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Re: Freight on Streets Of San Francisco--What Was Like In 70s?
Author: WAF
Date: 01-08-2015 - 19:42
TOer Wrote:
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> In MDO chronicles on trainorders.com Mike Ongerth
> writes about how the rents in SF went sky high in
> the late 70's and all the warehouse and intermodal
> and industries took flight for lower rents in
> Oakland and Union City and what not. And later
> moved even further east into the central valley.
>
> MDO writes that the SP continued to offer very
> good service to customers around the clock, long
> after the customer base justified such an
> investment, right up until Bayshore was closed as
> a freight yard in '78--I don't know if that's the
> right date.
early-mid 80s
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> In MDO chronicles on trainorders.com Mike Ongerth
> writes about how the rents in SF went sky high in
> the late 70's and all the warehouse and intermodal
> and industries took flight for lower rents in
> Oakland and Union City and what not. And later
> moved even further east into the central valley.
>
> MDO writes that the SP continued to offer very
> good service to customers around the clock, long
> after the customer base justified such an
> investment, right up until Bayshore was closed as
> a freight yard in '78--I don't know if that's the
> right date.
early-mid 80s
