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A 1966 study by the Stanford Research Institute found that it cost the Southern Pacific $18.41 to transport a passenger on the Coast Daylight between Los Angeles and San Francisco (equivalent to $178 in 2024), roughly twice that of air or bus service. Reasons given included the labor-intensiveness of rail service, and the fact that a single ...
No. 4449's replica builder's plate and American Freedom Train plaque. No. 4449 was the last member of the Southern Pacific Railroad's (SP) first order of GS-4 locomotives. No. 4449 was placed into service on May 30, 1941, and spent its early career assigned to the Coast Daylight, Southern Pacific's premier passenger train between San Francisco and Los Angeles, California, but it also pulled ...
The Seattle–San Diego train became the Coast Daylight/Starlight (#11-12) northbound and Coast Starlight/Daylight (#13-14) southbound. [7] Both trains were cut back from San Diego to Los Angeles in April 1972, replaced by a third San Diegan. [8] On June 10, 1973, Amtrak began running the combined Coast Daylight/Starlight daily for the summer ...
In a review for The Austin Chronicle, Marjorie Baumgarten wrote, "One of Fukasaku's first yakuza films to earn critical praise, High Noon for Gangsters is the unsentimental story of three brothers – one a lone wolf and the other two in gangs – who plot against each other."
Daniel Day-Lewis, widely considered one of the greatest actors of his generation, is emerging from retirement after seven years away from the big screen. He’s starring in Focus Features and Plan ...
The Daylight Speedliner was an American named passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) in the 1950s and early 1960s. Equipped with three or four streamlined, self-propelled Budd Rail Diesel Cars (RDCs) coupled together, it initially operated between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, via Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D. C., as Trains #21–22.
Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold review: Performance and battery. Powering the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold is the Google Tensor G4, the same processor used in its Pixel 9 devices. Built to support Google's AI ...
In the 21st century, the U.S. has a low level of public transport compared to other developed Western nations, which has been relatively consistent according to a study covering 1980 through 2010. A 2012 comparison among 14 western countries found the US in last place in annual public transport trips per capita with 24 trips.