Here's a photo taken March 06, 1984, THIRTY EIGHT YEARS AGO, looking out the head end of Santa Fe unit 8143 as we were making our way down Santa Fe's Harbor Subdivision from Hobart to Watson Yard. The entire line was operated at restricted speed, meaning we never exceeded 20 MPH. Here we are getting ready to cross Slauson Avenue after having run alongside it for about five miles, headed for Hyde Park and Inglewood.

The link below will show you what the area looked like in February of 2022. The angles are obviously different as the recent photo was taken by a Google Streetview vehicle operating down Slauson Avenue. Both photos are looking west and a lot of the buildings are still there. The big one on the left has received a coating of green paint.

Note that all evidence of a railroad being here is pretty much gone. The residents who live in the houses on the far right no longer have to hear train noise as all traffic to the harbor has been shifted to the Alameda Corridor. It's easy to see why the locals were happy when the Alameda Corridor was opened, as Santa Fe was running frequent and long double-stack container trains down this line, plodding along at 20 MPH or less, for a couple of years before the new line was placed in service. SP and UP were doing the same on their lines to L.A. Harbor although I don't believe their lines had as many grade crossings as the Santa Fe line.

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