shortliner Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Found this link posted on another internet forum http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15150coll4/id/10751/rec/8 May provide info and inspiration to us on this side of the pond - it can be rotated and enlarged Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine coast Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Good find Jack......if only for the list of industry names...... "Piggly-Wiggly" and "Elmer E Frost & Co." just to name two.... no one need struggle for a genuine sounding name now... Regards Trevor.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 Piggly Wiggly still exists in the South and MidWest mainly. Supposed to be the first self service grocey store. It's a supermarket chain. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 The MKT located its dispatching and transportation offices in a former Piggly Wiggly grocery store in Denison, TX. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWB Posted October 26, 2012 Share Posted October 26, 2012 This is highly interesting, although a big point to make is that the track map of Los Angeles has transformed several times since then. The construction of Union Station in the late 1930s involved a lot of new trackwork and the removal of the separate Santa Fe and SP stations shown, along with the relocation of coach yards and industry tracks in the area just east of downtown. It also appears that the intricate SP and Santa Fe industrial trackage that Bob Smaus and Keith Jordan have modeled in their layouts in the same area postdates this map. As far as I can see, the Los Angeles Junction A, B, and C yards came after this map, as well as the Santa Fe Malabar Yard just to the west of the LAJ in Vernon. These are major railfan points now. Most major SP facilities, especially Taylor Yard, are outside the map, but Taylor was removed in the 1980s anyhow. The UP-SP merger, along with the construction of a 3-track joint UP-BNSF line to the harbor, both in the 1990s, also radically transformed trackage. So this is actually a guide to how things were c 1900-1925, interesting in itself but not reflective of the heyday of Los Angeles railroading. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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