Southern Pacific abandonment between Villa Park and Tustin

[SteveD]

That Modena curve view and others from the same 1954 excursion on the Branch, may be seen in SPH&TS Trainline #31 (www.saveourtrain.com/trainline.pdf)

[tomplatten]

I think it was the La Veta curve they referred to as Villa Grove. It was a Silver faced SP locmotive coming around that curve! I probably don't remember it correctly!

[SteveD]

For more of Cliff's pix of Tustin area and a handy map of this branch, see Jim Lancaster's Packing House website.

[scph]

SteveD Wrote:For more of Cliff's pix of Tustin area and a handy map of this branch, see Jim Lancaster's Packing House website.

Here's the URLfor Orange County: http://ljames1.home.netcom.com/scph_orange.html

Jim Lancaster

[SPIKE]

Thanks for the article.

Spike

[EspeeGary]

ybx Wrote:found this photo in the Orange County Archives:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocarchives/...72975@N22/

looks like the line was abandoned in 1976



anyone have any info about what customers wereserved here ?

There maybe a SPINS list (Southern Pacific Industrail Numbering System) book from that time period available. Maybe found at a swap meet, SPH&TS or evenin the California State Railroad Museum.

[Myfordbrowning]

EspeeGary Wrote:

ybx Wrote:found this photo in the Orange County Archives:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocarchives/...72975@N22/

looks like the line was abandoned in 1976



anyone have any info about what customers wereserved here ?

There maybe a SPINS list (Southern Pacific Industrail Numbering System) book from that time period available. Maybe found at a swap meet, SPH&TS or evenin the California State Railroad Museum.

The Tustin Branch was washed out at the Santiago Creek bridge during the heavy rains in January-February 1969, the bridge was not repaired. The track into Tustin was removed a few years later. The name Tustin Branch remained in the SP timetables through the merger with the UP in 1996. The UP still calls the track between So. Anaheim and Marlboro the Tustin Industrial Lead, it ends about 8 miles short of Tustin.

By 1969, all the citrus packinghouses beyond Villa Park had closed. There was a gravel pit on the southside of the Santiago Creek, but was not a regular rail shipper. A building suppy company used the old Central Lemon packinghouse at Tustin (Irvine Blvd) as a warehouse for a period of time, but I think it had moved before 1969. The active shipper was a lumber yard at the end of the line at Tustin (how many branches ended at a lumber yard?). They used the Tustin team track for unloading and the SP must have leased the surrounding ground to the lumber company since the stored a lot of boards near the team track. Bay Shore Lumber was the name of the company at one time, but it could have been some other name in 1969.


SPINS books may not be of help since I think they were not issued before the early 1970s



Remember watching tiger stripped NW2s switching at Tustin from a SAVI irrigation head.

Cliff:knowledge:

Weed spray train at Tustin 1968

[SPIKE]

When I worked for the A.T.&S.F. in the 70s we would switch Bay Shore lumber off of a long lead from the Olive District. The lead is still there but the switch between M.P.2 and 3 has been removed. South Bay lumber was on the same lead. Thanks for the picture.

Spike