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Ventures ordered now almost certainly won't come till the mid 2030s unless its an option on a state order placed years ago Amtrak just needs to fix the cars they have no to get them into the 2030s

https://metrolinktrains.com/rider-info/general-info/service-updates/" latest says they now have 19.2M to build a wall and they've got a contract signed with the same people who did the 2 last projects

Got a single slide from amtrak this week. Slides

Some info on chargers CA WA Amtrak

Some info from their latest presentations Midwest/CA Amtrak \

there was a STB meeting today. They were not happy with the lack of answers

SB 1098 is Southern California Rail Revitalization Act. We should see it today, I'm slightly worried about COG/CAG leading some of the study and all the mention of local control but we will see

you would just do the whole thing using a track renewal machine and then whatever good rail is left over can get put into sidings or whatever. Lifecycle cost wise its likely better to go all new ties and rail. For sidings I assume UP right now would want 15,000ft ones

Not really they aren't doing class 1 work 24/7 365 till the line is fixed they last time were working 7/12

yep if the service goes well I can see UP repairing the branch to probably class 3 standards maybe class 4.

https://metrolinktrains.com/rider-info/general-info/service-updates/ Looks like the same contractors who fixed 2 of the last closures will likely be doing the work I assume we will see another wall like this built, ideally we'd see even more get constructed along the entire segment to protect...

old cars look to have 6-9in taken up by the sides, I haven't seen a detailed enough diagram to tell what some newer cars use. I agree we should be able to get closer to 20in wide seats especially if we only see side armrests with no center with a 10ft6in wide car and 32in isles.

The state ran a great rail department till we pulled it apart and gave all the power to JPAs.

The state isn't this is on the local JPA

Part of it has to be the fact that State Senator Blakespear is putting the screws down on OCTA. Unless the state says they are going to give them money they are going to run only a handful of buses. From what I heard its 3 single level coach buses per train or about 150 seats replacing ~700

I'll also add that amtrak puts a lot of slack in some routes and the coast starlight is one of them in segments, From San Luis Obispo to Salinas there is no CTC and so switches are all hand thrown, as a result when UP was actually running freight instead of storing intermodal cars the passenger...

that doesn't fix the fact that the ocean is going to take all the stand from under the rail alignment its also slow and winding a bypass would allow 110-125mph top speeds

They should all be on city sewer No drainage is the key issue along this entire section, pretty sure the city owned property above the Pier over watered and caused the collapse last time

They might have just changed the wording but so far we don't know for sure. seems like they are doing this week by week which makes sense and this is from OCTA the track owner

No they already get over topped during rough storms staying in place is a bad idea. Just commit to moving the rail line and start the design work now you aren't going to get CCC approval to harden both sides of the rail line and have enough space for 2 tracks especially with the trail there