Back to Colton
Three former SP locos head the Riverside Local or Colton Job, back to Colton, CA on Nov. 08, 2012, having just returned from switching customers at the end of the branch for the final time. Just ahead is the bridge over the Santa Ana River and a small yard adjacent to a trans-load facility that now occupies the former Griffin Wheel plant, seen on the left in the background. The line was severed for quite a while, when flood waters washed out a couple of spans. UP finally replaced the spans and operations resumed to Riverside. Now, the line between the bridge and the crossing in Riverside will be abandoned. Another job, operating at night, switches the trans-load center. That too, will change soon enough, as a connector off the BNSF mainline, to the left of the facility, will be built along the north bank of the river and access the trans-load business. This will eliminate the need to run down 9th Street in Colton from the old Colton Yard to serve this facility.
Back to Colton
Three former SP locos head the Riverside Local or Colton Job, back to Colton, CA on Nov. 08, 2012, having just returned from switching customers at the end of the branch for the final time. Just ahead is the bridge over the Santa Ana River and a small yard adjacent to a trans-load facility that now occupies the former Griffin Wheel plant, seen on the left in the background. The line was severed for quite a while, when flood waters washed out a couple of spans. UP finally replaced the spans and operations resumed to Riverside. Now, the line between the bridge and the crossing in Riverside will be abandoned. Another job, operating at night, switches the trans-load center. That too, will change soon enough, as a connector off the BNSF mainline, to the left of the facility, will be built along the north bank of the river and access the trans-load business. This will eliminate the need to run down 9th Street in Colton from the old Colton Yard to serve this facility.