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Nostalgia & History > few SP Torrance switcher . . .Date: 05/16/11 16:00 few SP Torrance switcher . . . Author: 3rdswitch . .
top: old downtown Torrance, CA on SP exPE Torrance Branch 3-85. Today this track is gone and so is ARMCO. middle: Torrance switcher leaving the SP Wilmington Branch at Watts Jct, CA 5-86. bottom: arriving Torrance along Normandie Ave 3-95. JB    Date: 05/16/11 16:23 Re: few SP Torrance switcher . . . Author: rehunn ARMCO was a really interesting place, primarily a forge shop for offshore
drilling pieces. There was quite a bit of track inside the plant area though almost all unused. Torrance with ARMCO and U S Steel was quite an industrial area for many years and as mentioned, all gone. Date: 05/16/11 16:37 Re: few SP Torrance switcher . . . Author: 90mac Bitchin!!! I knew Torrance very well.
Not any more. Thanks. Tom Date: 05/16/11 16:42 Re: few SP Torrance switcher . . . Author: john1082 I remember the ARMCO whistle - my grand parents lived on El Prado from 1928 until 1988. When I was a little boy that whistle always meant lunch - and not a moment before.
John Gezelius Tustin, CA Date: 05/16/11 16:45 Re: few SP Torrance switcher . . . Author: jmonier rehunn Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Torrance with ARMCO and U S > Steel was quite an industrial > area for many years and as mentioned, all gone. And Bethlehem Steel as well at Western and 190th (where Toyota is now). Date: 05/16/11 17:03 Re: few SP Torrance switcher . . . Author: trainjunkie Jeez, real time machine there Joe. Neat shots! I just drove through the downtown Torrance area yesterday and was trying to remember where all the now-removed track used to be when I worked nearby in the 1980s. Was Armco along Border Avenue?
Here's more on the 1985 closure of the Armco plant... http://articles.latimes.com/1985-02-28/news/cb-13037_1_national-supply Date: 05/16/11 17:25 Re: few SP Torrance switcher . . . Author: 3rdswitch ARMCO was on the corner of Border and Carson Street. Bethlehem Steel was a distribution place, loads in empties out.
JB Date: 05/16/11 18:22 Re: few SP Torrance switcher . . . Author: SanJoaquinEngr nice pics.. we do not have the business that we used to years ago.. only 8 customers left
Date: 05/16/11 18:54 Re: few SP Torrance switcher . . . Author: rehunn And we've talked about it before, the Reynolds Aluminum extrusion facility
inside the PE Shops facility. We did a servo controlled extrusion bender for water solar systems right at the end of what was the inside track that serviced the line cars and other MOW equipment. Date: 05/16/11 19:16 Re: few SP Torrance switcher . . . Author: MacBeau Thank you JB for the great switcher shots—especially that second one. (I love single unit trains.)
—Mac Date: 05/16/11 21:30 Re: few SP Torrance switcher . . . Author: miralomarail There were alot of Industrial switchers in use at both US Steel and ARMCO. Including Porter and GE units.
Date: 05/16/11 22:13 Re: few SP Torrance switcher . . . Author: sp8270 Wow, I speed lettered crud! Quite unique.
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