Passenger Trains > Surfliner Track work March 5-6

Again North County closes the line for track work, March 5-6.

Amtrak Buses south from Irvine.

Metrolink goes to San Juan Capistrano.

Doing the work at night is out of the question because we don't want to have the sleep of the trackside NIMBYs / voters interrupted by noisy ballast regulators.

So, instead, let's just run constant bustitutions on weekends and drive away a huge group of first-and-last-time riders who had originally wanted a train ride.

Either the service is reliable or it isn't.  It's getting a reputation for being unreliable.      

The work that they're doing is much heavier duty than simply regulating, tamping, resurfacing, and balancing.  They're replacing bridges and turnouts, upgrading crossings, shifting main tracks to make room for second mains.  The last three closures were to install support columns for future replacement bridges around current, active bridges in the middle of a protected lagoon.  Since they couldn't be trucked in the materials and equipment had to be brought in on the ROW, and by train.  It's kina hard to run trains when you have a crane parked on the tracks for 24-48 hours.

No, I don't know what the March project is, but I'm sure it's far more complicated than tamping, or else they wouldn't be shutting the railroad down.

(FYI;  Metrolink is doing a massive tie project on weeknights for the next two months along the Orange County line, the notice is up on their website...  Don't tell me they're too afraid of NIMBYs to do night work)

For the last 20 years the Surfliner route has been a non-stop construction zone. Slowly, and incrementally it is becoming a double mainline railroad.

Todd Clark
Canyon Country, CA
Trainorders.com

CA_Sou_MA_Agent Wrote:
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> Doing the work at night is out of the question
> because we don't want to have the sleep of the
> trackside NIMBYs / voters interrupted by noisy
> ballast regulators.
>
> So, instead, let's just run constant bustitutions
> on weekends and drive away a huge group of
> first-and-last-time riders who had originally
> wanted a train ride.
>
> Either the service is reliable or it isn't.  It's
> getting a reputation for being unreliable.
>      

​we've had the local police called on us on many occasions at night ... finally after numerous work interruptions and employees being threatened to be hauled off to jail, Amtrak won court battles in Pa and NJ that the railroad work can be performed at night ...

Apparently the longtime North County track work is a lot like LAX, which is a Roman Catholic Shrine to Our Lady of Perpetual Construction.

Fritz in HSV, AL

navy5717th Wrote:
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> Apparently the longtime North County track work is
> a lot like LAX, which is a Roman Catholic Shrine
> to Our Lady of Perpetual Construction.
>
> Fritz in HSV, AL

Love it, hahahaha!

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navy5717th Wrote:
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> Apparently the longtime North County track work is
> a lot like LAX, which is a Roman Catholic Shrine
> to Our Lady of Perpetual Construction.
>
> Fritz in HSV, AL

ROFLMAO