Nostalgia & History > SP Fans, Need Locations Please

gentlemen:

Here are 3 photos that were posted by "Bill" in the ABPR newsgroup.

Does anyone recognize thses locations? Appreciate any help.

BTW, Bill has been posting quite a lot of SP steam and diesel lately in the ABPR newsgroup. Well worth seeing.

Yardclerk

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Bottom one, Glendale(?)

Adam

yardclerk Wrote:
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> gentlemen:
>
> Here are 3 photos that were posted by "Bill" in
> the ABPR newsgroup.
>
> Does anyone recognize thses locations? Appreciate
> any help.
>
> BTW, Bill has been posting quite a lot of SP steam
> and diesel lately in the ABPR newsgroup. Well
> worth seeing.
>
> Yardclerk

First photo is of #52. So this is the valley someplace. My guess would be Merced.

Second photo is of #5. The Argonaut I think. This is most likely Alhambra.

Third photo is #76 The Lark at Glendale.

J.

Photo #1 of the southbound "San Joaquin Daylight" (timetable East): isn't that a Flxible coach from Orange Belt Stages in the distance?

BZ

All 3 look like Glendale.

BobP Wrote:
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> All 3 look like Glendale.


Looks like Glendale to me as well.

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Railroad Festival

Photo 1 is Tulare - it's from a Tom Gildersleeve slide set.

Photo 3 is Glendale - it's from a Tom Gildersleeve slide set.

Don't know about Photo 2.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/10/12 13:10 by Railbaron.

great shots

I'll second that Merced guess on photo #1, and wonder if the bus is the connection to Yosemite National Park. Photo #3 captures a rare shot of a non-streamlined GS leading the Lark, I wonder how many times this actually occured? AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

Everyone agrees on Alhambra and Glendale--
train 52 is the only mystery. It's on the
siding? So likely meeting 51? That and
the sun angle favor Tulare over Merced.

timz2 Wrote:
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> Everyone agrees on Alhambra and Glendale--
> train 52 is the only mystery. It's on the
> siding? So likely meeting 51? That and
> the sun angle favor Tulare over Merced.


I have the same slide and when I blow my copy up you can read "Tulare" on the front of the station - case closed (I hope).

Was this the Merced depot then as well as now?

http://goo.gl/maps/jZqSQ

Yes, the first one is definitely Tulare. I use to go to work in that little building in the background when I worked the Tulare Local a couple of years ago. And yes, 52 is in the siding.

Number 2 is at Alhambra with #5, the Argonaut, in the photo.

Number 3 is Glendale. No doubt about it.

JDE

#1 is NOT Merced. The Merced depot is much longer.

The Merced is both fully restored and ridiculous, you'd think that the place was
100,000 people and then there was the minor problem that after the city restored
the station the San Jo trains were run on the Santa Fe side.

timz2 Wrote:
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> Was this the Merced depot then as well as now?
>
> http://goo.gl/maps/jZqSQ


Yes.

JDE

And just because somebody might wonder -- locals say "Tuh-LAIR-ee", and not "TOO-lair", although many SP online towns got their own special SP pronunciation, didn't they? (Example: how many ways can you say "Ripon"?)

Next Valley Words: "Delano" and "Visalia." One does not sound like Mr. Roosevelt's middle name. I remember hearing a TV reporter mangle all three when doing a local standup for an LA station. :-)

~ BZ

Notch16 Wrote:
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> Next Valley Words: "Delano" and "Visalia." One
> does not sound like Mr. Roosevelt's middle name. I
> remember hearing a TV reporter mangle all three
> when doing a local standup for an LA station. :-)

Hum, I wonder. When I was a kid we pronounced Delano with a long a and Visalia with a long i.
But it appears that the majority of the population of the valley is now Mexican.
I wonder how those names are pronounced now?

I know the names of a bunch of the cities surrounding LA have changed since I was a kid.

> Notch16 Wrote:

> > Next Valley Words: "Delano" and "Visalia." One
> > does not sound like Mr. Roosevelt's middle name.

There was a series called "Battlefield" on PBS years ago where the British narrator always pronouced Franklin Delano Roosevelt with a long "a" in the Delano.

Anybody know how OWI/FSA photographer Jack Delano pronounced his name?

lwilton Wrote:

> I know the names of a bunch of the cities
> surrounding LA have changed since I was a kid.

Don't hear too many folks pronouncing Los Angeles with a hard "g" anymore. We don't pronounce it correctly, of course, we just mispronounce it differently. ;^)

Evan_Werkema Wrote:
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> Don't hear too many folks pronouncing Los Angeles
> with a hard "g" anymore. We don't pronounce it
> correctly, of course, we just mispronounce it
> differently. ;^)

No expert on Espanol, but Los is not pronounced Loss, it's L-OH-s and in Angeles it should be An-hel-es (soft g pronounced like h). When I briefly lived in Lima, Peru, and being a gringo from the Inland Empire, I had trouble with Los. They looked at me funny when I tried using it and took me a while to break the habit. They still give me funny looks; however.