Newhall railroad yard, San Jose, 1960 (26/77)
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There’s what, 4 tracks left? Unreal.
UP still works the “Mission Bay,” South San Francisco/Broadway and “rock jobs” to Redwood City 3-5 days a week, but out of Warm Springs/Milpitas/Watsonville Junction.
My dad worked there.
Is this the yard where the round house was located or the yard further north in Santa Clara?
At one point, it may as well have been. Newhall Yard was essentially from Santa Clara to College Park stations. The roundhouse was South at Lenzen and deconstructed and stored, not demo’d when the current PCJPB/Caltrain maintenance facilities were installed at the wye.
After FMC closed but before the buildings were demolished, this was the location of the single largest Girafa piece.
Looking north.
I actually got to walk into the yard to where that photo was taken. Found one remaining vertical steel beam protruding from the soil where the control tower used to be. Fence went up a few years after.
Like the Lenzen roundhouse, it’s memories like these that I’m blessed to have experienced before the world went to pot.