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Re: San Diego and Imperial Valley Question
Author: 7485
Date: 11-14-2018 - 16:51
Those guys are just a big “ roadshow”!!
I worked on this line for many years before the current operator. Baja Rail is paying millions to MTS!! Over the last 20 years MTS has put ZERO money on this line. These people are not even professionals and plan on hiring a bunch of consultants to help them out and constantly get conned!! They owe a lot to Larry’s Truck and Electric for broken down locomotives they don’t use and can’t figure out a way to fix... More corruption by the Mexicans allowing their buddies to “run” this railroad benefiting from Government grants!!
Blah blah blah and more blah!! More to come...
BOB2 Wrote:
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> I think he mentioned something about actually
> seeing signs of rail use.
>
> While I have expressed serious doubt's that we
> will ever see through trains of any kind on the
> old SDAE, or anything close to resembling a double
> stack container train, without a "minimum"
> investment probably well north of $100 million in
> rehab and upgrade, there have been proposals and
> speculation about the potential for aggregate
> traffic on that end. And, there was even a hyrail
> aggregate operation using dump trucks operating
> for a while, on that end of the line. Off and on
> for the last 20 years, there have been musings of
> proposals to mine aggregate on a scale, that might
> potentially make use of the eastern end for rail
> shipment, but so far it hasn't happened as far as
> I know.
>
> I know nothing of the current status of Baja Rail,
> or what intentions and/or investments they might
> be making on that segment, but we have a few that
> follow this, so maybe we'll all get an update?
>
> I think that a possible solution for any
> "reconnect" upgrade, at the RR Museum, in Campo,
> would be similar to the one that was looked at
> with the Fillmore and Western, in the Santa Paula
> Branch line reconnect study. Which would have
> built a new modern track adjacent to the segments
> used by the F&W. And, in any event, a modern line
> would have needed a new parallel bridge over the
> river levee, west of Fillmore, parallel to the
> existing line, which would not need flood gates
> and be prone to service disruptions.
I worked on this line for many years before the current operator. Baja Rail is paying millions to MTS!! Over the last 20 years MTS has put ZERO money on this line. These people are not even professionals and plan on hiring a bunch of consultants to help them out and constantly get conned!! They owe a lot to Larry’s Truck and Electric for broken down locomotives they don’t use and can’t figure out a way to fix... More corruption by the Mexicans allowing their buddies to “run” this railroad benefiting from Government grants!!
Blah blah blah and more blah!! More to come...
BOB2 Wrote:
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> I think he mentioned something about actually
> seeing signs of rail use.
>
> While I have expressed serious doubt's that we
> will ever see through trains of any kind on the
> old SDAE, or anything close to resembling a double
> stack container train, without a "minimum"
> investment probably well north of $100 million in
> rehab and upgrade, there have been proposals and
> speculation about the potential for aggregate
> traffic on that end. And, there was even a hyrail
> aggregate operation using dump trucks operating
> for a while, on that end of the line. Off and on
> for the last 20 years, there have been musings of
> proposals to mine aggregate on a scale, that might
> potentially make use of the eastern end for rail
> shipment, but so far it hasn't happened as far as
> I know.
>
> I know nothing of the current status of Baja Rail,
> or what intentions and/or investments they might
> be making on that segment, but we have a few that
> follow this, so maybe we'll all get an update?
>
> I think that a possible solution for any
> "reconnect" upgrade, at the RR Museum, in Campo,
> would be similar to the one that was looked at
> with the Fillmore and Western, in the Santa Paula
> Branch line reconnect study. Which would have
> built a new modern track adjacent to the segments
> used by the F&W. And, in any event, a modern line
> would have needed a new parallel bridge over the
> river levee, west of Fillmore, parallel to the
> existing line, which would not need flood gates
> and be prone to service disruptions.
