BOB2 Wrote:
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> 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).

I'm inclined to think it's Nos. 42 or 47, on the Second District.