Steam & Excursion > Interesting Power Working At A Station With An Interesting Name!

The date is January 7, 1949 and we see Southern Pacific 0-6-0 #1119 shuttling cars along with sister switcher #1158 near Wingfoot Station in  Southern California.  The station got it's name from the nearby huge Goodyear Tire plant that domonated the area.  The "Wingfoot" logo of Goodyear was a natural choice when deciding what to name the station that served the tracks leading into the plant.

It makes you wonder if any other stations may have gotten their names from the logos of their main customers.

Martin



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There was a station named Snoboy in the bay area. Snoboy was the major brand of my first employer (Pacific Fruit & Produce) and is still used by its predecessor, Food Services of America.

Off the subject a bit, one of the main advantages of working for PF&P was that their warehouses were always by a rail line.  Train watching was pretty good and my bosses eventually got used to it. 



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Wingfoot was  a Joint Santa Fe and Pacific Electric job worked in alternate years by each road.
The line was accessed from the PE Four Tracks at Gage Avenue, or a spur off of the Santa Fe Harbor District south from Slauson Avenue in South Los Angeles.

James R.(Jim) Baker
Whittier, CA