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The Waning Days of SP's "Daylight"
Author: Drew Jacksich
Date: 08-10-2011 - 23:50

By Spring of 1971, we had sent men to the moon but it was becoming almost impossible to travel by train. To the rescue rode the Nixon administration with Railpax, a grandiose plan to save the passenger train. As most know it was, in reality, a plan to euthanize passenger trains once and for all to repay Nixon's friends in the rail industry.

By now, Espee's Coast Daylight had become the only long distance train they had not tried to abandon. As May 1st, 1971 creeped ever closer trains #98 and #99 soldiered on.

At San Jose, February 1971

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6183/6031690732_f26e321cb5_b.jpg

Behind Oak Hill January 1971

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6137/6031134525_cc5585a711_b.jpg

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  The Waning Days of SP's "Daylight" Drew Jacksich 08-10-2011 - 23:50
  Re: The Waning Days of SP's "Daylight" njt 08-11-2011 - 10:34
  Re: The Waning Days of SP's "Daylight" mook 08-11-2011 - 11:32
  Re: The Waning Days of SP's "Daylight" Drew Jacksich 08-11-2011 - 11:39
  Re: The Waning Days of SP's "Daylight" WAF 08-11-2011 - 14:07
  Re: The Waning Days of SP's "Daylight" MP 44.7 08-11-2011 - 23:54


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