Bob,

I thought the Chico extension was going to be a couple of San Joaquins (the ones that run from Stockton to Sacramento via Lodi.

Exeter Joe

BOB2 Wrote:
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> El Gringo Wrote:
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> > Bob2 does money just grow on trees or is this
> even
> > viable.
> >
> > Also, we do need a SP christmas story. Maybe
> > something with an SW1500 or SD9
>
> ACE's plans to run up the Valley to Chico by
> rebuilding part of the SN mainline are probably
> more likely to happen before you will get there on
> the UP... One or two extensions of the Capitols
> might be possible, but really would not be
> optimal, for the kind of all day "frequency" of
> services that would be needed to generate optimal
> ridership for that corridor.
>
> I'd prefer to tell stories about SD-7's...
>
> Christmas's at the Shops SP would cancel most jobs
> toward the end of my career, as no outbound trains
> were set, and just have one job with a pair of
> SW-1500's to reduce arriving trains. A slow day
> with good overtime...
>
> Best part of Christmas on the old SP for many
> years was taking the Christmas trees to 8th Street
> with an SW 1500 in the early evening down Alamdea
> Street, with all of the families with kinds buying
> wholesale trees...
>
> The best Christmas Eve party was my final
> Christmas on the SP, while running a switcher with
> my crew, fondly referred to as the redneck, the
> dago, and the yid, on the daylight "mill job" out
> of the Shops... We would work a LAHOT, or some
> other train in the morning, and then go over to
> switch the old mill around 11 am, stopping at
> Sam's stand (at the old BullRing/Links there on
> North Spring) for coffee usually. We would often
> take a cut of empty pigs over, or bring a cut of
> empty pigs back to the Shops, as the bullring was
> still used for pig storage then.
>
> On Christmas eve the SP Signal Maintainers shop
> had a big Christmas party at the Bullring/Links
> (located down where the Dash bus yard is under the
> Chinatown Gold Line Station on North
> Spring/Alamdea today)on the lead to the old mill.
> We switched the mill on Christmas eve, and gave
> all of the Signal maintainer's kids rides on the
> pair of SW 1500 engines, up and down the lead, and
> had great food brought in by all of the
> families...
>
> You can't do fun things like that on the RR
> anymore...
>
> Merry Christmas....