Seattletransitblog.com has a post about NW High Speed Rail
Specifically,
Washington (WSDOT) is going for broke and requesting money to largely complete the Portland-Seattle high-speed rail upgrades.
Here's the list:
Location Project Funding Request
Vancouver Yard Bypass and W 39th St bridge $45.1 million
Tacoma Pt Defiance Bypass $60.0 million
Stanwood Stanwood Station $600,000
Everett Curve Realignments and Storage tracks $2.12 million
Cascades Four New train Sets $108 million <------------ kind of a big deal!
Cascades Capitalized Maintenance $97.4 million
Kelso to Martin’s Bluff Rail project (In three phases) $222.0 million
Seattle King St Station Track And Signal Upgrades $120 million
Blaine Swift Customs Facility Siding $3.8 million
Cascades Advanced Signal System/Positive Train Control $30.2 million
Centralia New Crossover near China Creek $3.0 million
Total: $692.22 Million
8 daily trains, 3 hour trip time, expected 97% on-time performance.
There is pretty high expectation that they will get all of it funded... Obama is pouring lots of money into the HSR pot.
Oh, and these are potentially the new trains we would get. 130 mph Spanish Talgo 21's:
Bernat Borras
Fernando Monroy Pena
Threaded Mode