By Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle; July 22, 2019
Caltrain, the Peninsula commuter rail that started chugging when Abraham Lincoln was president, may look a lot more like BART in the coming years.
Officials are putting together a long-range “service vision” for the next several decades designed to triple the number of riders, from 60,000 a day to 180,000. In the future, Caltrain would trade its diesel-belching locomotives for electric cars, with 10-car trains arriving at stations every 7½ minutes.