Train speeds around San Diego

Amtrak Unlimited Discussion Forum

Help Support Amtrak Unlimited Discussion Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Bypass what can be bypassed, electrify, run EMUs. EMUs can handle grades better than diesel loco-hauled coaches and can accelerate much better as well.
 
Tunnel would save 10 - 15 minutes. Would need the requisite 2 bores thru earthquake territory. Expect the hill would need to be kept to allow for damage to tunnel and maybe a few LOSSAN trains might stop at a station top of the hill ?
 
Tunnel remains the plan, and the only viable plan. In the interim they added a second track to parts of it and softened some of the curves -- this is done -- which is as much as they can do without building the tunnel. Tunnel just hasn't been funded yet; they're still focusing on higher-priority areas like bypassing the collapsing Del Mar bluffs.
 
Back
Top