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The Train that Just Won't Die
Despite numerous attempts by corporate management to kill off Union Pacific's Permanente Local, through a number of scheduling changes and managing to piss off every customer on the line with inconsistent service, the train once again came back from the dead on a cloudy April morning. The night prior, the crew of another train (the Mission Bay Local, which normally runs to South San Francisco) was tasked to take a 25-car cement train up to Lehigh Southwest Cement and return back to Warm Springs with a single lumber car from the other customer on the line. As with many things on the railroad, things did not go according to plan and the train was forced to stop for the night in Cupertino - only a few hours into their trip. The next morning, the train sat under stormy skies until eventually a relief crew was called to finish the work and bring the engines back to Warm Springs.
The Train that Just Won't Die
Despite numerous attempts by corporate management to kill off Union Pacific's Permanente Local, through a number of scheduling changes and managing to piss off every customer on the line with inconsistent service, the train once again came back from the dead on a cloudy April morning. The night prior, the crew of another train (the Mission Bay Local, which normally runs to South San Francisco) was tasked to take a 25-car cement train up to Lehigh Southwest Cement and return back to Warm Springs with a single lumber car from the other customer on the line. As with many things on the railroad, things did not go according to plan and the train was forced to stop for the night in Cupertino - only a few hours into their trip. The next morning, the train sat under stormy skies until eventually a relief crew was called to finish the work and bring the engines back to Warm Springs.