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To: Willie Green

I want a private Pullman car for Chistmas!


3 posted on 03/18/2010 4:34:45 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; Willie Green
I want a private Pullman car for Chistmas!

Back in the early 1970s, I saw what I believe were Pullman cars, resting on a siding near the West Oakland Southern Pacific train depot (16th and Wood Streets, Oakland, California).

The passenger trains are long gone. Southern Pacific was bought out in 1996. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake destroyed the freeway (which was rerouted in such a way that the rails were moved away from the old train depot) and the train depot was severely damaged, and eventually closed.

39 posted on 03/18/2010 10:00:12 PM PDT by thecodont
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