This is the delicate part, Bob:

San Diego and Imperial Valley had the lease for the complete railroad, including the Mexico part. The SDIY fixed the two burned trestles in 1989 until insurance money ran out while fixing one of the two burned tunnels, then subleased the Desert line in 2000 or so to the CZRY led by Gary Sweetwood, who finished getting the line opened in 2004 and ran lumber from the UP interchange into Mexico. Also, the sand...

In 2007 Sweetwood was conned by Charles McHaffie from Vegas who STOLE CZRY from Sweetwood. This Las Vegas mafia has been hoaxing investors on different outfits like mines, Car alarms, GPS systems, etc.

This time, a railroad. So, in 2007 CZRY had the line from Tijuana to Plasterville. The San Diego Metro summoned CZRY to make bridge repairs on the line (remember they got the line opened but no reinforcement repairs. CZRY under McHaffie embargoed the Desert line under STB. CZRY continued to exist as a completely different animal that Sweetwood concieved.

McHaffie lost the Mexican line when the State of Baja was fed up with CZRY's performance and issues with them not maintaining the track, not paying for locomotive leases and the shippers in Mexico complaining for a piss-poor service.

SDIY lost the Desert line to PIR. Naturally CZRY was not included. Does CZRY still exist on paper? Who knows...

BJRR has behind the scene players that are still mysterious, but they have political connections to make it happen... The Mexican Government has been pouring a lot of money on the T&T since BJRR took over.

That's why I believe the former people from CZRY should be given a chance to run the desert line, Bob. The lawsuit for them it's still there.

SDIY only has the SD-San Ysidro segment and the branch to El Cajon.


BOB2 Wrote:
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> This is about as I thought, and said in the
> previous post. The group who have the lease are
> going to sell it off to the to the Baja group.
> The Baja group, so far, does appear to have at
> least some of the resources and proven capacity to
> operate and maintain the segments they are
> interested in.
>
> So exactly where is this corruption on the part of
> MTS? And, what exactly is your proof of that? Or
> is that just the typical sourcing of some of these
> kind of statements? How would this "payoff" from
> the current operators exactly work, who would
> benefit, and why?