Nostalgia & History > Signal Sunday: San Jose

SP 3188 leads an evening "plug" through the signal bridge adjacent to the Lenzen Avenue roundhouse on August 13, 1982.

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Was that the old yard office on the right side of the photo and where the infamous yardmaster "the Budda" use to work at?

Look close at the signal box - there is a bench across the front where my friends and I would sit and watch the Friday night commute parade. They would cut the power off the commute cars and make a long string of locomotives right in front of us to send up to Oakland to work freights over the weekend. I happened to be up by Schellville one Saturday when a freight pulled by SDP45's pulled into Schellville yard. They cut off the train and picked up a waiting train and headed back out.