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Re: SP Monterey Local memory
Author: Freericks
Date: 07-22-2008 - 14:02
Carol L. Voss Wrote:
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> A Monterey and Santa Cruz "corridor" would run
> from Davenport on the north thru Santa Cruz to
> Watsonville and Castroville (on the UP main) and
> out to the parking lot in Sand City.
> Sigh.
> C.
I have no idea why you're not understanding me. I've read your posts for a long time and you're extremeley intelligent. So, it must be me - I must not be expaining myself. But let me try again.
It would be a forked corridor (sort of like the VIA Corridor, which goes to Quebec City-Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Windsor, which involves a number of junctions, where some trains go one way and other trains go anther way).
It would start in San Francisco and head south. At Watsonville Jct, the Santa Cruz trains would head west, while the Monterey trains would continue south. The old Monterey Branch would be rebuilt, to the station by Fisherman's Wharf. The Santa Cruz branch would also be rebuilt, and a couple hundred yards of the Santa Cruz and Big Trees would be used to get to the old freight station.
Regarding the Joint Powers Board, and the Union Pacific, and the lack of track to Monterey today... what does that have to do with the price of tea in China? I had said from the beginning that I thought it would be successful, not that it would be easy to build. There are all of those issues, and many others to tackle. But to say it can't happen is sort of like saying, we can't build a house there, there's no hole for the foundation.
As to a Davenport to Sand City corridor... is that actually what you really thought I was saying? Seriously?
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> A Monterey and Santa Cruz "corridor" would run
> from Davenport on the north thru Santa Cruz to
> Watsonville and Castroville (on the UP main) and
> out to the parking lot in Sand City.
> Sigh.
> C.
I have no idea why you're not understanding me. I've read your posts for a long time and you're extremeley intelligent. So, it must be me - I must not be expaining myself. But let me try again.
It would be a forked corridor (sort of like the VIA Corridor, which goes to Quebec City-Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto-Windsor, which involves a number of junctions, where some trains go one way and other trains go anther way).
It would start in San Francisco and head south. At Watsonville Jct, the Santa Cruz trains would head west, while the Monterey trains would continue south. The old Monterey Branch would be rebuilt, to the station by Fisherman's Wharf. The Santa Cruz branch would also be rebuilt, and a couple hundred yards of the Santa Cruz and Big Trees would be used to get to the old freight station.
Regarding the Joint Powers Board, and the Union Pacific, and the lack of track to Monterey today... what does that have to do with the price of tea in China? I had said from the beginning that I thought it would be successful, not that it would be easy to build. There are all of those issues, and many others to tackle. But to say it can't happen is sort of like saying, we can't build a house there, there's no hole for the foundation.
As to a Davenport to Sand City corridor... is that actually what you really thought I was saying? Seriously?
