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11-25-2013 - 12:25
Rich Hunn
I believe the subsidiary name was San Diego and Arizona Eastern, also it's present name.
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11-25-2013 - 10:04
Short Line Guy
What you may be forgetting is the access railroads (especially short lines) have to public capital, i.e., grants. The Carizzo Gorge line could qualify for $10 million or more in federal TIGER grants.
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11-25-2013 - 09:44
Scott Schiechl
Maybe I'm just ignorant but is it "SD&AE" or "SDA&E"?
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11-25-2013 - 08:25
BOB2
I guess that trains of 30-40 cars per day could be "shown" to "justify" the "bare bones" and extremely optimistic $30 million expenditure, but that would be very iffy, and I would consider any such sp
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11-25-2013 - 07:45
Rich Hunn
Again, I refer back to the cab ride video. The one striking tunnel is so close that it's a wonder
a TOFC car ever went through it. I bring that up and in regard to SP3878's question on 30 car
trains
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11-24-2013 - 17:49
SP3878
I saw a videotaped interview with one of the previous investors who wanted to reopen the line. He mentioned the obvious challenges, i.e. tunnel and bridge work, rockslides, etc. I'm not certain he ful
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11-24-2013 - 11:13
BOB2
These studies are perennial (and I am perfectly willing to do them for folks at my fully allocated hourly rate), And, this one is kind of like proposals for the full restoration of the NWP to Eureka,
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11-24-2013 - 10:15
mook
Just look at the line in Google and in various publications/articles. It strikes me as a smaller-scale Southern California analog of NWP (flame bait!).
I don't see San Diego needing or wanting to p
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11-24-2013 - 08:50
Carr
100. Re: Carrizo Gorge
I always wondered if the the big trestle could still handle the weight of modern trains after all of these years. If the tunnels are redone, I would love to have some of the redwood beams that this li
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11-24-2013 - 08:44
Rich Hunn
101. Re: Carrizo Gorge
The "non-wrecked" cars are sitting intact on a siding and certainly far from any vandalism efforts
and as to the wrecked cars, not sure where they might be.
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11-23-2013 - 21:30
Northern Snowman
102. Re: Carrizo Gorge
As I understand it, the group working to open the line has bought three of the former Idaho Northern & Pacific GP40s and has them on site. Sounds like they are doing work on the line.
Does anyone k
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11-23-2013 - 21:23
Mark
103. Re: Carrizo Gorge
Why have so many investment groups stepped up (and failed) to restore service over Carrizo Gorge? Are they hoping to get rich off govt subsidies? Or make a fortune off carload traffic into Mexico?
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11-23-2013 - 20:54
Graham Buxton
104. Re: Carrizo Gorge
According to this article from earlier this year, there is a new effort to reopen this line:
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/feb/11/tijuana-san-diego-railroad-tracks/all/?print
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11-23-2013 - 19:31
BOB2
105. Re: Carrizo Gorge
There must be a dozen studies on reopening the SDA&E I've seen over the last 20 years. All of these studies indicating significant costs to reopen and sustain operations. These costs depended on the
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11-23-2013 - 17:03
Tom Moungovan
106. Re: Carrizo Gorge
Back around early Jan. of '81, I was given tacit permission to hobo the next days train out of Campo and ride the turn through the gorge. When I got there that rainy morning, the train had been annul
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11-23-2013 - 16:47
Rock Senstuf
107. Re: Carrizo Gorge
Videos here.
Rich Hunn Wrote:
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> There's a You Tube video out of a cab ride through
> the canyon, what a freaking maintenance
> nightmare.
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11-23-2013 - 09:10
Rich Hunn
108. Re: Carrizo Gorge
There's a You Tube video out of a cab ride through the canyon, what a freaking maintenance
nightmare. I had no idea there were that many tunnels and one in particular is long and barely
open. Someon
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11-22-2013 - 21:04
Gorge
110. Carrizo Gorge
Does any one know when they are going to reopen Carrizo Gorge and run trains?
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04-05-2013 - 21:46
mook
Carrizo Gorge definitely doesn't belong in the same category as NWP north end, Eureka-Redding, and the like. Yes, it crosses the border twice, but Toyota has a plant IN MEXICO near the border that cou
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04-05-2013 - 19:03
George Andrews
Lessee now -- A twisting, low speed route with lotsa WOODEN trestles and WOOD - LINED tunnels, none of which has seen ANY maintenance through Carrizo Gorge in 20 years. One trestle has burned through,
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04-05-2013 - 11:21
OPRRMS
BOB2 Wrote:
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> The reopening of Carrizo is, therefore, a far more
> realistic option.
Particularly if there's deep pocket backing from th
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04-05-2013 - 08:39
BOB2
George,
The world doesn't always suck. And, not every proposed rail project is a foamer fantasy, or dubious pipe dream......
Reopening Carrizo has been the subject of several well done and very
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04-04-2013 - 22:16
Berg
Why?? The line is only embargoed by it's owner MBTA (San Diego Trolley). CZRY is gone. Old wood needs to be replaced in tunnels and in bridges. Autoracks clear now. WYBS?
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04-04-2013 - 17:08
George Andrews
I'd have to put the re - opening of the rail line through Carrizo Gorge right after the re - opening of Milwaukee Road Lines West AND the Northwestern Pacific from Willits to Eureka, on the Fat - Chan
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04-02-2013 - 16:21
SP5103
Carrizo Gorge Railway picked them up about 2004. They came in on the UP and were at Campo for a long time. Not sure if they were intended for tourist or the proposed commuter service in Mexico or if C
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05-27-2012 - 12:04
Bruce Kelly
118. Re: The answer
PDX, your answer was about what I was expecting. In general, these three locations do seem to be hemmed in close to the coast by mountains, with no easy link to the rest of the U.S. that doesn't invol
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10-18-2011 - 14:38
SP5103
Various rumors had them dismantling a smaller diesel locomotive to build some kind of powered baggage car or tender for a fake steam locomitve. They looked at Carrizo Gorge Railroad for a sight, but n
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03-26-2011 - 18:26
Erik H.
Freericks Wrote:
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> I can't figure out what is painted on that squad
> car.
If you look at this website:
http://www.therailroadpolice.co
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