Steven D. Johnson Wrote:
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> Tell me about it! I always thought the Oakdale
> branch was a sweet little gig. We'd be gone for
> two or three hours just switching the cannery and
> Hershey's (now moved to Mexico) and time our
> arrival to get the bean law or go into an extended
> beans. There was an engineer who would
> occasionally roll up to within walking distance of
> his house and go to lunch then.
> Riverbank yard now has an interchange track built
> just west of the Ammo Lead.

3 hours, that's it????? If I really wanted to screw the pooch, I'd make sure it would take me all day to switch that branch. There's plenty of hiding places out there with places to eat near by. I'd be knocking people over to be first in line on that job. Leave it to the cry-babies to screw up a good thing.