Re: Some Questions About SP Passenger Service In The San Joaquin Valley
Author: synonymouse
Date: 12-13-2009 - 13:00
There are those who claim that passenger trains were already a losing propostion by the twenties when all the ancillary costs were added. Dunno, but I did see an excellent tv documentary on the Daylights which spoke of the tavern car receipts alone paying for the the cost of operating the train in the late thirties.