For those who were around, albeit young, during the war on electric transit the hostility of the auto related interests was just a given. The AAA was one of their most effective tools arguing against
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A Fraudster Pretending to be Trigger Wrote:
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> When I was in my twenties I loved filming SP at Seacliff. It was there I found I had the hots f
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> So it used to be
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Thanks for the update, Howard! Does UP still own the tracks at the obsolete cement plant? Years ago there was "chat" about storing cars there. Foam dreams , maybe? I know the city has some designs on
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Yes the two washouts were repaired, new track was laid and the line up to milepost 7 was handed over to the St. Paul & Pacific. Currently the St. Paul & Pacific has contracted with Roaring Camp to pro
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Oregon has been taking lessons from California in how to be business unfriendly. My company left Oregon two years ago. Headquarters and everything.
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Santa Cruz Regional Transportation Commission will be presenting a proposal to pull the tracks and build an interim trail on the Capitola Trestle. This will be presented at the August 5th meeting.
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Three of the four show up on this list:SP Coast Line
Though surely these are not the last four engineers to work the branch past Watsonville as Greenway claims.
Cliff Walters? John Smith?
P
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I found the image below of a RI switcher. Is it by Howard Fogg? I think it must be.
For comparison, the one below is definitely by Fogg (his signature is in the corner).
Execution and
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Pyrrhic victory said "Expansion north to Windsor, Healdsburg and ultimately Cloverdale has been halted by a lawsuit over Bay Area bridge tolls that has tied up funding for regional transportation proj
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> The poisoning part isn't a myth. Air quality
> monitoring shows it. Also shows that it's bad near
> freeways and high-traffic r
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The poisoning part isn't a myth. Air quality monitoring shows it. Also shows that it's bad near freeways and high-traffic rail lines and airports. Things like that generally make living nearby unhealt
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The great AP-unwashed must bow to your mom allowing your presence here !
Sigmund Freud Wrote:
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> Old enough to know better Wrote:
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Old enough to know better Wrote:
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> Our first guest columnist is Hal Gordon, a PhD
> candidate in agricultural and resource economics
> at UC
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Our first guest columnist is Hal Gordon, a PhD candidate in agricultural and resource economics at UC Berkeley. Gordon began working at MLB stadiums as a food vendor in 2005 in Chicago and is now know
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That was a good article. Well thought out. Something the writer doesn't mention directly is that the A's are also looking at other cities. Portland Oregon and Las Vegas both are both working on pro
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https://www.sfgate.com/athletics/article/An-Oakland-A-s-hot-dog-vendor-PhD-candidate-in-16263572.php
And yes, there is mention of the UP.
It pains me to say this as a Dodger fan but; "Go A's"
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So continues the story of Ellis & McConville and how they consiuosly ripped off MILLIONS!
In this chapter, we will look at individua;s owed money. Some are contractors, some are employees others ar
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BoHo Folger Wrote:
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> So with Roaring Camp/Santa Cruz Big Trees and
> Pacific Railway taking over Progressives contract,
> what's next for th
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So with Roaring Camp/Santa Cruz Big Trees and Pacific Railway taking over Progressives contract, what's next for the branch line?
The washout is being repaired, but Howard Cohen reports that repair
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