There are no trainmen shown in this photo... Those are switchmen... Don't recognize anyone... And/but it could even be me in the cab...? It's a switching job likely coming around the wye an
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2Joe Magruder Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I hate to bring this back to trains, but I don't > remember the SP service on Santa Monica Blvd. I do > remember the
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J Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I was told in the late 1970's that the remaining > PE crews received penalty pay for reporting to > other than their original "ho
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BOB2 -- For those of us who have forgotten, please explain the crew rules regarding PE Side vs. SP side, and yard crews vs. road crews. Different call boards, seniority & bids ???
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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
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While trying to find more info about the photos that were linked in this thread -- by SP 0-6-0 on 10-18-2020 - 19:57 [link], and by 1953JACKPE on 10-19-2020 - 09:44 [link] -- Google showed me a link t
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This is not the Pacific Electric "Air Line", this is not the Los Angeles and Independence, the Palms depot was never located on this line, which goes nowhere near West Hollywood. That line is today's
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One of my last SP jobs, called on my weekend off, was working J yard, when we hauled the Ringling Brothers train up "old" Alameda, that we picked up at Tweedy, on the back end of the train, and they c
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Joe, 8th Street Produce Market was originally served by the PE, off of the PE LB line main into downtown. The 8th Street PE jobs, used to go to work at an 8th Street shanty, later they went on dut
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John, The old UP "back way" lead, came of off the lead into J yard, just after Santa Fe Avenue, and crossed the Santa Fe lead to the old Alameda and Washington team track. It went north crossing s
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You're right, the original LA&I line went east of USC to Main, then turned north into "downtown". Later, when it was standard gauged, it connected at Alameda and 25th Street and steam trains ran up A
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slocondr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > BOB2 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > It's hard to tell where this is from the >
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BOB2 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's hard to tell where this is from the > background. But,there are probably only two > highly likely candidates around this
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It's hard to tell where this is from the background. But,there are probably only two highly likely candidates around this time: 1) J Yard/Butte Street, or 2) 8th Street-on thee PE side (LA Produce ma
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BOB2 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > When I worked the Culver City job, it went to work > at six pm at Culver City six days a week Sunday > through Friday. The j
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When I worked the Culver City job, it went to work at six pm at Culver City six days a week Sunday through Friday. The job worked that way from at least 1969 through about 1980, when the job was con
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S.S. Sam Taylor Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This video that offers a tour of the Expo Line > next to > Cheviot Hills and Rancho Park has been getting a > hug
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George, The Expo Line diverts from the Blue Line at Washington Blvd, head south on Flower Street, will go into a tunnel under Figuroa at Exposition. It then comes up in what was the PE Airline (fo
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Dolores, A very interesting question, and here's what I know....... A-Yard- Top end under the Glendale Freeway-Above Fletcher Drive-Part of the Taylor Yard Complex. A-Yard Lower end-- The Hump
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