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Re: What "Italian DMU coast route proposal in the 1930s"??
Author: BOB2
Date: 02-07-2017 - 21:15
Nudge,
The failure of the State to buy the Coast line had nothing whatsoever to do with national defense, the state would just be the owner, and the choo-choo's, including freight access would still be there.
"Uncle Phil" made this offer back in '92 long before the UP merger, when he had no restrictions on how he was allowed to deal with "his" assets.... He made this offer right after he succesfully sold off many of the urban branches, and easements to the County Transportation Commissions in Sou Cal for future transit and Metrolink corridors.
It was the infamously useless Pete Wilson administration, and the dysfunctional Dems. in the State legislature, and some of the dumbest folks to ever run Caltrans, who even lobbied against it, that just plain screwed it up.......
The failure of the State to buy the Coast line had nothing whatsoever to do with national defense, the state would just be the owner, and the choo-choo's, including freight access would still be there.
"Uncle Phil" made this offer back in '92 long before the UP merger, when he had no restrictions on how he was allowed to deal with "his" assets.... He made this offer right after he succesfully sold off many of the urban branches, and easements to the County Transportation Commissions in Sou Cal for future transit and Metrolink corridors.
It was the infamously useless Pete Wilson administration, and the dysfunctional Dems. in the State legislature, and some of the dumbest folks to ever run Caltrans, who even lobbied against it, that just plain screwed it up.......
