{"id":3061,"date":"2015-03-07T21:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=3061"},"modified":"2015-03-07T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T04:56:00","slug":"pcmr-1850-feet-brighton-impact-mountain-accords-plan-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/07\/pcmr-1850-feet-brighton-impact-mountain-accords-plan-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"PCMR is 1850 Feet Below Brighton&#8230; How Does That Impact the Mountain Accord&#8217;s Plan for Trains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thousand eight hundred fifty feet is over a third of a mile. It&#8217;s also the elevation difference between Brighton and the base of PCMR. After writing our last article about the time a cog rack train would take to get up Little Cottonwood Canyon, a concerned citizen enlightened us on a factor we had not included in our calculation. He felt our estimate of 15-20 minutes between Brighton and PCMR on the Mountain Accord train was way too conservative.<\/p>\n<p>Using a maximum gradient of 5%\u00a0for a Cog Rack\u00a0train, he calculated that the path a train would have to take to get to PCMR from Brighton would be almost 8 miles. Given that a cog rack train would likely go about 10 miles an hour&#8230; that&#8217;s a 50 minute trip. \u00a0So, if you are boarding a train at the entrance to Little Cottonwood Canyon, you are looking at almost a two hour trip to PCMR via rail.<\/p>\n<p>So, who is going to do that?<\/p>\n<p><em>h\/t to A Good Friend of the Park Rag for pointing this out<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thousand eight hundred fifty feet is over a third of a mile. It&#8217;s also the elevation difference between Brighton and the base of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}