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Viewing Album: Stations and Lineside Structures
By:
Craig Walker
Dates:
1/1/1970 - 12/31/2019
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One of Santa Fe's more distinctive stations was the road's depot at San Juan Capistrano. A short walk from the famed California Mission (known for the annual return of the swallows), this station, opened in 1894, was built in a similar "mission" style. This station was closed in 1966, two years before Santa Fe "San Diegans" quit stopping in this city. After Amtrak took over passenger operations in 1971, this stop was reinstated in 1974 (a year after this photo was taken). One year later this station was rebuilt into a restaurant, with additions added to the original structure - including some rail cars converted to become part of the building. This depot is still in service for both Amtrak "Pacific Surfliners" and Metrolink commuter trains, although the original structure is barely visible due the additions and a thick covering of ivy.
Photo Date:
4/1/1973
Upload Date:
12/31/2012 2:18:40 PM
Location:
San Juan Capistrano, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station
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238
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Title:
ATSF Depot
Description:
Santa Fe's station in San Clemente, California, was a simple structure consisting of three cinder-block walls and a roof. This provided shelter from the ocean breeze and salt spray, although passengers were required to stand as the only bench was outside - Inside there was just a board listing departure times for the four northbound and four southbound "San Diegans" that stopped here each day. Two years after Santa Fe passenger service had been taken over by Amtrak, the schedule in side still showed the Santa Fe train numbers and times.
Photo Date:
7/29/1973
Upload Date:
1/3/2013 4:07:28 PM
Location:
San Clemente, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station
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228
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Title:
ATSF Depot
Description:
Inside the three-walled shelter that acted as the Santa Fe station on the beach in San Clemente, California, is the old timetable for the eight daily "San Diegans" running between Los Angeles and San Diego. Two years after the formation of Amtrak, the timetable still lists the old Santa Fe train numbers. San Clemente was served by eight trains in 1971, and in 2012 that number had dropped to just four Amtrak trains on weekdays! However, due to its proximity to the beach, on weekends there are 4 Amtrak and 12 Metrolink trains stopping here!
Photo Date:
7/29/1973
Upload Date:
1/3/2013 4:06:01 PM
Location:
San Clemente, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
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Views:
214
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0
Title:
ATSF Depot
Description:
Photo Date:
7/29/1973
Upload Date:
1/3/2013 4:15:41 PM
Location:
San Clemente, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
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Views:
110
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SP Station
Description:
Constructed as a "temporary" structure to serve the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition, Southern Pacifics Third and Townsend Streets depot lasted into the mid-1970s. It was SPs intention to eventually build a permanent "downtown depot" at the foot of Market Street, but this never came about. By the 1970s the station building was so dilapidated that SP was finally forced to replace it - with a structure one block south at Fourth and Townsend. By June 1975, the old station had had its tracks removed, Fourth Street has been extended through the old platforms, and preparations were under way to raze the structure. Over the years, this was the home of a daily parade of commuter trains, as well as the famed "Coast Daylight" and so many other "name trains" ("The Noon Daylight," "The Del Monte," etc.).
Photo Date:
6/30/1975
Upload Date:
10/23/2012 1:23:19 AM
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station
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482
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Description:
On Southern Pacifics Coast Line, the little agricultural town of Guadalupe is located immediately south of the Santa Maria River in the northwestern extremity of Santa Barbara County. The small town, a tight cluster of buildings surrounded by farmland near the Pacific Ocean, is only 1.3 square miles in size. But although most of SP’s passenger trains did not stop here, it qualified for an SP Standard Depot 22 because it was the junction with the Santa Maria Valley Railroad, which interchanged with SP and headed east to the larger city of Santa Maria. This station is seen here on July 1, 1976, with a still active train order signal. A few years later, I stopped here again in the evening with the thought of attempting some night shots, only to find that the center section of the station had already been razed as the venerable wood structure was being reduced to kindling. Today, however, Amtrak’s "Pacific Surfliner" trains stop in Guadalupe’s newer, smaller stucco station.
Photo Date:
7/1/1976
Upload Date:
2/24/2012 3:17:33 PM
Location:
Guadalupe, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station
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Views:
188
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0
Title:
Passenger Station
Description:
Constructed in 1892 by the California Southern Railroad, the station in Perris, California, was built in the Queen Anne architectural style. This line was originally part of a proposed transcontinental line, but the southern end of the line, heading to San Diego, was repeatedly washed out and the city of Perris was no longer a junction, but rather just another stop on what would become the Santa Fe Railway's San Jacinto Branch. A short section of the old California Southern remains, and is today the rail line to the nearby Orange Empire Railway Museum.
Photo Date:
4/19/1980
Upload Date:
1/3/2013 10:55:26 AM
Location:
Perris, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station
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236
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Title:
BN (ex-CB&Q) Depot - Danbury, NE - 8/20/80
Description:
Danbury, in southwestern Nebraska, is a very small town on the old Chicago Burlington & Quincy's St. Francis Line (originally built by the Oxford & Kansas Railroad). When I first visited in 1980, the station (built in 1887) was still located adjacent to the tracks, having closed in August 1979. In 1981 the station was moved downtown (well, to as much of a "downtown" as a town of about 100 people can have) and is undergoing restoration. This line, now owned by the Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railroad, see one train per day, westbound on Monday and eastbound on Tuesday, etc. (with no service on Sunday).
Photo Date:
8/20/1980
Upload Date:
1/18/2011 1:24:53 AM
Location:
Danbury, NE
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station
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Views:
211
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BN Station - Oberlin, KS - 8/20/80
Description:
The site of the last "Indian raid" in Kansas (on September 30, 1878) is Oberlin, in the northwestern part of the state. The first Burlington & Missouri River Railroad (later a part of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad) train to Oberlin arrived on October 19, 1885. Oberlin was the end of a 77-mile line from Republican City, Nebraska, although the B&MR had visions of completing the line all the way to Pueblo, Colorado. Passenger service to Oberlin consisted of either a motorcar or a mixed train, with the motorcar service (trains 141-142) being discontinued on February 4, 1949. Mixed train service remained into the 1950s. The station, seen here on August 20, 1980, was closed in September 1985. The building was then moved to the towns museum grounds for preservation.
Photo Date:
8/20/1980
Upload Date:
1/28/2011 6:03:02 PM
Location:
Oberlin, KS
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station
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Views:
349
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0
Title:
BN Station - Skykomish, WA - 2/13/82
Description:
Washingtons Stevens Pass, named for John F. Stevens (who explored this area with C.F.B Haskell in the late 1880s in order to plot this rail line), is where the Great Northern Railroad crossed the great Cascade Mountains. In the 1920s, Skykomish boasted a population in the thousands, but in the 2000 census the population was just 214. Once the western terminus for GNs electric operations (1909–56), Skykomish is now mainly a stopping point for recreational access to the surrounding mountains. At an elevation of only 928, the town seems much higher due to the heavy snowfalls that blanket the Cascades each winter. Since this photograph was shot in February 1982, the station has since been temporarily moved away from the tracks and "mothballed" for environmental cleanup and preservation. The depot is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Photo Date:
2/13/1982
Upload Date:
1/28/2011 8:04:41 PM
Location:
Skykomish, WA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Winter,Station
Locomotives:
Views:
332
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0
Title:
Passenger Station
Description:
Pasadena was the first stop for Santa Fe trains departing Los Angeles - Trains such as "The Super Chief," "The El Capitan" and "The Chief." And, when traveling by rail from Los Angeles to the east was the preferred mode of transportation, Pasadena was the station of choice for many Hollywood actors in order to avoid the crowds in downtown L.A. The Pasadena station remained an Amtrak stop until 1994, at which point the "Southwest Chief" was rerouted through Fullerton to the south and the Santa Fe First District was downgraded and eventually sold to the Los Angeles MTA, which built their Gold Line light rail line on this right-of-way. The station, as with so many other railroad stations that closed, is now a restaurant.
Photo Date:
8/29/1992
Upload Date:
1/3/2013 10:54:11 AM
Location:
Pasadena, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station
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Views:
244
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0
Title:
Union Station
Description:
The clock tower at Los Angeles Union Station as seen from the southern-most courtyard.
Photo Date:
5/8/2010
Upload Date:
5/22/2010 11:42:18 AM
Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station
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Views:
134
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0
Title:
ATSF Depot
Description:
Photo Date:
9/16/2010
Upload Date:
7/28/2011 2:44:08 PM
Location:
Carrollton, MO
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station
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Views:
119
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0
Title:
KCS Depot
Description:
Photo Date:
9/16/2010
Upload Date:
7/28/2011 2:42:26 PM
Location:
Higginsville, MO
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station
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Views:
168
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0
Title:
Amtrak / Metrolink Station - San Bernardino, CA - 2/12/11
Description:
Ninety-two years after it was built, the former Santa Fe station in San Bernardino, Califorinia, now used by Amtrak and Metrolink, is undergoing restoration. When this station opened on July 15, 1918, it was the largest railway station west of the Mississippi River. This impressive example of the Mission Revival-style of architecture was designed by architect W.A. Mohr.
Photo Date:
2/12/2011
Upload Date:
2/13/2011 1:44:30 AM
Location:
San Bernardino, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station
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Views:
333
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0
Title:
Description:
I'm not sure for whom that red signal is intended ...
Photo Date:
10/16/2011
Upload Date:
10/22/2011 10:32:40 PM
Location:
Fort Worth, TX
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Signal,Track
Locomotives:
Views:
238
Comments:
1
Title:
CB&Q Station
Description:
Danbury, in southwestern Nebraska, is a very small town on the old Chicago Burlington & Quincys St. Francis Line (originally built by the Oxford & Kansas Railroad). When I first visited in 1980, the station (built in 1887) was still located adjacent to the tracks, having closed in August 1979. In 1981 the station was moved downtown (well, to as much of a "downtown" as a town of about 100 people can have) and has undergone a restoration, becoming the towns museum.
Photo Date:
9/15/2012
Upload Date:
9/27/2012 1:33:22 AM
Location:
Danbury, NE
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station
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Views:
269
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0
Title:
CB&Q Milepost
Description:
The Chicago Burlington & Quincy built things to last, as exemplified by this cast concrete milepost on the St. Francis Line (originally built by the Oxford & Kansas Railroad) in Danbury, Nebraska. Photographed on September 15, 2012, this line has not been a part of the CB&Q since the Burlington Northern merger in 1970, yet is shows little sign of wear (the black paint isnt as dark as it used to be, and the post leans slightly) even after all these years - and who knows how old it was at the time of the BN merger? This line is now owned by the Nebraska Kansas Colorado Railroad.
Photo Date:
9/15/2012
Upload Date:
9/27/2012 1:34:24 AM
Location:
Danbury, NE
Author:
Craig Walker
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Views:
472
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0
Title:
Amtrak Station
Description:
The train station in Fullerton, California, appears quiet on a Friday evening. Originally built by the Santa Fe in 1930 (replacing the original Victorian depot built in 1888). Designed in a Spanish-Colonial style, this poured-in-place concrete structure is about 256 feet long (plus a 150-long covered platform), and sees (as of the date of this photo) about 60 Amtrak and Metrolink passenger trains stopping on one of its three tracks here each weekday (and about 30 passenger trains on weekends). Mix in 24 to 30 BNSF freight trains daily, and it becomes obvious why this is one of the most popular railfan hangouts in southern California!
Photo Date:
9/28/2012
Upload Date:
9/30/2012 6:51:10 PM
Location:
Fullerton, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Night,Station
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Views:
117
Comments:
1
Title:
New Amtrak / Metrolink Station (under construction)
Description:
On July 23rd, 2013, construction is well underway on the new Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center (ARTIC). Located near the present Anaheim station, ARTIC is situated between Angel Stadium (MLBs Angels) and the Honda Center (NHLs Ducks) – and not far from Disneyland – and will serve Amtrak, Metrolink, transit buses, tour buses and, they hope, the planned high speed rail line connecting southern California to northern California. The 67,000-square-foot, three story terminal will cost an estimated $188 million to construct, and is scheduled to open in November 2014. To read more, go to http://www.articinfo.com/.
Photo Date:
7/23/2013
Upload Date:
7/27/2013 5:44:15 PM
Location:
Anaheim, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Station
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Views:
119
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0
Title:
Los Angeles Union Station
Description:
Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal glows Dodger Blue on October 16, 2017, to celebrate the local baseball team playing in the post-season. Opened in May 1939, Union Station was considered the last of the large passenger stations to be built. Ten years after opening, and after the end of World War II, it wasn't long before the number of passenger trains arriving and departing at this beautiful facility began to be pared down. The day before Amtrak started operations, the ATSF, SP and UP collectively operated 16 daily trains into and out of L.A. On May 1, 1971, Amtrak's first day, (about 32 years after the station opened), the number of daily passenger trains had shrunken to just 8 (along with 4 tri-weekly trains), and the station was looking a little worn. But today? In 2017, that station sees 28 Amtrak trains per day (not including the tri-weekly "Sunset Limited") and, on weekdays, 127 Metrolink trains (a few less on weekends). On top of that, the Metro Gold Line trolleys serve the passenger platforms, and below the station, Metro's Red and Purple Line subways whisk commuters toward Hollywood and the westside. That is more traffic than during this station's heyday! As for the station itself, it has been spruced up and expanded, and it is now a very busy transit hub for America's second largest city.
Photo Date:
10/16/2017
Upload Date:
11/9/2017 11:54:45 AM
Location:
Los Angeles Union Station, CA
Author:
Craig Walker
Categories:
Night,Station
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Views:
85
Comments:
0
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