Please post below any information you have about the intermodal Placentia Corridor planned for Placentia, California, in the next few years, to put the Sante Fe tracks to the L.A./Long Beach harbor in a ditch (below street level) with new bridges over the ditch rather than signal crossings. I have a non-internet equipped, wheel-chair bound rail fan who lives in Placentia, CA, but he is having trouble finding information such as drawings showing elevation, crossings, number of tracks, etc. He has a couple of L.A. Times articles about the Alameda Corridor. I have taken him to see the new deep-water port in LA/Long Beach Harbor and we followed the Alameda Corridor (right-of-way now just being cleared) north maybe 10 miles from the harbor.
Again, info. on the Placentia, CA, Corridor, would be most appreciated. Should we take pictures of the tracks now, for historical perspective?
Thanks,
Carl "Hobo Mo" Morrison
Posted by SteveD (Member # 43) on :
Try OCTA AND OC Register websites. Also Trainorders.com(archives) for Placentia and OnTrac subjects
Posted by SteveD (Member # 43) on :
Route is already pretty well documented in various Commercial Video Tapes e.g. So. Calif. Cab Ride, SBdno-L.A.(Vol. 4) by Ry. Pdns., and Pentrex' two "Above " tapes, but, as an ex Orange Co. boy I would say there can never be enough pix of the area and its RRs!
Posted by Carl (Member # 227) on :
I found the above requested information myself at the city's web site through which the Placentia (Califronia) Corridor will eventually go. It's all at: http://Placentia.org/rrlowering.htm
including a map.
Carl@rrmail
Posted by SteveD (Member # 43) on :
See also, article in Sept. 11 L.A. Times, O.C Edition, Section B.