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Re: SP Monterey Local memory
Author: Carol L. Voss
Date: 07-23-2008 - 08:58
Craig Tambo Wrote:
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> The steam engine that used to sit along Cannery
> Row is Pickering Lumber 3-truck Heisler number
> 1--it now belongs to PLA (Niles Canyon) and sits
> behind a fence along side the UP in Fremont. Not
> to be confused with number 5 (which PLA also
> owns), it's in very bad shape.
> Also, I recall that the origional plans for
> implementing the Capitol Corrider route in 1991
> called for three round trips a day to Monterey as
> part of the core system. Later (early 90s), they
> toyed with the idea of running from San Francisco
> to Monterey on weekends only. This caused a lot of
> conjecture about how they would run Amtrak (not
> Caltrain) crews out of SF for only a couple of
> days per week. Of course, it was all moot.
Forgetting any dealings with UP to extend commute service to Salinas, I believe that the crew/trainset/timetable issues are somewhat of a problem as well. I can understand the talk in the early '90's of running trains from SF to Monterey but since all of the development has since taken place in the Salinas valley down to Gonzales and Soledad and not the Monterey peninsula, running the commutes to Salinas makes a lotta sense.
C.
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> The steam engine that used to sit along Cannery
> Row is Pickering Lumber 3-truck Heisler number
> 1--it now belongs to PLA (Niles Canyon) and sits
> behind a fence along side the UP in Fremont. Not
> to be confused with number 5 (which PLA also
> owns), it's in very bad shape.
> Also, I recall that the origional plans for
> implementing the Capitol Corrider route in 1991
> called for three round trips a day to Monterey as
> part of the core system. Later (early 90s), they
> toyed with the idea of running from San Francisco
> to Monterey on weekends only. This caused a lot of
> conjecture about how they would run Amtrak (not
> Caltrain) crews out of SF for only a couple of
> days per week. Of course, it was all moot.
Forgetting any dealings with UP to extend commute service to Salinas, I believe that the crew/trainset/timetable issues are somewhat of a problem as well. I can understand the talk in the early '90's of running trains from SF to Monterey but since all of the development has since taken place in the Salinas valley down to Gonzales and Soledad and not the Monterey peninsula, running the commutes to Salinas makes a lotta sense.
C.
