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Re: New Bart Cars found to be too heavy
Author: Dr Zarkoff
Date: 02-21-2017 - 22:16
BARTD's "oddball" track gauge is a result of deciding it would go a long ways toward preventing rollovers if a train was going 70 in a 70 mph crosswind. At the time BARTD's speed was intended to be 70, but it didn't quite work out as planned.
>Interesting, but I'd have to suggest Freudian projection on SP's part.
This evinces a distinct tendency to indicate you're making up the SP connection out of whole cloth.
>But even today with the enormous power of the Jerry Brown-Nancy Pelosi patronage machine(2/3 lock in the Legislature)they would be chicken to take on the UP, say, to grab its trackage in the Bay Area.
If the State of Calif really "wanted a piece of UP trackage", the UP would come out second best, regardless of who controls the legislative and executive in the Satehouse. It's a simple question of which of the two has more financial reserves. Calif has something like the 7th or 10th largest economy in the world, and that list includes entire countries (and the US). There are more registered automobiles in Calif than in all of Australia. How does the mighty Unlimited Parking compare economically to that?
>For instance what I would have done in 1960 - combine the Peninsula line with the Capitol Corridor via a tube or tunnel and all electrified.
And you would have ruined both because of the conflicting interests of the two areas. One of the biggest reasons for the 10-odd year delay in establishing the San Joaquin Joint Powers Board is that all the other counties which make up this board were afraid that Sacramento County would hog all the money (for things like its light rail system). That comes from first-hand exposure to people connected to the agencies.
>They don't have the stones. Even with that lock on power. Look at how Brown toms to the Tejon Ranch Co. Pathetic.
Phooey. That sounds just like the conservocretin mumbo-jumbo which has been so rife of late.
And BTW, 2% overweight isn't even worth fretting about.
>Interesting, but I'd have to suggest Freudian projection on SP's part.
This evinces a distinct tendency to indicate you're making up the SP connection out of whole cloth.
>But even today with the enormous power of the Jerry Brown-Nancy Pelosi patronage machine(2/3 lock in the Legislature)they would be chicken to take on the UP, say, to grab its trackage in the Bay Area.
If the State of Calif really "wanted a piece of UP trackage", the UP would come out second best, regardless of who controls the legislative and executive in the Satehouse. It's a simple question of which of the two has more financial reserves. Calif has something like the 7th or 10th largest economy in the world, and that list includes entire countries (and the US). There are more registered automobiles in Calif than in all of Australia. How does the mighty Unlimited Parking compare economically to that?
>For instance what I would have done in 1960 - combine the Peninsula line with the Capitol Corridor via a tube or tunnel and all electrified.
And you would have ruined both because of the conflicting interests of the two areas. One of the biggest reasons for the 10-odd year delay in establishing the San Joaquin Joint Powers Board is that all the other counties which make up this board were afraid that Sacramento County would hog all the money (for things like its light rail system). That comes from first-hand exposure to people connected to the agencies.
>They don't have the stones. Even with that lock on power. Look at how Brown toms to the Tejon Ranch Co. Pathetic.
Phooey. That sounds just like the conservocretin mumbo-jumbo which has been so rife of late.
And BTW, 2% overweight isn't even worth fretting about.
