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> 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?