Re: Where was the SP scrap metal yard ?
Author: WAF
Date: 02-18-2013 - 14:10
Alfred Doten Wrote:
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> Pacific States Steel in Niles cut up City of SF
> and Daylight coaches. US Steel in Pittsburg always
> seemed to have line of steam ready for the torch.
> ARD
By the late 60s to after Amtrak, the passenger fleet either went to Bencia or Purdy in Lincoln for scrap. A cut of Purdy cars, all areticulated coaches, were resold to Algoma Central Railroad