Freight train returns on new tracks from Glendora to Pomona this week – Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

The following excerpt appeared in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin on February 2, 2022. To read the full article (may require subscription), click here.

Freight train returns on new tracks from Glendora to Pomona this week – Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

A BNSF train barrels down the tracks in the San Gabriel Valley in this undated photo. The freight line was suspended in November 2020 to allow workers to begin building the extension of the Gold Line (now L Line) from Glendora to Pomona. The workers relocated the freight tracks to one side to allow for laying of light-rail tracks. (Image courtesy of Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority)

By Steve Scauzillo

February 2, 2022

[excerpt]:

The Burlington Northern Santa Fe train will be running again for the first time in more than a year, this time on newly built heavy-rail freight tracks. The freight train will run through Irwindale, Azusa, Glendora, San Dimas, La Verne and Pomona.

The BNSF train service was halted in November 2020. Since then, workers building the 9.1-mile, Glendora-to-Pomona extension of the LA Metro passenger L Line (formerly Gold Line) relocated the freight tracks to one side to make room for light-rail tracks being laid within the narrow right of way, according to Lisa Levy Buch, spokesperson for the Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority.

The old freight tracks were in the middle of the shared corridor and had to be moved, she said Tuesday, Feb. 1.

Most likely, BNSF will run one freight train a day, Buch said. On Thursday, the train will head west toward Irwindale at around noon to make a delivery, then return east, Construction Authority spokesperson Albert Ho wrote in an email.

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