Laguna Creek Algae and The Surfliner (Image)

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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Here’s an image from a few years back of a Dash 8 pushign to Goleta past Laguna Creek in Santa Barbara.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=259325

Thanks for looking.

Charles

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Nice pic Charles. I wish they would have left those in the “Pepsi Can” paint scheme.

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Certainly a good photo of the Amtrak train…That creek though…Wonder if it ever gets flushed out with much more water…And I see a beautiful job on laying up the stone walls that enclose it. Looks like it might have been a WPA project of the 30’s.

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Thanks Guys,

Quentin, your WPA note got me to do some research, which showed that I’d named the wrong creek (and I’d even followed it on a map all the way from the Mission, must have forked somewhere).

Anyway, upshot is you were 100% correct. It was a WPA project.

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Here’s an older shot that I shared over a year ago, but I’ll reshow here, because you can see the pumping station that was built as part of the WPA project (thanks again to Quentin for pointing that out… I love discovering this stuff, it makes the scenery so much more interesting).

http://freericks.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=818930