Nostalgia & History > Signal Sunday, Santa Fe . . .

.   .   .   the big old Santa Fe signal bridge at Fullerton Junction is long gone, as are the Santa Fe and the SP. This is where the San Diego Sub joins the San Bernardino Sub in Fullerton, CA. Back in DEC '88, the Second Fullerton Roadswitcher was tied up for the weekend in 805 track just east of the Fullerton station. This job regularly handled private car moves as a number of them were stored at various spurs that this job served. The three SP GE's are present due to some type of factory work being done in a small facility in Tustin, off the old Olive Sub, that this job also served making for this interesting consist.
JB

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Very nice!

Those signal bridges are classics.  Wish I'd included them in more of the shots I took in the 80s and 90s along the SF!

Bob

I miss "old Fullerton", when Harbor Boulevard was a grade crossing, power for various local jobs tied up in front of the depot, and the local populace was such that you could leave a couple of PVs sitting down there east of the depot, and know that when you came back they hadn't been spray painted/rocked/burned/etc.
Not to mention the cool old school signal bridges.
 

Spectacular catch!

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Nice shot, JB!

RC Lundgren

Neat image---glad you thought to include appliances in the train photo.
Brian Stevens

3rdswitch Wrote:
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> This job regularly handled private car moves as a
> number of them were stored at various spurs that
> this job served.

2nd PV is Gordon Crosthwait's former AT&SF cafe lounge observation #1512/#800178 La Condesa, 1 of 5 (#1508-#1512) built by Pullman in 1926 (Lot #4986, Plan #3182) and modernized in 1947. Tad Finlay (Finlay Fun Time Tours) owned the car before Crosthwait did (acquired from the Santa Fe in 1959), and it was named La Marguerita de Oro and then La Cuesta during that timeframe. Finlay sold it to Crosthwait in 1970, and it was initially at the San Diego Electric RY Association before moving to Anaheim in 1974. It was acquired in 2006 by the San Luis Obispo RR Museum and initially kept on the Santa Maria Valley RR before moving to SLO.