03-03-2009, 10:55 AM
Josh,
Yorba Linda is adjacent to the BNSF mainline through the Santa Ana Canyon. Santa Fe used to have two routes into Los Angeles. One route was the Pasadena Subdivision that ran roughly parallel to Interstate 10 and crossed the Arroyo Seco. It was famous in the 1930's and 1940's because when famous people wanted to travel East on the Super Chief, before air travel became practical, popular, or safe, they would avoid the press by boarding the train at the Santa Fe station in Pasadena instead of using Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. The Pasadena Sub is now closed down and the Arroyo Seco trestle has been dismantled and removed. What is left is now the San Gabriel branch. The other route that Santa Fe used to get into and out of Los Angeles is the Santa Ana Canyon from Riverside and Corona and through the canyon past Yorba Linda to the Fullerton wye where the railroad split between the mainline to L A and the Surf line to San Diego. Is the hobby shop you are talking about "Milepost 38?" It was called Milepost 38 because his original location was next to the Santa Fe mainline at milepost 38. I think he moved into a different location a few years ago, but kept the name.
Yorba Linda is adjacent to the BNSF mainline through the Santa Ana Canyon. Santa Fe used to have two routes into Los Angeles. One route was the Pasadena Subdivision that ran roughly parallel to Interstate 10 and crossed the Arroyo Seco. It was famous in the 1930's and 1940's because when famous people wanted to travel East on the Super Chief, before air travel became practical, popular, or safe, they would avoid the press by boarding the train at the Santa Fe station in Pasadena instead of using Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. The Pasadena Sub is now closed down and the Arroyo Seco trestle has been dismantled and removed. What is left is now the San Gabriel branch. The other route that Santa Fe used to get into and out of Los Angeles is the Santa Ana Canyon from Riverside and Corona and through the canyon past Yorba Linda to the Fullerton wye where the railroad split between the mainline to L A and the Surf line to San Diego. Is the hobby shop you are talking about "Milepost 38?" It was called Milepost 38 because his original location was next to the Santa Fe mainline at milepost 38. I think he moved into a different location a few years ago, but kept the name.