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Don’t Buy New Tier 4 Locomotives
By David Schonbrunn, TRAC President Editor’s Note: These comments were sent by TRAC’s President to Metrolink, days before their Board directed staff to find grants to fund the purchase of 10-15 new Tier 4 diesel locomotives at $10.3 million a … Continue reading
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TRAC files STB response, challenging transfer of freight rights to SMART
By David Schonbrunn, President of TRAC In response to the threats to the Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NWP, which spans over 300 miles from Larkspur Landing in Marin County to Samoa in Humboldt County), the Train Riders Association of California (TRAC) … Continue reading
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Let’s Have Accurate Locomotive Emissions
By David Schonbrunn, TRAC President Editor’s Note: These comments were sent by TRAC’s President to the California Air Resources Board, which will have a workshop on Reducing Emissions From In-Use Locomotives on March 30, 2021. The Train Riders Association of California … Continue reading
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SB 69 Seeks to Rip Out NWP Rails
By David Schonbrunn David Schonbrunn is President of the Train Riders Association of California. Contact him at President@calrailnews.org In the greatest threat to the NWP since the SP abandonment proceedings, Senator Mike McGuire, representing the North Coast has introduced the … Continue reading
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Links to TRAC’s Curated Rail-Related News, June-December 2020
We have gathered links to selected news items over the last six months, listed below. Note: these are PDFs with embedded links. Some links may not work because some publications move article around after a few months. June-July 2020 September … Continue reading
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70 Years of “Structural” Racism – Literally (Freeways)
In the 1960’s, fighters of urban freeways often made the point that new freeways were often “…white men’s roads through black men’s bedrooms” as well as being “slum clearance” (sic). The tendency of freeway planners to plot their lines through … Continue reading
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