Dave Frevele Wrote:
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> 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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> [ftp.resource.org]
> d.1285.82-4466.html
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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.

PUC made them run the train. Fortunately for the SP, Gov."Duke" cut the transportation budget when he took office in 1983 and that killed the train. SP made a couple trips to Sacramento with the private cars to entertain the new governor and staff. Strange how things get done after a little palm pressing..