Western Railroad Discussion > LA River Action

Sunday was part of a miserable weather week in Los Angeles, which in general was a bummer but enabled some angles that wouldn't have worked under traditional sunny California skies. Here's three above the LA River.

1.) The First Shift LATC Hostler crew heads south the East Bank Line of the Metrolink River Sub.
2.) KSILB 28 follows with five units including a Dash 9 leader. KSILB appears to be a new train added relatively recently, and it makes a setout at City of Industry which requires it to take this routing instead of the more common LA Sub to the south.
3.) An Amtrak yard job brings #3 into their yard off the West Bank Line of the River Sub with an ATSF SD40-2 leading a P40 and P42.

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Nice trio from the old hood.
JB

I've been quietly enjoying your Alameda Corridor reports recently. (I've posted a report from the south end near Compton few years ago, and survived)

Shot #1 is awesome! Catching the YellowBonnet Chief there is a very nice bonus.

Who the heck would wait for trains on that bridge in that area on that kind of a day??????

Good stuff, well done.

Why the Wind Sock in the yard in Photos 1 & 2?

--jim Baker

Nice to see an area where I worked on and off for many years. The river looks a lot better with the grafetti painted out. I doubt if it will stay that way for long though.

Ray

I've never visited there but I've enjoyed photos from there. The clouds really add something to the scene in addition to what I am guessing is enough shadow to shots at this angle

James Nelson
Thornton, CO
www.flickr.com/mojaveflyer

The miserable weather may have been a bummer for photos, but we sure needed the rain. Who knows, it could be the last until October.

Nice pictures, BTW.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/03/15 14:46 by PasadenaSub.

Nice pics!! I LIKE Pic 2!!

CR3 Wrote:
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> Nice to see an area where I worked on and off for
> many years. The river looks a lot better with the
> grafetti painted out. I doubt if it will stay
> that way for long though.
>
> Ray


Actually it's been that way for about eight years now.

rbmn5022 Wrote:
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> ... 2.) KSILB 28 follows with five units including a
> Dash 9 leader. KSILB appears to be a new train
> added relatively recently, and it makes a setout
> at City of Industry which requires it to take this
> routing instead of the more common LA Sub to the
> south...

The KSILB replaced the KEPLB when the Santa Teresa, NM, yard opened up in April, 2014. I read somewhere that the C of I setout was changed to L.A. on 6/23/14 and they went via the LA Sub. Apparently they changed back to C of I and the Alhambra Sub. Thanks for the update!

mapboy

mapboy Wrote:

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> The KSILB replaced the KEPLB when the Santa
> Teresa, NM, yard opened up in April, 2014. I read
> somewhere that the C of I setout was changed to
> L.A. on 6/23/14 and they went via the LA Sub.
> Apparently they changed back to C of I and the
> Alhambra Sub. Thanks for the update!
>
> mapboy

Thanks, good to know! That's the first time I've seen them so I can't speak to whether they make that setout daily.

Thanks for the answer to the Wind Sock question.

--Jim Baker

atsffan Wrote:
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> JimBaker Wrote:
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> > Why the Wind Sock in the yard in Photos 1 & 2?
> >
> > --jim Baker
>
> Those are for one of two reasons; that might be
> the landing site for the L.A. Co. Sheriffs or L.A.
> Police Dept helicopters or there may be a
> hazardous liquid/gas storage facility nearby and
> so the sock would indicate which was the hazardous
> fumes would drift.
>
> Richard

LAPD's Piper Tech where they keep their fleet of Helicopters. Is just about mile north of this bridge.
I do not know where the LASD keeps their fleet.

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Railroad Festival

GP25 Wrote:
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> atsffan Wrote:
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> > JimBaker Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > Why the Wind Sock in the yard in Photos 1 &
> 2?
> > >
> > > --jim Baker
> >
> > Those are for one of two reasons; that might be
> > the landing site for the L.A. Co. Sheriffs or
> L.A.
> > Police Dept helicopters or there may be a
> > hazardous liquid/gas storage facility nearby
> and
> > so the sock would indicate which was the
> hazardous
> > fumes would drift.
> >
> > Richard
>
> LAPD's Piper Tech where they keep their fleet of
> Helicopters. Is just about mile north of this
> bridge.
> I do not know where the LASD keeps their fleet.


LASD has their base at Long Beach Airport.

Good Lord, there is actually water in the culvert.

erielackawanna Wrote:
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> CR3 Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > Nice to see an area where I worked on and off
> for
> > many years. The river looks a lot better with
> the
> > grafetti painted out. I doubt if it will stay
> > that way for long though.
> >
> > Ray
>
>
> Actually it's been that way for about eight years
> now.

I retired in 2000 and haven't seen this area since then. Glad to hear that the grafitti clean up is lasting a long time.

Ray

The clouds certainly added some drama to the pictures.