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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...
Author: Ferdinand Magellan
Date: 03-14-2020 - 20:23

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.
[www.greatcirclemapper.net]

LAX PVG
5635 nm
10436 km


SFO PVG
5344 nm
9898 km

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  LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? Joe Blow 03-14-2020 - 15:55
  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? tundraboomer 03-14-2020 - 16:38
  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 03-14-2020 - 18:01
  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... Ferdinand Magellan 03-14-2020 - 20:23
  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 03-14-2020 - 23:55
  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... F Magellan 03-15-2020 - 01:38
  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? COVID-19 03-14-2020 - 18:19
  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? Bob's your uncle 03-14-2020 - 18:36
  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? BOB2 03-14-2020 - 18:56
  trolls, pus, third stage of syphilis Transgender-prophet Muhamed 03-14-2020 - 23:02
  Re: trolls, pus, third stage of syphilis Blob2 03-15-2020 - 06:06
  Re: Third stage??? A troll like you should know.. BOB2 03-15-2020 - 08:38
  Re: trolls, pus, third stage of syphilis Boberama 03-15-2020 - 09:13
  Re: trolls, pus, third stage of syphilis Eee 03-15-2020 - 10:26
  Blobaboba Fan of Timmy 03-15-2020 - 18:29
  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? Blob2 03-15-2020 - 06:02
  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? e 03-15-2020 - 07:14
  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? Eee 03-15-2020 - 08:00
  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? e 03-15-2020 - 10:03
  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? phixer 03-14-2020 - 20:07
  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? Old Rivets 03-14-2020 - 21:24
  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? R Ruiz 03-15-2020 - 23:38


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