Re: Some Questions About SP Passenger Service In The San Joaquin Valley
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 12-14-2009 - 12:20
agentatascadero Wrote:
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> I don't any but local passenger trains ran via
> Altamont, and even these runs probably did not
> make it through the Great Depression, and all
> those "train-offs".
Regular passenger service was discontinued on January 25, 1941 (source: Henry Luna, Niles Canyon Railways, p.34). Photos of the train in 1938 show that RPO service had been discontinued by that date.