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Re: The WORST trip you've ever taken
Author: WAF
Date: 02-07-2011 - 15:16
Mike55 Wrote:
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> It was mostly bad timekeeping. June, 1970 I rode
> the "Coast Daylight" from San Jose to Los Angeles.
> We were about 1 1/2 hours late arriving LA. I
> didn't know it at the time but that guaranteed a
> late departure that night for the "Sunset", which
> I rode to El Paso. We were nearly two hours late
> departing LA as that day's #98 became that
> evening's #2 after servicing and switching. The
> "Daylight" that day was about 15 cars long and
> powered by a single SDP45! Food service was the
> "automat", but there was a 3600-series dome lounge
> included.
>
> A second story would be from an ex-girlfreind's
> father who was employed by SP. During the mid
> 1960's he took the family from Oakland to Los
> Angeles on the "San Joaquin Daylight" They were
> on time at every station, but sat at Glendale for
> some two hours while freight trains passed in both
> directions, and were very late in to LA.
>
> ---Mike55
Musta had some problems enroute to LA. Usually 99 was the late train because Number 1 would fight its way across the Sunset with BSMs and C Blocks and MSE trains having more priority
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> It was mostly bad timekeeping. June, 1970 I rode
> the "Coast Daylight" from San Jose to Los Angeles.
> We were about 1 1/2 hours late arriving LA. I
> didn't know it at the time but that guaranteed a
> late departure that night for the "Sunset", which
> I rode to El Paso. We were nearly two hours late
> departing LA as that day's #98 became that
> evening's #2 after servicing and switching. The
> "Daylight" that day was about 15 cars long and
> powered by a single SDP45! Food service was the
> "automat", but there was a 3600-series dome lounge
> included.
>
> A second story would be from an ex-girlfreind's
> father who was employed by SP. During the mid
> 1960's he took the family from Oakland to Los
> Angeles on the "San Joaquin Daylight" They were
> on time at every station, but sat at Glendale for
> some two hours while freight trains passed in both
> directions, and were very late in to LA.
>
> ---Mike55
Musta had some problems enroute to LA. Usually 99 was the late train because Number 1 would fight its way across the Sunset with BSMs and C Blocks and MSE trains having more priority
