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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Thu Oct 21 22:23:27 2021, in response to Re: If Atlanta Braves w1n World Series, posted by ntrainride on Thu Oct 21 19:24:43 2021. Yeah, well when the L. A. ones were built, around the turn of the century, there was pretty much nothing there. Maybe a few cities interspersed with wide open fields. The development pretty much followed the tracks. The Huntington Dr tracks are long gone, but the ROW to Watts is still pretty much 4 tracks, with two tracks for theIn the above image, the two A line tracks are away from the camera, with the UP tracks closer. About a mile south at Slauson Av, the A line tracks are elevated, to avoid a grade crossing of the BNSF Harbor Division track. The UP tracks switch sides under the station, so they are on the west side of the row. After the Watts/103rd St station, one UP track curves to the west, headed to El Segundo, while a track branches off to head further into the South Bay (Gardena, Torrance ending up in Wilmington). The Gardena branch actually has a short street running segment at Vermont Av and Gardena Blvd. Not sure if it is still active, it was when I was out there, occasionally you'd see a train out in the middle of the street, pretty cool (this was back when it still was Southern Pacific) A little further to the north, when the track leaves the reserved median for the brief street running, there used to be a crossbuck, and you could just make out in faded letters "Pacific Electric" That to me was the coolest thing (I was a big student of PE while I lived out there). Looks like it's gone now, and there is an actually crossing gate (which apparently was put in after I left in mid-1998). |
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