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Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? >> Google Maps screenshot
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 11-13-2017 - 15:55

Graham Buxton Wrote:
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> OPRRMS Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Nope. The photo shows the tail track at the
> east
> > end (Adeline Street end/CP Magnolia end) of the
> facility.
>
> [s18.postimg.org]
> oogle.com-2017-11-13-18-16-28-682.png
>
> I don't have any personal knowledge of the various
> tracks shown, but there clearly is a former track
> that leaves the existing rails and run parallel
> (up/down in the photo) to Adeline Street, but
> there is also a stub end of a track that clearly
> went down 3rd St (left/right in the photo).
>
> If you scroll around in the original map link (or
> the one I provided below), the "Johnstone Supply"
> building (to the right on 3rd St) still has a
> siding, with rails visible that presumably
> connected to track in 3rd St at one time.
>
> Here is a Maps link that "should" show the 3rd St
> stub and the building labeled Johnstone Supply:
> [www.google.com]
> 36,193m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en

No track running parallel to the west side of Adeline Street. If there ever was one, it was gone by 1972.

The stub track in the lower right I've already explained about.

As to spur tracks and stub tracks visible on 3rd Street, that's not unusual. But they're not connected to anything.

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Subject Written By Date/Time (PST)
  Last Train on 3rd St.? HUTCH 7.62 11-10-2017 - 11:57
  Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? OPRRMS 11-10-2017 - 12:18
  Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? Dr Zarkoff 11-10-2017 - 12:29
  Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? 3rd&Fallon 11-10-2017 - 14:35
  Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? Dr Zarkoff 11-10-2017 - 21:15
  Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? James Bradley, Jr. 11-12-2017 - 01:56
  Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? OPRRMS 11-12-2017 - 12:20
  Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? Alex 11-13-2017 - 02:49
  Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? OPRRMS 11-13-2017 - 11:32
  Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? >> Google Maps screenshot Graham Buxton 11-13-2017 - 15:32
  Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? >> Google Maps screenshot OPRRMS 11-13-2017 - 15:55
  Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? >> Google Maps screenshot Dr Zarkoff 11-13-2017 - 18:09
  Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? >> Google Maps screenshot OPRRMS 11-13-2017 - 18:27
  Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? >> Google Maps screenshot Graham Buxton 11-13-2017 - 19:06
  Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? >> Google Maps screenshot Dr Zarkoff 11-13-2017 - 22:18
  Re: Last Train on 3rd St.? James Bradley, Jr. 11-12-2017 - 02:40


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