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Re: Caltrain Electrification

 by lpetrich ¦  Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:24 am ¦  Forum: California Commuter, Rail Transit, and High Speed Rail (HSR) ¦  Topic: Caltrain Electrification ¦  Replies: 239 ¦  Views: 116385

Virtual Reality - Electrification | Caltrain - works much like Google Maps Street View and a similar feature in Bing Maps. Click on the arrows to move around, and on (i) to get an infobox for each item.

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Re: Caltrain Electrification

 by lpetrich ¦  Sun Feb 25, 2024 4:13 am ¦  Forum: California Commuter, Rail Transit, and High Speed Rail (HSR) ¦  Topic: Caltrain Electrification ¦  Replies: 239 ¦  Views: 116385

Home page: Electrification | Caltrain Testing | Caltrain - of the 23 trainsets that Caltrain will have, 6 have arrived on the property, 4 have completed the 1000-mile test, and 0 have completed testing. The SF - Tamien distance is about 50 miles, so this test is 10 round trips. Coming Home | Caltrai...

Re: Caltrain Electrification

 by lpetrich ¦  Sun Feb 25, 2024 3:42 am ¦  Forum: California Commuter, Rail Transit, and High Speed Rail (HSR) ¦  Topic: Caltrain Electrification ¦  Replies: 239 ¦  Views: 116385

A lot has happened since I last posted here. Construction | Caltrain - the foundations, poles, and wires are all done, and the traction power facilities are almost all done. SF 98%, SSF 99%, Bur 97%, SM 98%, RC 98%, PA 98%, SV, SJ 100% Caltrain Electrification: Stunning Time-lapse of Electric Train ...

Why hydrogen? It's part of moving away from fossil fuels. The usual industrial process for making it is Steam reforming - Wikipedia With heat and catalysts, CH4 + H2O -> CO + 3H2 That, of course, uses fossil fuels, so what is the renewable-energy connection? Most sources in common use produce electr...

California doesn’t look as appealing once you consider that SF and LA are not part of the initial build. That routing seems like Foot-in-the-door technique - Wikipedia - a way of building a demo segment when one's available funds are limited. It will likely have connecting buses on both ends, like ...

Re: Hyperloop Inc: End of the Line

 by lpetrich ¦  Thu Dec 21, 2023 7:53 pm ¦  Forum: General Discussion - Passenger Rail: High Speed and Heavy and Light Rail Systems ¦  Topic: Hyperloop Inc: End of the Line ¦  Replies: 8 ¦  Views: 970

Titled link: The hyperloop is dead for real this time - The Verge Its major intellectual-property holder: DP World | Logistics | Management | Global International Trade - "A leading provider of smart logistics solutions, enabling the flow of trade across the globe." Whoever buys the test t...

STrRedWolf wrote: Sat Dec 09, 2023 12:50 pm So a non-stop Acela would take 22 minutes roughly to make a DC to Baltimore trip, with the new tunnel.

And they're claiming 11 minutes non-stop?
That's my calculation for 200 mph / 320 km/h over all the line's length, with instantaneous acceleration.

That's a lot. I'll now look for patterns. First, how suited for HSR are Atlanta-Charlotte and Cascadia? Atlanta GA 6.144 M - Charlotte NC 2.660 M Cascadia: Eugene OR 0.383 M - Portland OR 2.512 M - Seattle WA 4.019 M - Vancouver BC CA 2.643 M Texas Triangle: Houston TX 7.122 M - DFW 8.121 M - Austin...

FY22 CID Project Summaries-Map-r1.pdf - big list New HSR: Brightline West, CAHSR ... Texas: Dallas TX - Houston TX ... Cascadia: Vancouver BC CA - Seattle WA - Portland OR - (?) Eugene OR ... Charlotte NC - Atlanta GA ... High Desert: Victor Valley CA - Palmdale CA New conventional rail service: As...

President Biden Announces $8.2 Billion in New Grants for High-Speed Rail and Pipeline of Projects Nationwide | US Department of Transportation notes PowerPoint Presentation - FY22-23 Fed-State (National) Project Fact Sheets_final_r2.pdf The Brightline West map in it shows stops Rancho Cucamonga - H...

The projects, with expected construction dates: Replacement of an Alaska Railroad bridge near Willow AK: 2025-26 California Central-Valley HSR: 2025-29 Chicago Union Station improvements Maine Downeaster track improvements: 2024-25 Malta MT track improvements: 2026-26 Brightline West: 2024-28 Raleig...

Sources: FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail and Launch New Passenger Rail Corridors Across the Country | The White House President Biden Announces $8.2 Billion in New Grants for High-Speed Rail and Pipeline of Projects Nationwide | US Department of ...

Re: California High-Speed Rail (CAHSR) System

 by lpetrich ¦  Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:30 am ¦  Forum: California Commuter, Rail Transit, and High Speed Rail (HSR) ¦  Topic: California High-Speed Rail (CAHSR) System ¦  Replies: 735 ¦  Views: 211714

Yes, they are building the trackway and only the trackway at this time. Map|BuildHSR shows lots of activity between Madera and Shafter, and no activity in Merced - Madera or Shafter - Bakersfield. The Merced-Madera end will have the wye on SR-152 halfway in between SR-99 and SR-59. Its north leg wil...

Go car-free, care-free | Brightline West Checking on FAQ | Brightline West they plan to go Rancho Cucamonga - 39 mi - Hesperia - 11 mi - Apple Valley - 190 mi - Las Vegas But Hesperia and Apple Valley are off I-15, and Project Overview | Brightline West shows a single station in Victor Valley. A ro...

It was hard for me to find numbers on acceleration of high-speed trains, but I've found TGV POS - Wikipedia -- its acceleration numbers have "citation needed" on them. ≥1.7 km/(h⋅s) (1.1 mph/s)(0–100 km/h (0–62 mph)), 0.35 km/(h⋅s) (0.22 mph/s) (at 320 km/h (199 mph)), from 0 to 320 km/h (...

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