The Los Angeles & Salt Lake’s backshops at 530 S. Anderson in Los Angeles is still there, although disconnected from any tracks these days. It’s always blocked by an electronic gate, but I lucked out a few days ago to drive by and see the gate open. When the guard saw me taking pictures, she quickly ran and shut the gate, but I managed to get this and a few other images before she closed it.
With the arrowhead logo on the bridge in Whittier now being a reproduction, is this the very last original Los Angeles & Salt Lake logo in the world? And, what about a LA&SL heritage unit?
Here are two other images to share from a couple blocks away on the Los Angeles & Salt Lake’s Myer’s Team Track.
First is a Crud in front of a Genset with some burning issues.
I’m just tickled that someone other than me stills calls this railroad the LA&SL as it ought to be called and looks out for the last arrowhead emblem.
Good Job!
(I wonder if my wife would let me buy that emblem and haul it home to go with the collection of depot platform pavers, one gazillion identical blue-green Hemingray 42 insulators, and the random ABS number plates. Also the locomotive number boards in the garage. I think it would make a great centerpiece in the backyard, don’t you?)
Engine #1 on the Los Angeles & San Pedro RR, which eventually became the Los Angeles & Salt Lake RR. Shipped around the horn in peices and built here. Alway hoped someone could rebuild this little engine for “Historical Purposes” [swg]
As to the Whittier Bridge, the section with the LA&SL logo was torn down, and then replaced. Someone had the forethought to make a cast of the logo before the tear down though, and they used it to replicate the logo on the new bridge portion (which is now a bike trail).
You and your new fangled names… it’s not one railroad, it’s three, and their names are –
The Los Angeles, Pasadena, & Glendale Railway
The Los Angeles Terminal Railway
The Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad
Combined they run from two lines in Pasadena and Glendale, down the east bank of the LA River and south to San Pedro (the little spit of land to eventually be renamed Terminal Island).
As an aside, before the 1930 (or so) the tracks ran down Ocean Avenue in Long Beach.
