YES 3751 to FUL 2016 RR days==3751 STEAM == Railroad Days 2016 in Fullerton

Author: Topfuel

Date: 04-22-2016 - 11:47

The UP lounge dorm and the UP diner lounge have not been acquired by FRPA. They are on long term loan and are still owned by Pacific Railroad Society.

[b][/b]BOB2 Wrote:
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> SP had a job out of Anaheim, that used to switch
> Hunt's food on the UP branch (Hunt's now long
> gone) right past the interlocking across the 3rd
> District, west of Fullerton Depot.
>
> The UP Fullerton Branch was actually the Anaheim
> Branch, and went all of the way, parallel to the
> 4th District to where there was a switch to the SP
> side (all also gone today...). You can still see
> the old ROW and traces of were they came together
> from the LOSSAN or ML trains, where it currently
> branches off of he BNSF (where the interlocking
> and Hunt's switch was just past the interlocking),
> all of the way in bits and pieces to where they
> built all of the new in-fill housing in Anaheim
> about 20 years ago....
>
> Hunt's made Ketchup, and canned tomato paste, and
> took tank cars of vegetable oil for bottling. The
> Hunt's switcher was a long boring night job, heavy
> loads, on a teeter totter grade, with the
> alligator's open mouth of the interlocking derail
> that red interlocking signal alway about a car
> length away, by the time you out on every long cut
> switching move... It was one of those jobs that
> meandered anonymously through the back waters of
> Orange County in the dark of night, but I loved
> running it... It was the classic SP Sou Cal local
> of the 70's....