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David Nebenzahl wrote:
> On 7/22/2008 3:29 PM Steve Pope spake thus:
> 
>> spsffan  <spsffan@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> Later, the Jack London Square station was built close to downtown 
>>> Oakland, mostly to serve the Capital Corridor trains, but also a stop 
>>> for the Starlight, which ran through from San Jose just like the 
>>> Capital trains. Keep in mind that the car servicing yards are in West 
>>> Oakland (more or less) between Jack London and Emeryville. It made 
>>> sense not to have to do a backup move with the San Joaquins and 
>>> Zephyr, so they retained Emeryville as their origin/destination stop, 
>>> while the through trains stop at both.
>>
>> It also seems to me that the current routing from Emeryville to
>> Jack London is somewhat shorter than the old routing through the
>> old main station in west Oakland.  Is this the case, or am I
>> imagining it?
> 
> Not really, since the 16th St. Station is along the way between downtown 
> (Jack London) and Emeryville, although the line now runs on the other 
> (west) side of 880. Actually a lot longer, since Jack London is quite a 
> bit south of the old depot.
> 
> 


Could it be that track speed is better than in the past? IIRC you used 
to just creap along through Oakland and now you get up to say 40mph. 
California paid a lot of money for a fair amount of work on the Cal-P 
line back when the Capitals were being introduced. Maybe that's it?

DAve