Passenger Trains > SurfLiner Blows Through Santa Claus Land

Some subject titles just write themselves..
SR

WB 763, at track speed, just out of Carpinteria CA

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You probably meant Santa Claus Lane, the street crossing.



 

No, I grew up in this area and as kids we called it Santa Claus Land, based on the roadside tourist attraction with the Santa Claus theme.
Santa Claus Land.
SR

BoilingMan Wrote:
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> No, I grew up in this area and as kids we called
> it Santa Claus Land, based on the roadside tourist
> attraction with the Santa Claus theme.
> Santa Claus Land.
> SR

Santa Claus had a miniature train ride painted in "Daylight" colors too :-)

Yes, I stopped to see if any of the track might still be in the pavement (it survived long after the train was forgotten) but the whole place has been redone. Too bad- it could have been my greatest Necrophoamin story yet!
SR

The train was painted in Phase 1 Amtrak colors in it’s last years. I posted a piece titled something like, “Amtrak’s only ALCo PA” a few years ago.

Nice shot!

RC Lundgren
Elgin, TX

We had a place in Dundee, IL called "Santa's Village" and it had a train, too-- all long gone, of course.   Gotta have near-death thrill rides for the masses, now!!

IC_2024 Wrote:
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> We had a place in Dundee, IL called "Santa's
> Village" and it had a train, too-- all long gone,
> of course.  

It’s been reincarnated:
https://www.santasvillage.com/

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Love that spot and captured lots of great SP scenes there.
Probably Santa Claus Land to the locals.  But to most passer-byers, it's Santa Claus Lane thanks to the 101 signage.
There is also the Sandyland Cove Rd. crossing a mile or so south of this location.

 

Here-here, and most of the folks on the HeadsupCoastFans IO group refer to it as Santa Claus Lane.

Rich

Fizzboy7 Wrote:
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> Love that spot and captured lots of great SP
> scenes there.
> Probably Santa Claus Land to the locals.  But to
> most passer-byers, it's Santa Claus Lane thanks to
> the 101 signage.
> There is also the Sandyland Cove Rd. crossing a
> mile or so south of this location.
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