[PRCo] Transit Happenings (Not Necessarily PRCo)

[Fred Schneider]

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…..

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.   

Sometime in the 1930s the passenger service on the eastern end of the line ended but an RPO continued until 1950.

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.





On Jul 9, 2014, at 6:30 AM, DF Cramer wrote:

> More not PRCo--from sunny Southern California. They always seem to know how to throw a good party.
> http://www.sbsun.com/general-news/20140707/the-great-silver-spike-celebration-marked-a-new-link-with-la
> 
> Dennis F. Cramer 
> http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/