RR- Great way to mask your hostility to Edmund Brown, with a factual post about sensible allocation of funds for projects that should have been instituted decades go to pick up the pieces as the (SP especially) railroads left the transportation of people in CA to twist slowly in the wind. Yes, I miss the Owl and the last of the Daylights, coastal and San Joaquin, Chiefs to both L.A. and S.F., not to mention all the red electrics, but wisdom didn't prevail in those now increasingly distant times, and the replacement costs. arguably more necessary than ever, would have staggered our ancestors!