DougSam Wrote:
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> [up150.com]
> -in-san-francisco
>
> It's interesting that the freight business in SAn
> Francisco could go from what's described here to
> hardly anything. Obviously it wasn't simply a
> matter of business drying up but SP choosing to
> get out of the business and driving away customers
> by discarding infrastructure and driving up
> prices.
>
> Considering how quickly the traffic contracted in
> the late 70s to early 80s it's amazing there is
> still a local working SF. I suppose this is due
> entirely to the dirty dirt business and before
> that the container port business? And yet it
> appears that even this business wanes at times to
> hardly anything and you'd think UP would just as
> soon give it up.

No quite. Business left the Bay Area for other reasons than the SP. Economy, taxes,
you name it. If anything, rates went down after Staggers on some traffic. JIT inventory ended the need for warehousing so far away from the plants. Businesses closed plants on the west coast for cheaper labor in the Midwest