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Nostalgia & History > SP wooden caboose passing Visitation Tower 1960Date: 04/05/21 20:08 SP wooden caboose passing Visitation Tower 1960 Author: photobob An eastward train leaving Bayshore Yard and passing the abandened Visitaion Tower.
Robert Morris Dunsmuir, CA Robert Morris Photography  Date: 04/05/21 21:14 Re: SP wooden caboose passing Visitation Tower 1960 Author: Sp1110 When did SP retire their last wood caboose?
Date: 04/05/21 21:15 Re: SP wooden caboose passing Visitation Tower 1960 Author: wp1801 A classic scene.
Date: 04/05/21 21:17 Re: SP wooden caboose passing Visitation Tower 1960 Author: doge_of_pocopson What did the tower control the movements of? Thx - B
Date: 04/06/21 08:15 Re: Visitacion Tower 1960 Author: timz Guess they had to have something at the east/south
end of the yard. Apparently by 1960 it had been remoted to Bayshore Tower -- don't recall offhand when it got remoted to Potrero or 4th St. Date: 04/06/21 09:22 Re: Visitacion Tower 1960 Author: usmc1401 Believe that the state of California required the retirement of wooden cabeese.
Date: 04/06/21 17:02 Re: Visitacion Tower 1960 Author: tomstp MOPAC bought about 10 wooden cabooses from the SP and used them in Louisiana.
Date: 04/06/21 17:37 Re: Visitacion Tower 1960 Author: rrman6 -------------------------------------------------------
> Believe that the state of California required the > retirement of wooden cabeese > and a fellow named newsom. |