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Valley Ebart or would they buy some old Caltrain or Amtrak rolling stock? I do not think any class 1 would take this thing if it were given to them free. They would have to maintain and secure all that viaduct, going to depreciate especially in seismic country and a magnet for homeless. And no possibility of spurs up in the air. But then you would not have to blow the horn at crossings.

If they continue with the folly of the Tehachapi-Palmdale Detour at least build it freight compatible so it would get some utility.

Once again they should have taken all their money and built out the Tejon-Grapevine HSR from Burbank to Bakersfield as a proof of concept. It would have succeeded. As proof I cite the official position of the Bako city fathers, who opposed Tejon on the grounds it would make their city a bedroom community of Lala.