El Centrol still looked busy in 1983 because many of the packing house were still working, although the best years for the lettuce, tomatoes, melons, and for carload perishable were now victims to the Staggers Act, and more intensive truck competition. Poor service and cost cutting didn't help (this isn't something new to railroading invented with the age of PSR...).

As to maps, they are easily brainstormed and produced in prodigious numbers and infinite permutations, by those who would like to see rail service to somewhere.

Would be a good investment of our scarce taxpayer dollars, or of any interest to a profit seeking passenger railroad like Brightline?

Well that could depend on many those real pesky travel behavior and econmic "factors" which create the necessary travel demand and show it to be a cost effective investment for the costs, that I babble on about.

These "factors": would start with things like the actual ridership potential, costs, the liklihood, at least in this case, that hell will likely soon freeze over and the UP would miraculously allow any use of the Sunset for anything like this.

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> Full terminal at El Centro in 1983.
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> While Googling, I see someone proposed a passenger
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> Passenger route? Hmmm.
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