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Any guess's?

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[WP805A]

Paso Robles CA Old SP Freight Station after the fire.

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Is that why they invented high and wide detectors?

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Wherever it is, looks like a C-415's been through there...

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(09-28-2010 04:38 PM)WP805A Wrote:  Paso Robles CA Old SP Freight Station after the fire.

You mean I finally got one over on you Dave?
Nope, it is not Paso.......

V

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[WP805A]

Watsonville Junction .

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(09-28-2010 07:31 PM)WP805A Wrote:  Watsonville Junction .

Dang!!! I really gottcha!
Nope, not WJCT.


V

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YUP V YOU GOT ME !

[SLOCONDR]

Okay DAve, here you go: From 1971....

Old SP depot at end of the line

By Jack Magee
Staff Writer

San Luis Obispo’s old Southern Pacific Railroad depot is being moved to a new location–the county dump off of Edna Road.
It was smashed into kindling Thursday afternoon, to be replaced–ironically–by a parking lot for automobiles.
Asked if there had been any effort to preserve the frame and stucco building, Mrs. Louisiana Clayton Dart, curator of the county historical museum said “Not that I know of.”
“I knew it was for sale and if not sold was to be wrecked.,” Mrs. Dart went on.

The old wood depot was built shortly after the first train came and was one of four bungalow type buildings with wings added later. According to then depot communications manager Sammie A. Free efforts to convert the building to restaurant fell through because of high insurance rates. The building had a waiting room and ticket office heated by a coal stove but the building had sat vacant for at least three years. The small depot from the burned down Ramona Hotel was moved to the Dallidet Adobe grounds.

The current depot was built in 1941 or 1943 (my sources don’t agree) and has been remodeled at least once.

The town got sentimental about the railroad and created a special historical district after most of the landmarks were demolished. Original depot, gone. Roundhouse, gone. Turntable, gone all at the behest of the Southern Pacific. They were a little slower removing underground relics. When a new housing development was located over a former oil bunker the red faced company had to clean up the property they had sold to a developer.

The only original example of the original type of depot remaining in the county is in Oceano. Paso Robles remodeled their building in a more updated style but at least they did not send the whole building to the dump.



Read more: http://sloblogs.thetribunenews.com/slova...z10s19fO9y

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(09-28-2010 07:45 PM)SLOCONDR Wrote:  Okay DAve, here you go: From 1971....

Old SP depot at end of the line

By Jack Magee
Staff Writer

San Luis Obispo’s old Southern Pacific Railroad depot is being moved to a new location–the county dump off of Edna Road.
It was smashed into kindling Thursday afternoon, to be replaced–ironically–by a parking lot for automobiles.
Asked if there had been any effort to preserve the frame and stucco building, Mrs. Louisiana Clayton Dart, curator of the county historical museum said “Not that I know of.”
“I knew it was for sale and if not sold was to be wrecked.,” Mrs. Dart went on.

The old wood depot was built shortly after the first train came and was one of four bungalow type buildings with wings added later. According to then depot communications manager Sammie A. Free efforts to convert the building to restaurant fell through because of high insurance rates. The building had a waiting room and ticket office heated by a coal stove but the building had sat vacant for at least three years. The small depot from the burned down Ramona Hotel was moved to the Dallidet Adobe grounds.

The current depot was built in 1941 or 1943 (my sources don’t agree) and has been remodeled at least once.

The town got sentimental about the railroad and created a special historical district after most of the landmarks were demolished. Original depot, gone. Roundhouse, gone. Turntable, gone all at the behest of the Southern Pacific. They were a little slower removing underground relics. When a new housing development was located over a former oil bunker the red faced company had to clean up the property they had sold to a developer.

The only original example of the original type of depot remaining in the county is in Oceano. Paso Robles remodeled their building in a more updated style but at least they did not send the whole building to the dump.



Read more: http://sloblogs.thetribunenews.com/slova...z10s19fO9y

Hey V.. I woulda got this one but you gave it away too soon. S-H