January 2006 Metrolink Matters
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DECEMBER ’05 / JA NUA RY ‘0 6 Sa nta Cla us is on the Road! Holiday Toy Train Schedule 2005 Saturday, December 3 Saturday, December 17 What a night! Santa Claus came to town in a big way on •Pedley ..............5:20 p.m. • Rancho Saturday, November 19, as the Metrolink Holiday Toy Express •East Ontario .....6:10 p.m. Cucamonga ......5:05 p.m. began its 2005 run with a big opening-night event in Chatsworth. • Downtown •Fontana ............5:45 p.m. Pomona ............6:50 p.m. • San Thousands of Chatsworth residents turned out to play in •Industry ...........7:40 p.m. Bernardino .......6:30 p.m. fi fteen tons of snow, ride a miniature train through Operation •Montebello .......8:30 p.m. •Rialto ...............7:15 p.m. Lifesaver’s Saftey Town, listen to the live music of the bar- Sunday, December 4 •Upland .............8:15 p.m. bershop quartet OC Times, and donate a toy to the ABC7 •Anaheim ...........5:15 p.m. Sunday, December 18 & Firefi ghters’ Spark of Love Toy Drive. •Orange .............6:00 p.m. •El Monte ..........5:15 p.m. ABC7 brought out Phillip Palmer, Garth Kemp and •Santa Ana ........6:45 p.m. • Baldwin •Fullerton ..........7:45 p.m. Park .................6:10 p.m. Jane Monreal to emcee the event, which featured Saturday, December 10 •Covina ..............6:55 p.m. appearances by 100.3 THE BEAT, representatives of •Lancaster .........5:00 p.m. •Montclair .........8:00 p.m. Wells Fargo Bank, the Park Water Company and the City •Palmdale ..........5:45 p.m. •Claremont ........8:30 p.m. of L.A. Fire Department, as well as Santa Hogg, Sparky • Vincent Grade/ Sponsored by the Fire Dog and Smokey the Bear, all leading up to the Acton ...............6:30 p.m. arrival of Santa on Metrolink’s Holiday Toy Express. • Via Princessa ...8:10 p.m. A roaring cheer went up from the crowd as the sparkling Sunday, December 11 • Downtown 450-ton train pulled up, decorated with over 50,000 lights and Riverside ..........5:15 p.m. holiday decorations. The cheering didn’t stop until Santa and • Riverside - all of his friends began their live stage show featuring the Jolly La Sierra ..........6:05 p.m. Old Elf, North Pole characters, and a strange visitor from another • N. Main Corona 6:55 p.m. planet. The fi fteen-minute •Norwalk ............8:15 p.m. show culminated with an audience sing-along and the magical appearance of snow falling from cloudless skies. If you missed the event in Chatsworth, you still have a chance to see the Holiday Toy Express for yourself as this magical train continues to visit Metrolink stations throughout Southern California. Come and enjoy the free show, meet Santa and his friends in person, and don’t forget to bring a new, unwrapped toy for the Spark of Love toy drive! Metrolink would like to thank our sponsors, Union Pacifi c Railroad, Amtrak, and Bombardier Transportation, for their generous help in making this amazing event a reality. For more information on the 2005 Holiday Toy Express, please call (800) 371-LINK (5465) or visit www.metrolinktrains.com. (800) 371-LINK www.metrolinktrains.com Metrolink Matters December ’05/January ’06 Schedule Changes Effective January 3, 2006 Antelope Valley Line depart from Oceanside at 10:35 a.m., arriving at Riverside– Downtown at 12:40 p.m. To Los Angeles < Train 802 will depart from San Juan Capistrano at 1:48 p.m. < Train 212 will depart and from Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo at 1:55 p.m. fi ve minutes earlier Departure times from other stations will remain the same. at 8:55 a.m. To Oceanside To Lancaster < New train 851 will depart from < Train 205 will depart fi ve Correction: Riverside–Downtown at minutes later at 9:20 a.m. 10:50 a.m., arriving at Oceanside at Special New Year’s < Train 207 will depart two Day service, on January 12:55 p.m. minutes earlier at 11:40 a.m. 2, is only available on San < New train 853 will depart from Bernardino and Orange San Bernardino Line Riverside–Downtown at County lines. Please visit 1:10 p.m., arriving at Oceanside at To Los Angeles www.metrolinktrains.com 3:15 p.m. < Train 329 will depart for more information. < Train 811 will depart 52 minutes from Upland one minute earlier from San Bernardino at earlier at 5:24 p.m. The 11:25 a.m. and extend service to stop at Upland will be- Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo and San Juan Capistrano. come an “L” stop, which For more information about the schedule changes, means that it may depart up to fi ve minutes earlier. please visit www.metrolinktrains.com or call < Train 331 will depart fi ve minutes earlier from Rancho Metrolink at (800) 371-LINK (5465) Cucamonga at 6:28 p.m. and six minutes earlier from or, for speech- and hearing- Upland at 6:39 p.m. Safety Matters impaired access, To San Bernardino (800) 698-4TTD (4833). < Train 324 will arrive at San Bernardino two minutes Safety Is Always in Season later at 7:11 p.m. We hope that you will join us as Santa makes his way to your station this year. We ask that while you wait Orange County Line for his arrival, you keep the following rules in mind: To Los Angeles < Never run on the platform. < Train 683 will arrive at < Always wait behind the line indicated on the platform. Los Angeles two minutes < Hold on to your child while the train is arriving at or leaving later at 8:15 a.m. the station. < Train 609 will depart from < Wait for the train to come to a complete stop before approaching. Oceanside three minutes < Refrain from horseplay on the station platform; pushing and later at 3:25 p.m. shoving can cause injuries. < Never place any items (coins Inland Empire–Orange County Line included) on the tracks. Two new round-trip trains have been added between Oceanside < Never ignore the warn- and Riverside–Downtown, and two trains will extend service from ing lights, bells, gates, Irvine to San Juan Capistrano. or other signals that To Riverside–Downtown indicate a train is ap- < New train 850 will proaching. STOP when the red lights fl ash depart from Oceanside and the bells begin at 7:30 a.m., arriving to sound. at Riverside–Downtown Enjoy the Show! at 9:40 a.m. < New train 852 will (800) 371-LINK www.metrolinktrains.com 2 Metrolink Matters December ’05/January ’06 Hurricane Katrina, Part II In November’s issue of Metrolink Matters, Metrolink corporate asphalt. There was an 18-wheeler in front of me, but I could not see relations administrator Edward Hargrave described his work as- its lights. Willie (who worked for the Portland Red Cross) told me sisting the American Red Cross with relief efforts related to the dev- that there was a shoulder to pull over to, so I did. Willie then started astation caused by Hurricane Katrina. When we last left Edward, to drive. I was really lucky to have Willie driving with me. He was Hurricane Rita had just hit an already reeling South. He with the search-and-rescue/ hazardous-material team with the continues his tale below: Coast Guard for twenty years. Plus, he grew up in Alabama. So not “Driving was halted only was he familiar for a while when Hur- with monstrously ricane Rita hit. It kept bad weather, he knew us off the roads for two how to drive in it. days. On the third day He got us back my partner, Willie Jones, to the Montgomery and I had a short run, only headquarters at mid- 500 miles. It was rain- night. We walked into ing most of the day, but the place and it was when we got to Hazlehu- really quiet. We ran rst, Mississippi, the rain across one coordina- stopped. After unloading tor who said that the six pallets of water headquarters was told and meals at a community to evacuate at noon church, we headed back; the because of tornado rain picked up, and it started to warnings. Hurricane get heavy. We noticed that the sky Rita had turned south was black behind us, then black in instead of going north and front of us, then black to the side of east. The next day, offi cials showed me us. We turned on the radio and caught the end of a tornado report. twenty-two tornado reports in the counties we had driven through. Now, you have to understand that cell phones rarely worked. I had In looking back on the trip, it was a great feeling to be in a place Nextel and my partner had Sprint and there was just extremely little where hundreds of people wanted to help other people in need. reception. When you could get reception, it didn’t last long. They were there because they wanted to be. That’s unique in the It started raining so hard I could not see the end of the truck or world. I was lucky to be a part of that.” the white line in the road, or if the side of the road was a ditch or Ask Metrolink! Dear Loyal Rider, Dear Metrolink, We are sorry I take the train daily, leaving Oceanside at 6:44 a.m. Until just that you have recently, my morning commute used to be a pleasant, quiet way been disturbed to start the day. However, it seems that since school is back in ses- by student com- sion, there are numerous young riders who are ruining not only muters on the my morning commute, but the commute of other riders as well.