WAF Wrote:
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> SP, IIRC, went to court against the PUC about
> being forced to operate the trains and won.
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I thought they didn't ultimately win but don't know. When I rode the Los Angeles-Oxnard commuter train in 1981 the conductor let some girl pass out Michelob. I remember he had us throw the bottles out the opened back door of the car (!) while in long tunnel, #26. To this day the commuter platform in Chatsworth still exists, just east of De Soto Ave. with some benches untouched. This is a bit east of today's Amtrak/Metrolink stop. Van Nuys had gotten a platform where the current Amtrak station is, and the Simi Valley stop seems to have been at Tapo St. where the SP station originally was but I'm not sure. I belive Camarillo was also a stop.
Baxter Ward earlier fought for years in the courts to get the El Camino train set operating on the San Diegan route, a precursor of the LOSSAN corridor that became the expanded Surfliners from Los Angeles south to San Diego.