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Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina?
Author: COVID-19
Date: 03-14-2020 - 18:19

Santa Catalina Island (northwest of Empire Landing), Los Angeles County, California - Los Angeles City Quarry (Broken/Crushed Rock)(Excerpts from "Mines and Mineral Deposits of Los Angeles County," by Thomas E. Gay, Jr., Assistant Mining Geologist, California State Division of Mines, California Journal of Mines and Geology, Vol. 50, Nos. 3 and 4, July - October 1954, pp. 467-709. (Manuscript submitted for publication October 6, 1953.) Used with permission, California Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey.)(Map No.) (blank); (Claim, Mine or Group) Los Angeles City quarry; (Owner name, address) Santa Catalina Island Co., Avalon. Leased to City of Los Angeles, Office of the Harbor Engineer; (Location) Sec. 29 (?), T. 8 S., R. 15 W., S.B., proj.; (Remarks) Santa Catalina Island, about 2 miles northwest of Empire Landing, adjacent to Graham Bros. Empire quarry. Operated intermittently from about 1920 to 1940 to provide riprap and facing for harbor projects. Stone as large as several tons, excavated with power shovels from face 500 ft. long, hauled by rail to barges for transport to mainland. Capacity about 400 tons per day. Idle since 1940.




Joe Blow Wrote:
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> At Griffith Park Travel Town there are two
> Davenport 0-4-0 saddletankers that were used by
> the LA Harbor Department on Catalina. Were they
> used at the quarry on the south end of the island?
> Or was there another quarry?

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  LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? Joe Blow 03-14-2020 - 15:55
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  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? I had no idea about choo-choo's, but there's a lot of choo-choo POLA/POLB history... Ferdinand Magellan 03-14-2020 - 20:23
  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? I had no idea about choo-choo's, but there's a lot of choo-choo POLA/POLB history... BOB2 03-14-2020 - 23:55
  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? I had no idea about choo-choo's, but there's a lot of choo-choo POLA/POLB history... F Magellan 03-15-2020 - 01:38
  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? COVID-19 03-14-2020 - 18:19
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  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? BOB2 03-14-2020 - 18:56
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  Re: LA Harbor Department RR On Catalina? Blob2 03-15-2020 - 06:02
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