Margaret (SP fan) Wrote:
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> Thanks, HUTCH, for the post. Ahhhh.....
> memories.....
>
> What I miss:
>
> Crews on SP's commute trains
>
> SP's commute trains with immaculate gallery cars
> and Suburbans
>
> The SP's San Francisco Subdivision with few grade
> separations and single-side boarding
>
> Walkover seats on SP and early Caltrain commute
> trains
>
> Conductors on the Peninsula commute trains
> wearing
> proper uniforms, complete with hats
>
> SP scarlet and grey Geeps (GP 9s)
>
> SP SD 45s growling up the grade at Tehachapi
>
> Tehachapi the way it was in the late 1970s and
> early 1980s
>
> SP SDP-45s in scarlet and grey
>
> Freight cars -- and locomotives -- with NO
> graffiti
>
> SP's "Broadway Local" with the old crew, and
> following
> them around, and going to beans with them once in
> a while
>
> My old railfan stomping grounds here in northern
> California
> the way they were in the late 1970s and early
> 1980s, especially:
> SP's West Oakland and Desert Yards
> Franklin Canyon (CA 4)
> Stockton Tower area
> SP's Roseville Yard
>
> Searchlight signals
>
> BART the way it was in the late 1970s
>
> Lots of freights everywhere
>
> Amtrak the way it was back in the late 1970s and
> early 1980s
>
> Friendly railroaders everywhere, especially
> visiting my now-
> deceased friend at the Santa Fe's Richmond Yard
> and a guy who
> worked for the WP in their West Oakland Yard
>
> Being able to hang out and watch trains anywhere
> without
> someone calling the cops and the cops actually
> coming out
> and demanding ID
>
> We have lost so much........

No kidding! Now we have the EVIL YELLOW PERIL.