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Re: ATSF Perris Depot-Explanation Accepted? Connection to OERM?
Author: Gerry Witt
Date: 07-27-2017 - 12:49
OERM fails to publish their PDF e-Gazette regarding the status of the Perris depot connection.
I believe RCTC owns the track from Perris Depot to Pinacate (OERM), as well. Does RCTC own the old California Southern ROW to Canyon Lake too?
Bob, you might want to contact Joe Fuller, OERM President. Can/should RCTC fund the Perris connection? Also, I believe the reason that the Metrolink Perris Valley Line excursion wasnt to OERM was because the track is bad ordered from the switch at Perris to 11th. Street crossing.
Looks like OERM also needs all the help on MOW hands it can get. Why not show up and help their MOW department. Do they have tampers, motorcars and hirails and do they perform their own inspections or is that done by Metrolink now?
Gerry
BOB2 Wrote:
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> Explanation accepted. It is a great original
> California Southern station, and one of the few
> cultural resources that Perris can claim, along
> with the OERM, and they are a major business draw
> on Fall and Spring weekends. It's too bad that
> RCTC has had such major cost overruns and delays
> on the 91 reconstruction (the project that ate
> Riverside Coutny...?)and can't afford to provide
> appropriate weekday services, and no weekend
> services at all to Perris..... Oh well...?
>
> It's also too bad they haven't reconnected the
> tracks from the OERM across 79 to the depot. It
> would be great to reconnect a "cross platform"
> transfer from Metrolink, and someday have the
> kind of ML service that would enable Southern
> Californian's to visit OERM by train. Does anyone
> know the real status of that reconnection across
> 79 to the depot?
>
> I've heard it is planned, but not funded, and I've
> heard that it's not? I've heard there is funding
> coming through "enhancement" funding to reinstall
> the crossing, I've heard that's nonsense?
>
> I can't seem to find much "evidence" (Board
> minutes, funding lists, press releases, press
> articles, politicians promises.....) of anything
> on the status of this.
>
> I know that several folks on Altamont have said it
> is coming, and I've heard others say that it will
> happen when pigs fly......
>
> Does anyone know anything "real" about this? That
> might have some kind of credible source?
I believe RCTC owns the track from Perris Depot to Pinacate (OERM), as well. Does RCTC own the old California Southern ROW to Canyon Lake too?
Bob, you might want to contact Joe Fuller, OERM President. Can/should RCTC fund the Perris connection? Also, I believe the reason that the Metrolink Perris Valley Line excursion wasnt to OERM was because the track is bad ordered from the switch at Perris to 11th. Street crossing.
Looks like OERM also needs all the help on MOW hands it can get. Why not show up and help their MOW department. Do they have tampers, motorcars and hirails and do they perform their own inspections or is that done by Metrolink now?
Gerry
BOB2 Wrote:
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> Explanation accepted. It is a great original
> California Southern station, and one of the few
> cultural resources that Perris can claim, along
> with the OERM, and they are a major business draw
> on Fall and Spring weekends. It's too bad that
> RCTC has had such major cost overruns and delays
> on the 91 reconstruction (the project that ate
> Riverside Coutny...?)and can't afford to provide
> appropriate weekday services, and no weekend
> services at all to Perris..... Oh well...?
>
> It's also too bad they haven't reconnected the
> tracks from the OERM across 79 to the depot. It
> would be great to reconnect a "cross platform"
> transfer from Metrolink, and someday have the
> kind of ML service that would enable Southern
> Californian's to visit OERM by train. Does anyone
> know the real status of that reconnection across
> 79 to the depot?
>
> I've heard it is planned, but not funded, and I've
> heard that it's not? I've heard there is funding
> coming through "enhancement" funding to reinstall
> the crossing, I've heard that's nonsense?
>
> I can't seem to find much "evidence" (Board
> minutes, funding lists, press releases, press
> articles, politicians promises.....) of anything
> on the status of this.
>
> I know that several folks on Altamont have said it
> is coming, and I've heard others say that it will
> happen when pigs fly......
>
> Does anyone know anything "real" about this? That
> might have some kind of credible source?
