The "Links" on duty point was down at River Station (location of the ladder of puzzle switches) at the top of Spring Street.

The Links were separated from the Bull Ring (no bulls-no old Spanish bull ring- this is apparently pure preservationist bull-just cattle watered by young Mexican boys hired to get cattle in and out of the cattle cars-like in a "bull ring" back in the 1870's and 1880's?) railroad "west" of River Station. These are the famous puzzle switches from the scene in "Sullivan's Travels

The "Cornfield"-which is the site of the current Gold Line Shops (not where the current Cornfield "park" is "not" located, is railroad "west" of the bullring-north of the Broadway bridge-under which was )located the Bull Ring Shanty.

The story of this according to "preservationist bull" is that there was a "corn field" here in the days of yore (maybe?, though ever heard that on the RR. Rather, the story I got was that the upper yard was then a ways out of town, way back when, and the site of a "cornfield" meet, when a train plowed into the rear of a stopped train after crossing the LA River. Another "old head" RR story I also heard was that grain cars were stored here and the spilled grain would germinate in the winter.

SP 1100 and 1150 were TR-6's. Most other SP 1100's were TNO SW-8's (no calf). They were often used as "dinky" engines at various round houses, and on branch line locals like the Santa Monica Branch, where they were equipped with PE Air Whistles, as Beverly Hills forbade Air Horns. Easy and fun to run, not much tonnage, and some grades like on Santa Monica Blvd. would really slow you down with only 5 or 6 cars for Wonder Bread and the Blue Whale construction.