Nostalgia & History > 32 years ago at Riverside Jct., California.

A Union Pacific caboose moves through the switch at Riverside Jct., Calif., on November 17, 1980, carrying the markers of a UP (LA&SL) eastbound freight entering the AT&SF Third District for the trackage rights run over Cajon Pass to Daggett. This was just a few weeks before crews demolished the remains of Santa Fe's Riverside Tower, seen in the background. Within two years, Santa Fe crews were busy surveying an area about a mile from here to create a new junction, called "West Riverside." The new junction eliminated street running and slow trackage for UP trains as they joined Santa Fe rails. Photo by David R. Busse.

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Nice one DB. Don't forget the SP crossing there also...

KC

The SP crossing was long gone. I moved to Riverside May 19, 1980 and spent much of my free time in Cajon...as the winter light approached, I began exploring right in my own back yard. One day I drove to work and the tower was gone. Glad I got at least a couple pictures of it (as a hulk...it had been closed for a while).

Proper.
TAH

January 11, 1975

Only time I was there


Jay

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lamta_jay Wrote:

> January 11, 1975

Thanks for the closeup. I had been wondering if this tower was bare cast concrete or had a pebble-dash finish. Looks like bare concrete.

Evan_Werkema Wrote:
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> lamta_jay Wrote:
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> > January 11, 1975
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> Thanks for the closeup. I had been wondering if
> this tower was bare cast concrete or had a
> pebble-dash finish. Looks like bare concrete.


Bare concrete that had a pale green paint job applied in the 60's

1972 or 1973 Mercury Capri. I had one of those. A rare car.



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