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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=fwschneider@comcast.net
href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net">Fred Schneider</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, 09 July, 2014 13:10</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [PRCo] Transit Happenings (Not Necessarily
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(The second language in southern California.) :<)<BR><BR><BR>On
Jul 9, 2014, at 1:04 PM, Dwight Long wrote:<BR><BR>> <BR>> Fred<BR>>
<BR>> It was cut back from San Bernardino to Covina, with most trips ending
at Baldwin Park, on 2 November 1941. During WW II there were numerous
special runs made to SB for military personnel. Also during events at the
Fairgrounds in Pomona specials were routinely run to that point. I’m not
sure when the last pax special ran into SB; obviously some time before the
wire was pulled in the early 50s, AIR.<BR>> <BR>> The RPO you cited was
the very last trolley RPO; that of the Indiana Railroad between New Castle
and Ft. Wayne was second last—it went out in 1941.<BR>> <BR>>
Dwight<BR>> <BR>> From: Fred Schneider <BR>> Sent: Wednesday, 09 July,
2014 12:45<BR>> To: Western PA Trolley discussion <BR>> Subject: Re:
[PRCo] Transit Happenings (Not Necessarily PRCo)<BR>> It would be nice to
have the passenger numbers for that line, Dennis, but it seems like it was
designed to fail like heritage trolley lines in places like Little Rock,
Memphis, Tampa, Galveston…..<BR>> <BR>> Opened in 1914. Five
years later, when Dwight Eisenhower crossed the country in a military convoy to
push for better roads, it was noted that the best highways outside the east were
in California. By 1924 riding was turning down because we were in
our automobiles. So the interurban to San Berdoo had ten good years or
perhaps fewer than that. <BR>> <BR>> Sometime in the 1930s the
passenger service on the eastern end of the line ended but an RPO continued
until 1950.<BR>> <BR>> Track is still there, however. The
every-other-day Amtrak Sunset Limited uses the old PE line out of
LA. It's the line in the middle of the freeway.<BR>> <BR>>
<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> On Jul 9, 2014, at 6:30 AM, DF Cramer
wrote:<BR>> <BR>>> More not PRCo--from sunny Southern California. They
always seem to know how to throw a good party.<BR>>>
http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20140707/the-great-silver-spike-celebration-marked-a-new-link-with-la<BR>>>
<BR>>> Dennis F. Cramer <BR>>>
http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>
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