Nostalgia & History > The SP in La Verne, Ca

In the time before Metrolink, this Eastbound ESPEE local is Passing by through the East end of La Verne, Ca
To the left in the background was once the Team Track, in a Few minutes the 4339 will cross Fairplex Drive and on into Pomona.

Today this track is all Welded Rail on Concrete Ties as part of Metrolink, but back in 1990 it was a Fun Train to chase

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Killer picture and more grief that I should have chased that line a bunch more.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/04/12 16:09 by rehunn.

That would be (in my day at least) the Rialto switcher. On duty Baldwin Park at 1000 and woild tie up at 0200.



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SLOCONDR

Nice Tom. What's the date on this photo???

KC

SLOCONDR Wrote:
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> That would be (in my day at least) the Rialto
> switcher. On duty Baldwin Park at 1000 and woild
> tie up at 0200.
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One of those PE short hour jobs, right LV?

JDE

Steamjocky Wrote:
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> > That would be (in my day at least) the Rialto
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Not quite John. Our advertised OD time was 1000 M-F. We worked 16 hours every day so we had to come out 2 hours late on Tues., Wed., Thurs. and by Friday it would be 1800 hrs on duty. That was too late for the shippers, so the company would give us a dead day on Friday and call an extra crew for Friday.



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SLOCONDR

I know. I was just being facetious.

JDE

This is how the area looked when I was out there/ Almost the same area

12/31/1990

#1 looks east
#2 looks west

Sorry no train

Jay

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