In a message to ALEC CAMERON dated 07-22-97 BOB WALLACE wrote:
 BW> It's been only within the last handful of years
 BW> here in the San Francisco Bay area that the former Southern
 BW> Pacific/CalTrain service finally got into the same type of service here
 BW> on the Peninsula between San Francisco and San Jose, all of which is
 BW> now owned by the Union Pacific Railroad.
 Shame, Shame, Don.
 The  Peninsula Line from San Francisco to San Jose is owned by
 the Joint Powers Board, a consortium of San Francisco, San
 Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties, with affiliation (and money)
 from the California Department of Transportation (Cal-Trans).
 The SP sold it to the JPB long before the UP buyout.  SP/UP
 maintains trackage rights for the few freight operations it runs
 (two trains a day), reciprocal with the JPB/CalTrain trackage
 rights from San Jose to Gilroy.
 At the beginning, JPB in concert with Cal-Trans contracted with
 the SP to operate the commute trains under the "Cal Train"
 moniker which still exists.  This was later put out to bid and
 Amtrak now has the contract.  The Amtrak dispatcher (actually
 the old SP Fourth Street Tower bunch with a new employer) sits
 in San Jose and reports to Philly.
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