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Re: On to Fallbrook? Not as crazy as it might seem....
Author: mook
Date: 10-11-2015 - 14:15
Didn't the original line come in through Corona? I'm probably mixed up...
I like Bob's idea, not least because while space may be available north of Escondido in the I-15 corridor, it isn't to the south. Really, you need to get off I-15 with any kind of rail by somewhere near the Border Crossing (there are inspection stations - effectively, customs without the passport requirement - on both 5 and 15 near the north border of San Diego Co.). Plus, getting over to the south end of the LOSSAN with HSR was going to be a real bear, no matter how they did it, south of Escondido. If you can keep the rails out of the floodplain, and avoid wiping out the town with freeway-scale construction, Fallbrook sounds interesting.
OTOH, the Perris line (which if Google is correct still more or less exists out to Hemet and San Jacinto, with a couple of spots where people have torn it out for something) bears no resemblance to a high speed line. What standard did Metrolink build it to - 59 mph?
Just for fun ... there was a guy several years ago working on a Microsoft Train Simulator route of CASHR. He started in San Diego, for some reason, and based it loosely on early planning documents at the HSR web site at the time (had to be loosely - the real world as represented by USGS DEM and Google Earth files used for modeling didn't precisely match the early planning assumptions). He had some pretty nice-looking screenshots for sections from downtown up to Escondido (lots of tunneling; visually constructible structures). Then he and it vanished. Possibly, he went back to school (as stated in the thread at the time) and then Life Happened. Here's a conspiracy theory for the mouse: he was doing too good a job figuring out how to actually route it and what it would look like for some people?
I like Bob's idea, not least because while space may be available north of Escondido in the I-15 corridor, it isn't to the south. Really, you need to get off I-15 with any kind of rail by somewhere near the Border Crossing (there are inspection stations - effectively, customs without the passport requirement - on both 5 and 15 near the north border of San Diego Co.). Plus, getting over to the south end of the LOSSAN with HSR was going to be a real bear, no matter how they did it, south of Escondido. If you can keep the rails out of the floodplain, and avoid wiping out the town with freeway-scale construction, Fallbrook sounds interesting.
OTOH, the Perris line (which if Google is correct still more or less exists out to Hemet and San Jacinto, with a couple of spots where people have torn it out for something) bears no resemblance to a high speed line. What standard did Metrolink build it to - 59 mph?
Just for fun ... there was a guy several years ago working on a Microsoft Train Simulator route of CASHR. He started in San Diego, for some reason, and based it loosely on early planning documents at the HSR web site at the time (had to be loosely - the real world as represented by USGS DEM and Google Earth files used for modeling didn't precisely match the early planning assumptions). He had some pretty nice-looking screenshots for sections from downtown up to Escondido (lots of tunneling; visually constructible structures). Then he and it vanished. Possibly, he went back to school (as stated in the thread at the time) and then Life Happened. Here's a conspiracy theory for the mouse: he was doing too good a job figuring out how to actually route it and what it would look like for some people?
