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Author:  Sloan [ Fri Jul 23, 2010 1:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Historic (Pacific Electric) Railway bridge to come down

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_15580410

Author:  Steve DeGaetano [ Fri Jul 23, 2010 2:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Historic (Pacific Electric) Railway bridge to come down

Quote:
In advertisements, Pacific Electric bragged about being the "World's greatest electric railway system" and boasted 2,700 scheduled trains daily and more than one million miles of tracks during the height of its time.
More than a million* miles of track? Man, that WAS a large interurban system!


*Journalism is dead.

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