Nostalgia & History > UP Pomona Depot 1959

I guess nothing in this photo looks the same.

Robert Morris
Dunsmuir, CA
Robert Morris Photography

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I know I don't look the same as I did then!!

Bill Deaver
Tehachapi, CA

Very clean.

Back when that part of Pomona was still a decent area.  That is a great shot because I don't think I have ever seen a picture of that depot.  As a matter of fact I don't think I have ever seen a good photo of the short-lived replacement depot either.

Great depot photo Robert.

Bob Krieger
Cheyenne, WY

Great look at the UP depot.  Looks like 1st Street was reconfigured to run much closer to the UP main once the depot was torn down.  Probably only 10-15' separate the road and the railroad through some parts of downtown these days.

Rich

PasadenaSub Wrote:
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> Great look at the UP depot.  Looks like 1st
> Street was reconfigured to run much closer to the
> UP main once the depot was torn down.  Probably
> only 10-15' separate the road and the railroad
> through some parts of downtown these days.
>
> Rich

Yes, the city parking lots now occupy the land where this UP Depot was.
IIRC UP put in a much smaller passenger shelter as part of the construction when the Garey Ave grade seperation project was built in the 60's.
Garey Ave went under the SP and UP tracks.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/12/20 21:17 by PHall.

This is the replacement depot looking east, built on the same spot IIRC.  Photo taken in May 1971, waiting for the last CoLA to come through.  (Photo was taken by my father while I was away at school.)  I occasionally spent a few afternoons at the old depot after grade school.  No pictures (or camera) of course.
GK 
 



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/12/20 18:46 by TheNavigator.

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Thanks for posting the new station.

Now we need the Metrolink platform.

If you take the portico off the old depot, it almost looks like a suburban home from the 1960's!
That modern brick and glass depot is pretty sharp!  They spent some money there!

photobob Wrote:

> I guess nothing in this photo looks the same.

The buildings on the far right are still there: https://goo.gl/maps/ogwfkasWfY7b5oaE7

Thanks for the photo of the UP depot.  I've been wondering what it looked like.

Why the kink in the track east of the new depot?
Is it still like that?

Here's an overview of the area as it appeared in April of 2014.  The original UP (LA&SL) main is in the foreground, with the DPs of an eastbound stack train passing the SP depot on the original SP line to the left.

Photo taken close to the Main St. grade crossing west of the depot looking east.  The Metrolink platform can be seen just ahead to the right, with the pedestrian overpass in the distance.

Rich

mundo Wrote:
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> Thanks for posting the new station.
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> Now we need the Metrolink platform.

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When they moved the depot away from First Steet they had to realign the main to go around the new depot.
 

I worked as a ticket cleck in 1959

Mike Root
Madras, OR