Tri-Rail
Tri-Rail is a regionally operating railway company in the U.S. state of Florida, where she is responsible for the transport between the cities of Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. This 116 km long stretch along the coast of south Florida has 18 breakpoints. It is operated Tri-Rail from the "South Florida Regional Transportation Authority ", ie the transport authority of South Florida. In Miami, the company has with the Metrorail Transfer Station, and (as of end of 2013 ) of the Miami Central Station via connections to urban elevated railway Miami -Dade Metrorail.
History
Founded as the Tri-Rail 1987 by Florida Department of Transportation. The railway line was originally set up as a temporary commuter service because it was on Interstate 95 and the parallel toll Florida 's Turnpike bottleneck by widening works. However, the Tri-Rail outlasted their time-limited use by setting up more trains and new breakpoints einrichtete.
Your route Tri-Rail shares with Amtrak, which operates there with the long-distance trains Silver Meteor and Silver Star, as well as stationed in Miami division of the freight company CSX. CSX was until 1989 the owner of the track infrastructure before the Department of Transportation of Florida acquired the route. Maintenance and operation are still at CSX, however, are to be transferred after the completion of continuous two-pronged expansion of the route to their owners.
In 1996, the 108 km long stretch of West Palm Beach to the northern city of Mangonia Park, from Miami was extended south to the Miami airport. Opened the new sections in 1998. Through this expansion, the track has reached its present length of 116 kilometers.
Tri-Rail Bombardier BiLevel used predominantly double deck cars with different variations of the EMD F40PH Diesellokmodells. In addition, one is a diesel railcar from Colorado Railcar.
Breakpoints
Currently, the Tri-Rail has six breakpoints in Palm Beach County, seven in Broward County and five in Miami -Dade County.
Palm Beach County
- Mangonia Park
- West Palm Beach 1
- Lake Worth
- Boynton Beach
- Delray Beach
- Boca Raton
Broward County
- Deerfield Beach
- Pompano Beach
- Cypress Creek
- Fort Lauderdale
- Fort Lauderdale / Hollywood International Airport
- Sheridan Street
- Hollywood
Miami -Dade County
- Golden Glades
- Opa- locka
- Metrorail Transfer Station 2
- Hialeah Market
- Miami Central Station 2 3