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Re: Meanwhile, and all by Summer 2025? Just seven short months?????????
Author: BOB2
Date: 11-20-2024 - 08:16
Re: Very accurate professional reporter for Thrillist reports CAHSR LA-SF could be completed as early as 2030? This title is false, can't you read? Meanwhile, 2025?
Author: Del Monte Burns
Date: 11-20-2024 - 06:41
Itlooks like the article is just a rewrite of a press release.
I don’t know why the author thought the Lark took 23 hours.
I think it might hzve taken 13 hours.
Dreamstar might be leasing private rail cars.
I’m not sure Caltrain would allow northbound train to run SJ to SF segment during peak am commute hours
Seem to be a lot more typos in the age of computers, and autocorrect doesn't catch bad numbers, so the 23 hours is clearly wrong in the story. The Lark took about 11-12 hours, which is not a good a Khrushchev's train with no stops except crew changes.
The story was about the groovy designs the had some other outfit is putting together for the luxury bedrooms with showers. And given the overhead costs, they'd need to fill a lot of "beds" which would require a fairly good fleet in 7 months. So that whole part is kind "vague". Who has a spare of say fifteen or so operable sleepers, supporting lounge cars, and spare for maintenance rotations available these days for the minimum of two train sets that would be needed?
Yeah, this is all straight from the press release, which was repeated by half of the local TV stations and half a dozen or so print and on-line outfits. This outfit released press releases on talking to Caltrain, UP, and Metrolink and folks published it with the same line about how this was all going to happen real soon. This outfit seems to release the same basic press release at every "stage", without having much tangible to show, claiming they intend to be in operation real soon. So, "We'll See"...
Lots of systems can handle the integration of different kinds of passenger trains (commute, local, express, pullman trains) and do it all over the world. Would Caltrain have a problem, probably (and not just based on many of our "can't do" bureaucratic mind sets but these days). Given the uncertainties of this operation there are a whole lot of questions that would have to be answered. Who will provide operating crews for the trains? What kind of liability coverage to indemnify those operating the train over their tracks can provide? What kinds of maintenance agreements and fees would be charged?
So, does of that all sound like it will be done by Summer 2025? Now that they are just having a firm looking at cute car designs (and for more investors...) in the latest press release?
Author: Del Monte Burns
Date: 11-20-2024 - 06:41
Itlooks like the article is just a rewrite of a press release.
I don’t know why the author thought the Lark took 23 hours.
I think it might hzve taken 13 hours.
Dreamstar might be leasing private rail cars.
I’m not sure Caltrain would allow northbound train to run SJ to SF segment during peak am commute hours
Seem to be a lot more typos in the age of computers, and autocorrect doesn't catch bad numbers, so the 23 hours is clearly wrong in the story. The Lark took about 11-12 hours, which is not a good a Khrushchev's train with no stops except crew changes.
The story was about the groovy designs the had some other outfit is putting together for the luxury bedrooms with showers. And given the overhead costs, they'd need to fill a lot of "beds" which would require a fairly good fleet in 7 months. So that whole part is kind "vague". Who has a spare of say fifteen or so operable sleepers, supporting lounge cars, and spare for maintenance rotations available these days for the minimum of two train sets that would be needed?
Yeah, this is all straight from the press release, which was repeated by half of the local TV stations and half a dozen or so print and on-line outfits. This outfit released press releases on talking to Caltrain, UP, and Metrolink and folks published it with the same line about how this was all going to happen real soon. This outfit seems to release the same basic press release at every "stage", without having much tangible to show, claiming they intend to be in operation real soon. So, "We'll See"...
Lots of systems can handle the integration of different kinds of passenger trains (commute, local, express, pullman trains) and do it all over the world. Would Caltrain have a problem, probably (and not just based on many of our "can't do" bureaucratic mind sets but these days). Given the uncertainties of this operation there are a whole lot of questions that would have to be answered. Who will provide operating crews for the trains? What kind of liability coverage to indemnify those operating the train over their tracks can provide? What kinds of maintenance agreements and fees would be charged?
So, does of that all sound like it will be done by Summer 2025? Now that they are just having a firm looking at cute car designs (and for more investors...) in the latest press release?
