Peninsula Corridor: San Francisco - Gilroy

The Peninsula Corridor: San Francisco – Gilroy route is an extension to the popular San Francisco – San Jose route, and includes the full length of Caltrain’s dynamic San Francisco – Gilroy commuter operation (77 miles), plus additional Union Pacific freight trackage that extends the total length of the California route to more than 90 miles!

Along Caltrain’s 77 route miles there are 32 station stops stretching from San Francisco’s busy 4th and King Street Station to San Jose’s stylish Diridon Station to Gilroy. Six new stations are included in the extension: Tamien, Capitol, Gilroy, Morgan Hill, San Martin, and Blossom Hill. The route also includes Caltrain’s modern Central Equipment & Maintenance Facility at San Jose and lay-over commuter yards at Gilroy and Tamien.

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Please no! San Francisco-San Jose is too long already. There is no need for it.

 

Oh so now the trains update?

 

The only thing you add by adding Gilroy is 3 daily round trip trains, and whatever UP still runs out there (Which isnt much)

 

Yeah it honestly wouldn’t add much to the route. Just a couple longer services. I believe it’s also slower than SF-SJ. Some have told me trains go 79, but I believe it’s 50 irl. Could be wrong

 

And AFAIK DTG are still unlikely or unwilling to extend existing routes.

 

I think there are still areas of 79 out there, based on what I've seen with the Coast Starlight. Gilroy itself however is like 10-15 though.

 

In real life this would have been a MP36PH-3C Baby Bullet dlc service.

 

What about the New Caltrain?

 

That's not planned to be completed till 2024.

 

oh ok thank you!

 

Not only that but the route has gone through a ton of changes. It’s not just as simple as adding catenary and calling it a day. Various stations have been overhauled on the route. The most notable one being Hillsdale which recently got elevated similar to San Bruno. There are some other changes but I can’t think of them off of the top of my head. I believe I also heard somewhere that San Mateo was going to become elevated and grade separated

 

The Gilroy line isn’t being electrified. At least not yet.

 

For UP, a GP60 would be great for freight services. A Genset Switcher or one of UP's Tier 4 rebuilt GP38-2s (can't remember what the designation is) could also be great additions.

 

Here is the designation for GP38-2 Tier 4

If made both will layer to Cane Creek and Sherman Hill routes.

 

Ahhhhh thats bad

 

It's been suggested before, but I will do it again. Perhaps we could see DTG make the SP version of the Peninsula Corridor. The SP version of the route could include an SP SD7 or SD9, F7(or FP7) A and B, GP9 Torpedo, and/or FM H-24-66 Trainmaster (especially the FM Trainmaster) in both Black Widow and Bloody Nose liveries. DLCs could give us an SP War Baby GS4 or SDP45. The route would also include SP bi-level commuter coaches, a selection of freight cars (PFE reefers, box cars, flat cars with different loads, etc.), and an SP caboose or two.

 

Also it's only being electrified to San Jose, which granted that doesn't stop them from doing Gilroy. But it does beg the question, why put in the effort to do all that new trackage when it won't even be usable with (presumably) the main reason for the new version of the route in the first place? It would just make more sense to do what Rivet did with the Island Line, just upgrade the existing route and leave it at that.