BOB2 Wrote:
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> Yep, the Westside would kind of be one, using a
> lose definition.. So would the Intercal, via the
> El Centro main, through Mexico, and back to the
> Sunset line at Algodones. Rhe El Paso and
> Southwestern also served as a kind of secondary
> main, even having long distance passenger services
> via Douglas AZ.
>
> Maybe one of the last big "secondary" mains also a
> kind of "cutoff" (a two-fer?) that the SP
> constructed, or "re-constructed", and then
> connected directly into Pasadena Junction, and to
> the Shops, under Mission Road, and to El Monte, on
> the Alhambra line, via the El Monte "flyover", was
> the State Street line, in 1974. This was the
> former PE San Bernardino main line down the middle
> of what became the San Bernardino Freeway (I-10),
> which is now the Metrolink San Gabriel
> Subdivision, serving the SGV-San Bernardino
> commuter trains.

And IIRC, the Imperial ran via Chino for a while when there was a connection back to the main to the East.