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Bill Roberts All Messages By This Member #175536 开云体育 We are fortunate to have 1:64 S scale helium cars available to us today. As for the 1:1 Southern Pacific move, I cannot begin to guess the purpose. Notice the string of eight behind the three SP locomotives. The attached photo, which showed up a day or two ago ago on the Espee mailing list, is the Leesdale Local passing through Chatsworth, California on 12/05/85. Chatsworth is a Los Angeles neighborhood, and Leesdale is about 39 miles west, on the fringe of Oxnard. —? Bill Roberts
Jamie Bothwell All Messages By This Member #175542 Bill, I'd bet they are on their way to some Naval Air Station to fill up blimps. Jamie Bothwell Bethlehem, PA toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 10:23?PM Bill Roberts via <bill=[email protected]> wrote: We are fortunate to have 1:64 S scale helium cars available to us today. As for the 1:1 Southern Pacific move, I cannot begin to guess the purpose. Notice the string of eight behind the three SP locomotives. The attached photo, which showed up a day or two ago ago on the Espee mailing list, is the Leesdale Local passing through Chatsworth, California on 12/05/85. Chatsworth is a Los Angeles neighborhood, and Leesdale is about 39 miles west, on the fringe of Oxnard. —? Bill Roberts
adguytrains All Messages By This Member #175543 Bill... We used to get t-2 cars at a time delivered to an industry?on the north side of West Grand Ave. in Oakland during the 1950's and 1960's.? I can't remember what they made there. Bob Hogan On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 9:56?AM Jamie Bothwell via <jamie.bothwell610=[email protected]> wrote: toggle quoted message Show quoted text Bill, I'd bet they are on their way to some Naval Air Station to fill up blimps. Jamie Bothwell Bethlehem, PA On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 10:23?PM Bill Roberts via <bill=[email protected]> wrote: We are fortunate to have 1:64 S scale helium cars available to us today. As for the 1:1 Southern Pacific move, I cannot begin to guess the purpose. Notice the string of eight behind the three SP locomotives. The attached photo, which showed up a day or two ago ago on the Espee mailing list, is the Leesdale Local passing through Chatsworth, California on 12/05/85. Chatsworth is a Los Angeles neighborhood, and Leesdale is about 39 miles west, on the fringe of Oxnard. —? Bill Roberts
David McBrayer All Messages By This Member #175544 开云体育 Bob, In your time frame there was still a lot of industrial manufacturing in west Oakland.? Think ship building/repair, steel making, steel rolling, etc.? "Heli-arc" welding was popular as it significantly reduced the amount of slag in the joint.? The "Heli" from Helium.? All of these industrial sites were rail served to some degree.? The interstate highway system, similar state highways did not yet exist.? Think 2- and 3-lane roads mostly.? There was a Chevrolet plant in east Oakland.??? I grew up in the East Bay in your time frame.? Now I am retired to Auburn, CA - on the Donner Route. Dave McBrayer Auburn, CA --------------- On 01/27/2025 6:59 AM, adguytrains via groups.io wrote: toggle quoted message Show quoted text Bill... We used to get t-2 cars at a time delivered to an industry?on the north side of West Grand Ave. in Oakland during the 1950's and 1960's.? I can't remember what they made there. Bob Hogan On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 9:56?AM Jamie Bothwell via <jamie.bothwell610=[email protected]> wrote: Bill, I'd bet they are on their way to some Naval Air Station to fill up blimps. Jamie Bothwell Bethlehem, PA On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 10:23?PM Bill Roberts via <bill=[email protected]> wrote: We are fortunate to have 1:64 S scale helium cars available to us today. As for the 1:1 Southern Pacific move, I cannot begin to guess the purpose. Notice the string of eight behind the three SP locomotives. The attached photo, which showed up a day or two ago ago on the Espee mailing list, is the Leesdale Local passing through Chatsworth, California on 12/05/85. Chatsworth is a Los Angeles neighborhood, and Leesdale is about 39 miles west, on the fringe of Oxnard. —? Bill Roberts -- Dave McBrayer Auburn, CA?
adguytrains All Messages By This Member #175550 Dave... ? I, too, grew up in East Oakland.? This industry was on a siding on West Grand (it was/is 4 lanes there and not really what we called "west Oakland")) on the north side of the street and just east of the then double decked Nimitz Freeway.? San Pablo Ave. was to the east. They received a "fresh" car every few months. The old SP Chevy branch serviced both a GM truck plant in San Leandro and the Chevy plant at what became Eastmont Mall at 73rd Avenue and MacArthur Blvd. in East Oakland.? It passed my elementary school and I still vividly remember those 2-8-0's and 0-6-0's rolling down the branch. ? We also moved to Auburn from the east bay and spent 10 terrific years there overseeing my restaurant operations in both Sacramento and Fresno.? The call of big bucks, however,? caused me to return to corporate life and a move east.? I'm now retired and living near Athens, Georgia.? Tough for a Cal guy to support those UGA Bulldogs, however. ? Bob Hogan

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