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The famous Arroyo Seco Viaduct in a "maybe" moment when a Third District train had to be rerouted in the 70's.....

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Looks Great !

Looks great! Didn’t see it until after it became a light rail line, but it is a great scene and that model is well done.

Nathan

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Really captures the feel of the original. Nicely built.
There was a period in the 1980s where some westbounds from San Bernardino to LA were routed on the 2nd District and eastbounds were on the 3rd.
So not so much a "maybe" moment as a more common event from that era.

Yes, late seventies early eitghties saw lots of regular eastbounds as they CT'd San Bernardino LA via Third then "continuous time" back to San Bernardino via the Second. This saved the Santa Fe seventy two miles of pay for these crews. Then later mid eighties after the pools were moved from San Bernardino to LA, and into nineties, westbound, mostly intermodals regularly used the now Pasadena Sub to get from San Bernardino to LA. When the San Bernardino Sub was finally two tracked, through freight on the Pasadena Sub ended. Excellent scene.
JB



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Excellent work, thanks for sharing.
The Santa Fe sold the whole San Bernardino-Los Angeles Pasadena Sub to the public agencies who were planning to use the ROW for transit.
From Pomona East this has become Metrolink, with Santa Fe (BNSF) trackage rights.  West from Pomona has, or is becoming light rail, almost complete to Pomona now.
Part of the deal was that there would be no more freight or Amtrak operation through Pasadena.  A major part of the light rail investment was to cross many east-west streets, including Colorado Blvd., by depressing the rail line.
I got to see the last westbound SW Chief and almost the last WB through freights on this line.

Thank you for the compliments. I grew up in Highland Park (Los Angeles), so the big bridge was a frequent destination to watch the action. Sure do miss those days…

4thDistrict Wrote:
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> Who built the bridge? I would like to find some of
> those Santa Fe style stanchions for the railings
> on HO scale bridges I need to build. 

The railings are Plastruct “L” brackets. The smallest size. I don’t remember the stock #….

Very impressive all around - bridge, models, photo.  Well done!

Really great scene and modeling of the Santa Fe at the Garvanza Viaduct.

Rich (currently away from SoCal visiting Australia)