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Wish this was the situation in the US. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/travel/europe-new-trains.html?smid=nytcor e-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare In Europe, Trains Are Full, and More Are on the Way Phil Burton

https://rollingstockworld.com/locomotives/worlds-most-powerful-electric-locomotive-shen24-by-crrc-for-coal-cargo-service-in-china/ Article posted Jan 2023. Phil Burton Season’s Greetings, everyone!

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Temporary Weekday Service Changes Starting August 7th Caltrain will be reducing its weekday service from Monday, August 7, through Friday, August 25, in order to accommodate Caltrain electrification construction and testing. Construction crews will install and test signal systems in San Francisco and continue to install poles and wires along the corridor. Caltrain will be running 90 trains per weekday, as opposed to the standard 104. Peak hour service will be reduced to three trains per hour per direction, and Baby Bullet service will be suspended. Regular weekday service will resume on Monday, August 28. Many trains will depart a few minutes earlier than the current schedule, so please refer to the temporary schedule to see how your train might be affected. Trains will also be single-tracking in San Francisco, so riders are encouraged to pay attention to announcements at the San Francisco and 22nd Street Stations. Caltrain is running a public awareness campaign throughout the year to alert riders to potential service disruptions and provide information about the new and improved service that electrification will deliver. Caltrain’s historic electrification project is the first undertaking in North America in a generation in which diesel trains and their infrastructure components are transitioned to an electrified system. The project will improve the customer experience by increasing the number of trains, modernizing service and adding new safety elements. The new trains will feature on board displays with digital trip information, increased storage capacities, baby-changing tables, Wi-Fi and power outlets at every seat. Electrification will also help meet ambitious regional and state climate action goals by lowering greenhouse gas emissions, improving air quality and relieving traffic congestion. Additionally, electrified service will advance equity along the corridor by reducing noise and air pollution while increasing access for priority equity communities. It will also set the framework for California’s future High Speed Rail network that will run on the Caltrain corridor. Caltrain · PO Box 3006, San Carlos, CA 94070, United States This email was sent to philip-b@.... To stop receiving emails, click here. Created with NationBuilder, software for leaders.

Recently Trains has been reprinting old articles, as it approaches its 1000th issue. This month, starting on p. 34, is an Oct. 1981 written by PDS, “What the problem up there, Union?” The intro to the article described some of his accomplishments, but did NOT mention his role in ObservationCar. Someone should inform editor Kevin P. Keefe. Phil Burton

From my wife. Note that at the end of the article it says that: Caltrain’s July 29 tours of its new trains will be held at San Jose’s Diridon Station from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. RSVPs are recommended. https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/07/24/wanna-see-the-future-of-bay-area-transportation-youre-in-luck/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/10/europe/russia-putin-private-train-intl-cmd Phil Burton

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/05/world/ukraine-railways-cnnphotos/ Phil Burton

My wife and I had a long weekend in Visalia and Tulare, California, mostly visiting family, but I got a few train photos as well. We played leapfrog with a southbound UP freight on the trip there, and I finally got the DPUs in good light a bit north of Fresno. One day, I checked out the track in Oak Street and the old SP and Visalia Electric station in Visalia, then drove east to Exeter to see the San Joaquin Valley RR's facilities, which were built by the VE. The SJVR runs former SP and ATSF lines in the area as well as a bit of the VE. SP and ATSF had an extensive network of branch lines and secondary main lines in the San Joaquin Valley to serve agriculture and other business, much of which has been abandoned, and what is left is now operated by the SJVR. The VE was an SP interurban subsidiary that operated east and south east of Visalia and is almost all gone except for a short stretch in Exeter that SJVR uses to reach a former ATSF line. I also happened to catch a UP northbound in Tulare one day. Tulare and Visalia, California. 30 March to 2 April 2023 Tulare and Visalia, California. 30 March to 2 April 2023 My wife and I had a long weekend in Visalia and Tulare, California, mostly visiting family, but I got a few trai... Cheers, Mike Tisdale

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/europe-high-speed-rail-network/index.html So why can’t we do the same here in the US?

Video of tonight's Sacramento Southern Polar Express train. Sacramento Southern Polar Express, 18 Dec 2022 Sacramento Southern Polar Express, 18 Dec 2022 Mike Tisdale

Not exactly jump off, but adjust to different gages while in motion. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/golden-pass-express-switzerland/index.html

close-up of driving wheels on a train's locomotive - Bing images Phil Burton