{"id":18791,"date":"2015-01-08T03:16:58","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T11:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=18791"},"modified":"2015-01-08T03:16:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T11:16:58","slug":"2015-year-of-the-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/2015-year-of-the-train\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Year of the Train"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While the Chinese\u00a0ring\u00a0in the Year of the Sheep in 2015, California could easily call this the Year of the Train. The controversial, high-speed bullet train<\/a> that is expected\u00a0to travel between Los Angeles and San Francisco in approx. 4 hours, cost $98 billion to complete (with a funding shortfall of $30 billion,) open around 2033 and require millions of dollars in annual subsidies to operate, is still on track and seems to be gaining speed as a ground breaking ceremony was held this week for the project.<\/p>\n

Trains are important to Californians. Many of our ancestors arrived\u00a0here\u00a0by train after the last spike was driven<\/a> to join the tracks of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads, completing the First Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869. With significant train museums throughout the state, great collections of vintage railroad artifacts, and upcoming train expos to attend, there’s no shortage of train experiences in 2015.<\/p>\n

Upcoming Year of the Train 2015 Events:<\/strong>
\nANAHEIM: January 10-11 Great Train Show at Anaheim Convention Center.
\nDEL MAR: February 14-15 Great Train Show at San Diego County Fairgrounds
\nONTARIO: June 6-7 Big Train Show at Convention Center
\nPERRIS: January 17-18 Orange Empire Railway Museum’s “Behind the Scenes”
\nSACRAMENTO: February 28-March 1 Great Train Show at Cal Expo
\nSAN RAMON: March 22 NorCal’s Cal-Stewart Meet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the Chinese\u00a0ring\u00a0in the Year of the Sheep in 2015, California could easily call this the Year of the Train. The controversial, high-speed bullet train that is expected\u00a0to travel between Los Angeles and San Francisco in approx. 4 hours, cost $98 billion to complete (with a funding shortfall of $30 billion,) open around 2033 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18791"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}