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Re: Freight car Friday: Cement and Borates
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Date: 01-27-2019 - 08:27
Carol L Voss Wrote:
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> DCA Wrote:
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> > Carol:
> >
> > Apparently, then, the Permanente Branch has no
> > traffic these days. I no longer live in the
> area
> > but years ago (possibly when you were in the
> > Cupertino area) I was on the County FD and
> > assigned to several of the County fire stations
> > there. That included Monta Vista on Stevens
> Creek
> > Blvd., Cupertino station, also on Stevens Creek
> > Blvd., and West Valley, on Cox Ave. The
> > Permanente Local was a near-daily fixture in
> those
> > days, running right past the backyard of the
> West
> > Valley fire station with a lot of coal loads
> > inbound and a lot of (mixed) SP power.
> >
> > I wonder whether UPRR is continuing to maintain
> > the branch, which as you know, once handled
> daily
> > passenger trains up the west side to connect
> with
> > the mainline near Palo Alto (that was before my
> > time in that area, and after the northern
> portion
> > of the Vasona Line became Foothill Expressway).
>
> IIRC, The Perm apparently still runs 2 or 3 days a
> week out of Warm Springs since Newhall yard is
> gone. They used to take 60 coal carloads up every
> coupke of weeks, and gypsum and taconite and
> return with some cement , but most all the cement
> goes by truckload out of the plant. They also used
> to have a beat up old caboose tacked onto the end
> butnotsure about that anymore. Been too many years
> since I chased it.
> C
I belive that caboose is or was at Portola. Probably got cut up by the SP haters, who knows its been along time since I was there.
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> DCA Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Carol:
> >
> > Apparently, then, the Permanente Branch has no
> > traffic these days. I no longer live in the
> area
> > but years ago (possibly when you were in the
> > Cupertino area) I was on the County FD and
> > assigned to several of the County fire stations
> > there. That included Monta Vista on Stevens
> Creek
> > Blvd., Cupertino station, also on Stevens Creek
> > Blvd., and West Valley, on Cox Ave. The
> > Permanente Local was a near-daily fixture in
> those
> > days, running right past the backyard of the
> West
> > Valley fire station with a lot of coal loads
> > inbound and a lot of (mixed) SP power.
> >
> > I wonder whether UPRR is continuing to maintain
> > the branch, which as you know, once handled
> daily
> > passenger trains up the west side to connect
> with
> > the mainline near Palo Alto (that was before my
> > time in that area, and after the northern
> portion
> > of the Vasona Line became Foothill Expressway).
>
> IIRC, The Perm apparently still runs 2 or 3 days a
> week out of Warm Springs since Newhall yard is
> gone. They used to take 60 coal carloads up every
> coupke of weeks, and gypsum and taconite and
> return with some cement , but most all the cement
> goes by truckload out of the plant. They also used
> to have a beat up old caboose tacked onto the end
> butnotsure about that anymore. Been too many years
> since I chased it.
> C
I belive that caboose is or was at Portola. Probably got cut up by the SP haters, who knows its been along time since I was there.
