Southern Pacific Railroad Metz Siding

Cartago station became a railroad siding when the branchline was completed and opened for service on october 22 1910.

Southern pacific railroad metz siding.

In 1940 the yard had expanded to include over a mile of siding and spur trackage. It first appeared on the earliest southern pacific timetables of the route. Founded in 1865 by a group of businessmen in san francisco the southern pacific was created as a rail line from san francisco to san diego. In 1885 the southern pacific leased the central pacific railroad until eventually merging with it in 1959.

The alamo resided at this location till the car was donated to the san antonio railroad heritage. Retrieved from the library of congress www loc gov item or0259. In 1982 jaime bray purchased the sp 127 alamo from the southern pacific railroad sp. The car was moved to a siding in pasadena tx where it sat for a few months before being moved to his private residents about a mile and a half away.

A photo on pages 104 105 of southern pacific official color photography vol. 1 shows that there was a concrete phone booth at the signal location between tunnels 1 and 2 which is the only tehachapi photo showing a concrete phone booth at other than a siding. It is highly suspected that ship ments from this siding commenced immediately. Serving as the half way point between wright and felton the two other stops along the line that hosted water towers tank siding was located conveniently beside a natural spring that provided a constant source of.

Nowhere else along the southern pacific railroad line through the santa cruz mountains was a station name so blunt so obvious. By 1899 it had full telegraph and phone service a class a freight depot with a platform and a 6 siding yard with a water tower.