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Re: Jack Whitmeyer photos Horse train?
Author: BOB2
Date: 06-10-2020 - 13:35
Santa Fe would use these out of San Berdo in the mid sixties on horse express trains to the Santa Anita Station horse spur in Arcadia.
This is an "old picture" with the zebra stripes and smudge pots in the orange groves. I have my doubts about that curve, with that siding and background around Santa Ana, though. Glendora, but no background of any reference geography makes it hard? And, it is all baggage, so maybe this is a horse train? Maybe, on the 4th District further down coming up from Del Mar (also a horse car destination)?
Horse trains were typically two horse baggage, as that's what would fit at the Santa Anita loading dock, where horses were unloaded out the side... hNow, where the 130 year old palm tree are at Baldwin on the south side of the I-210.... For a brief period, after the 210 was being constructed, Santa Fe relocated the horse track to a spur down to Second Avenue, next to the historic US 66 RR bridge over Huntington Drive (now the DT Gold Line bridge).
This is an "old picture" with the zebra stripes and smudge pots in the orange groves. I have my doubts about that curve, with that siding and background around Santa Ana, though. Glendora, but no background of any reference geography makes it hard? And, it is all baggage, so maybe this is a horse train? Maybe, on the 4th District further down coming up from Del Mar (also a horse car destination)?
Horse trains were typically two horse baggage, as that's what would fit at the Santa Anita loading dock, where horses were unloaded out the side... hNow, where the 130 year old palm tree are at Baldwin on the south side of the I-210.... For a brief period, after the 210 was being constructed, Santa Fe relocated the horse track to a spur down to Second Avenue, next to the historic US 66 RR bridge over Huntington Drive (now the DT Gold Line bridge).
