Caltrans is receiving $68 compensation in central stimulus funds to assist modernize Amtrak California trains on the San Joaquin, Capitol Corridor and Pacific Surfliner routes.
(Right: Passengers plank an Amtrak San Joaquin teach in Fresno. Bee folder photo)
The grant, announced nowadays by the U.S. Department of Transportation, determination be pooled by means of one more $100 compensation courtyard in April. California is enclosed up $32 compensation to round out the funding.
The two grants joint determination enable Caltrans to buy 42 double-deck passenger cars and six new locomotives, supposed Bill Bronte, leader of Caltrans' rail division.
Bronte supposed knowledge of the new passenger cars determination be devoted to the Amtrak San Joaquin. Each of the seven each day trains on the row recognized by Bakersfield and Oakland/Sacramento determination increase one 90-seat car, boosting possible ridership by up to 630 passengers daily. One of the new cars determination be reserved as a spare to use in a maintenance rotation.
But it determination probable be additional supposed inquisitiveness existence preceding to any of the new cars are in service. California and Illinois are heading up a seven-state similar to procedure for the equipment, construct beneath central system have to be liberally in the U.S.
Bronte supposed the joint hope to create seeking bids in close to the beginning 2012 and award a manufacturing contract by after that summer. It is predictable to get concerning 30 months for a manufacturer to bring the new cars.
The grants determination too let California and additional joint to buy newer U.S.-built locomotives able of operating at senior speeds supposed present Amtrak trains. Bronte supposed the new heavy determination be intended to drag trains the distance end to end of at up to 125 mph.
On the San Joaquin corridor from side to side the Valley, "we've person's name operational by means of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad to go,shift to senior speeds, hopefully 90 mph," Bronte said. Those speeds counting depend on the fitting of contemporary sign and manage understanding the distance end to end of the line.
The present top pace for Amtrak trains on the San Joaquin row is 79 mph, Bronte said.
Amtrak California's inquisitiveness major passenger lines -- the Pacific Surfliner recognized by San Diego and San Luis Obispo, the Capitol Corridor as of San Jose to Auburn, and the San Joaquin -- are in the center of five busiest in the country. The San Joaquin petroleum day surpassed one compensation passengers for the primary time.
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