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Light
rail system:
- 61
km
- 49 stops:
street-level boarding and high-floor trains (short high platform section
for stepfree access at front door)
- single track sections between Alkali Flat/La Valentina and Globe
(including the American River crossing); between Royal Oaks and Swanston;
from Roseville Rd and Watt/I-80; from a point halfway between Sunrise
and Hazel to the Folsom terminus;
- major structures are the grade-separated junction east of 16th Street
with a viaduct across a freight railway; and a viaduct across the
mainline railway between University/65th St and Power Inn;
- street running in the downtown area and on the northen leg of the
Blue Line up to Arden/El Paso (except river crossing);
- 36 Siemens-Duewag U2A cars (1987)
- 40 CAF cars (2002/03)
- normally operated as 2-car trains, but 4-car trains during peaks
- every 15 minutes, with only every other train continuing on the
Gold Line from Sunrise to Folsom
2 lines
(re-arranged in 2005):
Blue
Line: Watt/I-80 - Meadowview
Gold Line: Downtown - Folsom
1987:
Watt/I-80 - Power Inn (29 km, at that time mostly single-track)
1990s: double-tracking of most of the first line
1998: Power Inn - Mather Field/Mills
2003: 16th Street - Meadowview (South Line 10 km)
2004: Mather Field - Sunrise
2005 (15 Oct): Sunrise - Folsom (12 km)
2006 (08 Dec): Downtown
Loop - Sacramento Valley Station (0.8 km)
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