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Nostalgia & History > SP Beets Meet Manifest at Sargent/CorporalDate: 03/29/15 08:01 SP Beets Meet Manifest at Sargent/Corporal Author: MaineLines A Southern Pacific coast line beet train takes the siding for a westbound near Morgan Hill, CA in September of 1977.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/29/15 10:40 by MaineLines.  Date: 03/29/15 08:28 Re: SP Beets Meet Manifest at Seargent/Corporal Author: TonyJ Those were great days when you watched beet trains, and real train running all the way on the Coast Line.
Date: 03/29/15 15:26 Re: SP Beets Meet Manifest at Seargent/Corporal Author: PHall Wasn't too hard to figure out where "da Beets" ran, just look for the spilled beets along the right-o-way!
Date: 03/29/15 21:10 Re: SP Beets Meet Manifest at Seargent/Corporal Author: DNRY122 Were railfans with a special interest in sugar beet trains called "beetniks"?
Date: 03/30/15 05:07 Re: SP Beets Meet Manifest at Seargent/Corporal Author: hogheaded PHall Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Wasn't too hard to figure out where "da Beets" > ran, just look for the spilled beets along the > right-o-way! ...and brake rigging parts, miscellaneous nuts and bolts... EO Date: 03/30/15 20:09 Re: SP Beets Meet Manifest at Seargent/Corporal Author: kilroydiver Sargent/Corporal is South of Gilroy, while Morgan Hill is North of Gilroy. Plus the beet loader is at Sargent.
Dave Date: 03/31/15 08:01 Re: SP Beets Meet Manifest at Seargent/Corporal Author: WAF These are either Cal-P beets or San Joaquin valley beets
Date: 03/31/15 08:43 Re: SP Beets Meet Manifest at Seargent/Corporal Author: colehour PHall Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Wasn't too hard to figure out where "da Beets" > ran, just look for the spilled beets along the > right-o-way! I remember the beets along the ROW in Newark, CA, where I lived from 1980-82. Didn't those old beet cars have "friction" bearings? Date: 03/31/15 09:04 Re: SP Beets Meet Manifest at Seargent/Corporal Author: WAF colehour Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > PHall Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Wasn't too hard to figure out where "da Beets" > > ran, just look for the spilled beets along the > > right-o-way! > > I remember the beets along the ROW in Newark, CA, > where I lived from 1980-82. Didn't those old beet > cars have "friction" bearings? Yes |