Posted by eric on 2/1/2005, 1:46 pm, in reply to "maintenance yard" --Previous Message--
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I have only heard the rumors of the redcars dumped off the coast of manhattan beach/el segundo but no idea if that is true. the buried terminal one you mention sounds very intriguing! but at the same time an urban myth
: My grandfather was a maintenance yard forman
: for the P.E. I remember as a child he had
: all sorts of P.E. items that I guess were
: auctioned off when it shut down. I have his
: retirement watch and book showing numerous
: pictures of the various lines running thru
: the city and by the ocean. Does anyone else
: know/ or is it just a rumor that the redcars
: were dumped into the ocean off the coast
: years ago? I guess the idea was to make a
: reef or something. Gramps worked on other
: railroad cars, and once as a child we
: visited the railroad museum in Lomita and he
: told me to crawl under an engine and find
: his initials he had scratched there years
: ago. I found them, he said it was a custom
: for mechanics to do so when they worked on a
: car. I also understand there is a rumor of
: a terminal downtown with redcars still in it
: that is buried and sealed off? It would be
: a virtual time travel to enter that place if
: it exists. I dont know if it is true or not
: but I heard the rumor years ago.
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