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Re: Butte Street, PE- and SP's J yard..... Ain't nuttin' like it once was...
Author: BOB2
Date: 02-28-2023 - 15:36
The "carry all" is on the left, or sP's J yard "yard" side, with the engine switching the J yard ladder. The engine tied up on the left old "PE Butte Street" is a road switcher/local job.
Yard crews worked all of the industries on the SP side on Alameda, down to 92nd Street. Beyond there (Tweedy yard, GM South Gate, Jorgenson Steel) were all "road jobs" working out of the turntable and Tweedy "yard office" in the SW corner of the GM South Gate Plant.
PE "local" worked the PE "side", at one time to places like Culver City, Inglewood, Venice, Santa Monica or Beverly Hills, straight out the original Los Angeles and Independence (EXPO)line, which fed freight to the outer PE districts on the west side.
By this time, this "PE" side job probably covered both the "Wingfoot" side' (Long Beach Avernue, and new connections to tracks off of Alameda), and whatever was left by then of the old SM branch.
Today, the Alameda Corridor trench is here, making the turn south down Alameda, where the PE side SP SW 1500 engine is tied up on the right.
I remember my first meeting in 1985, as a union officer, with Gil Hicks, (later a friend and colleague)in which the discussion centered around the "forecasted" need to accomodate over 100 plus export coal trains per week, out of the POLA/POLB by 2010, as the original rational behind planning for a fully grade seperated corridor...
The first container double stack was only two years old back then.... As Yogi Berra is often misquoted as having said... "The future is not what it used to be...."
And, as Jerry Garcia actually did say... "What a long strange trip it's been....."
Yard crews worked all of the industries on the SP side on Alameda, down to 92nd Street. Beyond there (Tweedy yard, GM South Gate, Jorgenson Steel) were all "road jobs" working out of the turntable and Tweedy "yard office" in the SW corner of the GM South Gate Plant.
PE "local" worked the PE "side", at one time to places like Culver City, Inglewood, Venice, Santa Monica or Beverly Hills, straight out the original Los Angeles and Independence (EXPO)line, which fed freight to the outer PE districts on the west side.
By this time, this "PE" side job probably covered both the "Wingfoot" side' (Long Beach Avernue, and new connections to tracks off of Alameda), and whatever was left by then of the old SM branch.
Today, the Alameda Corridor trench is here, making the turn south down Alameda, where the PE side SP SW 1500 engine is tied up on the right.
I remember my first meeting in 1985, as a union officer, with Gil Hicks, (later a friend and colleague)in which the discussion centered around the "forecasted" need to accomodate over 100 plus export coal trains per week, out of the POLA/POLB by 2010, as the original rational behind planning for a fully grade seperated corridor...
The first container double stack was only two years old back then.... As Yogi Berra is often misquoted as having said... "The future is not what it used to be...."
And, as Jerry Garcia actually did say... "What a long strange trip it's been....."
