D. B. Arthur Wrote:
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> Here's a photo I took on November 11, 1981,
> FORTY-FOUR YEARS AGO, of a loaded iron ore train
> running on the now-abandoned Eagle Mountain
> Railroad that ran from the now-abandoned Kaiser
> Steel Eagle Mountain mine to the junction with the
> then-SP Sunset Route on the eastern shore of
> Salton Sea in Riverside County, CA. This mine and
> railroad kept the now-abandoned Kaiser Steel mill
> in Fontana, CA supplied with taconite pellets used
> in the production of steel. Coal was brought in
> from York Canyon mine in northeastern New Mexico,
> served by Santa Fe, and from central Utah, served
> by the Utah Railway, Rio Grande and Union
> Pacific.
>
> Since the Eagle Mountain Railroad was a non-common
> carrier that basically hauled one commodity, it
> died when the steel mill died.
>
> The train is about to pass under Interstate 10
> near the Red Cloud Road exit (Exit 182).
>
> John Ferris' Railway Club of Southern California
> ran a passenger excursion on the Eagle Mountain
> Railroad sometime in the 1940s, either shortly
> before or after it began revenue service. I would
> imagine this was the only passenger excursion that
> operated on the line. The railroad was used for
> movie work for "The Professionals" and "Tough
> Guys".
>
> I seem to remember that I was standing alongside
> my friend David Busse when we took our respective
> photos, and his appeared, along with an article he
> wrote, in an issue of CTC BOARD.
>
> All that remains today is a barren right of way,
> as seen here in the GOOGLE Streetview image:
>
> [maps.app.goo.gl]
>
> [maps.app.goo.gl]
>
> [i.ibb.co]


Wbat photo?