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As ugly as it looks now, the previous colors (Peninsula Commute era) looked worse. It was all dark gray with a red "bloody nose": https://commons.wikimedia.org
by MarkSweep 8y ago
As ugly as it looks now, the previous colors (Peninsula Commute era) looked worse. It was all dark gray with a red "bloody nose":
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SP_3193_with_Train_149_at_San_Mateo,_CA_in_August_1980_(32938025271).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SP_3193_with_Train_1...
- Miserlou57 8y agoThat was a systemwide thing for Southern Pacific, not specific to the peninsula. It was fairly ugly but was a known low-cost transition to deal with a tightening belt when railroads were still private (and struggling)
- arethuza 8y agoLooks rather like Strelnikov's train from the movie of Dr Zhivago!