Passenger Trains > SMART has reached Windsor CA (video)

SMART's extension from the Airport Blvd. station to Windsor is complete. 

VIDEO: Train operations to test grade crossing operation per FRA requirements.  The Quiet Zone application has not yet been approved.

Scott Kremer video from NWPRR Historical Society



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/05/25 22:21 by GenePoon.

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any frieght biz in the future? up there

The extended line passes the former Standard Structures, a major customer in NWP/SP days, but not only have they gone to trucks, but under a new owner have scaled back their operations.

Line rebuilt just to windsor station, or beyond?

Just to Windsor station.

Decent sounding horn on those units. 

I arrived in Santa Rosa in 1971, just a few months after the NWP/SP discontinued passenger service on the line. (I believe it was a Budd RDC.) Back then, Windsor was a fairly small rural community. Lots of changes over the years.  I'm glad to see passenger service restored to the North Bay, but sure wish I could have ridden the NWP electric lines in Marin County, but they were gone in the early '40s. 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/06/25 12:33 by colehour.

PHall Wrote:
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> Decent sounding horn on those units.


At lineside, few hear those horns.  All grade crossings in inhabited areas are Quiet Zones and horns are sounded only in emergencies. 

The area between Petaluma and the northern reaches of Novato is not a Quiet Zone.  Horns are sounded for all crossings, both public and private.  Trains routinely reach 79mph in this segment.