DYER BEETS
The brakeman on the w/b "beets" gives the "go ahead" to the engineer, at City of Industry in late spring 1970. Over the far-reaching SP system, the beets moved to processing plants in California from different growing regions and at differant times of the year. This is from the IV campaign, or Imperial Valley. The cars being set out are for Holly Sugar at Dyer (Santa Ana) and will be taken down on a beet hauler and turned over to Holly's sharp looking former SP SW1, for the final trip into the plant. The remainder of this train will continue on into LA and then up the coast to Union Sugar's plant at Betteravia on the SMV just east of Guadalupe, CA. Sadly, this is all history now.
DYER BEETS
The brakeman on the w/b "beets" gives the "go ahead" to the engineer, at City of Industry in late spring 1970. Over the far-reaching SP system, the beets moved to processing plants in California from different growing regions and at differant times of the year. This is from the IV campaign, or Imperial Valley. The cars being set out are for Holly Sugar at Dyer (Santa Ana) and will be taken down on a beet hauler and turned over to Holly's sharp looking former SP SW1, for the final trip into the plant. The remainder of this train will continue on into LA and then up the coast to Union Sugar's plant at Betteravia on the SMV just east of Guadalupe, CA. Sadly, this is all history now.