Indeed, Bob... So all those millions they’ve paid reflect on the SD&AE Board balance sheets... FROM WHERE is all that money coming FROM??

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.