Nostalgia & History > Espee Depot Friday

Moorpark 1956.

Robert Morris Photography
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James R.(Jim) Baker
Whittier, CA

I always liked how many of the depots had custom freight platforms with a variety of roof extensions or seperate roof structures. I lived in Moorpark in the 80’s. Does anyone know if the feed company replica structure is still there (Where the depot once stood)?

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Thanks, photobob, for this great photo of a classy SP depot.  So sad it was not preserved and in use today -- as a depot and a freight station.

The depot in this photo, a #22 Common Standard depot, was built in 1910, and was torn down in 1964.  It replaced the original 1900-built depot, which burned down in 1910.   

Info from Henry Bender's excellent "Southern Pacific Standard-Design Depots,"  2013, p. 133.

 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/20/18 21:43 by Margaret_SP_fan.

Thanks Margaret for that information on Moorpark. I just post the photos and let everyone join in with their input.

Robert Morris
Dunsmuir, CA
Robert Morris Photography

Note the floodlight on the freight platform.  The fixture is attached to a bicycle style chain and is retracted to the pole by cranking.

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> spladiv Wrote:
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> > Note the floodlight on the freight platform. 
> The
> > fixture is attached to a bicycle style chain
> and
> > is retracted to the pole by cranking.
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> Was that for high wide loads that you'd need to
> get it out the way?

Perhaps for bulb maintenance.

Correct.  It was retracted and then extended again.  SP didn't have bucket trucks when that was installed.