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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
A real roundhouse at the former Taylor Yard.
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Photograph caption dated April 18, 1953 reads, "This is the Southern Pacific's old roundhouse near the Los Angeles river. It's a far cry from Dieselville, which is a sprawling yard. In the roundhouse, locomotives are stacked in stalls like silver stallions. On the turntable is the DInky, a snubnosed beetle on an engine which pushes the 'biggies' hither and yon. 'There still is romance in steam,' said one veteran railroader." |
Thank you for that picture! Our second grade class went on a field trip to that roundhouse just before it was to be torn down. (School year 1961-2.) I remember we all wrote thank-you letters to the man who was our guide there. Mrs. Leonard (our teacher) also took us to Angels Flight on a field trip, but I don't remember if that was the same day as our roundhouse visit. I DO however remember that roundhouse field trip was the very first time I went on the new Santa Monica Freeway. (It didn't go very far then; only a few tenths of a mile past the East L.A. interchange). Ah, the memories!
-Scott