Hey, guys, don't you recall that PG&E used to own and operate an electric rail line? Not so uncommon - in Columbus the power utility used to own the local streetcars and IIRC the trolley buses that replaced them right up till the end in 1965.

And electric traction needed that kind of political and financial clout up against infernal combustion, the oil companies, the highway lobby, the AAA et al.

That same !MOBILITY! BS crowd are now the ones implicated and ought to be indicted in the OMG Global Warming fad. But take it to the bank the limousine liberal elite of enviro phonies will figure out a way to excuse reprobates the likes of Alfred P. Sloane, Jesse Haugh, National City Lines, etc., etc. for their culpability and whitewash the highway lobby and the Great Bustitution of 1946.