Since Caltrain has switched to electric trains, their retired diesel fleet will be sent to Lima, Peru, to serve passenger rail service there, according to a Caltrain press release. After seven ...

Caltrain is sending its retired diesel fleet to Lima, Peru, where it will have a second chance at life by providing commuter ...

Peru plans to run the former Caltrain cars on a track connecting downtown Lima to the city of Chosica. Limited freight service operates along some of this line but there is no passenger service.

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Prospective buyers interested in the “gently used” 135-ton diesel locomotives posted on the Caltrain website are out of luck since the Bay Area transit agency finalized the sale. Caltrain is ...