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From: Steve Pope
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:16

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spsffan  <spsffan@hotmail.com> wrote:

>David Nebenzahl wrote:

>> On 7/22/2008 3:29 PM Steve Pope spake thus:

>>> 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?

That could be it.  

Steve

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