Late last night, I got a phone call from a reporter for the Santa Barbara Newsroom (that site in itself has an interesting story) - she said she was writing a story about Santa Barbara’s plans for commuter rail and Union Pacific and wanted to use one of my pictures on their site. I said, sure, go ahead, and this is the result.
However, the real story is what she says in her article (Commuter Rail to Santa Barbara Faces “Huge Obstacles”): Santa Barbara would like to set up a commuter rail service to Ventura County (Oxnard), but Union Pacific does not want to allow this without double-tracking the line. In fact, they said “Commuter trains on the single-track section between the San Fernando Valley and San Jose might degrade the freight service that Union Pacific is committed to.” Did you notice that? Not “between the San Fernando Valley and Santa Barbara“, no, they said “between the San Fernando Valley and San Jose“. So not only do they not want any new passenger rail service to Santa Barbara, they do not want any new service on the whole Coast Line!
Posted in: A Word from the Editor, California, Commute, Union Pacific | April 12, 2007 10:08 pm | Comments: (0)
A couple recent newly discovered blogs/additions to my blogroll here on this site (some of these aren’t:
Posted in: A Word from the Editor | April 3, 2007 9:02 pm | Comments: (0)
… but I’m kind of busy right now … 
Posted in: A Word from the Editor | January 28, 2007 11:10 pm | Comments: (12)
Sorry to keep posting about these, but I think some of these links may actually be interesting - and if I just add them on the site, lots of people will never notice …
Today I found out that Rail Europe (main US distributor of European rail passes and tickets) actually has a blog - it is here: http://raileurope.typepad.com/info/. Obviously, they mostly write about travel-related stuff and mainly for European railways (i.e. new offers, new passes/tickets/fares, etc.).
Posted in: A Word from the Editor, Europe | January 12, 2007 4:57 pm | Comments: (0)
Couple more additions to the blogroll:
Let me know if you know any others that should be added to the list …
Posted in: A Word from the Editor | January 10, 2007 9:56 pm | Comments: (7)
Looks like I’m finding a whole bunch of new blogs early this year. One of them is not really new though - I noticed it before, because they had been linking here, but somehow I forgot to add them to my reader/blogroll. So here we go, two more additions to the blogroll here on this site:
Posted in: A Word from the Editor | January 4, 2007 11:13 pm | Comments: (0)
I just added the following two links to the blogroll on this site:
Posted in: A Word from the Editor | January 2, 2007 1:02 pm | Comments: (1)
Whew - today, I finally made the big move away from Blogger (this was long overdue) and moved TrainBlog over to Wordpress. I’m still working out some of the kinks, so please bear with me while I make these changes. Hopefully, the transition will be very smooth for everyone.
Posted in: A Word from the Editor | December 28, 2006 2:38 am | Comments: (2)
This is a bit of an experiment - we’ve been creating and giving away calendars with family pictures to our relatives for a couple of years now and I’ve always wanted to do a calendar with train pictures. So here it is …:
The TrainBlog.com 2007 Calendar
Posted in: A Word from the Editor | December 14, 2006 11:55 pm | Comments: (0)
