden Empire performing his daily duties as a company officer.
Te book is 320 pages in landscape format, library bound, with bibliography and index on rich coated stock for excellent photo reproduction.
SP main lines, branch lines and interchange railroads are all seen in operation in beautiful black & white photography.
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