CALTRAIN

Updated 05-May-2020.

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Bikes on Caltrain: Leading the Nation in Bringing Bikes Onboard: By Tasha Bartholomew, @tashbart While this may sound cliché, Caltrain has become a victim of its own success when it comes to the popular onboard bicycle program the agency provides for some of its…

US commuter rail service Caltrain to purchase additional electric rail cars: US-based commuter rail service Caltrain has decided to purchase new electric rail cars from Stadler to support increasing ridership.

Caltrain to purchase additional electric cars: Caltrain is set to increase its coming electric fleet of 16 six-car sets to 19 seven-car sets after the Board of Directors unanimously approved the purchase with funding from the

Caltrain Tries Fans’ Souls / Parkbound trains were late, hot, overcrowded: For decades, they’ve been telling everyone on the Peninsula to take mass transit to San Francisco — ride the train, stay off the highways. […] many people on the train from the Peninsula were fine with how it turned out, pointing out that when it was all over, they were in their seats at the ballpark. Some gave Caltrain the benefit of the doubt and even argued, along with train officials, that it will improve once the kinks are worked out. Roughly 75 passengers gathered at the Redwood City station in the late afternoon, dressed in Giants garb, to take the special ballpark train at 5:21 p.m. “Ever feel like your karma has just gone down the tubes?” said one of the conductors, all of whom stopped asking for tickets after the Redwood City station. Because of the delay, Kirzner decided to turn the train into an express after the stop at the Hillsdale Shopping Center in San Mateo, and off it went, whizzing by hundreds of passengers waiting at the next four stations, where the ballpark special was supposed to stop. Bearing a sign on the front that read, “S.F. Giants Only,” the ballpark special consisted of seven cars built in the late 1940s or early 1950s. […] the ambience, unfortunately, included faulty air-conditioning on one car that left some people feeling faint, and a sound system that rivaled two tin cans and a string.

Caltrain adds 6th car to 4 bombardier trains: If your commute involves Caltrain there will be more seats available on selected trains during rush hour.

Caltrain ridership hits all-time high — again – San Mateo Daily Journal: Caltrain ridership hits all-time high — again –

Caltrain acquiring surplus cars to ease peak crunch – Railway Age: Caltrain will purchase 16 surplus railcars from Metrolink to extend trainset lengths and provide more capacity for standing-room only peak-hour trains.

Caltrain to roll out six-car trains – San Mateo Daily Journal: Caltrain to roll out six-car trains –

Caltrain cracking down on fare evaders: Those trying to hitch a free ride on Caltrain may soon find themselves at greater risk of receiving a ticket — albeit a less costly ticket.

New Caltrain policy to halt fare evaders: Caltrain is looking for a new method of cracking down on fare evaders amongst its more than 19 million annual passenger trips.

Caltrain to roll out mobile ticketing app: Caltrain says the app is aimed at occasional and weekend riders headed to events like baseball games and festivals.

Caltrain sets ridership record – Railway Age: During its 2015 fiscal year, which ended June 30, 2015, Caltrain reached a record in total ridership of more than 18.5 million passengers., a 54.8% percent increase from just five years ago, when Caltrain carried 12 million riders.

New, simpler plan for SF’s downtown rail extension: San Francisco’s latest vision for South of Market preserves Interstate 280, gets rid of the Caltrain rail yard, and has the commuter rail line’s downtown extension bypass Mission Bay, instead dipping underground a mile before its current station at Fourth and King streets. A study to be released Monday, after 3½ years of work, significantly revises an idea raised by then-Mayor Ed Lee in 2013 to improve transit connectivity and create a new neighborhood. That plan called for rerouting Caltrain, and future high-speed rail trains, through Mission Bay to serve the growing neighborhood.

I-280 near Mission Bay would be razed in Caltrain tunnel plan: “A big game changer” is how one city official described the plan, which planners unveiled last week at a closed-door meeting with representatives of Caltrans, Caltrain, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and other transportation agencies. City officials plan to go public with their ideas next month, and there is already talk of a ballot measure down the road to seek public backing for whatever emerges as the final scheme. Lee spokeswoman Christine Falvey called Mission Bay and the southeastern waterfront “exciting areas for growth and new housing,” and said the mayor believes the track-realignment plan could make for “a key transit link for the neighborhood and the region for the future.” […] the city has been awarded $1.7 million in grants from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and others to study the idea. […] the plan has been to extend Caltrain and envisioned high-speed rail service from the Fourth and King station to the new Transbay Transit Center at First and Mission streets. The rail agency said it was “difficult to evaluate in the absence of any meaningful and in-depth technical review,” and that officials were “disappointed” the city had omitted any discussion of keeping the Fourth and King rail yard. Adam Alberti, spokesman for the Transbay Transit Authority that is building the new downtown terminal, said that “our focus continues to be on bringing the rail into the new transit center as soon as possible after it opens in late 2017” — a not-so-subtle hint that they’re worried the track reconfiguration could result in costly delays. San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener, who has been the point man on transportation issues on the board, said the city was looking at spending billions of dollars to extend Caltrain and high-speed rail downtown and “we need to make sure … we get it right.”

Caltrain downtown extension gets top billing for top dollar: In all the talk lately of high-speed rail, Caltrain electrification and construction of the Transbay Terminal, the downtown extension of Caltrain (to be shared by high-speed rail) has seemingly been overlooked. A federal program that helps pay for big rail transit projects in metropolitan regions has helped pay for BART to SFO, Silicon Valley light rail lines and the just started BART extension to the Berryessa neighborhood of San Jose. The Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development spent last year devising a Mid-Market economic strategy that says pot clubs – along with strip clubs, liquor stores and pawn shops – are “nuisance uses.” The approved change groups banks into a mass-retail category with chain fast-food restaurants, bars and movie theaters. […] the city banned the unwanted distribution of Yellow Pages. If you can part with the hard-copy version of the impassioned pleas of elected officials, neighborhood groups and gadflies, visit www.sfelections.org and click on the “Go Green” icon.

Caltrain Downtown Rail Extension: The Downtown Extension is a plan to extend Caltrain and future California High-Speed Rail service from 4th and King rail yard to the newly-constructed Salesforce Transit Center.

Caltrain To Discuss Modernizing In Upcoming Meetings: One meeting will take place in San Carlos on Dec. 12, while the other is scheduled in Atherton for Dec. 17.

Safety systems running late as railroads, including Caltrain, request extensions: A new system designed to make train travel safer after a string of crashes is being delayed again as railroads across the country — including the Bay Area’s Caltrain — ask for extensions of up to two years. “I think the majority of commuter and passenger railroads, and even some freights, will ask for an extension,” said Susan Fleming, director of physical infrastructure at Congress’ nonpartisan watchdog, the Government Accountability Office. Despite widespread support for positive train control — the automated brakes that would override human error and potentially save lives — smaller agencies are struggling to buy and set up the technology. “That kicks the can down the road a bit,” Fleming said.

Caltrain electrification project takes symbolic step forward: Gov. Jerry Brown, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and hundreds of other political leaders and transportation officials gathered on a Millbrae Caltrain station platform Friday to celebrate the start of a project to electrify the Peninsula’s commuter railroad as well as a victory over congressional Republicans who opposed funding it. A parade of speakers — 17 in all — hailed the Bay Area’s all-out effort this spring to get the U.S. Department of Transportation to approve a $647 million grant that had been approved by the Obama administration, but put on hold by the Trump administration at the urging of California’s Republican delegation. The potential loss of funding, which could have killed the $1.98 billion project that’s been decades in the making, spurred a full-scale push from the Bay Area. The state’s U.S. senators and the region’s congressional representatives, business leaders, transportation officials and transit riders all lobbied to get Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao to sign the funding agreement. Work is expected to begin immediately on the Caltrain project, which will convert the commuter rail line from a diesel-powered system to a modern electrified railroad in which sleek, lightweight trains will grab power from overhead wires. […] it was the hand of President (Barack) Obama pushing it forward. Brown missed hearing the rest of the speakers, who carried on with his message — reveling in Caltrain’s victory and pushing ahead with a modern rail system that travels between San Francisco and San Jose, two of the world’s most vital tech hubs. Pelosi praised Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a host of other Bay Area politicians for the efforts to get the federal funding for electrification approved. “It really took a village to make this one happen,” said Jim Wunderman, CEO of the Bay Area Council, a regional business lobbying group.

Caltrain on Twitter: “It’s officially done.

Caltrain’s GM, Jim Hartnett, signed the FFGA @USDOT this morning.”

Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao says she can’t approve Caltrain electrification grant yet: WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao isn’t budging on approving federal funds to help the Bay Area begin the electrification of Caltrain tracks. Chao said at a hearing Wednesday m…

Caltrain misses another deadline to install safety system – Palo Alto Daily Post: BY ALLISON LEVITSKY Daily Post Staff Writer Caltrain has pushed back the date by which it will install a federally mandated $239.9 million safety system meant to prevent deadly crashes […]

Safety feature missing from Amtrak train that crashed in Washington state and Caltrain – Palo Alto Daily Post: From staff and wire reports The rush to launch service on a new, faster Amtrak route near Seattle came at a deadly cost: none of the critical speed-control technology that […]

Trump administration deals a big setback to Caltrain: In the first big hit to the Bay Area from the Trump administration, newly minted Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has put the brakes on $647 million for Caltrain to go electric — and in the process pretty much killed hopes for high-speed rail coming to San Francisco anytime soon. Going electric would also allow the Peninsula line to be the final link in the high-speed rail system that Gov. Jerry Brown wants to stretch from San Francisco to Los Angeles. In a Jan. 24 letter to Chao, all 14 Republicans in the state’s congressional delegation called for the Caltrain money to be put on hold until a full audit is done on high-speed rail. On Friday, Chao obliged — the Federal Transit Administration, which she oversees, said a decision on the $647 million federal grant needed to keep the project going would be delayed. Matthew Welbes, the agency’s director, told Caltrain officials in a letter that the delay would allow the grant “to be considered in conjunction” with President Trump’s upcoming budget proposal for fiscal 2017-18. “I never imagined that the electrification of a train would be subjected to such brutal, partisan politics,” Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, whose district includes several Caltrain stations, said in a statement. In his letter, Welbes said federal officials were aware of Caltrain’s March 1 deadline, but that Washington needed “additional time to complete review of this significant commitment of federal resources.” Caltrain has already spent $150 million on planning to go electric, but without the federal and matching funds, the overall $1.98 billion project will go into limbo.

Caltrain awards electrification, EMU contracts – Railway Age: Caltrain’s Board of Directors on July 7, 2016 approved $1.25 billion in contracts with Balfour Beatty Infrastructure Inc. and Stadler U.S. Inc. to begin work on the Peninsula Corridor Electrification Project (PCEP).

Projected Timing for Electrification of Caltrain Pushed Back to 2022: While the Caltrain electrification project officially broke ground this past July, at which point the electrified service was expected to be up and running by the second to last day of 2021, including five months of budgeted leeway for project risk factors, the latest forecast for completing the project has now slipped into 2022. And […]

Caltrain approves FY 2017 operating and capital budgets – Railway Age: Caltrain’s Board of Directors has unanimously approved balanced operating and capital budgets for Fiscal Year 2017.

Poll: Support for Caltrain tax: From the Civil War to the Silicon Valley tech boom, commuters have been relying on the Caltrain corridor for more than a century. Now, local business leaders are touting a

Poll: Caltrain sales tax hike draws huge voter support: A proposal to increase sales taxes in Santa Clara County, San Mateo County and Francisco to fund a big expansion of Caltrain has captured support from 74 percent of voters, an indication of driver …

Voters, get ready for a Caltrain sales tax measure: A bill to allow local authorities to place a 1/8-cent sales tax on the ballot is close to the finish line.

New sales tax for Caltrain? A 1/8-cent levy is in the works: The money would generate $100 million annually for Caltrain as it quadruples its ridership.

Caltrain Funding Reconfigured: Samtrans board approved a funds swap Wednesday that will subsidize Caltrain’s operating budget—one that carries a projected $30.3 million deficit in 2012.

Caltrain board OKs budget that keeps all trains running, all stations open: Caltrain board OKs budget that keeps all trains running, all stations open

BAY AREA / Bully for Baby Bullet, riders say / High praise, heavy loads for swift new commuter trains: BAY AREA / Bully for Baby Bullet, riders say / High praise, heavy loads for swift new commuter trains The start of the long-awaited express service drew rave reviews from commuters — many of them longtime Caltrain riders with abundant skepticism — and continued grumbling from commuters at stations not served by the fast new trains. Aboard the Baby Bullets, the atmosphere was quiet — it was early morning on a Monday after all — but the mood was joyous, especially as the train sped past slower local trains and zipped by stations where the trains used to stop. Caltrain spokeswoman Rita Haskin, described the Baby Bullet’s premiere as perfect except that the commuter railroad had to turn away a couple of dozen bicyclists after the bike storage areas, which have half the capacity of normal trains, quickly filled. Commuters who ride mass transit regularly tend to become a bit jaded, expecting delays and doubting promises of improvements. The Baby Bullet, described by Caltrain officials as the most significant modernization in the commuter railroad’s 140-year history, cost $127 million and was two years in the making. “The only commuters to benefit from the Baby Bullets are the minority who use a Baby Bullet station at both ends of their commute,” said Arthur Ringham, of Menlo Park, in an e-mail message sent Monday.

Caltrain may drop Amtrak, switch to new conductor provider: Caltrain may drop Amtrak, switch to new conductor provider

A New Look for Caltrain / Critics want better service instead of cosmetic changes: To mark its fifth year as Caltrain’s overseer, the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board has changed the rail line’s logo, dropping an uppercase “T” and superimposing the word “train” on a big red circle. To some of the system’s critics, however, the new design — to be unveiled today in a daylong celebration — is no more than a cosmetic change by an agency that has failed to push the potential of the 133-year-old train system. “The JPB has gone for a lot of sizzle — (but) where’s the steak?” said Adrian Brandt, president of the Peninsula Rail 2000 advocacy group and former chair of Caltrain’s citizen advisory committee. Five years after it took over Caltrain, the JPB, a multicounty agency composed of representatives from San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, can boast only a mixed record. […] the board’s decision to open the train’s doors to bicycles in 1992 added about 1,500 new riders and made Caltrain reputedly the most accessible rail system to bicycles in the country. […] the board has yet to deliver on other major goals — including electrifying the system, adding more trains and separating rail tracks from vehicular street traffic. While BART can count on a steady share of property and sales taxes from its member counties, Caltrain pays for itself through fares, parking fees and whatever the three counties can squeeze out of their already tight budgets. The problem is, sometimes they don’t. Because the board is composed of appointed representatives from counties with different, sometimes colliding, interests, a consensus is sometimes elusive. Brandt cited the apparent lack of outrage and resistance among most JPB members after Brown called for the scrapping of the downtown extension. Three years ago, the JPB reduced San Francisco’s share of the system’s operating costs after city officials threatened to quit. The myopia, he said, is rooted in the perception that Caltrain benefits mainly people on the Peninsula and the South Bay who come to San Francisco to work, shop and enjoy the sights. The JPB will celebrate its fifth anniversary of running Caltrain by having its 21st Century Unlimited special train make whistle stops at five stations today. ABOUT THE SERIES Today’s “Commuter Chronicles” continues a weekly series of stories exploring the practical aspects of transportation and commuting in the Bay Area. Each Monday, the series features articles that get behind the political controversies and real-life vexations that readers face every day on buses, trains and BART, highways and byways. (Caltrans) takes over operation of commuter rail line owned Regional transportation officials end decades of debate

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Caltrain is a commuter rail line on the San Francisco Peninsula and in the Santa Clara Valley . the northern terminus of the line is in San Francisco at 4th and King Streets . select trains run as far as each member agency has three representatives on a nine-member Board of Directors . Caltrain has 28 regular stops, one limited-service weekday-only stop (College Park) Caltrain runs 92 weekday trains (22 Baby Southern Pacific (SP) double-tracked the line in 1904 and rerouted it via the Bayshore Cutoff . after 1945, ridership declined with the rise in automobile use . in 1977 SP petitioned San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties commissioned Earth Metrics, Inc., to prepare an environmental impact report . the report focuses on right-of-way acquisition and expansion of operations . in 1995 CalTra in 1997 the current logo was adopted, and the official name became Caltrain . in 2006, wireless internet access (using WiMAX) would be available on trains at no additional charge . the board of directors voted to keep the project from proceeding by rejecting both bids . in 2008, Caltrain reached an all-time high of 98 trains each weekday . the project entailed new bypass tracks in Brisbane and Sunnyvale . the express trains could overtake local trains at the locations where bypass tracks were added . travel time for about 46.75 miles between San Francisco and San Jose is the CTX project included the purchase of new Bombardier BiLevel Coaches . many riders now have longer commutes on non-bullet trains . the frequency of the popular Baby Bullet express trains was increased . on April 2, 2010, Caltrain announced the need to cut its services by around 50% . all three authorities that fund the line were facing financial problems themselves . revenues for both local and state agencies had been steadily declining . by April 2011, Caltrain’s board had approved a budget with fare increases to take effect on July 1, 2011 . the budget gap would be closed with another $0.25 fare increase, a $1 parking fee increase to $4 a poll of 1,200 voters in early may indicated support was sufficiently strong to pass the sales tax increase . the poll was sponsored by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG), headed by Guardino . a dedicated tax was Proponents say electrification would improve service times via faster acceleration, allow better scheduling and reduce air pollution and noise . plan calls to electrify the system between San Francisco 4th and King Street Station and San Jose Tamien Originally scheduled for completion by 2020, the schedule had slipped after three months of construction to December 30, 2021 and then April 22, 2022 . the electrification project between San Francisco and Tamien is the first phase . FRA grants waiver to operate these units on mix-used lines with other FRA-compliant rolling stock . Caltrain submitted simulation data showing UIC rolling stock performed no worse in crashes . electrification and EMU contracts awarded the plans for an electrified Caltrain were put in jeopardy in February 2017 by the Trump administration . in February 2017, Caltrain fired Parsons Transportation Group and sued them for delays in designing custom technologies . on April the $100 million represents the federal funding for fiscal year 2017 of the total $647 million grant . Secretary Chao claimed she could not sign the grant without the full grant being budgeted . on may 22, the FTA announced its intent as of 2012 only the structural “train box” below the Transbay Terminal has been funded and is being built . the remainder of the $2.5 billion extension would serve the California high-speed rail system . an alternative proposal would see the Caltrain and high-speed rail would instead be extended to the Transbay Terminal in a new tunnel under Third Street . the new proposal has an estimated cost of $6 billion and would be complete in 2027 . the project’s estimated cost doubled between 2004 and 2006, to US$600 million . in January 2009, the mtc instead applied the funds to the BART Warm Springs Extension project in Fremont . traffic on US Highway 101 projected to rise by up to 56% in 2020 . proposed extension would create new stations and stops in Pajaro and Castroville . layover yard would be added to accommodate Caltrain crews and maintenance the cost of operating commuter rail from the anticipated start of service until 2030 was estimated at US$64,900,000 . this project depends on state and federal funding availability, a possible local sales tax measure, and an agreement with CCJPA had experience with commuter trains sharing service on Union Pacific-owned freight right-of-way . two Capitol Corridor trains would originate from Salinas in the mornings and run through to San Jose and on SP granted PCJPB rights to operate up to 6 trains per day between Tamien and Gilroy stations . later increased to 10 trains a day on a deal with SP’s successor Union Pacific (UP) in 2005 five southernmost stations are served only on weekdays during commute time . two stations are not long enough to accommodate six-car trains without minor service impacts . seven stations are listed on the National Register of Historic Places . if a train is stopped for passengers, an approaching train must wait outside the station . this rule caused numerous delays, especially after the Caltrain Express project added baby bullet trains . most stations have been rebuilt with side platforms or wider the US$140 million maintenance station began construction in 2004 and opened on September 29, 2007 . fare revenue was $49,026,000, making the farebox recovery ratio 51.3% . this rose to 59% in fiscal year expansion of businesses near Caltrain stations, shift in attitudes against cars for commuting . expansion Caltrain service which has extra trains and introduction of fast express services . at current ridership levels, Caltrain directly removes 200 a Zone Upgrade may be purchased to augment a valid one-way ticket, day pass, or monthly pass at $2 per zone . discounted 8-ride tickets and monthly passes are available only with a Clipper card ticket machine assumes the origin zone is the same as the station’s zone . a ride between Sunnyvale and Lawrence covers 2.0 miles (3.2 km) and costs $5.75 . clipper card users receive a $0.55 discount on the one way full fares . if they board the train without tagging on, they will be subject to the same fines . Caltrain passengers are charged the maximum in 2018, Caltrain rolled out a mobile app allowing riders to purchase fares from Android and iOS smartphones . the fines are collected by the civil court system in the county in which the ticket is issued, and are not returned the cost of the fine will decrease to $75 per infraction, and Caltrain will retain the fees . the leased “suburban” and “gallery” coaches continued to wear SP’s standard dark grey . the scheme was nicknamed “Rainbow”, “Postal Service”, or “Mailbox” when new equipment was introduced in 1985, CalTrain painted the newly acquired silver EMD F40PH locomotives with teal and blue the practice of placarding train numbers dates back to when the trains were operated by Southern Pacific . the first digit for weekday trains is always 1, 2 or 3, indicating stopping pattern . 1xx trains are local trains making all the first digit for weekend trains is always 4 or 8, also indicating stopping pattern . the second and third digits indicate the sequence number of the train . 8xx trains are Weekend Baby Bullet trains, making fewer stops since 1985, Caltrain has used the following locomotives, which are almost all powered by diesel engines . trains run in a puller configuration (led by the locomotive) towards San Jose . Caltrans purchased the first 63 gallery cars in 1985 when it began subsidizing commuter rail service . older cars were rebuilt by Nippon Sharyo around the same time . of the Gallery cars, 66 are coaches and the first 17 Bombardier BiLevel Coaches were purchased as surplus from Sounder Commuter Rail in 2002 . Caltrain purchased additional eight cars in 2008 to meet short-term passenger growth and to increase spare ratio . all six-car Bombardier sets replaced some five-car gallery sets to relieve overcrowding . the longer trains are intended to be temporary measures to increase capacity . four of the cars were put into service in may 2015 while a seven-car special train took fans to the first game at Pac Bell park on march 31, 2000 . the northbound train ran at an estimated 125% of capacity and skipped stops after Hillsdale because it was already well above new trains will be double-decked, 515 feet 3 inches (157.05 m) long and equipped for both 22 and 50.5 inches (559 and 1,283 mm) platform heights . units can reach the future BART-to-San Jose extension would also introduce connecting BART service at Diridon station and Santa Clara station . these systems include the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni), San Mateo County Transit District the San Francisco Municipal Railway (Muni) has two light rail connections, the N Judah and T Third Street lines . Muni intended to establish another light rail connection to the bayshore station at Visitacion Valley in SamTrans launched Route SFO on June 24, 2018 . the service provides service using buses equipped with luggage racks . there is a connection to San Jose International Airport via the free VTA shuttle bus No. 10 . bicycles must be single-rider, with a maximum of 80 inches (2,000 mm) in length . tandem or three-wheel bikes are not allowed on the marguerite train . a destination tag is available from bicyclists may be denied boarding when a train reaches its bicycle capacity . two bike cars were added to every train consist by 2011, and in 2016, a third bike car was added to Bombardier consists . in early 2008, Caltrain sponsored Warm Planet bicycle station opened at the 4th and Townsend terminus . a bicycle station was open at the Palo Alto station from April 1999 to October 2004, and reopened in February gallery cars modified for bicycle service removed seats from the north half of the car . by 2006, bombardier cars were modified for bike service by partially removed seats . it was suggested that Caltrain could increase bicycle capacity by removing some prior to 2009, Bombardier consists could carry 16 bicycles, and gallery consists 32 . with the removal of additional seats in 2009, capacity rose to 24 and 40 bicycles . due to demand, in 2011, the remaining prior to 2016, both Bombardier and gallery trains used five-car consists . Caltrain announced in January 2015 that roughly half of the additional ex-Metrolink cars will be converted to bike cars with capacity for 24 bikes . all Bombardier consists are now six-car sets with three bike cars and three passenger cars . the third bike car is just south of the existing southern bike car . third is being placed next to the other bike car to help Retrieved July 3, 2016. Department of Mass Transportation (March 1984). Rail Passenger Development Plan: 1984 through 1989 fiscal years. Retrieved August 15, 2016. Retrieved July 15, 2016.