Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? I had no idea about choo-choo's, but there's a lot of choo-choo POLA/POLB history...
BOB2 wrote:
Banning, who was a "sailor/entrepreneur" turned western "teamster/entrepreneur", originally from "Wilmington", Delaware, realized from Beale, that LA via the "great circle, was closer to China, and had much lower grades and a snow free RR routes overland, to and from the east, than the CP/UP via Donner and the Wasatch.
Actually, San Francisco (SFO) is closer to Shanghai (PVG) than LAX to PVG by almost 300 nm.
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LAX PVG
5635 nm
10436 km
SFO PVG
5344 nm
9898 km