Thanks for the comment. I'm looking for a photo of PE running the line & I hope to get back there to shoot the wig wag and BNSF on the riverside local.


Gary Hunter Wrote:
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> Great stuff, Snuffy. Too bad it's a requiem. I
> have a PE photo/history book that shows a PE car
> being "passed" by a cab-forward and a 5000
> 3-cyl.on 9th St. prior to the removal of the PE
> tracks to Riverside around 1943. PE (?)used the
> SP tracks from Colton to Riverside Jct, (ATSF)
> thereafter. The PE and SP remained parallel until
> after crossing the Santa Ana River, and diverged
> after that point. I put a question mark because I
> don't know if it was PE or SP that continued
> freight service to Corona until around 1970.
> Before 1960 --or so--SP ran all the way to the
> next ATSF diamond (May) and on to Corona through
> Riverside streets. After abandonment of the street
> trackage, SP used their own tracks to Riverside
> Jct., then jumped on the ATSF to bypass the miles
> of street running in Riverside, and returned to
> home rails at May. As was the case with many of
> the eastern lines of the PE, SP (being half-owner
> of PE anyway) had trackage rights on the lines.
> Too bad to see all of that go away, but thanks for
> documenting the last run, Snuffy.