Thought about posting this in the Rail America Sale thread, but this place has been dead, so I figure nobody will complain about thread spamming. http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/news/x57807557/Siskiyou-Line-rail-to-re-open $500,000,000 in federal grants to reopen the pass. I remember a few years ago, CORP sent some of their then newly acquired GP20Ds over the pass. Never did hear how that went. Sounds like they will have no excuses now. Though I suppose its too little too late to save Yreka Western.
I wasn't even aware that CORP discontinued the line's operation in 2008... In my thoughts that line was still running... Dom
I read some of the comments after that article. Some of which are truly stupid. One was complaining about needing to repair the burned tunnel and that associated cost. Which those repairs were made years ago! No real surprise how uninformed our public is when it comes to rail transportation.
Fantastic! The Siskiyou line has always been on my list of places to go, I was sad to hear that it wasn't operational anymore. By the way YoHo, where from stems your username?
Well, Not Canada unfortunately. I chose it before I knew about the National Park. It's actually a reference to Disney's pirate's of the Caribbean Yo Ho YoHo a pirate's life for me. 10 years ago, I had different usernames for all the different Genres of web forums I posted at. I realized that was too much, so I started using the shortest one I had everywhere.
That repair was quite a project, Ken. I have several photographs of the extent of the damage, and the equipment to repair it, mostly provided to me by the head-honcho of the outfit doing the repair. Last year, I had a little spare time while enroute back home from Medford. I stopped and hiked up to the tunnel and decided to walk its length ... nearly a mile. Toward the west end is where most of the problem(s) kept occurring; the ceiling kept collapsing. It was over a hundred feet high in one location! Also found a make-shift memorial to the victims of the train robbery at the west portal. All in all, it was an interesting hike.
