> Perhaps I shouldn't name the railroad for fear of being kicked off the list,
> but some of my fondest railroad memories are of riding several of these
> locals between South Milwaukee and Milwaukee in the late 50's. It seems that
> around 1960 many of these trains disappeared from timetables all around the
> country. Can anyone tell why they all seemed to go at once
Ken:
I suspect the rising cost associated with locals and the loss of traffic due
to the growth of the automobleble in the fifties supplied the railroads with
the information to successfully persuade the ICC to permit the train
discontinuance's.
Ed DeRouin
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