3 November news:
All Metrolink trains will be shut down for four days after Christmas for maintenance and repairs, the passenger-rail agency announced on its website on Friday, Nov. 3.
Metrolink trains will not operate from Tuesday, Dec. 26 through Friday, Dec. 29. The Southern California regional rail system will resume its Regular service willresume on Saturday, Dec. 30. San Bernardino-to- Los Angeles, Antelope Valley, Ventura County, Riverside, Orange County, 91/ Perris Valley, Arrow Line (between Redlands and San Bernardino) and Inland Empire- Orange County, During the four days, Metrolink will update all track and signal systems where trains enter and exit at Union Station, the multi-modal rail hub in downtown Los Angeles.
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This sounds similar to a BNSF maintenance blitz. The lack of alternate service may not be a major issue since a fair number of people take that week off from work.
daveklepper:
While your thread and its subject matter involves system signals and track circuits, it has to be wondered if Metrolink will also take advantage of their locomotive fleet being idled to do a quick spruce-up of the locomotive fleet. Recently the operating dept. was advising passengers that some train runs had to be canceled and would not run because there were insufficient locomotives available to cover the runs. Since the overwhelming majority of the power fleet are F125’s, that certainly gives EMD, Progress Rail, and CAT a bad name.
Can somebody closer to the operation investigate and report?
No words yet from Amtrak . How will LAX union station no accessability effect the LD trains and Surfliners?