BOB2 Wrote:
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> It's hard to tell where this is from the
> background. But,there are probably only two
> highly likely candidates around this time: 1) J
> Yard/Butte Street, or 2) 8th Street-on thee PE
> side (LA Produce market today)?
>
> The PE was once a very a big freight railroad,
> with lots of yards, at one time. And some of
> these were gradually absorbed into the SP and
> still being used, while others were mostly
> abandoned by this time. Even Butte Street was
> just the PE side over to Long Beach Avenue with a
> couple of tracks to switch cuts, tie down the
> engine, and the main tracks down to Watts
> Junction, with almost all of the rest of what had
> been Butte Street gone by this time.
>
> PE technically didn't have yard service employees,
> they had "train crews". So while from an
> operational standpoint most of these "yards" were
> Rule 93 territory, and were used to switch cars,
> in downtown LA, at places like 8th Street-the PE
> side was "conductor/brakey" "road" territory,
> where as on Alameda, o the SP side at J Yard, it
> was "foreman/switchmen" "yard" territory, for
> union crew and pay rate purposes.


It's not 8th and Hooper. I would venture a guess that you have it right at Butte St, Bob.


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