SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S HIGH SPEED RAIL EXPLOITS TECHNOLOGY EDGE

Project coordinators are claiming that the Alameda Corridor, a $2.4 billion 20-mi (32-km) consolidated rail facility, will dramatically improve the movement of cargo in and around southern California. When complete, the corridor will speed cargo from the Los Angeles and Long Beach docks through seven corridor cities to transcontinental switching yards located in downtown Los Angeles. The corridor is expected to consolidate the operation of the three freight railroad carriers, eliminate traffic conflicts at nearly 200 at-grade highway crossings of the tracks, and accommodate the increase in rail and truck traffic associated with port growth, while significantly reducing the negative impacts of that growth on the environment and neighboring communities. The project design calls for the rail component to remain at-grade along the corridor's southern portion so as to maintain access to Long Beach Port's intermodal facility, a classification yard, and to allow creek crossing. The north portion of the corridor will utilize a depressed section in which the dual railroad tracks and service road will lie 30 ft (9 m) below grade.

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  McGraw-Hill, Incorporated

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• Publication Date: 1998-12-21

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. B47
• Serial:
  • ENR
  • Volume: 241
  • Issue Number: 23
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0891-9526

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Design build; Freight trains; Freight transportation; High speed rail; High speed track; Intermodal transportation; Ports; Railroad tracks; Railroads; Transportation corridors
• Geographic Terms: Alameda County (California); Long Beach (California); Los Angeles (California); Southern California
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Railroads; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00758691
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 28 1999 12:00AM