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Re: Who provided rail service To Davenport over the years?
Author: Tony Johnson
Date: 02-24-2015 - 18:11
Oh, the ordor that drifted from those BN boxcars. I forgot about that tannery. I remember a reading a news stroy when they closed.
Jon Wrote:
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> After the line north of Eblis was embargoed around
> 1982 the Local was generally a five days a week
> operation. The Local would pull into the Santa
> Cruz yard and the power would cut off and handle
> any in-town switching. In the '80s there were
> still several shippers at Eblis in north Santa
> Cruz and Orby in west Santa Cruz. It was easy to
> tell if Eblis was going to be switched by the
> Local if there was a BN boxcar lettered "For Hide
> Service Only" in the consist. Those cars were for
> Salz Tannery. The only other shipper I saw in the
> '80s at Eblis was Las Animas Concrete.
> Occasionally after switching Eblis the crew would
> park the engines at the south entrance to tunnel 6
> and go to lunch. After beans the crew would pick
> up their train and head out to Davenport. Other
> spots the crew would park the train for lunch were
> downtown Davenport and Aptos.
Jon Wrote:
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> After the line north of Eblis was embargoed around
> 1982 the Local was generally a five days a week
> operation. The Local would pull into the Santa
> Cruz yard and the power would cut off and handle
> any in-town switching. In the '80s there were
> still several shippers at Eblis in north Santa
> Cruz and Orby in west Santa Cruz. It was easy to
> tell if Eblis was going to be switched by the
> Local if there was a BN boxcar lettered "For Hide
> Service Only" in the consist. Those cars were for
> Salz Tannery. The only other shipper I saw in the
> '80s at Eblis was Las Animas Concrete.
> Occasionally after switching Eblis the crew would
> park the engines at the south entrance to tunnel 6
> and go to lunch. After beans the crew would pick
> up their train and head out to Davenport. Other
> spots the crew would park the train for lunch were
> downtown Davenport and Aptos.
