Nudge Wrote:
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> Hot Steamer,
>
> Under SP management everything was fine. The had
> the old house, turntable, garden tracks and a
> couple of rails for storage. Its when UP took
> over that they hurried up the move to get them and
> the 700 out of Brooklyn. Also, no 4449 on UP rails
> after the merger. (down through CA) They didn't
> want someone else getting good PR.
>
> Nudge

B.S.

SP had wanted them out of there for years before there was a merger
or even any talk of a merger. The intermodal operation was growing
and had already crowded the roundhouse and turntable, with trailers
and containers all over the place. Just to get to the roundhouse
required dodging not only parked trailers and containers, but also
watching out for hostler jockeys moving said equipment all the time.
The complication was that there was no place for them to move to
at the time.