Re: Aerojet railroad
Author: mook
Date: 08-19-2014 - 13:47

You can still see where the tracks went in Google satellite view, but all tracks have been removed inside Rancho Cordova Aerojet. A switch and track to the Aerojet east gate were built when light rail was built and the freight line relocated in 2004-5, but AFAIK was never used except to park the rail contractor's ballast hoppers for a few months. Track and switch are still there but nothing inside the gate. Nice and rusty, brand-new rail. Freight line ends in a dirt-pile bumper at the east end of the Hazel light rail station (MP 13); Aerojet switch is at the west end of the station.

Spur to the west gate is still in place outside the gate, also, but hasn't been used for years except to occasionally park a few empty hoppers for the scrapyard out near Beck's Furniture. It effectively ends at a long-unused industry spur just south of Mercantile Drive. Google satellite view shows track still in place for some distance south of the canal on Aerojet property, but I don't think that's current.



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  Aerojet railroad steam king 08-17-2014 - 21:29
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  Re: Aerojet railroad George Andrews 08-18-2014 - 20:39
  Re: Aerojet railroad [ET] That Genset Foamer 08-18-2014 - 21:55
  Re: Aerojet railroad mook 08-19-2014 - 13:47


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