Nostalgia & History > A street-running where is it? (1980)

I love any kind of street running shot...Where was this one taken?


Brian E

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Ventura, CA Ojai Branch?

As long as we're doing street running where is its, here's one from 1951 on the Southern for you to mull over.

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On that Southern one.New Albany Indiana.

An eastbound Commercial Street, San Diego, CA SD&AE El Cajon Branch. Now the San Diego Trolley LRV Orange Line.


Hector Gonzalez

Not New Albany.

On the Southern one, is that Augusta Georgia, on 6th street heading to the Savannah river bridge?

Tom Daspit
Morgan Hill, CA
Tom's Trains

Not Augusta either.

Before this thread drops to another page, the Southern passenger train is at Mt. Vernon, IL. I was scanning this for ebay and couldn't resist teasing with a where is it.

Heading eastbound up Commercial St, in downtown San Diego, with SW8 #1111, known as the 'Four Aces', leading the way to El Cajon, on the old Cuyamaca & Eastern line, better known by this time as the El Cajon Branch, operated by Kyle Railways. The building to the left is Reliable Pipe, still there. The large tank in the background was part of the SDG&E Facility, (for those not in the know, SDG&E stands for "San Diego Greed & Extortion', so named by their billing practices of the 1970s, and 80s) natural gas storage I believe. The large white concrete building behind the tank is the old San Diego Refrigurated Services building, both these were torn down to make room for parking garages for the MTDB Mills building, and to the north Petco Park, 'Home of the Padres'.

Should have said San Diego, Cuyamaca & Eastern line