Posted by Elson Trinidad on 7/14/2005, 9:52 pm, in reply to "Re: maintenance yard" The PE cars were not dumped off of El Segundo or Manhattan Beach, but off of Terminal Island and the Port of Long Beach. Yes they were dumped, but some people get the locations mixed up.
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The urban myth appearnely is partly accurate. The PE tunnel did have some old cars stored and was blocked off a few years after it closed, but I believe in the late 60s or something the cars were removed and sold to Argentina.
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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
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: 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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