Metrolink

Not to be confused with Metrolinx, the Government of Ontario agency operating GO Transit, or Manchester Metrolink (Light Rail)
Metrolink (Southern California Regional Rail Authority, SCRRA) is a commuter train operator in Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside, and San Diego counties, California. Metrolink began operations on October 26, 1992.
Average weekly ridership is 42,265 as of 2012.
==History==
In the 1990s, in an effort to relieve congestion in and around the Los Angeles area, the Southern California Regional Rail Authority (SCRRA), the group who founded Metrolink, purchased track from the Southern Pacific, and gained the rights to use the Los Angeles Union Station, as part of a plan to introduce commuter rail to the area.
Initially, service was based on 3 lines, but quickly grew to 7.
The 7 Seven Lines are as follows:
* San Bernardino Line (San Bernardino Downtown - Los Angeles)
* Antelope Valley Line (Lancaster - Los Angeles)
* Ventura County Line (Ventura East - Los Angeles)
* Orange County Line (Oceanside - Los Angeles)
* Perris Valley/91 Line (Perris South - Los Angeles)
* Riverside Line (Riverside Downtown - Los Angeles)
* Inland Empire - Orange County Line (San Bernardino Downtown - Oceanside)
The IEOC line is the only one of the 7 Metrolink lines to not make a stop or terminate at Los Angeles Union Station.
==Operations==
Like most passenger railways, and unlike GO Transit (who operate on a Proof-Of-Payment system with only 3 crew members per train), Metrolink operates using the traditional multi-crew formation, with one conductor per car.
==Fleet==
Metrolink's railcar and locomotive fleet are largely based on GO Transit-designed F59PH locomotives and Bombardier Bi-level cars.
Metrolink also owns 1 F40PH, 4 F59PHIs, 5 F59PHRs (a MPI rebuilt F59PH), and 15 MPI MP36PH-3Cs. On present are 40 EMD F125s. Metrolink was also leased 2 former GO Transit F59PHs and 1 former MiTrain F59PH owned by RBRX while PTC was being installed on current locomotives from the 2015 Oxnard train derailment. As for now, all Hyundai Rotem cab cars are now back in service.
The current fleet of active Metrolink locomotives are a fleet of EMD F125 locomotives, MP36PH-3Cs, Bombardier and Hyundai Rotem cars, and some F59PHRs. The rest of the Metrolink fleet, which include almost the entire F59s are now retired. Some sit in storage unused, and in bad condition. The F40PH however, has little to no information about it.
==See also==
*GO Transit
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