Tom Moungovan Wrote:
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> mook Wrote:
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> > Monte Vista ... do you remember the Blackberry
> > Farm picnic park along a small perennial creek
> (or
> > was it lower Stevens Creek?). For some reason
> that
> > was where our SF church groups always had their
> > parish picnic. Way west end of Stevens Creek
> Blvd.
> > I seem to recall going through Los Altos to get
> > there (we went the back way) and bumping across
> > some old tracks a couple of times before they
> were
> > ripped out and the road widened.
>
>
> Does mook or Carol remember Beckstrom's market
> on the right hand side of the road going up
> toward Steven's Creek Dam? I went to school
> with their kids, Ralph and Wanda.
>
> As to the tracks that were mentioned, that would
> have been the Los Altos Branch. The
> section south (railroad west) of Simla was torn
> up in the early 60's. It connected with
> the main down at California Avenue. Some of the
> ballast used there had come from the
> debris from the San Francisco '06 earthquake.
> My Dad showed me broken pieces of old china
> mixed with the rock around Neal when he & I
> hiked the line once.

Wow, I'm surprised that I wasn't flamed for my error here...the section that was pulled
was North, not South of Simla. In steam days, Simla had a water tank, scalehouse and
siding and was across the street from where All American Market eventually ended up.