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Re: I don't think it's from the River Station bridge...?
Author: BOB2
Date: 12-05-2019 - 21:52
I'm thinking this is NOY from the old pedestrian bridge at River Station, AKA Links, AKA bottom of the Bull Ring..so-called Cornfield, now State Park. Also not the location of the Cornfield, which is north of the top end of the Bull Ring.
There was never a "bull ring" there, there was a watering station for cattle, and the local kids they hired from nearby "Sonora Town" to drive the cattle in and out of the cars, used serapes like "toreadors", thus the name "bullring".
Nor was the "cornfield" named after a "cornfield", as I've heard the docents tell folks, but rather the location of a "cornfield meet" in what was then at the edge of LA, where a train ran into another train, stopped waiting to go into the yard, back in the late 1800's.
The old public pedestrian crossing (and employee access from the street cars on Broadway) over the "Links" puzzle switches, to North Spring Street, was a steel framed, open (truss? IIRC?)structure with a wooden deck (finally in such bad shape, damage to the decking, they closed and tore it down). Lots of great railfan shots over the years came from this bridge.
This looks like it is inside of some kind of structure... This does not look like the Bull Ring, or Links, in either direction, or even the later pig area from that location (this is just south of where the bottom end of the Gold Line "Cornfield" yard lead comes out and join the "main" today).
This album cover even has an appearance of being a graphic arts (pre-photoshop for the kids under 45...) paste up look to it.
There was never a "bull ring" there, there was a watering station for cattle, and the local kids they hired from nearby "Sonora Town" to drive the cattle in and out of the cars, used serapes like "toreadors", thus the name "bullring".
Nor was the "cornfield" named after a "cornfield", as I've heard the docents tell folks, but rather the location of a "cornfield meet" in what was then at the edge of LA, where a train ran into another train, stopped waiting to go into the yard, back in the late 1800's.
The old public pedestrian crossing (and employee access from the street cars on Broadway) over the "Links" puzzle switches, to North Spring Street, was a steel framed, open (truss? IIRC?)structure with a wooden deck (finally in such bad shape, damage to the decking, they closed and tore it down). Lots of great railfan shots over the years came from this bridge.
This looks like it is inside of some kind of structure... This does not look like the Bull Ring, or Links, in either direction, or even the later pig area from that location (this is just south of where the bottom end of the Gold Line "Cornfield" yard lead comes out and join the "main" today).
This album cover even has an appearance of being a graphic arts (pre-photoshop for the kids under 45...) paste up look to it.
