[milwaukee-electric] West Coast Question

[dickmyers at wi.rr.com]

I'll try this reply another way, as the email list did not seem to like my forwarded message:

I posed the question on another list and had this reply:

My guess is the light rail car was coming from the Siemen's assembly plant in Sacramento (located near Florin Road).


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> Tuesday afternoon, I was heading northbound into Sacramento on I-5 and
> passed a southbound flatbed tractor-trailer hauling a partially stripped 
> San
> Diego light rail car. I believe the number I saw on one end of the car was
> 2252 or 2052.
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> Does anybody know what this car was doing so far north of its home rails?
> Where it was heading? Home to San Diego? To a scrap metal place?
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> Any answers would be appreciated.
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> K.
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