News Round Up – Trains, trains and more trains – It’s a train special.
Freedom Train for MLK Day by Caltrain: Every Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, for 27 years, Caltrain has converted into a Freedom Train. It makes a reduced-price, round-trip run to San Francisco, commemorating the historic Selma to Montgomery, Alabama March that occurred in 1965, according to its founders, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Association of Santa Clara Valley. Read more.
Chinese Bullet Train
California High Speed Train Lessons from Spain: Backers of the future looking high speed rail project for California are in Spain learning from a high speed rail system that has been delivering fast results for over 20 years. The biggest question is just how hard it is to be self-sufficient, even when conditions seem ideal, as they have in Spain.Read more.
The NYC 7 is on the Disabled List for 11 Weeks: The MTA yesterday announced it’s closing a large stretch of the 7 New York train line for 11 straight weekends. From Jan. 21 through April 2, weekend service will be suspended from Queensboro Plaza to Times Square so the MTA can install a new signal system. Shake your head in disbelief and read more.
China’s Click Wars for New Year’s Train Tickets: Kevin Zhang has enlisted four friends in Beijing to help with possibly hours of mouse-clicking tonight. Their task — booking his Lunar New Year train tickets. Rail tickets for the period are being sold online for the first time this year as the government tries to curb queues at stations and counter black-market sales. Read more.
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