Nudge Wrote:
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> There was a lot of places to switch at Hathaway.
> They were on the ocean side. There was a fuel
> distributor just west of Foothill Bvd. Another
> distributor down towards 101 and the beet dump. I
> think there were others but it was like a tiny
> little yard. The switch engine would come out,
> line themselves in and be able to do their work
> without having to use the main.
>
> Nudge

Of course back then, there was lots of farm acerage and beets were a A number one crop to grow. Tons of loader locations in CA in the 50s and 60s. Water became scare in the 80s, foreign competition and high fructose corn syrup did in lots of beet companies