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Post by gibiscus on Dec 5, 2007 13:26:48 GMT -8
I was looking at a map today and noticed there is a ROW from Irwindale (planned Gold Line station) going south which connects to the San Bernardino Line. There is also a ROW which branches off from the Riverside Line and goes through Santa Fe Springs to the ROW between Downey and Norwalk, almost to the end of the Green Line. There is a gap between Bassett and Whittier Narrows, but if it is filled in this could connect the Green Line the the proposed Foothill Gold Line, the proposed Whittier Line, and the San Bernardino and Riverside Metrolink lines. It could also continue west via the Green Line to Hollydale and use the ROW south from there to Long Beach.
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Post by Dan Wentzel on Dec 5, 2007 14:21:15 GMT -8
Interesting.
Is there a map of right-of-ways that the MTA owns but is not using? If the Expo line and the Orange Line came from right-of-ways, that's a powerful resource to draw from.
What map did you use?
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Post by bobdavis on Dec 7, 2007 23:16:40 GMT -8
The line from Irwindale to the Metrolink San Bernardino line is the former Pacific Electric Rivas Cutoff. It went north to a rock quarry and was extended to meet the Monrovia-Glendora line in 1951. This was to maintain freight service between Arcadia and Glendora when the passenger service was abandoned and the track pulled out between Indian Village and Monrovia. It was never electrified except for the part near the San Berdoo line, since by 1951 most of PE's freight service was converting to diesel power. Moving back to present day, the track was recently rebuilt by Union Pacific, with most ties replaced and some of the oldest rails replaced (there's still a piece of 1906 Carnegie steel near the end of the line in Azusa).
The section between the Riverside Line and Santa Fe Springs is sometimes called the Los Nietos Cutoff. Southern Pacific (now Union Pacific) uses it as an alternate route from City of Industry Yard to LA Harbor. This belongs to Union Pacific; the Irwindale segment belongs to SCRRA/Metrolink. Theoretically, the Azusa Branch could be upgraded with welded rail and block signals, and Metrolink could run from Azusa to LA, but don't bet on it.
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