BOB2 Wrote:
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> 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.
>
> photo post Wrote:
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> > Full terminal at El Centro in 1983.
> >
> > While Googling, I see someone proposed a
> passenger
> > train through here. (Map below)
> >
> > Image hosted from this page:
> > [www.ebay.com]
> >
> >
> >
> > Passenger route? Hmmm.
> >
> >


Forgot to mention that I visited many times on my way to donkey shows…